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--- blog:miniatures:eldar_display [2025/02/27 17:03] – [Trees] john
+++ blog:miniatures:eldar_display [2025/02/28 15:51] (current) – john
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 ====== Eldar Forest/Hills Display ======
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 ==== Materials ====
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    * 30mm extruded foam board
    * PVA glue
+   * Contact adhesive
+   * Clear spray varnish
    * toilet roll paper
    * hot glue
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       * 3-5" Deciduous set (TR1122)
       * 2-3" Deciduous set (TR1121)
+   * Woodland Scenics clumb-foliage medium green (FC683)
+   * WWS North Europe grass 2mm
+   * WWS North Europe grass 6mm
+   * WWS dry earth
+   * Assorted fine/coarse sand
 ==== Building the boards ====
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 Covering with toilet roll paper soaked in watered down PVA glue (approx 10 parts PVA : 1 part water). This both protects the foam boards / gives the base a really tough finish when dry, but also gives the surface an uneven, less artificial texture:
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 ==== Painting & Weathering ====
+Base coat dark brown:
+{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250226112638.jpg?400|}} {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250226112644.jpg?400|}}
+Adding coarse sand and gravel around base of hills:
+{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250226153828.jpg?400|}} {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250226153834.jpg?400|}}
+Painting sand and gravel:
 {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227095747.jpg?400|}} {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227095752.jpg?400|}}
+Several layers of lighter browns applied via drybrush techniques to hills, rocks and gravel:
 {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227104918.jpg?400|}} {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227104923.jpg?400|}}
+==== Grass ====
+Grass clumps stuck in place around hill edges:
+{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227112149.jpg?400|}} {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227112206.jpg?400|}}
+First layers of 2mm (centre area) and 6mm (edges) static grass:
+{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227155659.jpg?400|}} {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227155722.jpg?400|}}
+Second layer of static grass applied, along with little bits of dry earth:
+{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227162512.jpg?400|}} {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227162516.jpg?400|}}
 ==== Trees ====
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+Clump foliage stuck to branches (branches coated in Evo-Stick contact adhesive) and then dusted with fine blended turf (dusted with varnish so that it will stick):
+{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250226170534.jpg?400|}} {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227160639.jpg?400|}}
+Larger trees glued in place:
 {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227163821.jpg?400|}} {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227163826.jpg?400|}}
-==== Grass ====
+No pictures of the smaller trees (2-3" variants), but they were done in exactly the same method.
+==== Monument/Ancient Portal ====
-{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227112149.jpg?400|}} {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227112206.jpg?400|}}
+Portal monument cut from 10mm foam and sealed with PVA glue:
-{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227155659.jpg?400|}} {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227155722.jpg?400|}}
+{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227112132.jpg?400|}}
-{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227162512.jpg?400|}} {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227162516.jpg?400|}}
+Priming:
+{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227172219.jpg?400|}}
+Painted and weathered:
+{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227231032.jpg?400|}}
+Static grass/moss added:
+{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250228094743.jpg?400|}}
 ==== Finished Display ====
+Complete, minus painted sides of the foam bases:
+{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227165126.jpg?600|}} {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250227165114.jpg?600|}}
+Sides painted and monument terrain piece added:
+{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250228095546.jpg?800|}}
+This shelf will probably need an extra LED lighting strip adding to make up for the shadows cast by the large number of trees.
+=== Additional Lighting ===
+With an additional loop of LED lighting installed on the shelf above, the diorama looks much better and should give the figures plenty of light when they are displayed:
+{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250228144306.jpg?600|}} {{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250228144313.jpg?600|}}
+{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250228144351.jpg?800|}}
+{{:blog:miniatures:displays:eldar:img20250228144419.jpg?800|}}
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