Terrain Building Guides: Making undergrowth, part 1

Today I have decided to take a break from painting and cleaning to make a few terrain pieces. Eight pieces of undergrowth to be exact and a guide of how I made them for the blog. This will be a three-parter since I need to let the pieces dry overnight in between steps as well as I don't actually have time to paint and flock them today.

First of all I took a few odd pieces of wood we use as bases for terrain pieces from our gaming club. These were leftovers since David made his river (a project that might be featured here). I started by roughly marking the outlines for the bases.

1) Marking the outlines of the bases

Then I took these out to my workshop and cut them out with a powersaw being very careful since such small pieces actually is pretty dangerous to make and the saw is quite powerful. When cut I sanded the edges of the bases. One of the pieces didn't make the cut as I thought it looked kind of silly so only seven made it through.

2) Bases cut and sanded

Now I cut out a few small pieces of foamboard to raise areas on the bases. Then I removed the paper on top of these with a knife while evening them out to fit as raised areas of the undergrowth.

3) Foamcore pieces

These I glued, using PVA glue, onto the bases and made sure they fit right. Afterwards I put weight onto the pieces to make sure the foamboard didnt lift from the base while drying.

4) Foamcore glued

This is the last thing I do to them today. I got plenty of work left on them, but at least the worst part is over. Now I have to leave the pieces to dry and for the rest of the work I have to go down to our gaming clubs as I don't have the supplies needed for the rest at home. I will continue this project in part two after the weekend.

-Tobias