My
buildings are made from white Styrofoam
blocks, balls, and sheets.
I cut and shaped the pieces with
an electric foam cutter and a butter
knife.
The pieces were put together by
pinning them with toothpicks and gluing
with white glue.
I used wood filler applied with a
popsicle stick for a texture coat and
craft paints to finish the buildings.
A base coat of “Sunflower“ paint
from FolkArt was applied and drybrushed
with “Light Ivory” from Delcoat.
The
doors were either made by cutting out
two layers of thin cardboard and gluing
them together or printing out color
images of Space:1999 Eagle doors from
the
Transporter Eagle Pages and gluing
them to cardstock.
I used
paper crates from
WorldWorksGames
First Light paper model and the now
defunct Tabletop Architecture line from
Battle Lines.
Mike
Fernie made his own Mos Eisley
terrain based on my tips. Pictures
of Mike's work, and his Endor terrain,
are in the
Gallery. Here are some
of his notes:
"I followed your
instructions although I used dry wall compound on most of the buildings instead
of wood filler. I later discovered wood filler looked better but was harder to
apply. Moisture vaporators were created with spark plugs and bits of junk.
My original goal to was to create 1 building to climb (Lando and Greedo) with
modified rules. My ground is the blank grid map on the back of the Palace
of Theed.
Tons of
free, cool Star Wars paper terrain at
http://www.swminiatures.com/.
This is the place to go if you
want to build Death Star terrain.
One of the
main inspirations for my Mos Eisley
terrain was the beautiful Star Wars
terrain HG
Walls did for the defunct Star Wars
Gamer magazine.
He’s got lots of
new Tatooine buildings on his
website.
Jon Woodland made an incredible Lava Planet layout. The lava even
glows thanks to florescent lights under the plastic base. Check out his
website for more pictures.
