or working on pictures...








Or just trying to put things together...








Second stage : Making the cliff :

I ve made a big crate with strong plates of wood as it was to be under the "first" mine which was already heavy. And I "closed" it s face with bands of foam, like for the original Mine.




Placing the bridge to know how it s going to be and to...



add more foam "around" it so it looks more as partly sculpted in the mountain. Here you also have a good vision of the many stalagtites that i ve put under the ramp (to have it looks very old).







The uper part of the new cliff partly cover the original Mine's base to have the 2 parts work well together.




Third stage : Painting the cliff :

Actually, I also painted the original Mine again a bit to have eveything work together.








Fourth stage : Making the terrain :

The worst part of all this work : Making a ton of stupid and totally not interresting but sadly necessary hexagons !

I ve already used the technic I m going to describe on the first plate...



I first put a mat with hexagons on the plate :



Then I put headless nails at all the hexagons's corners



Then I carefully remove the mat, letting the nails in place (here s the reason of the "headless" nails)







When the mat is totally taken of, you can see that 50% of the boring job is done.






I then just use a melter and a metal rule : dont do it at home unless you ve made long philosophy studies like I did in Faculty or you may hurt yourself !









Fifth stage : Texturing the terrain :



First step : drawing a road,  making the river and a few holes (meant to be craters from the Mine's canons : they give the maximum range of the canons)




7 plates, each plate is 120cm x 60. Total : 1.20 m x 4.20 m without the mine (5m total with the mine).



Second step : texturing with sand mixed with plaster and white glue.







Here : the plate that is going at the bottom of the mine, with more craters and pieces of rock from the cliff.



Sixth stage : Basecoating the terrain :

A simple basecoat, made of PVA glue, black paint and water. The pictures let you see the texture made in the previous stage.



















Seventh stage : Painting and flocking the terrain.

Just base painting, dry brushing, flocking various stuff, amonst which mixed used tea powder...






















Finally (with some more pigment powder on the mine and terrain) :