75th Anniversary of Battle of Monte Cassino and Northern Italy (Terrain Build)

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Project Entry by redvers

Monte Cassino - Plucking Hell

December 17, 2018

Tutoring 3

Skill 2

Idea 3

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Managed to get some time to work on the terrain for this project. Having shaped the foam in the last update, it was time to pluck it to create a cliff face. I want something imposing and shear as while the scale will be wrong, it needs to look like it dominates the battle field.

The plucking took ages and my fingers were sore after doing it. I’m happy with the general shape but I think it might need some more work.

I even had foam left over to create some additional rocks for other terrain pieces :-)

I then needed to colour the foam. The rock around Cassino is quite light, almost a bone colour however I need a dark shade initially to soak into the foam so that none of the foam shows through. I’ve again ordered some cheap dark brown acrylic paint from Amazon and watered it down a little. This was then liberally applied to the foam and ‘pushed’ into it by a very old paint brush.

It took a few coats to cover the foam up and some time to dry but it now looks a lot less like some foam from a sofa!