Cheap Stacks of Boxes

[stroblight]

On a trip to the Dollar Tree store today, I stumbled across some cheap Rubics Cubes.  I saw some potential...



I didn't bother with trying to take off the stickers on each cube.  Instead, I primed them black after gluing some card to the bottom of each one to cut down on the cubes moving...



Then I used the airbrush to lay down some Vallejo US Olive Drab Surface Primer...



Some Vallejo Model Air Hemp served as the highlight...



I could have stopped there, but they needed a little something more.  A quick triangle cut into some spare card did the trick...



I think the Vallejo Model Air Light Sea Blue is a great accent.  Love those great cheap finds for terrain!

[Za Zjurman]

Very nice, might have to steel... I meant borrow that idea in the future.

Regards,
Za

[magokiron]

Cheap, simple, ingenuos and EFFECTIVE!

Thanks for sharing your idea.

Best wishes.

[Marine0846]

Great idea.
Thanks for sharing.

[beefcake]

That's great work. so effective.
As an extra bonus. however you turn the cube now you've always won!!!! (even though you stopped them moving)

[Lovejoy]

That's really clever, and works well too - great stuff!

[FramFramson]

Now's that's an eye for minis terrain!

[SBRPearce]

Suggestions:

* Use a scalpel to cut electrician's tape into very thin strips, then "strap" the stack of boxes together. That's what we do in the warehouse to keep even stable loads from shifting.

* Print and apply some barcode labels - in the grimdark future (or the shinybright future) all things will be barcoded.

Great find, and a great application!