I haven't done much terrain, but after seeing Chad's Apoxie paste video, I wanted to try his method. I had different plans in mind for the paste for another project, but to get used to it, I decided to do a small bombed out corner piece. Luckily, my Apoxie order showed up with a chunk of heavy foam for packing material, so that is what I started out with. I also scoured a TRU parking lot for some bits of stone and random bits to use as rubble, as well as some old chunks of wooden chip mulch.
I started out with a random square of wood, cut from an old shelf. I sliced up the foam and kept all the leftover chunks for rubble. i tapped a couple brads in to mount the foam on.
Here, I am using a hot glue gun to attach the walls, etc. I used some packing peanuts for mass, I'll just make it a pile of rubble and crap.
Adding more junk, some bits and some cut hobby wood to simulate bricks. I threw a piece of wood up on the wall to look like a beam or something. I also glued some socks to the pile of peanuts and in a few more spots. I used a rusty paperclip to look like a twisted piece of wreckage.
Some old model bits and other stuff. I also added some bent up wire sticking out of the top and sides of the walls to look like damaged rebar.
I applied the paste, it is super messy just like Chad says.
This is a method I used years ago. I use watered down wood glue and coat the entire ground with it, then dump a ton of sand, small rocks, sawdust and plastic shavings (fir a diverse texture) all over it.
Here it is covered in sand. A happy mistake can be seen, I did this while the Paste was still wet, so I ended up getting sand all over the wet paste. This worked out really well for adding texture to the wall.
Here is the piece after a day to dry, and all the excess sand brushed away with a paintbrush. I used a dremel to gore some cracks into the hardened Apoxie paste. I used a little too mush glue and paste in some areas, so some of the rubble lost a lot of detail, but it still looks like a half buried pile of damaged crap.
As an added precaution, I painted white acrylic over some of the areas that looked a little thin to prevent the spray paint I planned to use as a primer from dissolving the foam underneath.
And now it is primed with Matte Black Krylon Camo.
A first coat of drybrushing on most of the model.
Then I let it sit for a couple weeks to work on other stuff, and just jumped back onto it tonight. This is after several series of dry brushing, then a coating of watered down black ink, then another series of drybrushing and detail painting to give it some life. The flash washes it out a lot, it is a few shades darker in person. I gave it a light hit with some testors dull coat too, just to dampen any shine from the assorted paints and ink.
And some in action shots.
So, a big thanks to Lucasclones for his awesome tutorial!!!!
