Finished Hobbit House Pictures!

[inkwell]

Turned out quite nice,I had faith in ya! 

[Relic]

 

absolutely gorgeous ! I will steal this idea for hill making and my 15mm projects
The details are spot on!

[dodge]

that is a great piece

well done

dodge

[Andym]

That's a cracking finish!! I would agree with other people in using carved foam for your hill as opposed to foamboard. It would save a lot of work with filler and look smoother, plus foam board is more expensive.

Anyway keep up the good work!

[Relic]

but there's always left overs from foam board use so now I know where to use those also. I think that filler using makes it more realistic since plain "carved" foam hills look rather cartoonish

[Argonor]

'Dense' foam can be cut and sanded to very realistic shapes if you want to - the average gaming hill is kept 'stepped' though, to ease the placement of minis, and on that kind of hill, edges are mostly just cut with a sharp knife or a hotwire-cutter, which can both leave a 'rough' edge which moch gamers chose to ignore.

I'm pretty sure, a bvery similar result could be achieved with foam, but at the end of the day its up to each man to chose his preferred method 

For instance, I cannot get the dense insulation foam here in DK, so I'm stuck with the more coarse 'styropor' (made of compressed little pellets), which tends to break and scatter when cut with a knife (and easily gets chipped at the edges), so I usually have to use some filler after shaping a hill or a dune, thus mixing the two approaches.

[dodge]

carving and sanding sounds very messy to me,

I would have gone with the foam core and filler myself.

dodge

[Argonor]

carving and sanding sounds very messy to me,

Some of us are lucky enough to have a little workshop 

The end result is much lighter, which means a lot to me, as I'm constantly moving large boxes with terrain from my home to my club and/or from my storage room to my gaming table.

..., but at the end of the day its up to each man to chose his preferred method 

[Rob_bresnen]

Thanks for the feed back and I am glad you like the results- I am delighted.

I didn't use filler as such, I used Modrock, which is plaster impregnated bandage, like the stuff tehy used to make plastercasts out of, if you broke your arm, when I was a kid. I git it cheep from hobbycraft

As far as the foamcard vs pink/blue foam debate goes, I opted for card for a number of reasons-

1 it's easy to get from my local hobbycraft
2 it's not too expensive, as they sell two sheets of A3 size for £5- this hobbit 
   house used about 1/2 a sheet- £1.25 worth of foamcard
3 It is less messy and hassel than cutting and sanding
4 I have tried using foam before, and found the resulting shape to be a bit   
  unnatural. Also the slope was too steap to stand figures on- I wanted something
  natural looking and random, but still useful for balancing figures on

Using the Modrock was a lot of fun too- all sqwidgy and messy

[ballistic_bro]

I really like that, top job.

[Parriah]

VERY nice.
I like it a lot.