"Packing peanuts" Topic

Has anyone tried using these as terrain? I may try to scratchbuild a building or two, although I've never used this material.

I've seen some very imaginative terrain using the packing that is composed of foam hemispheres. They were glued together -CCC- wise into long, thin irregular columns then lightly coated with some sort of filler and given a two tone paint job of a mid brown dry brushed with a light bone and then based in groups. No photos though :-(

Thanks. I was looking for examples the other day, but I only saw a few basic examples, and they were done with the biodegradable kind, which is shaped a little differently than the regular foam.

I've tried using the S-shaped pieces cut in half as Sci-Fi flora/fauna, especially the few I used to see with red striations.

VERY fragile, so I gave up on it.

Right now, the idea of buildings isn't making sense. Got a link?

Doug

After a quick search, it looks like the biodegradable ones can be stuck together with a VERY little bit of water. Don't know that anything you build would be very sturdy.
Some ideas, asteroid clusters, stack them to make walls (fairly thick, but might look like stacked stones). If you're bored, dissolve some in water, pour into a mould, see what happens when it dries. Maybe dip dryer lint or paper in it and see if it stiffens up.

I built a basic wall with a few nonbiodegrable ones. Not very pretty, but functional. And it's just an experiment at this time.

Asteroids sound like a good idea. I may glue them to a cardboard box to use as foam for storing miniatures.