One Small Step For Man...

Moon scaping...

 So here we have the finished product of our crater spattered moon scape table.

it is a 4'x8' table standing approximately 32" tall to the table lip, and the actual terrain levels raise up about 8" off the table.

The Cliff faces are considered difficult terrain, 1 level. So no non-skimmer movement up and down the cliff faces, only by utilizing the bridge and ramps.

It began with a lot of foam, a foam cutter, and the death of a few thousand brain cells...

Using sheets of 2" insulation foam, we carved out the general features we were looking for, adding texture and detail to the edge of the cliff face for depth, and just to kind of break things up. Shallow lips were left at the base of the different ramps to allow for building up the terrain with rocks and sand.



And then, there was spackle.

Once the general frame of our standard table was constructed, the foam itself was inserted into the basin, and spackle was used to smooth over the seems for the foam boards, and to blend the base of the craters into the terrain itself.

                          


Let there be rocks...





Sand and gravel was then added along the edges of cliffs as well as across the flat hill tops to give it some texture and detail, as well as providing better grip for model bases on ramps and hill sides. Red spray paint was added to as an undercoat to give it the "Mars" look we were going for, before highlighting colors and sand/gravel were added.

And  then you are left with the final product...