How To: Walls

Greetings Archivists!

As some of you might have realised, I am not humming and puffing on the new nids.
Long story short... just can't do it right now. No niddy juice.

But I have tons of "Build Stuff for Inifinity-Juice" right now.

The MAS Terrain is absolutly fantastic (aside from some assembly issues I had...) and the Concret Walls they are offering were the first Terrain pices that used those awesome acrylic Ad-Boards, which made me instantly fall in love with that terrain. But more about Ads and the like at another spot.

Playing my first games of Inifinity, I realised, we needed LOTS of terrain, but I am not that rich to afford all the stuff I want to have. So I have to settle for more affordable solutions and today I want to share my approach on "Affordable Walls" with you.

Materials from the (well sorted) Home-Improvement-Store
- unwaxed corktiles (from the floor department) I had 50cm x 50cm x 0,6cm
- the white, hollow plastic pole I have no english word for. I found it in the "metal department" in the Home Improvement Store (again... it was very well sorted) where they had all sorts of different sizes. I chose a 18mm wide.
But you can probably use simply a piece of wood, with the right measurements.
- Filler (best to use, some that stays a little flexible, probably wood filler. I use simple wall filler and got some cracks now :/ )

Things you might have at home:
- Cutter
- metal rules (ideal with some sort of angle)
- PVA-Glue (I used fast curing for maximum speed)
- Superglue
- Rasp or Sandpaper
- Saw

The HOW TO:
Well, I guess the pictures I took are quite selfexplaining.
I made 2 different lenght: 10cm and 20cm. I was picturing miniatures running along that walls and since 10cm is a quite common  movement in Infinity, I thought that whould fit.
The hights I used:
Wall 7cm high, Pole at the end of the Wall 8cm high.

Step 1

Cut the wall pieces. Since the walls hould stand by their own and should appear solid, I used 2 sheets of one wall. On the picture you can notice that most cork tiles have a rough surface and a smooth one. Make sure you choose always the same on the outsides. I chose the rougher ones, so I got more texture on the outside.

Step 2

Glue.... obvious.

Make sure you don't spoil your pants with the glue coming out everywhere... I did.


Step 3

Saw the poles.

Step 4

Glue the Walls and the Poles together. I used PVA glue. Works sofar.

Step5

Use the filler to blend the area where the two tiles are glued together.

I used my finger to mimic the texture.

Step 6 -  You can skip this, if you use wood poles.

Step 7 Et voila!

Creating a little assembly line got me a lot of walls in less than 2 hours.

Next time... Paint on my Walls!

I hope you enjoyed this and found my musings helpfull!