Raudulfr's Custom Terrain (update 8-25-2012)

[Raudulfr Shieldcrusher]

Originally Posted by HSisforcoolkids

Your rock work is awesome and I have always been a fan of you orc tower and have looked at it often in admiration.

Thanks! So, have you made a tower yet?

[teekay]

Cool stuff, RS--especially the tower. Also the black wash just makes the castle set look better.

[Billtog]

I don't really have any original compliments to bestow on you, but suffice it to say that everything pictured so far is awesome. My favorite is the guard tower with the wooden ladder.

[Taelord]

Nice stuff. Thise rocks look amazing. And I like your albino Carr.

[Raudulfr Shieldcrusher]

My latest project is a Marro bone structure. Mostly it is for decoration, but I thought that it could also be used as a permanent glyph. If a Marro warrior is on the center hex, a bonus could be applied to the cloning ablility, or to the Hive Supremecy. Anyway . . . here is a tutorial.

I started by carving the bone shapes out of styro.


Then they got a good coating of a paint/glue/flour mixture. I wanted some of the texture of the styro to show through.



Then I drilled some holes for screws in the bottom of a 7 hex tile.


I glued the bones to the screws. After they dried, I used some of the left over bits of styro to build up the base of the bones. I wanted it to look like the flesh around a tusk or horn.


The bases then got a good coat of the paint/glue/flour mixture.


Painted everything black.


Drybrushed the hex base and the bone bases.


Then I painted the bones with a solid brown undercoat.


Next, the bones got a drybrush coat of flesh. The bone bases got a drybrush of dark red. And the hex got a drybrush coat of flesh.


Then the bones for a light drybrush of cream.


Last I added a real light drybrush coat of white to the bones, a little bit of watered down yellow to the bone bases and a touch of brighter red to the parts that stuck out the most.


And here is the final piece on display with some Marro figures!

[Cavalier]

Very nice custom piece, Shieldcrusher, and a great tutorial.

[Raudulfr Shieldcrusher]

Thanks!

[robopesant]

Cool'

[NecroBlade]

Awesomeness. Btw, August is the 8th month of the year.

[Raudulfr Shieldcrusher]

Originally Posted by NecroBlade

Awesomeness. Btw, August is the 8th month of the year.

Doh!

[redic_rogue_07]

looks great im gonna have to try this.

[Raudulfr Shieldcrusher]

Originally Posted by redic_rogue_07

looks great im gonna have to try this.

It wasn't too difficult. The hardest part was carving the bones. It only took two days, and maybe a total of 3 hours. I used a hair dryer inbetween coats of paint to speed things up a bit.