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I've just finished making a bit of gaming terrain, in the form of rocky outcrops for a desert environment. The "rocks" themselves are bits of pine bark looted from a local playground, glued to shaped 3mm MDF bases, painted, and the ground textured with model railway ballast and grass flock.
The bark does an excellent job of mimicking sedimentary rock like sandstone, and it's as cheap as it could possibly be (i.e. free). It's very absorbent, so it pays to seal it before painting — I used the cheapest white spray primer I could find, which worked just fine.
The dinosaurs in these photos are cheap — very cheap — plastic toys from a local Dollar Store; eight velociraptors for a buck. They're cast in pretty lurid colours, but with a coat of paint they came up pretty well.
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| The party could be in a bit of trouble here. There are three more velociraptors out there... somewhere. |
Yeah, bark goes better than a bite to the wallet, no doubt there. Sometimes sealing it with gritted paint helps too.
ReplyDeleteI like the pose those raptors have. Good escape from the usual stiff-tailed trogs one seems to find.