Building a rocky little piece of terrain - Tutorial No1

Ian asked me to post a little tutorial how I made my rocky terrain I´ve shown on my blog last time.

So here is the first part of this tutorial.

First of all I´ve cut some plastic strips (about 1 inch in square). I used some old blister packs from miniatures for that. So this is further kind of recycling. :)

These strips were glued on the middle of the damaged CD´s so that no sand, glue or something else could run out of the hole in the middle of the CD. 

Some might think that this in not necessary, but I chose to do it.

After that the bark is placed and glued on the CD´s. 

Just break it into some little pieces to give the rocks the structure or hight you want them to have.

For the bark is not flat, there will often be a space between the piece of bark and the CD. 

So it could happen that some glue may run out of the hole. 

If you don´t pay attention, this could glue the CD on your working table or at least cause a mess.

 So that´s the reason why I use the plastic strips mentioned above. 

I always use white glue for this part. 

Here are some other "constructions". 

This time I´ve decided to produce some terrain pieces parallel to save some time.

The good thing is that you´re allowed to create your favorite style.

After this step it is time to put on the foam material to construct a smooth passing to the earthwork that will later be modeled or glued on the edges of the CD. 

It could look like this.

Now it´s time to put on some sand (if you want to). I always use bird sand for this because it has very fine granules. 

I´ve also put on some smaller stones to give the terrain more structure.

And just another one. 

After the glued sand has dried I´ve put on a milky mixture of white glue and water. 

This is just to make the bark harder. 

If you don´t do that, the layers of the bark will surely break while using it on your gaming table. 

So this is a very recommendable phase.

As I already told in my first post on this topic the drying phase takes the longest part of construction.

So it is time to be patient - 

just to give the glue the necessary time to dry.

And just to give me some time to work on the second part of this tutorial. :)

To be continued...

Cheers

Mike