Reminder of the model since that’s what you probably want to know
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4604584
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I decided that they were a little too small to be stand alone pieces so they had to be put together on a base to make them into their own dedicated terrain.
Launch Platforms
Using some of my scratch building stuff I got right to work. First I cut out the base that I wanted to use and I spaced some foam blocks that would hold the launch platforms with enough room between them that they would look good.
Next up I coated the whole thing in a layer of Scuptamold. I have been using this lately in order to give some rigidity to the cheap easy to form foam board I like to make bases from. It’s way too flimsy normally but after a layer of sculptamold it’s perfect. It makes a light and rigid base to build up from.
After the scupltamold dries a good long time you’ll want to coat it in mod podge to seal it. This takes a while, and you might want to mix in some paint to show where you’ve already covered better.
Then you’ll want to add some texture. I’ve been using a mix of different sands for this lately. Play sand, unsanded grout (from the hardware store), and some woodland scenic stones that are a larger size for diversity of super fine to more course.
Next, once everything dries again, you’ll want to paint things. I was really sloppy about it just a basic paint job in order to get some color on the base. I went with a muddy field to match some of my other terrain.
Unloading Dock
The loading dock I took a little bit of a different approach. I measured out the platforms with the already printed 3d models to make sure that everything would fit like I wanted, then I started the scuplamold work once everything was glued in place.
I was having some issues with the foam board not laying flat so I decided to weight it down with some heavy stuff that was handy. This would hopefully get the sculptamold to hold it steady once it was dry.
Next, texture the concrete structures if you’ve not done that yet. Probably easier to do it when things aren’t together but I forgot. I use a rolled up ball of aluminum foil.
After that, coat everything in mod podge like we did with the other piece. I used less sand on this one since it was supposed to be a more controlled compound but I used more grout to still give it some flavor and I put some of the bigger rocks in like gravel.
My favorite piece of this one was that I decided to stick some misprinted 3d parts onto the model in order to add a little bit more diversity to it since it was all foam for the military compound I was going for.
Final Results
Last thing to do is glue on the V2 Rocket models and they sure do make everything POP.
