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Easter Egg Terrain
The only thing better than free terrain pieces is free terrain
pieces that come with discount candy in them. After Easter sales
on treats (which obviously taste different on Monday) are a boon
for my sweet tooth and my wargame table.
Here we have some sparkly translucent plastic Easter eggs glued
on top of the best scratchbuiler piece out there ... the plastic
bottle cap! The caps are glued together back to back, with
both open ends to the outside. This gives a good place to support
the curved surface of the egg and a fairly stable base (they really
stand better open-end toward the table).
This was obviously going to be scifi terrain, and is pretty
simple to spice up.
I used liquid latex (that stuff you get to
do writing crafts on t-shirts) to make the rivets. They come
out fairly even and regular with an ammount of effort and price that is
much less than most other rivet techniques.
I think the dingy metallic paintjob of the lower half really
brings out the color of the sparkly part.
Here is a different on with some 28mm space marines for size context.
These make great objectives or markers and could work for a
lot of different types of scifi machinery. I didn't glue the two
halves of the egg together, so you can even put a captured figure or
objective inside it.
A bag of those seizure-inducing flashy rave rings would also
work well inside.
By adding a couple of pieces of index card to them, they also make
nice one man space vehicles.
Again, not gluing the egg parts closed allows you to put figures
inside, and do the half-open thing shown here.
Make sure you lock the hatch when you leave!
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