Do we even do terrain here? Well I put some minis on it so I am pretty sure this still counts. ;) I finally finished a large chunk of the terrain I had begun a few months ago so I put it on the table to see some possible layouts.

All terrain is crafted from scratch from XPS foam, sand, toothpicks, some bits, tufts and moss. Heavily inspired by Black Magic Craft on YouTube (namely modular ruins, dungeon tiles, pillars, dungeon stackers). The acid pools and spike traps I came up with myself.

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    1 year ago

    Oooh, very nice. Any recommendations for cutting XPS foam without taking up too much space? I’d love to make some bricks like this but don’t necessarily want a full-sized hot wire table (or to pay 20x as much for the same amount of foam pre-cut on etsy, etc).

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      1 year ago

      Cutting bricks for ruins can be done pretty decently with a sharp kitchen knife or an olfa knife for example. You could also get a handheld hotwire cutter and fix it in a vice or with clamps and use a straight piece of wood for a guide. Kind of like a makeshift hotwire table. I did both things in the past and they work well enough for small to medium sized projects.

      Truth is nothing beats a hotwire table for efficiency when cutting looooots of bricks. So if you want to craft a lot of brickwork you’d be very happy to have a table still.

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      1 year ago

      It’s one of my favorite minis. You can even open it and put other minis inside it.

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    1 year ago

    This is great work. I like the effort of carving a lot of individual blocks and then stacking them. I assume a hot wire cutter was used?

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      I used a hotwire table, it’s just so much more efficient. I have cut bricks by hand in the past but it gets tedious pretty quickly.

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    1 year ago

    Nice stuff! Ever checked out Hirst Arts molds? Seems like something that would go well with your interests.