Irrational Number Line Games, LLC
Weird SciFi Terrain
This is a typical cheap
dinosaur skeleton toy.
I've used smaller ones and bits and parts for figures for my
Zombiesaurus Rex vs Tricerinator
game.
This time, I want a big terrain piece skeleton rather than zombie dinos.
I am going to use one half (the half with the tail) as a big continuous
terrain piece, then the rest as bits. The cross-shaped socket where the
arm and leg bits had to be hollowed out to look less manufactured.
And I ran over it with two layers of white paint. I didn't prime the
bones since I like the yellow color as an undertone and the paint doesn't
stick well to the plastic, giving a mottled, weathered look.
The skull, however, has a big seam down the middle.
Air dry clay to the rescue! I use a bit of
household adhseive,
my go-to for basing figures and big terrain piece glue,
to keep the clay in place.
Of course, if I had the benefit of hindsight, I would have
done this before I painted them. Well, get the brush back out.
Now a simple black wash to highlight all the crevases and other details.
The skull is still a headache (he he), since the clay took the watered
down black paint I use as a wash much differently than the painted
plastic (and unprimed) bone surface).
A little dry brushed white over the top keeps some of the wash but
hides the rest of the discrepancy.
Haw! I will never understand the irrational excitability of women!
Miss Pompelmuss, you may rest assured that as terrible as this creature
once was, he hasn't had as much as a bite in over two-hundred-million years!
I know it was a scion of evil, but, you know, as a druid I still kinda
have a pull of sympathy when a little baby anything dies. Right, guys?
... Guys?
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