Post by Nick P on Jul 6, 2017 9:23:06 GMT -6
I've been slowly working away at getting my 8th edition armies painted - necrons are 99% there, dark eldar/eldar are about 75% there, and Nids are about 75% there. In addition, I've been plotting some terrain projects so I can round out my home collection and start hosting game days at my house in my basement. I've got the table and fat mat, but need more coverage in order to make the game fun!
I've got this fatmat, from Adepticon 2016:
And so have been brainstorming terrain that wouldn't look out of place on a grassy field. So far I've got some ruined buildings I've made from foamcore and popsicle sticks and card, which can easily be painted in grey with muted browns and greens and based accordingly to look like overgrown ruins to match the geography.
But I need more than that - additional large line of sight blocking pieces, additional area terrain for cover, and scatter pieces to keep the games interesting. Here's what I'm thinking so far - please send me suggestions!
What else? I feel like the above will give me some good options for creating various types of boards - but maybe I need a big statement piece, like a 12" x 12" mega ruin, or mega hill/cliff, or abandoned eldar temple, or something like that to sit pride of place in the middle of the board? Maybe a ruined webway gate? Necron citadel? Tyranid digestion pool?
I've got no shortage of MDF, expanded polystyrene, extruded polystyrene, foamcore, card, and plasticard. All suggestions welcome! I'm hoping to have this set up done by the end of Q3, so I can host an inaugural gaming day at the end of September. I'll post up my progress in my painting thread as well.
I've got this fatmat, from Adepticon 2016:
And so have been brainstorming terrain that wouldn't look out of place on a grassy field. So far I've got some ruined buildings I've made from foamcore and popsicle sticks and card, which can easily be painted in grey with muted browns and greens and based accordingly to look like overgrown ruins to match the geography.
But I need more than that - additional large line of sight blocking pieces, additional area terrain for cover, and scatter pieces to keep the games interesting. Here's what I'm thinking so far - please send me suggestions!
- Forests (duh) - I've printed out a template that matches the GW Wyldwood footprint, and will be cutting out MDF bases to size and basing to match the fat mat. I'll also be making several trees using model train kits for each base (3x 40mm base trees each)
- Hills - I've got the plastic GW hill from days of old that I'll be painting up, but I'll also be building 2-3 other hills out of expanded polystyrene and cork bark to make cliff faces and rock formations
- Scatter terrain - using the same cork bark and pine bark, I'll make some 4-6" long rock formations to give cover to infantry and break up the open areas of the battlefield a bit more
- Ruined highway - I have this vision of making a ruined highway section out of foamcore, complete with on-ramp and ladders scaling it, running about 6" above the main surface. I plan on making these in 6" sections, so they can be deployed widthwise, diagonally along one corner, or even longways across the entire table (with some crumbled, collapsed sections in the middle to break it up)
- Shipping containers - I love the look of the munitorum armored containers, and figure that if there's a highway there must be some discarded shipping containers nearby from ages past - so I'll be making my own out of card and foamcore since $50 for 3 is a bit costly. 6"x3"x3" should do it.
What else? I feel like the above will give me some good options for creating various types of boards - but maybe I need a big statement piece, like a 12" x 12" mega ruin, or mega hill/cliff, or abandoned eldar temple, or something like that to sit pride of place in the middle of the board? Maybe a ruined webway gate? Necron citadel? Tyranid digestion pool?
I've got no shortage of MDF, expanded polystyrene, extruded polystyrene, foamcore, card, and plasticard. All suggestions welcome! I'm hoping to have this set up done by the end of Q3, so I can host an inaugural gaming day at the end of September. I'll post up my progress in my painting thread as well.
