I have made some terrain over the past week. I finally put together my
Knights of Dice Letters Home Normandy Terrace 1. This is a
great kit however I am not a fan of MDF. I find it fiddly and awfully time consuming. It is fairly fragile too in comparison to a 3D Print. You can get some great stuff in MDF and I still have much to build however I am a complete 3D Printing convert for buildings. I rather get a file, slice it and go and do other things with my time than build a MDF kit... but thats just me.
I do want to give some praise to Knights of Dice though, their owner Vivek is committed and passionate about his kits and for MDF they are absolute top quality.
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The Knights of Dice assembled kit next to a 20mm WW2 3D printed
terrace by 3D Print Terrain (I went all in on their kickstarter) |
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Base coated, I used Rustoleum Texture Paint for the sides. |
I also built an experimental field using some canvas and acrylic caulk. I got the idea from
Wargaming With Silver Whistle and his Book Setting the Scene. It was pretty straight forward and now I know how to apply his techniques I intend on making more of these scatter pieces of terrain.
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The canvas caulked and dusted with sand |
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Primed brown, coffee grains for soil, drybrushed and vegetation added. |
I did a quick unedited photo shoot with the field and the Terrace together with some members of the 101st Airborne Division.
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The Terrace and the field |
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I like things heavily weathered and dirty |
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Knights of Dice Letters Home Normandy Terrace 1 |
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The acrylic caulk field, needs to be flattened out a bit more |
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101st Airborne Photoshoot |
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Offensive Miniatures 28mm US Airborne Paratroopers |
Excellent work!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ray!
DeleteLooks great! The original MDF kit doesn't look to shabby either. The only thing I can't stand with MDF modern buildings is the lack of roof tiles.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I considered cutting up some thin card board and making some tiles, it would look great but I really just wanted to get this done.
DeleteSuperb looking terrain and the para's are the icing on the cake. I am a bit of a dinosaur with the 3D printing but the building looks very impressive.
ReplyDeleteThanks Pat, I am going to have to make more of those mini terrain mats
DeleteBrilliant!
ReplyDeleteI especially like that use of Rustoleum !
Thanks it turned out rather lovely
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