WINTER SETS IN
In the spirit of the season, I decided I'd try out a snow effect on
my Mordhiem terrain- with great results! I covered the table with
a thin sheet of white cotton cloth (intended for wrapping around Christmas
trees of course). I clamped the sheet down so it wouldn't slide around
(it's pretty light). Then I put out some of the trees I had made
for my 40K snow scenery- they are cake and christmas
decorations, tacked into pieces of foam with a cocktail stick and spray
painted white. But the crowning achievement was the melting snow
patches on the terrain itself, made from a special kind of packing foam.
I had finally found the PERFECT foam for making
snow- Polyethylene Foam seems to be the right stuff. They use
thin sheets of polyethylene for dish pack (not what you want, too flimsy).
What you’ll want is a thick sheet, block, or plank, like the kind they
use to package monitors. You might be able to find some at a recycling
center that takes foams and packaging materials. The cheaper
stuff looks better than the tougher stuff, ironically- and is easier to
cut. It's lighter, more translucent, and has both closed and open
cells in it. You want planks or sheets that are at least a half-inch
thick to get a good slice. Try to avoid laminates (multiple sheets
glued on top of each other), though these aren’t horrible- you’ll just
get a faint line in the middle. I found that I could slice it very
easily with a sharp butcher's knife, and the thinner I sliced it, the more
translucent it became- and thus, the more it looked like snow.
By slicing several long thin strips, and then slicing a wavy edge along
one side, I could create strips of melting snow pack that I could place
along the inside edges of my terrain. I cut them to fit snugly, so
they wouldn't just fall off- though I also used double sided tape to hold
them in place on sloped roofs. The steps in the pic above were decorated
in this manner- and when winter is over, I can simply remove the foam to
return Mordheim back to its normal state..
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