Terrain How-To or Talkin’ Trash: The Killing Floor

All of the bunkers are texture painted and ready for floors.

See part one here.

So the next detail to deal with on these defense line pieces are the floors, since the bunkers themselves are painted. I painted the bunkers all the way to two texture coats because I'll base them next and controlling the over spray would be problematic with the other parts already on there; I suck at masking.

I transferred a 3"x3" square via pencil rubbing to the foam core and cut up 6 squares of foam core. Once cleaned and trimmed, I painted the foam sides with brown acrylic paint, readying them for texture spray. After that was dry, I sprayed the squares with 2 coats of texture paint. These would be the floors of the bunkers.

Once the textured squares were dry I sprayed some smaller, textured plasticard squares with brown spray paint. There is some sheen on them but I’ll be using Dullcote on them after the painting is finished and before the snow is added. I crazy glued the plasticard squares to the textured floors and set them to dry.

After they dried I glued them together and BAM. Defensive structure.

 After gluing the floors down on the bunkers I traced the footprint of each onto some wax paper, one outline for each bunker. I am using Gorilla Glue, a common household expanding glue, to create the bases for each bunker. I poured out glue on each template and put the bunker in it. I misted the bunker with water since the glue foams when it contacts water and expands out in cool ways. It adds something organic to the thing, one reason why you may consider it over the usual foamcore/MDF bases, though the latter is more consistent. I just like material that works for me while I'm not looking.

Pour glue out into footprint. After it dries it will peel right off. I developed this technique years back when building my Khador terrain set and I keep finding it a fast way of basing things I build.

Spray so the glue foams

All lined up in glue

Added some weight to keep the foam from taking the floors out of plumb

Foam all expanded and dried. Anything crazy you don't like? trim it with a razor knife. You'll just need to watch after you peel it off. Some uncured areas will be exposed to air and foam out. Just trim that down with a razor knife.

Here it is all pealed off. Interesting but perhaps too much... I'll trim in back. Easy peasy.

Up next: The Final Paintdown