building osgiliath

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Building Osgiliath



The base and walls are made from high density foam. It is all
ached with regular white glue.
The first step after I have roughly built the base and some of the
walls is to position the figures to make sure that all of the pieces will
fit and to make sure that the scenery is not obscuring and of the figures.



I also make sure that the buildings and doorways are to the
proper scale



Using a sharp modeling knife and a ruler I carve into the
foam to mark out the groves for the brick and the cobblestone. to thicken
the groves I use a ball point pen and run in through the groves. This
makes a deeper and wider grove. I will run the pen trough several times
depending on how deep I want the groves to be. For example when carving
out groves for the large cobblestone on the ground u like to have a deeper
and wider grove than what is carved for the bricks.



The rubble is made with drywall plaster. I use the stuff on
the sides of the plaster container as well, these make great rough looking
piles of rubble.



After this has dried I had different sizes of small gravel.



The whole scene is painted first with a black. I use a
generic acrylic black. I don't use the higher quality GW black, Its to
good and expensive to use for a base coat. Oh ya, don't spray it with a
primer! It will eat away at the foam.



I then add bits of white to the black and dry brush several
coats. I add more and more white to each coat till I get a very light
grey. Make sure to let each coat dry before adding the next coat.



The bridge is made from balsa wood. This stuff is easy to
cute and is fairly cheap to buy.



I painted the water with a mix of greens, browns and blues.
Then I added a gloss acrylic varnish to give it a nice wet look.



Here is the finished product.
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