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Lidl Mystery Aisle
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About the Project
Found some boxes of decorative seed husks / pine cone boxes that inspired some terrain and model making ideas. The Lidl buy-it-now aisle has always been good for wargaming hobbying. These ideas have mostly been for Silver Bayonet but these ideas have scope for other games. The execution hasn't been amazing on some of these but the ideas seem solid.
Related Game: The Silver Bayonet
Related Genre: General
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Cacti
I picked out the smallest cones in the box and made them into cacti patches. 
They're a bit big but if I clump a few together it can be an interesting piece of impassable terrain.
I chose a few different colours for the "spines" because I have seen plenty of variety of colours in succulents and cacti online. Basing and beyond
I realised that a single based tree isn't much of an obstacle. They aren't very big and would look a little lost on their own. Some games have the rules that lean on area line of site blocking.
But once you are on the CD you can see a target beyond and they can see you, though you have a cover bonus.
The smaller cones make good basing for bigger models. And this helps them gel with the terrain on the gaming table.First steps.
I found that the size varied widely and some of the little pine cones had a stork that for my purposes became a bush trunk.Time again, I would probably find a green spray paint to prime them. Instead I gave a very rough and ready coat of brushed on green paint.
I liked the mix of brown (unpainted) and green painted look of the bush, with white snow flock on top to cover any painting sins.
I used some instant mix plaster to help bed the cone down to the base
Mystery aisle no. 2
Found these and immediately thought they could be small bushes for Frostgrave or The Silver Bayonet Canada.Finished article
I made 6 of these. I suppose I could have made less as there can't be too many scenarios I need these for. I also imagine I need to make their initial attack quite brutal, but perhaps be slightly vulnerable once they are out of the ground for too long?
I really like the finished look. There's definitely scope to make more with different basing and maybe tentacles and claws from the jaws to make them fit another genre and be closer to the movie Tremors if I actually emulated that.
I will have to work out some rules and stats for them. Probably get some cross over as giant worms for Frostgrave.Basing
I used a forest floor flock all over the base and thicker around the back of the base. 
Then I added the snow flock to heighten the basing material around the back of the base. I avoided snow towards the front of the base as I think I want the contrast of the brown against the mottled white of the jaws.Greenstuff
I finished painting the maws and spear tongues of the beasts. I used some Riekland Fleshshade to give the flesh some depth. I even added some Drakenhof Nightshade at the back of the mouth to again give it more interest and more organic.
Then I used Greenstuff to get the monsters based. The top of the shell is conical and just gluing it down to the base wouldn't look right. I chose a worm-like segmented body.
I painted the greenstuff with a base of Rakarth Flesh off-white. Then Nulin Oil shade. I tried to copy the markings on the shell with a pure white and then darkened it down with another coat of Nulin Oil.Graboids
I could have made these with a cowboy or moderns genre in mind like the film Tremors. I was focused on painting some Silver Bayonet Canada models so that skewed the way I was inspired. The mottled white outer casing of the shells and the thought of these things erupting out of a snowdrift made me think about making snowy terrain ones to begin with.
I chose a Khorne Red for the tongue. I chose to have some with and some without the spear tongue to show that they fire out their tongue the stab their prey. I imagine the shape of the tongue can either puncture their prey and drag them into the mouth, or perhaps just ambush and wound them and poison them similar to a Komodo dragon and gobble them up once they fall over with a thud latter on.
