D&D General DIY xps foam terrain. Videos? Pics? Advice?

Okay, it is not too warped, but I may still need to paste the whole thing onto a firmer base (something not to heavy).

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not-so-newguy said:
Looks awesome!

I found another video for water effect.
This person uses spackle (kinda bad audio tho)

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Awesome, but I think I found a system mixing green and blue paint with PVA to get the sludgy swamp water effect I want. I tested it on some scrap cardboard and it looks pretty good with some pigment adjustments and doing layers in slightly different colors.

Wish me luck.
 


Something I just learned: DON'T buy the absolute cheapest tile, especially avoid ties with lines in them. The one I circled is MUCH more solid.
The cheapo cost me 69 cents a square
The better one cost 99 cents.

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I had to paint my coastal tile because grit was coming off

From this:
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To this:
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ETA I really need to vacuum my rug
 
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el-remmen said:
Yeah. 1.25 inch squares is a thing. Personally, I use a mix of grid and gridless play and have made measuring sticks for my players to use (they hated counting boxes and I hated diagonal movement counting the same as straight movement so the sticks were the compromise which then opened up more gridless play) - but in general I try to be fast and loose with it. If my boxes are slightly off the game plays just as well.
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Ah the good old days of inches vice feet. Measuring strings were a thing of beauty from the old wargaming days. Zeroing your string before each session so you weren't cheating. Ah good times.
 

not-so-newguy said:
Thanks for pointing that out. It made a big difference. Also putting on the base brown with a very wet brush helped.
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looks really good. As a suggestion when you decide to weather the edges with a dry brush, for wood, use the same base color as your top coat thinned with a small amount of yellow and then go ohhhhh so light. You'll be amazed at the results.
 

pogre said:
If you paint a lot of stone work, and therefore, lots of gray tones, you might try using house paint. I have a quart of white and a quart of black that I got from the hardware store.

When I did a bunch of desert terrain I had the paint store mix up a sand/yellow-tan color house paint for my terrain boards. Pretty economical and wears well. My desert terrain boards were used and abused ina hobby store for years.
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Pro-tip. Don't forget to check the grocery store spice isle for clearance spices. They are usually cheaper than hobby grass/terrain and are just as pretty. Bonus they make your terrain smell nice. I use an out of date bottle of Mrs. Dash for painted desert terrain. Works like a dream.
 

Thunderfoot said:
Pro-tip. Don't forget to check the grocery store spice isle for clearance spices. They are usually cheaper than hobby grass/terrain and are just as pretty. Bonus they make your terrain smell nice. I use an out of date bottle of Mrs. Dash for painted desert terrain. Works like a dream.
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Nice! I'll have to that in the future.

Edit: and pick up yellow acrylic
 


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