Collins Does Yavin IV Table Build

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Welcome to the Jungle!

September 8, 2018

Tutoring 6

Skill 7

Idea 8

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As you will know I’ve been wanting to make this jungle. However since I’ve run out of time for the competition I’ve decided to rename the project to Collins does Yavin IV table build. I still plan to continue with the project of course.

So let’s move onto building some jungle terrain specifically scatter. Full disclosure none of this is new or innovative basically borrowed from the terrain tutor and his videos can be found here.

Ive been collecting bits throughout the month for these scatter pieces, mostly from wilkos and the range.

Two hanging balls for £9-11 each and some offcut of fake turf (spoiler image! I also have got a 3D printer now!)

One £6 bag of aquarium plants

As you can see the aquarium plants are very bright greens whereas the garden plants are muted.

I’ll have to make some bases and most likely I’ll be building so wire trees with steel wool toppers. I hope that I’ll build them in a better scale for the wargame.

I started with a sheet of 6 mm MDF and cut it into many random shapes. Then after that i used DAS modelling clay to add some bumps just like TTT did.

Random MDF boards that have had their edges bevelled off with a Dremel

Wire tree with bark added in DAS

Slapped on the DAS on the board and now waiting for it to dry before painting

The trees were made by taking 1 mm garden wire and twisting it together. After that they were then cut and twisted again into different branch shapes, Eventually leading to single strands of wire, after that I hook was made using the last of the wire.

Once I was happy with the random I then covered the whole thing in DAS modelling clay. I used a sculpting tool to make bark like scratches in the DAS and left to dry overnight.

once dry the trunk and main branches were painted using a cheap brown house paint.