Zone Carboardis (Terrain)

On the hunt!

Yeah, it's a terrible pun but I, like everyone else, has been locked away with loved ones for what seems like an eternity already... in reality, it hasn't even been a full week for me yet!  With make work in mind, I spent some time cleaning my manshed on Sunday night.  Amongst the many wonders I uncovered included an old piece of honeycomb cardboard that had fallen off my bench, roll behind my table saw, been whacked with something in the process and covered in cat hair.  Not a pretty.

As you can see, much effort was applied in getting this prepared
- all that cat hair doesn't come for free!

Then inspiration stuck: at 15(L)x3(W)x5(H) it made for a good size piece of 28mm scaled wall - especially the type of walls that you'd find in the most putrid corners of the underhive.  As it happened, I had a spare tub of spacfiller (the type of stuff that builders use to fill holes in walls, a really thick paste) floating around, leftover from my recent Shed #2 build.  So I slapped it onto the cardboard with a palette knife - total time ~2 minutes effort - and left it dry overnight.

It looks like toothpaste but isn't minty.

This morning, when I went to feed our pussycat, I sprayed the piece (not the cat) with my cheapo black auto primer and let it dry for the day - yep, that took all of a minute - then went off to work*

*My commute is a killer - having to pass the traffic within the kitchen, navigate the stairs and find a seat in my son's room.  How do people do it each day??

After dinner, I got out my craft paints (thanks Aldi) and went over the black with brown, silver, umm... green, yellow, red... white, more black... yeah it was typical Jason-style, throwing as much paint as I could at it.  Eventually, I said "Enough" and this is what I ended up with:

Love how that middle organic-looking orifice kind of turned out.  Yuck!! 

The walls look almost like sheets of skin or hide, sloughing off in a decaying mass... excellent.

You know what?  I think it works.  For the effort (LOL) and the material investment (LOLx2), it's a ripping piece of terrain.  Here are some more shots with minis for scale:

The little base-board that I have set the piece upon was from my Hive Settlement "H.BLOC-47B" (Terrain) Necromunda Terrain Builders entry from early 2019.  The colour and texture don't quite match this newer piece, but it got me thinking about how I could adapt my Spoils terrain board method to work with such pieces in mind - I've got an idea and the necessary baseboard so we'll just have to wait and see...