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.
