I always wanted to make a water tower piece of terrain out of a tin can and so... I finally did! Yay, me. It's complete with a bird's nest and a fortified base.
For materials I used 1/8" particle board for the base, some scale model drums and cambros, a pack of scrap balsa wood, some sheet styrene, styrene hex rod, styrene tube, sand, and wait for it... a tin can!
I detailed the tin can with cardstock and made rivets out of disks I punched from styrene and slices of styrene hex rod using the same methods detailed in my previous tutorial on fasteners.
After that I primed the whole thing black and drybrushed it with a medium grey followed by a drybrush of gun metal and finished off with a mix Secret Weapon Miniatures rust weathering powders and mineral spirits.
The sandbags were sculpted out of apoxie sculpt using the same method described in the Forge World Model Masters books:
Roll out a sausage of putty (green stuff or milliput will work too)
Flatten the sausage
Cut it into sandbag sized rectangles
Cut a seam into the sides
Set in place
Texture with a cloth
Enjoy
A box of scale model cambros and drums helped to add some detail.
I weathered the wood with a wash of dark grey acrylics.
A weathered pipe made out of styrene tube is complemented by a small pool of water. I used the Secret Weapon Miniatures real water to create a little puddle.
Want to make your own? Check out this great video from MiniWar Gaming:
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