| Baranovich | 21 Feb 2017 11:37 a.m. PST |
When I was on Games Workshop's website, I was looking at their Hobbit miniatures ranges, and I saw some terrain in the background of one of their photos of their trolls. They had these really nifty-looking rock formations that looked as though they had been made out of either pine bark or cork bark, or probably a combination of both. My own collection of rock formations is good, but kind of dreary and ordinary. I wanted something that looked more fantasy and other-worldly. I had plenty of leftover pine bark chips from my cliffs project. I just went straight away and took some hot glue and glued the bark chips standing up on end, with others laying down. Really not much more to it than that except for painting and flocking the bases! Didn't take a lot of time, I think the results are pretty cool. It amazes me how the texture of the bark looks like rock when you paint it gray! Some pictures: link
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| Louie N | 21 Feb 2017 11:42 a.m. PST |
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| Zeelow | 21 Feb 2017 12:27 p.m. PST |
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| Jamesonsafari | 21 Feb 2017 12:59 p.m. PST |
Yup
That'll do nicely
Bark mulch seems to be out of fashion around my neck of the galaxy.
I'd like to buy a bag just for terrain making! |
Oberlindes Sol LIC  | 21 Feb 2017 1:25 p.m. PST |
What a great idea! I'm going to start doing that. |
| Kropotkin303 | 21 Feb 2017 2:53 p.m. PST |
Fantastic stuff. Do you dry it out in the oven before sealing it? Pretty scarce here in the UK unless anyone knows different. Very fantastical. |
| JSchutt | 21 Feb 2017 5:13 p.m. PST |
I have used a similar landscaping bark. After drying the bark pieces thoroughly I seal coated every piece with flat Modpodge before painting on the final rock effects colors. |
| Baranovich | 21 Feb 2017 5:22 p.m. PST |
@Kropotkin303, In this particular case I didn't have to. I bought that bag about a year before I ended up actually using it, so it had plenty of time to dry out. That's always a surprise to me, how such seemingly simple things are like regional or only used in certain countries but not others, and you can't generally get them. I would imagine they have gardening stores in the UK? Do they use different types of mulching materials? Just for reference, you could also use slate for the same purpose. Broken slate pieces look almost identical in texture to pine bark chips. Only major difference is that your terrain pieces will be much heavier if you use slate, obviously! |
| Baranovich | 21 Feb 2017 5:25 p.m. PST |
Yeah, I don't think there is a cheaper terrain material out there. The bag I got was like $4.50 USD and it was the size of a potato sack! I've got enough pine bark to do ten more cliffs like the ones I made! |
| wrgmr1 | 21 Feb 2017 6:40 p.m. PST |
I get pine bark pieces from the seashore, they've been flattened and make great rocks. |
| Baranovich | 23 Feb 2017 2:46 p.m. PST |
@Terrement, Those are cool…I did something similar to it with cork bark, but only had enough to do one or two terrain pieces. I wish I could do a lot more of them! Hey, by the way. I sent you a couple private emails about the Ocean State Job Lot Bonsai trees. Didn't hear back from you, are you still interested in getting some of those? |
