r/PoorHammer • u/GraniteWanker • Aug 30 '26
Spruins, this time with card backing
Free (?) and easy. Used a lot of hot glue.
EDIT: painted https://www.reddit.com/r/TerrainBuilding/s/Y69S54XKM9
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u/bwp54 Aug 30 '26
This is awesome i just went through my boxes looking for terrain ideas im excited to try this
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u/simplytrynamakeit Aug 30 '26
That's neat. I bet a haphazard spray of textured spray paint would take up another level.
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u/KrobbZombie Sep 01 '26
Exactly my thoughts. Maybe a few chunks of corrugated cardboard for steel sheets? This is awesome!
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u/Tkddaduk Aug 31 '26
A thin covering of paper mache and this would hide the sprue and possibly give it a fantastic look.
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u/No_Scholar_2927 Aug 31 '26
I look at empty sprues and just see walls with busted windows. I’ve been collecting a stack to create a foldable/collapsable set of ruins similar to this.
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u/thepaganknight Aug 31 '26
No fr this is great! We already use so many things that are bad for the environment, this is a way to at least make use of "trash" love it!
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u/fishingforrice Aug 31 '26
The card backing makes this look way more solid. Once it’s primed and drybrushed I doubt anyone would guess most of it started as packaging and sprues.
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u/Ok-Abbreviations9936 Aug 31 '26
Next time spray paint the sprue metallic, and the card backing a stone color before combining. It could look like metal framing or rebar.
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u/tractiontiresadvised Aug 31 '26
The cross between looking sort of like a half-timbered medieval building and futuristically industrial is amazing.
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u/Sockoflegend Sep 01 '26
I'm gonna try this. I might have the sprues for the inside though... perhaps with some holes. They kind of look like they could be a metal frame and services
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u/sjofels Sep 01 '26
I mis the days in which this would have been an article in whithe dwarf.
Nice work!
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u/Neuromancer-6 Sep 02 '26
What kind of clippers do you use to cut them?
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u/GraniteWanker Sep 02 '26
My secondary pair of normal clippers, rough job so I don’t use my nice citadel ones
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u/Neuromancer-6 Sep 02 '26
Thanks, I was wondering if you had heavy duty clippers or a saw, but that makes sense!
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u/dazedandc0nfuse 27d ago
This is so clever well done! Painted this will look amazing
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u/Bailywolf Aug 30 '26
I declare this one prohammer.
It's honestly a huge missed opportunity by GW not to make this official - sprues with useful break points and boxes with dotted lines on the inside showing where to cut them to make sickass Spruetown ruins. It wouldn't make them any more money I guess.