Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Salty Bay Con - Scenery Prep

Chris started off already building some great hedgegrows and fences with me now adding a few more to the pile. The goal here was to produce a great deal of quick and inexpensive scenery for tables to help add cover that was both soft and hard.

These are made form tounge depressor sticks, sand, scouring pads from the Dollar Tree, hot glue and a few other odd and end items. One the pads was cut to size I sprayed them with a green spray pain and drybrushed them.

My first round tests batch, I need to go back and touch them up but they turned out well!

More ready to spray tomorrow and paint up. Assembly is quick and easy for these guys and takes only a small bit of time to get some nice looking scenery on the cheap.

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  1. This is a brilliant idea and one I may be using quite soon. Thank you for posting it!

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    1. Thanks Anne, a friend of mine and I was discussing this and then I found a few other sites that had their posts on how they did it. Works out well and is cheap.

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  2. Very nice mate, I've done this myself but they don't look as good as yours nice job sir!

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    1. Thanks Simon, nothing special was done. After I cut them into strips then I roughed them up slightly to make them more like a bush. Then I found a nice dark green spray paint and sprayed the hell out of them. My friend had ones that was green already so it was easier for him as I could only find color ones. I still have to go back and add some static grass to the base and maybe some other odd and end stuff to spruce it up.

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  3. I'm interested to see how you use the red and pink scouring pads!

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    1. I am just simply going to spray the hell out of them with a flat dark green I bought...once I cover up the color I glue them to the sticks and then dry brush the hell out of them with lighter colors. The first batch was a blue scouring pad.

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  4. Great idea..... and its fast to make i hope :)

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    1. Once I got the process down and had everyone figured out it was very fast. I have something like over a dozen almost finished and my friend told me tonight that he had something like 20 more hedges and an assortment of stone and plaster fences already done. He also had a test wooden log fence made up and some random scatter scenery on CDs. I am working on a few other projects now that should round up scenery nicely.

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