Spaceship Interior WIP

 For my new Pulp Figures Spacers, I will need some terrain for them to interact with.  I could use my existing terrain, but eventually there will be some questions of why the spacers are always visiting a planet that looks remarkably like BC or California.  Most obviously, I need something to use for a spaceship interior as that matches best with the spacers mostly wearing spacesuits.

The terrain isn't finished yet, hence this is a Work In Progress (WIP) post.  The purpose of this post is to show the process to build the boards.  I considered just buying something suitable, but balked at $270 (CAD) for the GW 40k boarding terrain kit, although it does look very nice.  So, working on the cheap is best approach, I bought a set of 4 interlocking foam mats from Walmart.  Each mat is about 2' x 2'.  I chose this version as it comes with two shades of grey.  My intent is that the lighter shade will be the walls and the darker shade will be the spaceship floor.  The mats are smooth on one side, intended to be the down side, which I will use as walls, and the textured, up side will be the floor.

I sliced a light grey mat in half, and glued them back to back with Gorilla Glue.

It's important to lay down paper to protect the surface below and to wear gloves to protect your hands, as Gorilla Glue is quite unpleasant to clean up!  Also be aware that the glue expands as it sets, so you won't want to get it on your floor or table.

Once the glue set (I left it for 24 hours), I cut the double width foam into 2" strips.  These strips are tall enough to be reasonable walls and wide enough to stand up.  I will probably get some drawing pins or blue tack to hold the walls in place during a game to prevent accidental movement.

A trip to my FLGS got me some spaceship doors from Terrain Crate.  I like them, and ended up getting another box of scatter terrain and will likely be picking up some more.  The spaceship doors box contains 20 free-standing doors, including 8 double doors, each about 2" wide and 2.5" tall, and 12 single doors, each 1" wide and 1.75" tall.  While they each have a nice base and can be freestanding, I painted them in pairs so I can put one on each side of a wall.

There will be a followup post later as the terrain progresses.  I need to learn how best to cut the strips of foam to avoid it being too ragged.  I'm going to head back to Walmart to get another set of foam mats, and will head back to Imperial Hobbies for more sci-fi scatter terrain.