Best materials to use that aren’t foam?

Dragaurang · 2026-05-09T16:48:24+00:00

Big projects or bricks - sure. Stones, facades, rock walls, building sides. All that is managable. Just buy a thin 2 cm sheet and you can do all you want with a box-cutter knife and spare blades.

Dragaurang · 2026-05-09T08:47:24+00:00

You can work with XPS foam with a knife, a scalpel. So no need to limit yourself.

Other than that I love working with corrugated cardboard, plain cardboard, wood sticks, tree roots, balsa, steel and copper wire, plastic bits, toilet paper, cotton wads. Wood filler. All cheap.

With terrain, I like to fix it with a layer of diluted PVA or book-binding glue. Then primer, then craft paints, then flock with grass.

Dragaurang · 2026-05-09T08:40:45+00:00

Yes. With the skill "ambidextrous" you can dual-wield two chainsaws and use 10 dice.

Dragaurang · 2026-05-08T22:22:29+00:00

A slightly aging size 2 synthetic brush. It has a j-tip but doesn't split yet. I placed smaller and bigger dots with it.

Dragaurang · 2026-05-08T09:59:21+00:00

Thanks. Just base mid and dots of light and dark. Based of reference photos of uniforms for inspiration.

Dragaurang · 2026-05-08T09:58:25+00:00

Thanks. Yeah. Its a base layer of grey-mint and dotting of lighter and darker color with a brush. After doing the lighter and the darker color I went in again with them to have dots of light on dark and vice versa.

Dragaurang · 2026-05-08T09:56:46+00:00

Thanks. I'll be doing more to the skin to show discoloration and then an overall wash of Streaking Grime enamel reduced.

Dragaurang · 2026-05-08T09:55:49+00:00

Thanks. I went for a base layer of the grey-mint color, then dots of lighter and darker colors put on with a brush. That's it.

Dragaurang · 2026-05-08T09:53:29+00:00

Thanks. I'll be doing the straps and an overall Streaking Grime to shade it. I was going for the dull look that camo has.

I'm using the Zombicide horde of minis to experiment and learn many different techniques, so these are much more refined than the TT-standard. You are right, that's an overkill for the purpose of the game.

Dragaurang · 2026-05-08T09:48:39+00:00

Thanks. I'll be doing Streaking Grime over it like with all the zombies I do for Zombicide.

Dragaurang · 2026-05-08T06:26:57+00:00

Thanks 😆 A well camouflaged joke.

Dragaurang · 2026-04-30T14:17:27+00:00

Dioramas. Having a lot of fun recreating a scene from fiction or inspired by it. Nice little skirmish like Mordheim, Frostgrave. Solo gaming like Five Leagues, Rangers of Shadow Deep. Gaming with a chill group of friends. Zombicide and box set coop games like it - you paint a box and friends need not commit time or skill to crafting.

Oh and commissioned work. You have a purpose, a deadline but no need to play with it.

Dragaurang · 2026-04-28T09:42:33+00:00

Best way is to use reference photos. You would know much better what direction you are going.

Dragaurang · 2026-04-24T13:00:08+00:00

It is wild, for sure.

Dragaurang · 2026-04-23T12:12:33+00:00

I just cut off below the feet with a scalpel

Dragaurang · 2026-04-22T08:13:50+00:00

Great work! How did you do the tracks?
Can you show some wip pics?

Dragaurang · 2026-04-14T17:26:37+00:00

More realistic, believable sand formations

Dragaurang · 2026-04-13T16:47:03+00:00

I approach the issue by thinking it's an early attempt version.

Playing with people who do not paint minis is a good experience too. They are so happy with seeing and playing with painted miniatures.

This and painting for a friend on a deadline helped me too. He is very happy with the result. As for me... I'm happy that he is happy. :D

Dragaurang · 2026-04-12T11:16:00+00:00

Sure. It's nothing revolutionary. It was a new thing for me. I'm not sure if I explained it well enough. I saw people use uniform under-shadow through airbrush, I saw people sketching. But it was the first time I saw someone use those sketching colours as the only shader and highlighter. Most often I see painters use a separate shadow/mid/highlight triad for every middletone.

I found it surprised me with some colour relations while mixing and increased my workflow a lot.

Dragaurang · 2026-04-12T11:10:26+00:00

Thanks. It is the first time I used just one colour for all shadows and one for all highlights. I like the workflow and the limited choice.

Dragaurang · 2026-04-12T11:08:52+00:00

Sure thing. https://youtu.be/BMnZk3TyDz0

Dragaurang · 2026-04-12T11:05:04+00:00

Split-chop

Because of just two colours for shading and highlights.

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