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Rating: 9.00 Votes: 19
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By: Menelker
Category: General Subcategory: MiscDate: 2009-06-12 12:25:19
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Step 8:

 

Now we are going to me making the lava. You will need the Acrylic caulking and a medium small paintbrush for this.

 

 

What you are going to do is lay a large bead of caulking down the middle of the lava rivers and any other place where you will want lava. Once that is done, take the paint brush and spread out the bead of caulking. Sometimes you will need to dip the brush in some water as the caulking can get quite thick and sticky and will need to be thinned out aome. Give it a rough texture so it will look like a rough lava flow. Do the same for any mobile terrain pieces you also may have made that have lava on them.

 



 

If you want to make some “lava bubbles” go ahead and put a dollop of caulking down and smooth it into a bubble.

 

 

This will take up to a full day to dry depending on how thick the caulking is.

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Menelker
21 January 10
You can also get the foam online at http://www.frpshop.com/styrofoam-c-39_40.html
I have had a few requests for locations to get it at.
Pablo Scenery
10 July 09
Rating: 8
Very good tutorial. A simple but very efective board, and very playable. Score: tutorial 10 + board 6

Menelker
10 July 09
I did make templates for some burnt out trees, I just have not gotten around to making them yet. Once I do I plan on adding them to the article.
kris6666
09 July 09
Rating: 10
Would looks very cool if it is fielded with well painted modells, like salamanders, khorne daemons, an so on...
It is a very nice article, have good feeling of the board but it is a littlebit emty, need some details, looks bit boaring without these.
I would take here some partitially burned branches to make some new surface, some altars from styrofoam with marks of the gods.
Thanks for sharing, sorry for me,too long comment.

Lemmingspawn
22 June 09
Rating: 8
Some nice techniques in there - and relatively quick. Could have done a couple more things to make the overall effect a bit more effective. Otherwise - this would be a nice board to play on.

majestic0110
18 June 09
Rating: 10
Great article and fantastic result !

AlexG
18 June 09
Rating: 10
That is an excellent article. I very much enjoyed reading it and seeing what materials you used. 10/10

Menelker
16 June 09
You are correct. I will add that into the text though. Thanks!
No Such Agency
15 June 09
Rating: 8
If one was extra clever, one would make the boards "line up" in multiple ways to further increase the number of configurations (8 layouts from 3 boards, I believe). It looks like you've done this but I'm not positive.

Menelker
14 June 09
Thanks for reminding me. I added the estimated prices in.
freakinacage
14 June 09
Rating: 10
looks good. love the osl, brings it to life

Dragonsreach
14 June 09
Rating: 5
One thing, for which you have not made any detail, is the cost of materials.

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