"Cheap Plastic Bead Terrain" Topic

Well … what can we make from these..?

Statues, from some of them.

I've used beads for large jars or urns outside Vietnamese huts before.

I've used them as flying drones in scifi games, as mines and escape pods in spaceship games… and some tiny silver ones in a horror game homage to the Phantasm movies.

water fountain (esp the fish)
ruins of a toy factory would be fun
maybe something like the temple of Ramses. animal statues lining the road.

likewise to Mishima, but in Africa.

Thanks for the post.

With ultra fine flock, one could use them to make Topiary as well.

Thomas, That's genius – topiary.

It is genius. I wish I thought of it first.

I saw it here years ago:

link

Thanks, all.

I've used that topiary trick from TerraGenesis before. These beads are a little small for topiaries (well, at 28mm, at least).

I am, however, in the midst of making a number of terra cotta pottery objective markers.

… and a couple extra special projects. It is a lot of beads.

There is no new thing under the sun:

Saw these guys on Osaka Castle in the 90's and have wanted to make something like it in a wargame for a while now…