Terrain - big hill bunker experiment - Part 2

Making a large rubbled hill / bunker.
This is an experiment using expanding foam. Part 2

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• bunker
• foam
• expanding
• hardboard
• base
• wargame
• terrain
• dioramas
• 40k
• city
• fight
• cityfight

[wowgmserver202]

WHy not try using chicken wire or some kind of mesh? Thats what I use.. it is very plyable and when used with mache.. like pva glue and newspaper, it dries like stone, very malleable. but 10/10 for your attemt. love the vid! keep em coming!

[thekamloopian]

I've used and tried many different methods. This hill-bunker-rubble pile type thing I'm building is really just an experiment.

I try things just to see how they work out and so others can take the idea and run with it or at least learn from my mistakes.

I use chicken wire a lot. I sculpt too.

I like a plaster cloth for covering it. Either the stuff they used for casts (broken bones) or cheesecloth dipped in a thick slurry of plaster. It takes paint and washes better than paper mache.

[sgtnick09]

by the way u are dumb

[sgtnick09]

i will be making a tutoral on how to make a bunker out of FOAM BOARD, PLASTER,AND SPRAY FOAM

[Original50]

This little project inspired something I did at the weekend. I wanted to create a basic low hill, but with a classic bunker-entrance into it. Result, with no gloves and paying enough attention? 'Scabby' fingers for a week and a a lump of crud stuck to the back of my neck, after shaking the can with a blob of wet foam still attached to the nozzle...

Anyway, the effect was good; nicely carveable, but the foam contracted and bowed-out the base of my bunker very badly. Drawing-board...

[Original50]

I love your vids! OK, they are informative, but you arejust so 'real' :O) The Tommy Chong of the terrain-building world!

And for the kids out there, if you HAVE to drink a brew whilst modelling, make sure your tin/bottle is safely out of the way or ask an adult to hold it for you :OP.

[jubjub92]

yeah, I used that stuff a while a go to make a mountain for my model train layout- a general idea is to not trust anything that it says on the can. I sprayed it all on, and when I went back to spread it around, it had already dried. I've found that a better way to make foam mountains is to get a small sheet of foam(like your using) and cut out circles, so when you pull out the rings they stack on top of each other. Then you can cut down the edges and use some spackle to fill in the gaps.

[thekamloopian]

Tried doing that in spots.

Problem was trying to keep it on top of the cardboard, it falls down in between the carboard slats.

I think tinfoil will be the best, just have to spray it with something like Pam first and then wait untill the foam has fully set before removing it. Plus use a good quality thick brand of foil.

[Lexicon1971]

best vid ever!!!!