Mince Pie Sand Dune Tutorial

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Thanks to Rapouc for this.

Hey all I was eating a mince pie today and I looked at the foil and though to myself:

"Hey they'd make great small hills, dunes or even rubble piles for cityfight"

So I set about making one and through the kindness of my heart, and since Christmas is a giving time I have made a tutorial. Here it is...:

What You Need

• Mince Pie Foil container (or any similar foil container the come with all sorts of small pies
• Cardboard for base
• Masking Tape
• Paint - it's easier to spray it as it gives a better coat but you can do it the hard way like me and hand undercoat it
• PVA Glue
• Flock of your choice, I used GW sand and GW static grass for my sand dune but you could use rubble for cityfight or even snow, whatever you want!

Step 1

Gather the materials (above).

Step 2

Crush the foil up a bit to give a less even shape then form it back into a slightly crushed cone type thing as seen in this picture.

Step 3

Once the foil has been prepared cut a base slightly bigger than the foil as seen in the picture below.

Step 4

Use masking tape around the edges of the foil to hold it down on the base, there may be better ways to do this but I used masking tape.

Step 5

Undercoat

Step 6

The rest is self explanatory just paint and flock as you desire, there are some pictures of my finished sand dune at the bottom of the page. The edges of the base will be touched up later but this gives you a good idea of the finished piece.

Hope this was a good tutorial, merry Christmas and remember save those mince pie foil trays!

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Comment made by arandomshadow on 06:47:50, 13 April 2008
Easy to do but very effective. Have to give it a try!

Comment made by insanetau on 08:07:17, 24 February 2008
that could be a mountain or something for epic, and all those hills are epic

Comment made by Broodlord Forgot on 20:53:51, 25 January 2008
cool

Comment made by Didimau1 on 02:37:09, 14 October 2007
sweet

Comment made by Shasonan on 00:28:24, 28 July 2007
Really good you could fix up the flimsynis by using Spak Or Polyfilla

Comment made by Commander Bloodlust on 03:21:15, 8 July 2007
Hmmm, never would have thought of that but it looks snazadelic in the end.

Comment made by stupid_simon on 11:26:07, 27 January 2007
Won't it be very flimsy!?

Comment made by stsonic on 11:50:46, 25 January 2007
nice =D

Comment made by Kugelblitz on 10:26:22, 25 January 2007
Simple, fast, cheap!

Comment made by Aunvre on 13:21:26, 14 January 2007
maybe you could make bones or something stick out of the pile. That would be cool.

Comment made by Aunvre on 13:20:22, 14 January 2007
Very good! looks like a burial mound to me.

Comment made by Tau Online on 04:07:35, 13 January 2007
A brilliant tutorial - a very simple method that produces very nice results.