*
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
March 28, 2024, 11:40:24 PM

Login with username, password and session length

Donate

We Appreciate Your Support

Recent

Author Topic: TERRAIN TEST for Safari  (Read 9396 times)

Offline nervisfr

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2605
    • Ch'ti Ré-Animator
TERRAIN TEST for Safari
« on: July 19, 2009, 08:27:24 AM »
Hello boys (and girls ?)

Some sample shots of my future safari game....Miss Mapple looking for her husband


With my home made jungle (not finished) and a "grass"  imitation sheet for the ground... ;)  stolen to my wife   >:D








Frenchy Eric, aka Ch'ti Eric or Re-Animator
"J'ai bon caractere mais j'ai le glaive vengeur et le bras seculier"

http://chti-reanimator59.blogspot.fr[

Offline Doomhippie

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2688
Re: TERRAIN TEST for Safari
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2009, 09:03:49 AM »
That's nice! I like the mixture of plastic and natural parts in the terrain. It looks really good.  :)

I'm not so much a fan of sheets as ground, however, I do have the luxury of having enough space to store the odd gameing table in my basement. Otherwise I would probably also use a sheet. And it actually does the trick. So good job and keep on building terrain.

And I hope Ms Mapple finds her husband eventually (Hm, shouldn't it be Mrs Mapple?)  ;)
Roky Erickson flies my spaceship!

Offline soldieroftheline

  • Bookworm
  • Posts: 95
Re: TERRAIN TEST for Safari
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2009, 09:29:13 AM »
Hello all, been thinking of signing up for a while but had to do it now to ask this question:

How did you do the trees with the 'bumpy' trunks?
« Last Edit: July 19, 2009, 10:18:14 AM by soldieroftheline »

Offline Grimm

  • Two-time LPL Champion (Season 2 and 3) Supporting Adventurer
  • The Colonial Tales Winner
  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • *
  • Posts: 3640
    • Grimms-Hangar on Facebook
Re: TERRAIN TEST for Safari
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2009, 11:13:33 AM »
Good Idea for the top of the Palm Trees ! must copy that  :)
ttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Grimms-Hangar/196455560521708

Offline nervisfr

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2605
    • Ch'ti Ré-Animator
Re: TERRAIN TEST for Safari
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2009, 01:17:09 PM »
Hello all, been thinking of signing up for a while but had to do it now to ask this question:

How did you do the trees with the 'bumpy' trunks?

the small palm trees are coming from cake decoration (bought by numbers at a professional dealer for bakery material) and the trunks are wrap with small string.

the big ones,  are made with a small and long pine cone as trunk...keep natural. Too difficult to find in a wood so i bought them in a decoration store for the house and garden.....
The top received long plastic grass as foliage.

natural lichen is used to cover the jungle base.

Offline soldieroftheline

  • Bookworm
  • Posts: 95
Re: TERRAIN TEST for Safari
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2009, 02:30:21 PM »
Thanks, it was the bigger ones I was interested in I'll have to keep a look out for pine cones like that.

Offline Gluteus Maximus

  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 5427
Re: TERRAIN TEST for Safari
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2009, 03:48:27 PM »
The ground sheet looks much better than it should, if you see what I mean. It actually gives the illusion that the jungle is denser and more oppressive. A good compromise between ease of play and too many terrain features

That's a lovely set up and please post a report when you play a game  :)

Offline Hitman

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2083
Re: TERRAIN TEST for Safari
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2009, 12:52:42 PM »
Great looking pictures. I like the use of the pine cone husks!! I have a number of them myself, now I just need to get them put together for my palm trees. Thanks for sharing!!
Regards,
Hitman
 8)
Victory is guaranteed to the last man standing, but always remember those whom you stepped on to get there!!

Offline nervisfr

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2605
    • Ch'ti Ré-Animator
Re: TERRAIN TEST for Safari
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2009, 08:33:24 AM »
The ground sheet looks much better than it should, if you see what I mean. It actually gives the illusion that the jungle is denser and more oppressive. A good compromise between ease of play and too many terrain features

That's a lovely set up and please post a report when you play a game  :)

i'l try to do better pictures. My flash didn't give the good feeling of the visual of the scene.  :?
waiting the time to play, i m still building more and more trees....Jungle is a no end project  :'(

Offline Hitman

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2083
Re: TERRAIN TEST for Safari
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2009, 04:33:22 AM »
They look awesome. Great work. The green leafy material works quite nicely as well. Do you have pictures of the tops of the pine-cone palm trees? I have skinned down about 2 dozen but not sure how to proceed with attching tops, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance and thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Hitman

Offline nervisfr

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2605
    • Ch'ti Ré-Animator
Re: TERRAIN TEST for Safari
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2009, 12:28:15 PM »
as request, this the top of the trees :

abrasive sponge are added to the base of grass hidding the glue and staples




the plastic grass are glue and stapple together to prevent moving during the gluing operation on the pine cone central spine.





for finition, woodland scenic hide the staples


then a spray of varnish bomb and this is it !

« Last Edit: August 11, 2009, 06:57:47 AM by nervisfr »

Offline Hitman

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2083
Re: TERRAIN TEST for Safari
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2009, 03:14:17 PM »
Thanks nervisfr for the photos...gives me a better idea. Now could I get a side view shot, guess I should have asked earlier :?
Thanks in advance.
Hitman

Offline nervisfr

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2605
    • Ch'ti Ré-Animator
Re: TERRAIN TEST for Safari
« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2009, 09:12:42 AM »
some trouble with my pictures on Imageshack.
now available (i hope). lol


« Last Edit: February 24, 2010, 08:54:16 AM by nervisfr »

Offline Hitman

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2083
Re: TERRAIN TEST for Safari
« Reply #13 on: August 11, 2009, 03:47:26 AM »
nervisfr;
Thank you very much...pictures are now viewable and greatly appreciated. You have helped me a lot. Hopefully I can be of some small service in return for you sometime. Once again, thanks for your assistance it was greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Hitman
 8)

Offline nervisfr

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2605
    • Ch'ti Ré-Animator
Re: TERRAIN TEST for Safari
« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2009, 11:24:39 AM »
for idea conversions about jungle foliage, there is my armed bearers and safari askaris  lol


 

Related Topics

  Subject / Started by Replies Last post
8 Replies
2262 Views
Last post November 16, 2014, 02:58:52 AM
by juergen c. olk
80 Replies
19897 Views
Last post March 23, 2016, 08:13:59 AM
by throwsFireball
12 Replies
3316 Views
Last post July 14, 2016, 10:47:31 PM
by Hobby Services
13 Replies
1919 Views
Last post June 01, 2017, 07:23:15 PM
by Utgaard
15 Replies
2226 Views
Last post April 24, 2022, 05:48:26 AM
by Cacique Caribe