Project Lustria: Part 3

A few shots of the finished Lustria terrain pieces. Happy Christmas Mr. Clark!  I'll be making a set for myself, and expanding to larger temples, and possibly multiple plaza sections that can fit together.  For this terrain set, I decided to keep the mostly unpainted ruins look- as if the Lizardmen abandoned it long ago, then rediscovered it and started making new sacrifices.

Temple, ruins, plaza and spawning pool

The top piece comes off for easier storage and transport.

Temple complete with sacrificial orc head



Ruins and spawning pool



LUSTRIA EXPLORED! 

The reason I started this project was that I own a dogs of war warmaster army, and wanted a new and exciting terrain place to play games. I set up the pieces and took some shots for scale and, well, coolness!

A small Dogs of war force search for Lustrian gold!

Crossbow unit use the temple top for a better field of fire.

  Over all I am pretty pleased with the outcome, and I think that the foam I used for the plaza and bases for the other pieces is a total winner! I'm going to try it next for making roads and some woods next.

 

Project Lustria: Part 2

Happy Chritsmas, cool yule, and a stocking full of rum to us all!!!

Sorry I've been tardy on the ol' blog and chain but both my digital camera and my computer went belly up over the last couple of months, and I am slowly getting things things back to plum. With this in mind, and christmas projects abounding, I will be shotgunning a few blogs past you in quick broadsides, so keep a weather eye!

LUSTRIA:
This year one of my gaming groups decided to do a Secret Santa trade, with the theme being our hobby, of course.

I was lucky to get my pal Aron Clark, whom we just presented with a warmaster Lizardman army for his wedding gift a few months back. His gift, and something I've been toying with, was a no brainer! Project Lustria went into full swing. I decided to do a small temple, a plaza, and a bit of ruins ala a sculpture.

The temple top and some ruins, made of super sculpy.

The skull disc is a resin shield from one of my old Mecha models.

The temple with the sacrificial altar and top design placed upon it.  I had some sculpy left, so I decided to make a small spawning pool, staring as a rectangle.

A couple of  side view shots to show the detailing in the stonework. The inside is made of poplar scraps I had left over from the battleship project.  You can also see some underpainting of the ruins bits. I placed them on reversed tape to make painting easier.

I included this shot for scale. The temple is big enough to hold a full warmaster unit of three stands on top.

Project Lustria: brave new foams

I am currently planning to make some Lustrian terrain for my warmaster, and Mecha! games. Trying to expand my horizons I am trying out a new material (new to me) called Foamy sheets- durable dense foam which comes in thicknesses from 2-6 mm. The sheets I bought were 2mm x 30 x 40 cm, and cost a dollar .It comes in a bevy of colors too!

http://www.thefind.com/crafts/info-foamies-sheets
Foamy sheets are ultra easy to cut, score, and holds paint really well. My thought was to use it for large stone plazas around my temples, and using it for defining areas like swamps, jungles etc. Normally I use masonite or door skin (1/8 inch plywood) or canvas: time to try something new.

Some tests I did with two colors of the 2mm foam. This piece is roughly 4 x 5 inches

My observations so far:

• Cheap and easy to find. Three out of three hobby and craft stores had it.

• Very easy to cut, but leaves a hard edge. Sanding a bevel is possible.

• Takes paint and glue great! has a bit of a tooth to it, perfect for ground and stone

• Smaller pieces may warp some around the edges. Need to find out the min size

• Cutting stones possible, but faster to score the material with a graver (or other sharp tool). The sun face and bricks to the right are done that way. Also easy to cut through, so an under mount is crucial.

• Pencil marks make subtler scoring lines


So Now I ask all of you out there- have you used this stuff? If so, what's your take?