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Title: 28mm wooden industrial palettes
Post by: Bloodbeard on May 04, 2017, 10:31:35 AM

28mm Industrial Palettes
Wooden palettes are great little pieces of scatter terrain. I love doing multi purpose terrain and these will work for all your modern, post-apoc and sci-fi games.

One of the issues with a lot of scatter terrain, is that it'll fall over and get pushed around during games. Often just becoming an annoyance or getting ignored. And like most gamers I have lots of small scatter pieces. Gluing some barrels, crates and cannisters to a palette will prevent that and give the whole thing a bit more mass.

Materials:

    Popsickle sticks
    Match sticks
    Super glue (or wood glue)
    Clippers (or hobby knife)


Step 1:
For each palette you'll ned 4 popsickle sticks and three matches.
(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yMPpVCoyESE/WPurs-LalZI/AAAAAAAAUss/KC5ho-e2i5gpXAv-cwPNjp3B7cRBu5l9ACKgB/s1600/IMG_20170422_184959.jpg)

Step 2:
Cut of the round ends with your clippers.
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xHgszuYCiP4/WPurxx8aNBI/AAAAAAAAUsw/wwvKrN3ssB0RweE5oFMg-f1Qa5OwvTbrgCKgB/s200/IMG_20170422_185759.jpg)

Step 3:
Cut the four popsickle sticks in half, for a total of eight pieces.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2RdidJJlcCg/WPur0on0usI/AAAAAAAAUs0/tcqCwt2ZxDgJVVZQfAfGKlbIxQijg3l_QCKgB/s200/IMG_20170422_190057.jpg)

Step 4:
I use super glue (but if you're patient you can of cause use wood glue). Line up the three matches on three popsickle sticks. Went it's lined up, I dap superglue on all three popsickle sticks and drop the matches into it.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zd0q3Qc39Oc/WQS6_1fV4WI/AAAAAAAAVDs/10DYPolkQ-s9nGROhDA6duz9M4ryTPLEQCPcB/s200/IMG_20170427_104529.jpg)(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uJRlAYw-_20/WPur83GxpeI/AAAAAAAAUs8/Dt158oZKKwQKqtLQQdco8IxV1IaJO9TRgCKgB/s200/IMG_20170422_193548.jpg)


Step 5:
Turn it over and add the last two popsickle sticks. Doing it like this will make sure you don't run out of space before using all 5 sticks.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eQA7va2NDAY/WQS6_406h3I/AAAAAAAAVDs/YjJwMkrARzgswaYGqSQFgc6Iad42eKxQwCPcB/s200/IMG_20170427_104113.jpg)

Step 6:
Turn over the palette and add three sticks to the other side.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-psm7rkyUjvo/WPur_g24dqI/AAAAAAAAUtA/q4PtZnqqWjMOUWyFwE3_UULNOmowIvQXgCKgB/s200/IMG_20170422_194144.jpg)

Done palettes:
Using super glue makes it fast to build these. If using wood glue, I suggest you get a very large wor space going. So you can start multible palettes at the same time. I build 12 palettes in an hours worth of hobby time.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tIbsQoZ_2bw/WQS6_8iFlqI/AAAAAAAAVDs/4d1w0P6RwAgFFu0Cs7pB303CnI6eDfMFwCPcB/s320/IMG_20170427_111838.jpg)

More
Check out some photos of the painted palettes with added scatter terrain at my blog Bloodbeard's Garage: LINK. (http://bloodbeard.blogspot.dk/2017/05/tutorial-wooden-palettes.html)

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Title: Re: 28mm wooden industrial palettes
Post by: Ragnar on May 04, 2017, 11:17:07 AM

Neat!

Title: Re: 28mm wooden industrial palettes
Post by: Hammers on May 04, 2017, 11:23:50 AM

Nice. Thanks for the addition.