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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Wirelizard on January 07, 2009, 07:05:59 AM
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I've really come to like CDs as terrain bases - they're solid, impervious to warping no matter how you flood them with glue or paint, and they're a great size for those of us with limited working & storage space!
I did a pair of jungle ruin CDs (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=5294.msg58167) in mid-2008, and my holiday project recently turned out to be three new CDs of scenery: (Flickr Photo Page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wirelizard/3175565693))
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3466/3175565693_641dc15018.jpg)
The new ones are: one more mysterious overgrown ruin (Sculpey, flock, scenic foam), one low hill with path (scrap foamcore, flock, etc) and one dirt/gravel road (scrap foamcore, flock, etc): (Flickr Photo Page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wirelizard/3176400014/))
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3367/3176400014_cd8d293cfa.jpg)
Here's a closeup of the road: (Flickr Photo Page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wirelizard/3175567667/))
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3389/3175567667_aa714dda1b.jpg)
Finally, a WIP shot of the new ruin:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3298/3175564515_a94ce0dfd3.jpg)
(Flickr Photo Page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wirelizard/3175564515/)). I'm going to do at least a couple more road CDs, and some taller small hills with scrap pink styrofoam.
I might put some proper trees on some of these CDs, but I have a love/hate relationship with larger model trees: they look great, but they're a bugger to store & transport, and fragile... I might try some wire-core trees in the style of Hazel's olive trees, and see how tough they are. Something taller than the current scrubby bushes would make it more jungle-like than they currently are.
I'll also do a proper series of WIP shots and a how-to for my style of CD terrain, if people are interested.
Edit because Flickr is being dumb about showing photos here, for some reason. Click on the "Flickr Photo Page" link near each photo for larger images and some other notes...
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Nice, CD terrain rocks :)
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Nice work. What glue do you use to stick things to the CD?
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Nice work. What glue do you use to stick things to the CD?
Ordinary white glue/PVA works fine, although I use superglue to attach the Sculpey ruin bits and the foamcore.
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Cheers. 8)
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Great job...I have a bunch of old AOL CD's, vegetation, cork, etc. just waiting to get put together for the same sort of effect ...thanks for the inspiration to get this project completed sometime this year!!
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that is great work!
You could probably sell these!
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perfect idea!!!! I used soon, without doubt ;)
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Good idea. I have a lot of old CD and I'll use them as base for jungle vegetation terrain
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Good idea. I have a lot of old CD and I'll use them as base for jungle vegetation terrain
Got my LoTR stuff out of the attic a few weekends ago, all the moria/middle earth ruins I did were mounted on AOL freebie cds. Painted them up at least 5 ytears ago, look great. Will get picutres up at some stage.
The Commander
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Yup, some of the nicest CD terrain stuff I've seen! Did you ever do the Step-By-Step?
A nice zepplin's-eye view of how you make your CD stuff would be of use to the curious.
Thomas
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I think I can figure out how to get terrain on the CDs, I make a lot of terrain with MDF. This would be a nice way to use all those junk CDs. I'm curious about one thing though, how do you cover up the hole?
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I think I can figure out how to get terrain on the CDs, I make a lot of terrain with MDF. This would be a nice way to use all those junk CDs. I'm curious about one thing though, how do you cover up the hole?
Actually, it occurred to me a while back when thinking about how to put together my CD-terrain, that perhaps you shouldn't do that - if you dont, you could use CD covers without their lids to hold the terrain pieces, and buy cheap "CD-towers" to store your terrain. Dont really know if this is a good idea, but I'm sure I'll give this more thought when we move to our new-and-much-bigger apartment in under two weeks. If it works I'm sure I'll harass you all with my amazing lack of photographic skills ;)
Marko
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I think I can figure out how to get terrain on the CDs, I make a lot of terrain with MDF. This would be a nice way to use all those junk CDs. I'm curious about one thing though, how do you cover up the hole?
I used a scrap of paper & glue; wet the paper, saturate it with slightly dilute glue, and leave it to dry (probably overnight) and it's a surprisingly strong base to build scenery on.
Some pieces I used other things to cover the hole, mostly bits of Sculpey clay ruins & rocks.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3595/3443179642_54610aa6e9_o.jpg)
Link to my Flickr page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wirelizard/3443179642)
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Excellent. Hold my calls and chill a case of Slurm, I'm getting out the old Cd's.
Thanks Wirelizard!
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Nice,quicky tutorial and easy to follow instructions. Thanks!!
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I'll try and get Part The Second done this weekend, after I do my photographs for the LPL.
It'll be mostly about ground coverings - gravel/ballast/sand, flock, etc - and why these should always be glued down twice.
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Two more images to tide everyone over until I can get Tutorial Part The Second shot & assembled.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3340/3446398490_fbc8d63d19.jpg)
Flickr Photo Link (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wirelizard/3446398490). The hill is two layers of 1" beadboard foam (white styrofoam, not the nice pink/blue board) on a CD; the roads are CD-based; the jungle foliage - 14 bases of it! - is on thin plywood shapes bought from the local craftstore. These work nicely, but they're thicker than CDs and they actually cost money, unlike free recycled CDs!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3647/3445580275_7c0b21c5d0.jpg)
Flickr Photo Link (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wirelizard/3445580275). Three CD-based road segments - the foreground one has been seen before, the middle and rear ones are new. The rear one is a three-way Y intersection, which is going to force me to make at least a couple more road segments - I'll probably do some with the road fading out into grass/foliage, so I don't have to have every single road going all the way across the playing area or ending randomly.
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very nice bases.
I'd try and scrap off the labels from the cds first. I had lots of problems with the label peeling off after I glued something onto it.
Cheers
Kieran
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None of the CDs I've used so far have had paper labels on them - they're either blank/bare CD-Rs or (like the one in the tutorial photos) screen-printed. I could see paper labels being a problem - OTOH, they'd also soak off easily - just leave the CD in water overnight and go to town with a tableknife or putty knife.
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Excellent. Hold my calls and chill a case of Slurm, I'm getting out the old Cd's.
Thanks Wirelizard!
Ah yes Slurm. Do you drink the original formula or the new improved Slurm? :-)
Grimm
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Part Two of my tutorial is done - I know you were all waiting for it with bated breath...
It turned out to mostly be about how to use large amounts of diluted white glue, actually. Enjoy - feedback, suggestions or ideas for improvement always welcome!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3586/3461031505_7b97c98acf_o.jpg)
More Notes & Info on my Flickr page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wirelizard/3461031505).