"Cheap and sloppy shell bursts" Topic

I made some cheap shells bursts seen here with Tom's 15mm Great War Poilus

I used round metal bases that cost exactly one cent. Using sheet styrene plastic I glued a base onto the metal disc, glued an upright and a small triangular support onto that. When dry, cut up the pom-pom with scissors and glue onto the support. Hit it with water-white glue mixture. When dry, dry-brush with medium grey.

The pom poms I used: link
So far I cut up 3 or 4 for the 9 shell bursts made.

You might terrain the base before adding the smoke. I did it the other way around. You might also paint the plastic upright yellow-red to be dramatic. I left it white and painted any that showed black before dry-brushing.

Wow! Very nice indeed.

Did you dry them upside down to make sure they remained straight?

Dan

They stay straight because they're glued onto the plastic frames. I have 4 more in the works and will post progress photos – but the Saints are playing soon and there's a dance after that.

Thanks.

Yay Saints!! Who Dat!! What do the supports look like?

Nice, thanks for the tip, cheaper than foliage clusters too. Cheers

They look terrific.

I think that a lot of SF and Fantasy gamers could benefit from this technique as well. They could be done as all sorts of tall organisms.

They could be fungi pillars, specially if you add the occasional lichen "tendril" glued flat against the surface.

Dan

OK, pictures of the uprights supports. I took my own advice, did some minor terraining of bases and painted the uprights yellow-red so I don't have to worry about them showing through. Here are the supports – nothing too fancy as they are just there to glue the pom-pom shreds onto.

And here they are after about one pom-pom has been glued onto two of them. They still need to be soaked with white glue / water mixture and dry-brushed grey.

As for fantasy/SF stuff, the pom-poms come in various colors. I was after black for these shell bursts.

Oh yeah, do take some care so that the edges of the flat supports don't show through a lot. Some is fine but you don't want the flat support obvious. That's the only step needing some care. The rest is just glue and slop.

I wonder if a golf tee painted black would work? It may be too big at the bottom?

I wanted metal so the bursts wouldn't fall over easily. I started with just plastic and they went over when I breathed on them.

I was thinking of gluing the tees onto the washers that cost exactly one cent.
Is Tom the manufacturer of the miniatures or who owns them? Not familiar with Tom's.

Tom is a member of the Corlears Hook Fencibles, our game club. See Tom Loback's post above.

Didn't mean to be confusing. Not sure who manufactured the figures.

They aren't quite washers. They do cost one cent. But yes, tees would work well.

Very effective

I did a similar method but used cotton wool soaked in pva and painted when dried.