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Vastarian Terrain Board Part 3

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Welp, here we go again.  Earlier last year I had almost finished the Part 3 blog post detailing how I made one of my favorite boards for Vastarian and accidentally deleted it by mistake on Blogger.  This was extremely disappointing and frustrating as I’d spent about two months working on it. It was almost 6,000 words and an awful piece of work. Yes, I’m an idiot. Rip on me in the comments below  So now here I am! Writing it on a MS Word document to prevent myself from fat-fingering the thing a second time. To pick back up from Post 2, the majority of the board had been textured and built. Now all I had to do was adhere the cathedral to the board, prime, paint and add vegetation and it’d be done! This post has quite a lot more pictures, as it was far less messy which allowed me to take more pictures than I normally recall to, so reader beware.  The Board in its pre-prime state Texture was generously applied throughout the board The 'Spoil' from the broken bulwarks My ...
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 GREETINGS! Man, has it been a while and has it been a time. When I first started this blog, I had tried dedicating some time every month to writing and drafting different posts. Believe it or not, I have quite a few drafts but never got around to finishing them...so apologies to my Ma, whom I believe is the only one who checks my blog. If you follow me on social media, you may have noticed that the past 18 months have been eerily silent with the exception of me sharing the work of my friends or those I admire. Since shortly after the Vastarian event in November of 2024, I experienced massive burnout with the hobby. Towards the run up to hosting the event with the Wiers, Eli and Jonny, I viewed making the last terrain board more as a second job and not a fulfilling prospect (hence why the 'trench board' was a bit lackluster and rushed). While we all experience various highs and lows with the creative process from time to time, mine was so severe that I could not even stand to g...
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