Good for Bolt Action, 40k, especially good for Lunar if you skip a step, and of course good for Deathzap!
Start out with a foil pie plate:
Then mash it into your basic shape:
I then coated the entire thing in texture paint. Mine is home made and hard wearing. It’s a mix of filler, no more nails, sand, water, pva glue, paint and mashed up toilet paper. The toilet paper is a recent addition to the mix, but I think actually makes the final result a lot tougher and potentially dry quicker. There’s no exact measurements I use, it just go with the flow adding more of an ingredient until I get the consistency I want.
Plaster bandage is a very viable and probably better alternative, I just couldn’t be bothered to leave the house or wait for PVA glue and loo roll to dry.
After the texture dries up I put on sand and PVA:
Watered down PVA then locks everything in place, and once dry I apply random patches of watered down acrylic paint:
A black wash and a drybrush of a bone colour was next. I suppose if you were playing Lunar you’d probably want to avoid the patches and spray it all grey before the wash and drybrush.
Flock finishes them off for my games.
Deathzap 
Very effective!
Brilliant! I think I prefer the non-flocked stage – it makes the uplift around the crater look more like the soil that rains down after the explosion. If you see what I mean!
a far cry from my childhood lunar landscape covering rolled up balls of newspaper with foil and taping onto card to give my Lego spacemen somewhere to knock about. thank you Blue Peter!
Works for me, and gives me an excuse to buy more pies in foil plates! 🙂
Regards, Chris.