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Post by madladdesigns on Oct 19, 2012 12:36:29 GMT -5
I'm creating a clearing which is next to the side of a mountain in a snowy forest and I wanted the tile to have 'snow drifts'. This was achieved by mixing craft glue & water and using toilet tissue to mold the drifts into shape. The piece standing up at the top right will be a drift against the side of the mountain when it's in place.
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Post by unclebilly on Oct 19, 2012 13:59:19 GMT -5
Looks cool so far. I picked up a pack of 21 snow coverd Pine Trees today at Home Depot for $7.00. I could not pass them up for that price you may want to drop by you local one if you have one and see if they have them. They where with the christmas stuff.
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Post by dm1scotty on Oct 19, 2012 14:30:50 GMT -5
Nice, can't wait to see the result!
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Post by hasbinbad on Oct 19, 2012 17:53:34 GMT -5
That's going to be cool!
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Post by madladdesigns on Oct 20, 2012 9:41:25 GMT -5
Thanks guys, I can't wait to see how (badly!?) it turns out! lol!
I'm going to be using cotton wool balls around the edge as 'snow covered trees', will allow the tile to be stacked flat.
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Post by madladdesigns on Oct 20, 2012 17:19:27 GMT -5
And here it is painted.
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Post by hasbinbad on Oct 20, 2012 19:36:34 GMT -5
Very nice! Can you put some minis on it for scale? (+++ if you have the human wizard in the yellow robe hehe)
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Post by hasbinbad on Oct 20, 2012 19:37:15 GMT -5
Also, how are you going to run it? Will the mounds be difficult terrain? Cover?
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Post by brianblather on Oct 22, 2012 17:43:41 GMT -5
The drifts a very good. Love the spacing. I feel they may be a little too textured. The smoothness of a snow drift can be as hard to get as sand drift. Though sand would have the "grit" look. +++ have to say I like the work.
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Post by madladdesigns on Oct 23, 2012 6:12:05 GMT -5
I've got to admit that I'm not 100% happy with it either, it's ok but doesn't really look like snow, ah well, it's for the kids to get them into D&D so I'm not too fussy on getting perfect terrain.
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Post by hasbinbad on Oct 24, 2012 2:23:48 GMT -5
in the future, i think laying flat pieces of tissue over the top of the wet mounds in successive layers would smooth out the drifts quite a bit. Also modelling paste applied with a finger to wrinkled or rough spots after drying. If you want those smoother mounds to also look more like snow, you could glue in a sparse layer of play sand (the evenly granulated kind, not the rubble sand scotty reccomends mostly), which would give the whole thing the impression of powder..
overall i think the project is excellent tho, and specifically your basic shapes, their distribution, and your color scheme are all proper.
if you were to do something not just "for the kids" and wanted to take it to the next level, you could build the tile out with stones and logs and stuff first and then form the drifts around and on top of those objects.
please do not take any of this as negative criticism, your work is inspiring, both in my head planning a snow drift tile now and here on this forum, inspiring conversation!
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Post by indigo777 on Oct 24, 2012 3:07:26 GMT -5
Nice work on the drifts. Gives me a lot of ideas on how to create ground effects now.
If you want a more powdery snow look you can apply a light layer of glue and flock the tile with baking soda. After it dries over night, brush off the excess baking soda. Next paint a base coat of a really light blue, I use sky blue. Once that dries Paint wash it with a darker blue like cobalt blue. Finally dry brush it with white. I've found it works quite well for making a snow effect. Adds a lot of dept to the snow and the baking soda looks like fresh powdery snow.
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Post by hasbinbad on Oct 24, 2012 14:00:17 GMT -5
don't get ^ wet lol
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