This Baba Yaga’s Hut was commissioned by Wyrd for a GenCon terrain table display. Mostly made from wood, each detail was carefully crafted before paint ever goes on. One of the techniques we use to get a weathered wood look (before paint) is to use a wire brush. It gets very good results quickly. Baba…
The live oak tree with hanging Spanish Moss was commissioned for Wyrd Chronicles magazine. It was created using a twisted wire armature and Sculpy for the trunk and branch texture. The trunk was completely textured and painted before applying the leaves which is standard clump foliage. That clump foliage was also then painted. Finally the…
These desert-stepped hills where created using a rotocast machine. Since these machines are on the pricey side, we decided to build out own rotocast machine which was a fun project in itself. The reason for a rotocast machine, is that it allows you to use less plastic, creating a hollow model.
The masters were created using wooden dowel and some thin plastic styrene sheets. The wooden dowel was slightly beveled on a disc sander which gave the barrel its classic tapered shape at the top and at the bottom.
