Tatooine/Mos Eisley Spaceport CONTROL TOWER for Star Wars Legion - TRASH TERRAIN

[@ItsMeMattCarter]

I love food containers. I have a full 3x6 area made of buildings already from them. I go through a lot of tufu since I'm vegan and they work great for small buildings and mushroom containers work great for medium sized ones. I have my mom keep containers now too. There are some really great lasagna ones she gets from Walmart that I use for hangars.

[@hauntswargaming]

I collected them for a while until I ran out of space 😅

[@emmamarx9284]

Oooooh, can’t wait to finish my desert terrain so I can start working on some of my own Tatooine inspired buildings!! Great job! Loving your videos

[@hauntswargaming]

Thanks, glad to hear it! Desert terrain is a lot of fun to make

[@neilmackenzie4394]

I particularly liked the glamor shots taken from ground level. This gave the buildings a feel of larger scale. Felow makers, tubs full of greeblies are essential!

[@hauntswargaming]

Thanks for the feedback! You can never have too many greeblies :p

[@2112-e1s]

bro is going ham with the caulking im doing this on my next garbage build

[@Suiberis]

I've watched a lot of trash builds, but yours truly stands out to me for the ingenuity of your combinations to get appropriate shapes. I might consider adapting one of your builds one day to include a playable interior. Consider me a new subscriber.

[@hauntswargaming]

Thank you :) I enjoy doing them so it's gonna be a somewhat regular thing on the channel for sure! You could definitely add a removable roof to these. Let me know how it goes :p

[@Suiberis]

@@hauntswargaming Absolutely, but after I clear out my trash backlog to build some scatter terrain. Maybe you can do a subscriber submission video one day :D

[@hauntswargaming]

@@Suiberis Idk when that day will be but that does sound like fun!

[@CampaignTerrain]

I don't even like SW (Yeah, yeah. I know.) but I'm loving your take on it. Personal faves, on this one: the phone clamp bits, and the simplicity of sliced foamcore as a door. Things learned: how-to curved window sills and such, and using a sculpting nib as a paintbrush. Really enjoyed this one... twice 😃

[@hauntswargaming]

TY! I am not a huge fan either but I am enjoying Legion so far :p

[@viityazz9466]

Amazing job! Hope you enjoyed discovering Star Wars Legion btw

[@hauntswargaming]

It's a great game! I'd like to do some battle reports for it sometime :)

[@chrispowell2947]

really nice setup. I like the overall design and you can tell it's playable and not just there to look cool (which it does too). Can I make a small suggestion? I think this would look even better with a bit more detailing on it. If you greebly up those flat surfaces it would create even more visual interest and make it feel a bit more real. I don't know if that would take too long - I know that when you're producing videos for youtube there's always a time pressure to get it edited and uploaded. but anyway, definitely learned some stuff from this - I have a bunch of those plastic food containers and have been mulling over how to use them.

[@hauntswargaming]

Thanks for the input! I still work a fulltime job and this channel/blog is almost as demanding timewise as a FT job so it's a lot to juggle, but I do try and push myself to go a little further with each video. So over time my builds should get more detailed as I develop my skillsets :p

[@michaeljohnhalse]

These would be great for SWSE too! Star Wars DnD!

[@get_the_lead_out]

It is truly amazing how you can take a bunch of miscellaneous crap that anyone else would just throw in the recycling bin and turn it into such incredible terrain!! I wish you would do a video sharing some of your insights into how you compose your creations. Do you go into a project knowing what you’re looking for; or, do you just piece it together as you go along? What do you look for when you’re collecting the pieces?

[@hauntswargaming]

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll try to talk more about that next time :p Each project is different. For the trash terrain I mostly just improvise. With the control tower I started with the top piece with the metallic strip around it. It has a really interesting texture that looked like a wrap around window to me. That was going to be the window originally but I ended up putting windows below it. I pretty much keep anything that has a unique texture or design on it. At some point I want to do a video on that too.

[@alrethianscraftsbattles]

This looks incredible mate. Awesome build 👍.

[@hauntswargaming]

Thanks man

[@sheppardsflock]

Well done buddy! Looks great. Subbed to your channel for more along these lines. Cheers!

[@hauntswargaming]

Thank you! :)

[@413NH]

I’ve been trying to find a good way to strengthen thin plastic and I like the glue and sand trick I saw on another one of your videos (though I haven’t tried it yet). I was actually considering expanding spray insulation foam too but I don’t know if it will work.

[@hauntswargaming]

If you can support the shape while the foam cures it'll work. I really like the glue and sand technique, you just have to be sure you aren't going to need to cut it afterward, cuz it's like cutting through stone lol.

[@adamdahlberg4403]

Great job, love the video. One quick question. Did you not prime this model because the other building the foam was eaten away?

[@hauntswargaming]

I didn't use spray paint so no issues with the foam being eaten away. The mod podge acts as a primer and strengthens the base coats, helping prevent chipping. I've been mixing that with the paint for the first few layers of paint. Seems to work pretty well. Also sanding any smooth plastic surfaces before painting is really important. Thanks for watching!

[@nickben1447]

Excellent job.

[@edevans5991]

One thing I like to do with random plastic bits is to prime with Minwax Polyshades. I think it sticks to most things.

[@hauntswargaming]

Not a bad idea as long as it doesn't crack

[@jakestaples8498]

Nice work!

[@hauntswargaming]

Thanks :)

[@ScaleModelCraft]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!

[@hauntswargaming]

Ty :)

[@ScaleModelCraft]

@@hauntswargaming Im working on a huge Echo Base Diorama stand right now for a friend. I really dig your building technique, gotta try more Star Wars buildings. Ive got almost all the original series 6 inch black series and would like to do a Tatooine.

[@toddler_dragons]

Make your trash look less like trash is a great motto

[@hauntswargaming]

One man's trash is another man's terrain ;)

[@strohslights4996]

where do you store your creations?

[@hauntswargaming]

Most of them are in large plastic tubs. I'm currently planning to seal off a portion of my garage and turn half of it into climate controlled storage space because I've been running out of space to store things.

[@WilhelmScreamer]

The funny thing about doing this is you are effectively tryimg to channel the workflow of ILM in '76. Getting to the roots of star wars in a roundabout way

[@hauntswargaming]

Yes I suppose I am lol That is high praise indeed :p Thanks for the comment!