Dr. Moschs Aggression Technique©: Terrain building

Mosch

Active member
Welcome to Dr. Moschs patented Aggression Technique. This workshop will help you to channel your aggression into your modelling hobby and create the most aggressive terrain ever.
To participate, you need the following:

- 1 old, useless CD (or something else ou want to use for a base)
- a sharp steak knife
- a scalpel
- some thick insulation foam
- spray paint (I used Citadel Chaos Black)
- cheap black and white color
- Wood glue


Everyone who knows me knows that I do not need the first step, but it\'s here anyway: Get worked up. find something that really bugs you and think about it. Channel it into the block of foam. Because of this insulaion foam, your wife left you. That piece of insulation foam killed your dog. That foam stole your wallet. And it is responsible for the ozone hole too. et really, really pissed off. I basically am all the time, but some people seem to need practice ;)

Step 2 is to grab the steak knife. Go on, you know you want to. Take the knife and slash that son of a styrofoam! You do not really need an absolutely straight cut, irregularities are OK. Now grab the small piece and yank it out of the block.

Step 3: You should now have a piece of foam. If you don\'t, you have slashed the wrong thing. I am not responsible for that. In fact, if you did slash the wrong thing, you never read this here, OK?
Next take the scalpel. Use it to cut something to stand on - even out one side. Or just cut out a smaller piece of foam to get a smaller rock.

Step 4: This is the most fun. Give that rock in work some nice gashes with your scalpel, then rip out irregular parts. Dig your fingers into it and rip out the foam pieces! You can intensify this experience by crying \"Mwahaha!!! He ain\'t pretty no more!!!!\". Do that until you are remotely satisfied with the rock shape.

Step 5: Take the CD and break it into a base. I have not yet found any way to cut it well, so break it. Be careful that it does not break into too small pieces or flies into your eye! File and/or sand any sharp edges and roughen up the surface a bit while you\'re at it.
Drop a big blob of white glue onto your base. Use more than you would need to glue your foam rock down. Now after pushing you foam piece into it, the glue will squeeze around. Spread it on the CD and sprinkle it with sand or whatever you use to flock your pieces. Wiat until everything is completely dried, then tap off the excess sand.

Now just spray it with your spray paint. If you use two cans, one in each hand, you can screech \"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!\" while you do it, further intensifying the aggression technique ©. The spray will partly melt the foam, giving it an even more \"rocky\" appearance.

Now paint it. I used \"Krautol Voll- und Abtönfarbe\" because I can it really cheap in a store here. I have no idea what this kind of color is called in english. It is paint you mix with white paint to create more diverse colors. I did a real quick job, doing two layers of drybrush over a black basecoat, swinging the brush wildly.

After you are done, you should have something like this:
Rock.jpg


The whole thing took about 10 minutes, with the time waiting for the paint to dry already deducted. It will not win anything, but it\'s OK for tabletop use - and you will have a hell of a time making it if you are even only remotely like me :D

Thus we conclude Dr. Mosch\'s Aggression Technique ©


I should submit this as an article :D
 

TAB Studio

New member
lol
And to think I have been using a weed whacker or the wrong end of a shovel for aggression therapy all these years.
 

finn17

New member
Nice one Mr Mosch

If you make it into an article, I would focus a bit more on the therapeutic benefits of breaking CDs. I mean there are just some CDs you want to break more than others...right?:D

*EDIT* Thanks for pointing out the typo IPM, I did indeed mean \'nice\', not \'mice\'.:D
 
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U4-Welcome

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Message original : TAB Studio
lol
And to think I have been using a weed whacker or the wrong end of a shovel for aggression therapy all these years.
There\'s a \"wrong\" end to shovels ? ??? lol
 

ipaintminis

Active member
i think finn ment nice one ... otherwise...mice and a scalpel...ive already taken anatomy why do i have to disect it again?:rolleyes:

and i actually really like that rock...i might just use this article.
 

ipaintminis

Active member
Originally posted by U4-Welcome
Message original : TAB Studio
lol
And to think I have been using a weed whacker or the wrong end of a shovel for aggression therapy all these years.
There\'s a \"wrong\" end to shovels ? ??? lol

there is after youve been digging for a while...or you try to dig the hole with the handle...that is the wrong end...;)
 

Dragonsreach

Super Moderator
Staff member
Dr Mosch:
Thus we conclude Dr. Mosch\'s Aggression Technique
And do we feel better?

@Ipaintminis: I once read that Shovels are also referred to as idiot sticks. There\'s a blade at one end and an idiot at the other. Which goes a long way to explain the condition of some of the roads in England!. :eek:;)
 

airhead

Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
DR, I thought those were for leaning on. The metal bit is so it won\'t slip out from under you while you are leaning on it.

After all, we have signs all over Florida that say \"slow men working\"

For Becca, that is \"slow men - working\" as opposed to \"slow - men working.\"
 

Dragonsreach

Super Moderator
Staff member
Originally posted by airhead
DR, I thought those were for leaning on. The metal bit is so it won\'t slip out from under you while you are leaning on it.

After all, we have signs all over Florida that say \"slow men working\"

For Becca, that is \"slow men - working\" as opposed to \"slow - men working.\"
Isn\'t the sign there so that motorists can slow down to actually see men working?
 

Mosch

Active member
Orginal gepostet von Dragonsreach
Dr Mosch:
Thus we conclude Dr. Mosch\'s Aggression Technique
And do we feel better?

Na, I basically live in a state of seething hate for anything outside my window, which is not really surprising since mentioned window leads directly to a main road and we do not only have three bars next to me, but also a greek gyros takeaway. Take my nature of basically getting annoyed by practically everything and you may have an idea what it is like to be near me. Who sleeps next to a bus stop too (Note: I actually sleep in my bed, but the bus stop is close by.... not in my room, but you know what I mean).
One night, it was at about... I don\'t know, 3 o\'clock I\'d say, there was this idiot and his girlfriend leaning at my window and he bugging her in his drunken stupor. \"Oh, please fuck with me, I love you so!\" all the time, and she always refused, and actually I did not want this going on in front of my window. I called out to them that she should finally say yes and PLEASE SHUT THE HELL UP, which made them disappear rather quickly. During the day I usually get rid of people hanging out in front of my window with the help of good old Six Feet Under. Play \"Hacked to pieces\" on the loudest volume possible and they go away. Quickly.

Oh, and concerning shovels, I use those to hack through tree trunks. I can not really recall any situaion in which I used a shovel to dig a hole.

Aaaanyway, back to the aggression technique, maybe I can present another aggressive piece of tabletop terrain tomorrow. I have certain... ideas ;)

Oh, PS: You all forgot to say \"YOINK!\" :D
 

Dragonsreach

Super Moderator
Staff member
Originally posted by Dragonsreach
Originally posted by airhead
DR, I thought those were for leaning on. The metal bit is so it won\'t slip out from under you while you are leaning on it.

After all, we have signs all over Florida that say \"slow men working\"

For Becca, that is \"slow men - working\" as opposed to \"slow - men working.\"
Isn\'t the sign there so that motorists can slow down to actually see men working?
That\'s actually like the sign we see in the UK. POLICE - ACCIDENT. Careless buggers, should learn to drive!

Oh dear, there\'s me with my dad a 30 year police veteran!
 

Mosch

Active member
Orginal gepostet von Dragonsreach
Mosch: I think you need to move to a second storey apartment.
Like yesterday! :eek:

I didn\'t get this at all.... well, the second part. Yesterday what? Are you tryin gto confuse me?

...you succeeded :D
 

Mosch

Active member
Orginal gepostet von ipaintminis
because of the people you should have moved to a second strory appt....sooner

AAAAAH. Now I get it. I suppose I drunk too much turkish apple tea. I wonder what they put in it...
 

Mosch

Active member
I heartily have to advise EVERYONE who has a block to try this out. From the time I first did this, I found how much fun making terrain is. Up to now, I have created

1 hill (2 layers)
1 mountain (6 Inch high) - I want something on top and am not sure what yet....
9 \"dragon teeth\" tank traps
2 craters
1 ancient pyramid (that one is out of scale)
1 Warp gate (and I mean GATE - a tank plus some infantry could pass through together)
1 Khorne altar plus stone (already sold to Chaoskilla for 5€ - only material costs are charged for my friends ;))
1 \"Water testpiece\"

I am already nearly through my first sheet of Styrodur and those things are bigger than I am lol
Now what I really need is a decent hot wire cutter and some foamcore - that stuff seems absolutely unavailable here in Germany (hint hint - if anyone knows where I could get it from...).

It also, for some strange reason, made me paint and suddenly I actually like what I\'m doing - yes, I really LOVE my Formor Fiend now, says the man who always thought his own miniatures were crappy!
I am proud, I am absolutely content and I need thinner Styrodur or Foamcore :D


Oh, and expect to be treated to my Formor Fiend soon too! Just to warn you all :D
 
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