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Why prep for one game when you can distract yourself royally by trying to get stuff done for two games (that you won’t get to play anytime soon) all at the same time…
With a medium walker finished I decided to try something completely different, chemical sculpting.
We all know not to spray polystyrene without sealing it first don’t we. If it’s not sealed properly we are likely to see it start to dissolve in front of our eyes. With the need for a planetoid and a good few asteroids to fill the role of some of the various objectives in A Billion Suns, a 99p bag of styrene balls from the local hobby shop seemed an ideal purchase. Plain balls are far to neat for my needs though so out came the spray can. As the effect was far to subtle a good dose of plastic glue was added to speed up the process
Trial and error is a wonderful learning opportunity…
Brush painting so many items with, so many nooks and crannies though, is no fun at all… Thankfully a dark grey base on the asteroids and a couple of lighter dry brush layers are not overly time consuming.
Having no clue as to how to paint my planetoid, more random, poor choices, may have been made.
I present to you today a set of very nice, well painted, rocky asteroids (and an overly large, rat nibbled, Malteaser).
A question for my non UK viewers – Do Malteasers exist outside of the UK?
Those look great to me.
Cheers,
Pete.
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What a grand idea! Those came out aces! Always avoiding melting the stuff. and never thought about doing it on purpose.
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A happy little accident that proved worthy of repeating…
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They do exist outside UK… Those crunchy balls look tasty! I mean good! The asteroids look good!
I used to make burnt buildings for my toys with polystyrene. I would put straight solvent in a squirt bottle and go to town. You could try expanding insulation foam, with the same method for less round objects…
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Seen expanding foam used at times but never taken the plunge and tried it though. Might just have to experiment a bit…
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I like them (and that statement can be applied both to your scenery items and Malteasers)! 🙂
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Do you like the malteasers more though? Thats the real question 🙂
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It looks like Malteasers are what we call “Whoppers”. Ingredients appear similar, though we use the horrible Corn Syrup here.
Those asteroids are pretty amazing. Would have never thought of that! Might be a nice effect for rocky terrain too. I’d maybe take the exacto knife to a few parts to make them a bit less spherical, but they are pretty awesome as is.
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Yep my thoughts as well after I started, I should have maybe roughen the sphere up first as the outside is slightly more rugged and resilient than the inner material as well.
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I reckon that Malteaser looks pretty fine. Once you’re playing games it’ll just be scenery and you will focus on the ships you’ve painted.
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Thats the plan…
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