More CD-based terrain (Tutorial Part 2, 21 Apr/09)

[Hitman]

Nice,quicky tutorial and easy to follow instructions. Thanks!!

[Wirelizard]

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.

[Wirelizard]

Two more images to tide everyone over until I can get Tutorial Part The Second shot & assembled.


Flickr Photo Link. 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!


Flickr Photo Link. 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.

[6mmfan]

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

[Wirelizard]

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.

[Grimmnar]

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

[Wirelizard]

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!


More Notes & Info on my Flickr page.