| Shadowdragon | 17 Jul 2015 12:40 p.m. PST |
Does anyone happen to have any tips or suggestions for building quick and cheap junk piles for use on a junk yard table? This will be for Malifaux, so it'll be victorian european horror steampunk junk in the piles, if that makes a difference. |
| haywire | 17 Jul 2015 1:04 p.m. PST |
Find a bunch of small gears, small screws, plastic sheet, balsa wood, wooden coffee stirrers, and small tires. pile em up on a CD and paint them rust colored. |
| Hlaven | 17 Jul 2015 1:14 p.m. PST |
A good stockist of o scale rr accessories could sell an already made one in resin. I have seen them here in Denver at Caboose Hobbies. |
 Sgt Slag  | 17 Jul 2015 1:23 p.m. PST |
Otherwise, visit a bead store/craft section where they sell beads, and buy a mixed bag (Wal-Mart, Hobby Lobby, Michael's Craft Store, etc., in the USA). They look surprisingly good, in piles. I've seen them used several times, to represent treasure piles, in fantasy games, but if you paint them metallic, with rust, they should pass equally well for junk pile mish-mash'es. Cheers! |
| 53Punisher | 17 Jul 2015 1:28 p.m. PST |
From scratchbuilding, fig conversions, etc., I save all my waste and cut-offs instead of throwing them away. You'd be surprised that after a short amount of time, you have a nice pile of miscellaneous "junk/trash" that's perfect for scattering around and piling up for scenics. To make it more genre specific, all you'd need to do is add some period looking "waste" on top of or mixed in with the rest of the mundane pieces. Base coat and paint for the desired effect. :) |
dampfpanzerwagon  | 17 Jul 2015 2:21 p.m. PST |
Take apart an old Cassette player. You'll be amazed at the scratch build possibilities. GOOGLE search Cassette player motor Tony |
| Jamesonsafari | 17 Jul 2015 2:21 p.m. PST |
Model sprues make good pipes.
And after painting add some tufts of weeds growing among the junk piles! |
| Chris Palmer | 17 Jul 2015 2:35 p.m. PST |
For a steampunk junk pile, I would go to eBay and do a search for "Watch Parts Gears" (they're soLd in big lots by weight) and buy what your budget allows. I'd then glue these pieces, and as others have said, bits of sprue and beads, to old CDs. |
| Feet up now | 17 Jul 2015 2:49 p.m. PST |
Can not track it down but this site has wonderful projects and ideas for terrain
terragenesis.co.uk |
| Gear Pilot | 17 Jul 2015 3:47 p.m. PST |
Not scratch built, but Armorcast has some nice resin scrap piles in their sci-fi range. |
| 53Punisher | 17 Jul 2015 4:16 p.m. PST |
Here's another idea from a fellow TMP buddy: "There is no need to make the entire pile out of junk. Borrow a page from the model railroad community like they do with "carloads" of coal, etc. They make the basic mound/pile out of cardstock, and then just put glue on top and attach the coal. Could do the same with junk piles. so instead of having that 12 inch styrene I beam cut into four pieces of 3" each to put on a pile, you can cut it into many smaller pieces where it appears to be protruding from the pile, up at an angle. Same with wheels & gears – cut them and place so it appears the rest of it is "in the pile" and use the other half in a different terrain piece." 👍 |
| Hitman | 17 Jul 2015 10:42 p.m. PST |
Try this company…Rusty Rails …great people and service and they have a lot of very cool stuff. Their stuff is very detailed and easy to paint. Link follows: rustyrail.com Regards,
Hitman |
