Ok, its been a while since I promised to show you this, so here it is
First of all, depending on the surface you want to create, you're gonna need a lot of newspapers...It took me three times this pile of newspapers
for my Playmospace Diorama
http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=9954.0Next, you put the papers through a paper shredder and the shredded paper in a big tub... then you pour hot water in it and start mashing the paper... depending on your mood, you can leave the paper to get very wet for a day or so, or you can start mashing it immediately.
After you have your mashed paper pulp, you can squeeze it to get rid most of its water, but it must not be too dry other wise it wont be easy to spread on the surface you want to use...
You can start applying the paper pulp on the surface you want and evenly spreading it out to any direction. If the pulp is too dry, it wont be possible to spread nice and ease...
You can place a nylon if you want on your surface, so that your surface won't be affected by the water... and be sure to also make small ''craters'' with your fingers once a satisfactory area is covered.
You can use various pastes to create different size craters. I used this laminate paste. Mix the paste with water...
and be sure you have some shaping tools to give the paste any shape you want...
I used a snowball to spread out the crater edges evenly...
You can make the craters while your newspapres are getting wet, or before you even begin the mashing process, but make sure the craters are dry and stable when placing them on various positions on your surface and then apply the pulped paper around them.
You can also make smaller rocks out of the pastes, by the use of moulds that you can find in hoddy shops.
When your portion of pulped paper covers a satisfactory area, use a watery glue on the paper...
when the paper dries, the glue will help the paper stick together and won't fall appart, thus avoiding cracks, or big chunks coming off...
This pulp, took a week to dry... but humidity was quite high that week, so maybe on a sunny weather the pulp will dry quicker. In fact, it took about three weeks to complete, as I was not sure how many newspapers to use, and how long each bunch will take to dry...
But eventually, the whole thing dried out
and I could now just paint it...
Also used some modeling sand and train coal, which I also paint, for the rocks my klickies were collecting
Well, hope you find this interesting and usefull folks!!!