6mm Scenery

I'm in an odd situation where I actually managed to paint a lot of things, it's just that I either lack the motivation to take photos of them, or there isn't enough natural light to do so. This post was not made under natural lighting circumstances, but I thought it was time to do photos again.

Anyway, here's a small review of the 6mm terrain pieces I have been working on for my Schultze-Böhnstadt project. All of them are handmade on the cheap and are based on 2mm plasticard.

From left to right:

Stream sections. Put dirt on the two sides, paint the middle a glossy blue-green and you're done. I came up with the idea to make bases for linear terrain that sort of slide into each other, but I'll most likely make separate bends for larger rivers.

In the background: roads, which are made the same way as streams, except there's dirt in the middle of the base too. (I use a mixture of sand and dried ground coffee for basing material.)

Trees: tooth picks and paper mache from toilet paper.

Green wheat field: it's made from a static grass coaster bought at TEDI. This store is quite useful for cheap building materials.

Stone wall: 3mm balsa I think, coated in PVA then drybrushed grey. Most of my walls reach over the narrow edge of the base so they don't look so bad when placed next to each other.

The town, made of two bases, a separate church and three timber-framed buildings. I can do different layouts with them or add more bases later.

Pine forest, from cheap decorative trees bought at Pepco. Christmas season is always a good source for these. 

Hedgerows, made from paper mache again. 

A yellow wheat field made from a piece of felt, also bought at TEDI. I was thinking about buying a proper grass mat from a modelling store, but this version cut my costs a lot.

Here's a closeup of the town. The three buildings are all different; the one in the middle is recast from an earlier master using a press mould. The mould was faulty at places so I had to add some extra bits, like the overhanging part on the left side. The basics are made with 0,5mm and 2mm plasticard, and all of the detailed sculpting is done with Magic Sculpt.

The church is also a plasticard construction. The rear side features a wooden dowel half-circle where the altar should be. This is actually Church No.2 as the first one was overly wide and thus had too big a footprint.

When I primed the completed model it flew off my table and this broke the top of the bell tower. I almost smashed the whole thing then, but in about half an hour I solved this by pinning the top with a toothpick placed in a drilled hole, made the basic shape out of balsa and sculpted the roof tiles. The rest of the roofing is supposed to have a patina-like effect, but I made the top look like new brass in remembrance of this accident, and to add some personality to the piece.