"Plastic Mountain and Tunnel. A quick toybash." Topic

Another project today. The Third this week!
This began as a plastic toy mountain that -no surprise to those familiar with my projects- I found at goodwill. The top of the mountain had a molded section of track to attach to Brio/Thomas style of wooden track. I covered this in concrete mix. A black spray prime was followed by dark grey texture paint, sprinkling on more concrete mix (a mix from the hardware store with concrete sand and gravel), a wetbrush of brown, a drybrush of tan, and some matte varnish.

Unlike many similar toys this one has some great flat areas for putting figures on. Perfect for Wargaming!


The inside was completely hollow so I just glued in a piece of cardboard and texture painted it to create the tunnel walls.

I really like plastic toys for this kind of thing because they are so lightweight and sturdy. No risk of chipping or breakage that you get with foam. I think this will fit in well with the rest of my rocky desert terrain set which includes big foam hills/cliffs, smaller Playmobile rocks and the bunker made from Thomas and Friends dock. All of which have received similar treatment as seen here.

Nice work! Great way to get good terrain cheap

Thanks! Most of my terrain is based on cheap toys. As well as the low prices toys tend to be so well greebled that it's just a matter of chopping them up and putting them back together cleverly.

Or in this case just adding paint and texture!