Mod Rock - Rocks

A project to extend the usability of my soft hills using mod - rock (Gauze bandage impregnated with plaster). The idea is to create a moulded section of terrain which will be shaped to fit the top of the hill. And will be able to be positioned on top of the soft hill and have a small wood or cops on it.

I started with a basic soft hill as made in my post from June 2009 I then covered this with cooking foil and then wrapped it in cling film, this protects the base soft hill model. I then placed the wet mod - Rock over the top in multiple layers and left it to dry. More to follow on this project.

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Soft hills finished

The soft hills are finished with flock added, shown here with some Italian Peter Pig CV35 Tanks in 15mm scale, to give an idea of size. In the bottom picture you can see the cliff section on the bigger base. This type of soft hills would work well with two interlocking sets of hills with matching cliffs, to create a vale, with steep walls. These hills will work equally well with 28mm scale figures for skirmish games.

Soft Hills

Some pictures showing the skeleton of one of my soft hills, this one with a three CD sized base, the small cliff section using bits of toilet roll centres. The top two pictures show the soft hills with PVA and sand with some small rocks added. Just need painting and adding some flock and twigs. Click on the pictures for bigger versions.

High Ground

With flat base boards, I need to produce some high ground, not true mountain scale hills. More like rolling soft hills. Not to block movement on the table, more to provide cover and block lines if sight. The main thing that has made this work for me is a great product called mod rock in the UK. Its gauze bandage impregnated with plaster. Think of the old style broken leg style plaster casts, that's the stuff. Got mine from Hobby craft for about £5 for a roll. As used by sculptures.

On the left of the picture you can see the art board base, two CD's in size, and with the skeleton structure of foam board hot glued into position. To the right is a 3 CD size base with the mod rock on. I've found that to avoid the art board base becoming to wet and warping when dried out. Its best to cut the Mod Rock into lengths of about 4 -5 inches, dip into a bowl of water, then quickly squeeze out most of the water, so that when you apply the mod rock to the card skeleton its not over saturated with water.

Once the Mod Rock has dried out you will still be able to see some of the gauze showing, so I go over it with a thin layer of filler and then PVA and sand it, and add in some small rocks to Finnish it of Double click on pictures for bigger version