photo credit: jamesnfishwick Foam card or foam board as its name suggests is made of a core of foam, sandwiched between thin card/ paper. Tough and light, it is the mainstay of building making when making wargames scenery. Buildings can be easily assembled from pieces cut from foam card – its more resilient than cardboard [...]
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Materials for making Wargames Scenery – Foam Card / Foam Board
Posted: 15th July 2010 by wargamesscenery in MaterialsTags: foam board, foam card, Materials, wargames scenery, wargames terrain
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Materials for making Wargames Scenery – Plastic card
Posted: 12th July 2010 by wargamesscenery in MaterialsTags: plastic card, plasticard, styrene sheets, wargames scenery, wargames terrain
photo credit: jamesnfishwick Plastic card (or plasticard / styrene sheet) is as its name suggests, sheets of plastic very much like sheets of thin card. It is available in various thicknesses and is a very useful material to have around. Pieces cut from plastic card can be used to embellish much of your wargames scenery [...]
Finding Materials to Make Wargames Scenery
Posted: 9th July 2010 by wargamesscenery in MaterialsTags: imagination, Materials, wargames scenery, wargames terrain
photo credit: shoe the Linux Librarian If you are anything like me, before you even start making scenery you will have quite a full ‘bits box’ of pieces culled from the sprues etc. of figures and vehicles that you have already made. When you get in to scenery making, its time to take this to [...]
Materials for wargames scenery – Corrugated card
Posted: 17th June 2010 by wargamesscenery in MaterialsTags: corrugated card, corrugated cardboard, corrugated iron, pantile
photo credit: Zoom Zoom Corrugated card is a very handy thing to have around when making wargames scenery – it has a number of possible uses. Corrugated card can be recycled from packaging or it can be bought – it is sold as a packaging material and for craft use. It is also used in [...]
Wargames Scenery – Making Tau buildings for Warhammer 40K games
Posted: 6th June 2010 by wargamesscenery in Materials, Wargames Scenery Newsvia advancedtautactica.com I found this brilliantly simple idea for making buildings over on www.advancedtautactica.com (Here, to be exact: http://www.advancedtautactica.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=13939). Its very simple and easy, but very effective too. Go check it out! It also illustrates my approach to terrain building – look at everything with new eyes. There are so many every day items that [...]
