Over the years I’ve slowly been building up my collection of urban terrain and as my tables experience urbanization I’ve come to realize that the next step is to include sidewalks. Adding sidewalks to my terrain collection will help to fill in some void space in my town, and will help the town become a more aesthetically pleasing, lived-in, setting.
At first, I looked for simpler options such as printing cobblestones onto card stock or buying mousepad cobblestone rolls and cutting to size but none of those gave me the modeler look I desired. Eventually, I rolled up my sleeves and declared, “Fine. I’ll do it myself”, with my best Thanos impression.
Committed to building my own sidewalks I moved on to how to do it. Feeling adventurous, I enrolled in YouTube University and explored mold and cast-making options. After multiple consulting sessions with my BFA spouse, I bought materials for my first foray into mold making.
In my next article, I’ll share how I painted the castings and hopefully a picture of a block full of my sidewalks on the table.
Happy casting!
4 thoughts on “Creating Sidewalk Terrain Molds”
This is really cool. Do you think you could make road sections in a similar manner?
Making road sections is certainly a possibility as far as I can tell.
Great looking sidewalks !
Will you do corner sidewalks ?
Thank you! I do not intend on making sidewalk corner sections. I ended up making four different types of molds. One mold had curbs on three sides (one long and both shorts), the second and third molds had curbs on two sides (one long and a different short for each), and the fourth mold had a curb on one long side). The idea is to mix and match them around buildings to make corners without needing a corner piece. I’ll throw in a picture of my four forms in the next article.
This is really cool. Do you think you could make road sections in a similar manner?
Making road sections is certainly a possibility as far as I can tell.
Great looking sidewalks !
Will you do corner sidewalks ?
Thank you! I do not intend on making sidewalk corner sections. I ended up making four different types of molds. One mold had curbs on three sides (one long and both shorts), the second and third molds had curbs on two sides (one long and a different short for each), and the fourth mold had a curb on one long side). The idea is to mix and match them around buildings to make corners without needing a corner piece. I’ll throw in a picture of my four forms in the next article.