Creating hills and terrain (1 Viewer)

[Mrgooch]

Can you share with me your metods of working the foam before it is primed.

 

[Col. Hesler]

To make a crater, simply spray an area with something flammable, and burn it, but remember to put out the flames before it burns through.

 

[mestell]

Can you share with me your metods of working the foam before it is primed.

Hello Mr G -
Take a look at my thoughts, etc on my thread "The Fall of Acre" in the Diorama/Diodrama Forum. I give a brief review of how easy it is to use open cell floral foam (Cutting/shaping) and covering it with Celluclay. After reading it, if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. Ken Osen (Hudson & Allen) is another good source for good advice on landscaping techniques using foam, et al.

Mike

 

[Gustavflyer]

Hello Mr G -
Take a look at my thoughts, etc on my thread "The Fall of Acre" in the Diorama/Diodrama Forum. I give a brief review of how easy it is to use open cell floral foam (Cutting/shaping) and covering it with Celluclay. After reading it, if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. Ken Osen (Hudson & Allen) is another good source for good advice on landscaping techniques using foam, et al.

Mike

I use the blue foam from Lowes and cotton balls to give it shape and to make the contours. It is lightweight and extremely economical!!! I then put wet paper towels over the form and I sprinkle Plaster of Paris over the wet towels, when you sprinkle the Plaster of Paris, it gives you a great rock and gravel texture. This method is fast, cleaner, and you waste less Plaster too. I make all my dios like this and I will be posting some pics very soon!!

 

[Wraith]

I use the pink and blue foam. You can easily build up layers by glueing bits on to your base piece using a hot glue gun. I then take a rasp / bastard file - I've got several different ones, half round, 'rat tail' - thin round, etc, to shape the contours and undulations.

You can get different effects in the finish of the foam from either leaving the surface alone after rasping, or using different grades of sandpaper to smooth it over. You can also try picking bits out of the foam using a knife blade or similar, to a give clean finished, ripped out area, which can work well for replicating exposed rock faces. I find the stuff pretty forgiving.

To prime it, I give it an all over coat of black, dark grey or dark brown (depending on the terrain), watered down acryllic and paint from dark to light.

Simon

 

[Warrior]

"To make a crater, simply spray an area with something flammable, and burn it, but remember to put out the flames before it burns through."

I hope you are not using pink foam board as if you are, it gives off a toxic gas when lit on fire, be very careful and do not do any of these type of things indoors and always wear some sort of mask.......

 

[theBaron]

"Arrggghhhhh ! Fire-bad!"

Reminds me of a kid I went to high school with, he came in one day with his eyebrows burned off and his hair frizzed back. When we asked him what happened, he said he found a coffee can full of liquid in his dad's tool shed, and he wanted to see if it was gasoline, so he lit a match and dropped it in.