One quick picture today. Haven't done much hobby work the last few weeks (been playing a lot of Battlefield 1). However I have a number of terrain projects in the works. I'm planning a new game mat with a better ground color and grass spread. In line with that, I'm working on rough ground patches, tree copses, and some fields. I need a battery for my saw and I can get to work cutting the wood bases. Right now I have a prototype on card stock. Looks pretty good. The real ones will be different non-geometric shapes. The ground is just spackle and the rocks are chunks of mulch. Pretty effective and cheap.
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It's been a few weeks since I've had anything new to post. I finished building 2 dark ages buildings, just need some black spray to get started painting them.
Today I have some progress on a Napoleonic village I'm painting up. It's meant to represent a generic European countryside town. I plan to lump it together to make a nice sized town, or spread it out the be a few small villages. Looking good so far. All of the buildings are JR Miniatures. Not amazing sculpting, but they look good painted up and with other terrain around, I think they'll look great. Enjoy! Had some spare time tonight, so I started work on two new terrain projects. First is the beginning of a dark ages village for Saga and/or Hail Caesar once I get my barbarian army going. I've also gotten back into Warhammer 40k after several years of more "mature" historical gaming. My friends from home (I'm now in Maryland, home was Pittsburgh) decided to dive back into 40k, so I traded away some Cygnar I had for a Necron army, and also picked up Tyranids. So, someday they might make it one here. With the addition of a gaming space in my basement, I hope to host games of all sorts, so I'll need 40k terrain in addition to my historical terrain. Digressing from that...enjoy! First few - basic structure. Foamcore board for the frame, and mounting cheap craft sticks for the wood look. I haven't worked with foamcore before, but I like it! Next adding a thatched roof. Actually just a cut up old towel. I've seen some people do this online. I'll eventually paint it over with watered down white glue to harden it. Then basecoat the whole piece and paint to taste. Supposed to represent a viking/celt/generic barbarian dwelling or other building. I'm liking the look so far. I also started a squared building with a steeple/angled roof. These are the 40k ruins. Not going to go crazy here. I'll get some thin chipboard to mount them and represent area terrain, throw down some rubble/stone, and also add 2 floors to each. I'm planning quite a few of these, so I'm keeping it simple. Basically just hacking apart the foamcore, gluing the two "walls" together, and messing it up further.
Thanks for visiting! Quick update today. I have been working on a gaming table, and will soon be also building some terrain. So far, I've set up an 8x4' MDF board (3/4" I think) on some saw horses. Should be able space for any of the games we play. I'd like to widen that 4' to 5 or 6, but that'll come later. In order to make the table useful for any game, I'm planning portable game mats made using canvas, latex caulking, sand, and kitty litter. Progress so far below! We start a few steps into the process. To begin, I laid out the canvas and applied brown latex caulk in roughly 1'x1' sections. After applying the caulk I sprinkled some sand and cat litter over the section, and pressed it in with a plastic bag. The two pictures above are after I followed that up with a coat of brown paint. Cheap craft acrylic stuff, nothing special. And the above 4 pictures are after a liberal dry brush with a mix of the base brown and a khaki shade called linen. It;s coming out a little too desert looking for me, but in person it is definitely brown. I also don't love the parts where the brush still had too much paint and you can tell it's a brush stroke. Either way, the next step will be to flock pretty large sections to make this a suitable Western Europe/generic grass type board.
Though I'm not 100% satisfied, I am happy that I believe this technique will be very easy to redo as an actual desert scape. I also plan a black/grey urban scape. All of these should look pretty good! |
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