Terrain pics-More Asteroids, dust clouds and a comet

[Red-24]

I've finally finished all my Star Fleet terrain. I've got a 4' x' 6' star covered felt mat, multiple planets and moons, dust clouds, asteroids and a comet. They turned out great and now space looks fantastic. ;-)

Here are some shots of the completed space debris:

 

[tomrommel1]

very very nice indeed ! did you use an air brush for the nebulas?

 

[Red-24]

very very nice indeed ! did you use an air brush for the nebulas?

Didn't use an airbrush, just spray paint.

I had a bunch of cans of various, nearly fluorescent, colours kicking around from another project. I spot sprayed the various colors onto foam sheets (I also tried felt but it didn't look good). Then I cut out the shapes, and sprayed black "past" the edges so that it would over spill onto the shapes. It wasted a lot of black, but it gave a great effect.

When I get my website set up, I'll put some pics of building them.

 

[tomrommel1]

thanks for the info very good looking as I said before

 

[Shloaksta]

Looks Great! You said you used foam sheets? what kind of foam sheet specifically?

 

[Red-24]

Looks Great! You said you used foam sheets? what kind of foam sheet specifically?

These kind...
http://m.michaels.com/Creatology™-Foam-Sheets/gc1328,default,pd.html

 

[Little Soldiers]

Very nice work! The colours look very Original Series. I like the simple way of describing a comet, more robust and game-friendly than cotton wool.

 

[Red-24]

Very nice work! The colours look very Original Series. I like the simple way of describing a comet, more robust and game-friendly than cotton wool.

Thanks.

I was trying to come up with a 3D comet and 3D dust clouds, but this seemed to look better. If I made cotton wool dust clouds, I'd want them to be colourful and re-position-able, like the asteroids.

Once I finished everything, I suddenly realized that I hadn't made a comet. Then I looked through my dust clouds and found one that was fairly comet shaped. It turns out I had made one after all.

The only thing I haven't made is a Gas Giant. I couldn't find a good, cheap, 1/2 sphere bigger than 10". Even my 6" styrofoam world cost $11.

 

[Spectrar Ghost]

Come fall look around for oversized Christmas ornaments. I've got a 6" ball I scavenged from when I worked retail I'm planning on doing some light putty work to clean up the surface of and paint as a gas giant. I bet you could find one up to a foot if you looked hard enough. Also those stupid looking lawn globes - they go up to 18" or so, can you get plastic or acrylic ones? Might be on the pricy side, but they're an option.

 

[billclo]

Has anyone considered paper mache yet? Seems it might be workable if one coated the halves of a large ball that can come apart (large hamster playball or something?). I'll have to see if I can come up with one of those cheaply.

 

[billclo]

I borrowed Red's idea of pumice rocks for asteroids. I'll post pics when they're done.

Also, I had to buy a 20-lb bag of pumice rocks for $6.00, far more than I'll ever need. If someone in the US wants a box of them, please do let me know. Shipping would be the biggest issue, but the price for the actual rocks will be pretty cheap.