Dungeons & Dragons Lava Terrain Board

Today I thought I would continue my miniature wargame terrain project. This one's for Dungeons & Dragons style play with the 1 inch grid. It's going to be a lava board with a giant fissure running from the corner. Still using 1 inch thick foam board, I got out my Hot Wire Foam Factory Precision Engraver and went to work. This lava board measures 23" x 36" and took me a little over an hour to cut the 1" grid you see here.

Here is the initial fissure cut, I made it a little wider after the fact so I could get access to the fissure to paint and add lava.

I found some Pro-Art Golden Crackle Paste at Michaels art store for around $17.00 before using the 40% off 1 item coupon. Later I discovered there is an A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts store about 20 miles from my house and they were charging around $11.00 before the 50% off 1 item coupon for the same 8-ounce Crackle Paste. It's a little farther away but the money I save is well worth it.

I also picked up some large grit sand and started covering the board with it using Aleene's Original Tacky Glue. It's a little thicker than Elmer's White Glue so it works perfectly for building terrain projects, and also good for putting together Hirst Arts mold castings, another project for the future.

I used a whole 8 ounce jar of the Crackle Paste for this project and should have used a bit more to make it thicker so that the fissures would get wider.

After the glued sand and Crackle Paste dried, I painted the 1" grid with white primer latex. This will help make the paint brighter when I airbrush it red next.

Games Workshop Stops Making Their Warhammer Moon Craters

 So what am I going to do now that Games Workshop stopped making their Warhammer Moon Craters. Now the only place to get them is on eBay and people are charging like $50.00 to $60.00 for the full set which originally cost $25.00! Fret not, the only way to get around this is to make a mold of each crater. It will take some time to coat the craters with 12 layers of Castin' Crafts Mold Builder Liquid Latex Rubber. 

 

Well, layer 1 is done. Only 11 more until I can cast it in plaster. I'm using some heat lamps to quicken the drying process.

  

I will use these Moon Crater castings to make a series of 23" x 36" Miniature Wargame Terrain Boards that will fit together to make a really large display.