{"id":1027,"date":"2015-11-29T08:35:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T12:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/gaming\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2015-11-29T08:35:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T12:35:41","slug":"making-swampy-terrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"Making Swampy Terrain"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided to make some wetlands\/marsh terrain for some games after viewing WargamerDad’s tutorial<\/a> on Youtube. I really like the look of his swamps, so I copied him and here is the result.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Some differences do exist, however. WargamerDad used Hirst molds for his ruins, and they look great as you would expect. I just sculpted mine out of pink insulation board. I found the Terrain Tutor’s tutorial<\/a> on this helpful. I particularly like the dais on the left. I can use it to hold a statue or an idol, or it can be an objective marker in itself.<\/p>\n

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I completed this project on my vacation, smack in the middle of Dwarvember. The problem is the water effects solution is still tacky after 2 weeks. It’s much better than it was, but for something that’s supposed to cure in 8-10 hours, this isn’t cutting it. The stuff I used is called Quick Water for Silks,<\/a> and you can find it in the floral section of your local craft store. Reading the reviews of it may discourage you, however.<\/p>\n

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I finally found a use for this old GW skeleton, who had been in my bitz box for about 25 years. He was missing a skull, so I found him one, put it in an old conquistador-style helmet, and here you go.<\/p>\n

The “water” has finally cured enough that I can put miniatures on it and it’s not coming off on my fingers. So I guess I need to play a game!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided to make some wetlands\/marsh terrain for some games after viewing WargamerDad’s tutorial on Youtube. I really like the look of his swamps, so I copied him and here is the result. Some differences do exist, however. WargamerDad used Hirst molds for his ruins, and they look great as you would expect. I just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrain-and-scenics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}