"Enormous alien arthropod Hives!" Topic
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tsofian | 31 Oct 2015 10:43 a.m. PST |
Next campaign season (2016-Diecon, Origins manybe Dragoncon and Colonial Barracks) will see the Human Forces attacking the Hive in South America in 15mm scale. Since I like to run large games, but am now too old to craw around the floor. So I hope to put out several tables and have their tops be the tops of the Hives and Human forces use aerolyth craft for vertical assaults.
I was thinking about using dyed fabric to skirt the tables, so that they look like the sides of the mounds. Any suggestions? I could use sheets of bark, but that would take up far too much space in the Ranger |
Mako11 | 31 Oct 2015 11:14 a.m. PST |
Cork would be ideal for that, but would take up a lot of space. |
zrunelord | 31 Oct 2015 11:27 a.m. PST |
Expanding Polyutherane Foam would be your best bet. Light and can be easily built up . Use newspaper sausage shapes to make tunnels etc then remove them when foam is cured. You can also stick pieces of foam to it to bulk it up. Use 5mm boards as bases because the curing foam will warp 3mm thick ones. Foam can be carved easily into shape also.The downside is that you'll need loads of cans for sure and it won't come cheap unless you can buy them by the box. Larger cans cost less than the smaller ones. I have built terrain successfully using it.Note that it is time intensive especially to paint up and finish. Z |
Lion in the Stars | 31 Oct 2015 12:30 p.m. PST |
Cloth, painted and starched all to hell. Staple/doublesided tape/pinned to the "table top" |
Bashytubits | 31 Oct 2015 1:25 p.m. PST |
I would just build a simple wire frame and drape it with newspaper or scotts towels and brush it with diluted pva. once dried paint to suit. You could even just crumple up newspaper and drape more paper over it using paper mache or the diluted pva. |
tsofian | 31 Oct 2015 3:03 p.m. PST |
Very good ideas! The hard part is making it so it will take up little room in the back of the Ford Ranger! |
TheBeast | 02 Nov 2015 9:42 a.m. PST |
It's empty; turn it over, and pack everything else inside. ;->= Okay, you'll have to engineer it a bit stronger… Doug |
TheBeast | 04 Nov 2015 9:29 a.m. PST |
Had another thought; make it in three pieces, using something I've done with styro hills. Bad char art: @/*/*/\*\*\ @@@@*/\* @@*/@@@@\* @/@@@@@@@@\ where @ = 'space' Doug |
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