I am a GW player as well, and there are some amazing pieces from them that I would love to incorporate into my D&D game, but I don't want to spend the money on it. Does anyone have any good tutorials or advice for making stuff at home, possibly from Styrofoam and then painted?
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Not sure if this'll help but years ago for school projects I decided to make a pyramid out of styrofoam. To try to give it some texture I used a combination of spray-paint and reptile sand from my local pet store (I had some as pets at the time and it was sitting around). The texture it ended up giving the styrofoam ate into it almost like acid was corroding it. The resources were reusable for multiple projects, and cheap enough to be able to purchase for one-off things.
You just need to get creative with what's available and look into materials you normally wouldn't use. Test how the materials interact with each-other on small pieces before you ruin a whole piece you've been working on though.
Firstly, there are a lot of very affordable MDF ruins and buildings out there. For an average 28mm building its like $8-$15 (I got a pack of ruins with like 9 buildings for $35 as well off ebay!).
There are also some more expensive ones, like 4Ground, that are $25 up to over $100, but you can can get started with the cheap stuff.
For hills I just buy insulation foam from home depot. I live in Florida, so I can only get the 1 inch stuff since they don't sell thick foam, but I buy it for like $4 for a 2x2 foot square. Cut it into some hill shapes with a hot wire cutter, and sand the edges. I sometimes put another small hill ontop of it. I buy a 50lbs bag of sand for like $3 at home depot, and a bag of pine bark nuggets to use as rocks and such, also for $4-$5, and use that to make my hills look, well, hilly.
Each hill I have probably costs about $2-$3 in material, and a lot of that is the price of the paint.
You can buy trees from woodlands senics in their bulk section and get like 24 for like $30. Make a few stands of trees.
For like $110 you could have a bunch of ruins, trees, and hills, and still have stuff left over.
I am a GW player as well, and there are some amazing pieces from them that I would love to incorporate into my D&D game, but I don't want to spend the money on it. Does anyone have any good tutorials or advice for making stuff at home, possibly from Styrofoam and then painted?
I don't like quotations, tell me what you know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not sure if this'll help but years ago for school projects I decided to make a pyramid out of styrofoam. To try to give it some texture I used a combination of spray-paint and reptile sand from my local pet store (I had some as pets at the time and it was sitting around). The texture it ended up giving the styrofoam ate into it almost like acid was corroding it. The resources were reusable for multiple projects, and cheap enough to be able to purchase for one-off things.
You just need to get creative with what's available and look into materials you normally wouldn't use. Test how the materials interact with each-other on small pieces before you ruin a whole piece you've been working on though.
Firstly, there are a lot of very affordable MDF ruins and buildings out there. For an average 28mm building its like $8-$15 (I got a pack of ruins with like 9 buildings for $35 as well off ebay!).
There are also some more expensive ones, like 4Ground, that are $25 up to over $100, but you can can get started with the cheap stuff.
For hills I just buy insulation foam from home depot. I live in Florida, so I can only get the 1 inch stuff since they don't sell thick foam, but I buy it for like $4 for a 2x2 foot square. Cut it into some hill shapes with a hot wire cutter, and sand the edges. I sometimes put another small hill ontop of it. I buy a 50lbs bag of sand for like $3 at home depot, and a bag of pine bark nuggets to use as rocks and such, also for $4-$5, and use that to make my hills look, well, hilly.
Each hill I have probably costs about $2-$3 in material, and a lot of that is the price of the paint.
You can buy trees from woodlands senics in their bulk section and get like 24 for like $30. Make a few stands of trees.
For like $110 you could have a bunch of ruins, trees, and hills, and still have stuff left over.
best thing i've seen for crafting tstiff for cheap is the youtube channel Dm's Craft although there are others you can find.
I second Dms Craft. DM Scotty's stuff is pretty cool. Also check out Black Magic Craft and The Terrain Tutor.
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