25/02/2012

My (over) ambitious terrain project and more.....


Hi All. Having made up some terrain pieces on MDF hexagons from Warbases, I was consumed with the idea of making a lot of them to slot together in varying configurations to make complete warboards (not an original idea, I know). Suffice to say, as they are only 70mm across, I would certainly need plenty of them, and my available time doesn't stretch to that. ~Therefore I decided to use them in my original way, as scatter terrain on my aged but trusty 2'X2' Terrain tiles purchased just after the Boer War(!) Furthermore, I have decided not to beat myself up about the standard-I see many blogs with games played on beautiful integrated terrain, and I get disatisfied with my own efforts. From now on though, I'm going to be happy to settle for 'representative' rather than 'realistic'. Life's too short to stress about it. With that in mind, here's a few pictures (dodgy camera work) of some of my most recent dabblings-





 
Top picture-trees from K & M I believe-another purchase from way back. The 'mini mesa' is a cut down polystyrene hexagon from another terrain system and cork rocks. The lower picture has some less convincing trees made from plastic aquarium plants (Spacejacker had a great tip on his blog about adding paint to PVA glue to make it stick to the plastic, but I only had a cursory attempt), and a toxic pool surrounded by cork rocks again. I try and leave just a little margin of untextured surface around the bases to ensure they butt up to each other properly.


Finally, some barrels from The Scene along with some of their barbed wire and a small ruin made from foam card and not a lot else!

Now just some pictures of minis to add-I've painted a reasonable number recently, but not posted any for a while, so they're coming along all in one hit-stay awake, there's only several dozen.....well, that may be an exaggeration.






Some more OUDF with 'boonie' hats to add to my earlier efforts




Oh yes, here are the others....late on parade. Minis from GZG of course.


Cyborgs from The Scene-a simple coat of natural steel (Vallejo70864), black wash, and drybrushed with the steel again. A quick and easy fix, but possibly lacking some imagination. I could have made the effort to paint in some flesh on the head, like the minis on their website, but I'm reasonably happy with these.

 

And here's another with a considerably gaudier paint job. Again, an idea stolen from one of you out there-thanks very much, and I apologise!


My first attempt at Khurasan minis, and I just love these! The colour scheme was one I pinched from Allison over at the Painting Agency, this time with his blessing! They are nowhere near as good as his, but I still love 'em!


And here's a few more. I've got the latest release in the draw waiting their turn, but it will be a while.


And finally, you'll be pleased to know if you've stayed the course, a little GZG Hammers Slammers skimmer, just to round off proceedings.

Sorry you had to have them all in one go, but as we all know, life gets in the way of hobbies!

Thanks to all of you out there for the inspiration and ideas, keep going, or else who will I have to plagiarise? (Not sure if that is spelled correctly, or even if it's in context-it's for stealing writing, innit?)

9 comments:

  1. This is all great stuff. The hex terrain looks great, I think if you base all your terrain on hexes but play on an otherwise hexless table it will look fine. If you continue buiding one or two at a time, you will eventually have enough to do the whole table anyway ;)

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  2. Thanks Spacejacker. I agree with all you say, but I wonder how stable it all will be if I fit a lot of bases together-I might need some sort of cloth underneath them to provide some friction to keep them in place! I will certainly need to make a good deal of 'plain' bases otherwise things will get too cluttered. Thanks for the feedback.

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  3. You've been busy! Excellent work. Love the terrain hex idea.

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    1. Thanks, DB! Having received some encouragement, I have decided to press on and gradually build up my collection, and to that end, started another batch of 14 bases last night! (Plain, flat ones, and some rough road/track bases also). Thanks for the kind comments.

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  4. Love white/red colour scheme on The Scene cyborg!

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    1. Thanks very much! The camera doesn't pick it up quite so well, but the colour is more of an orange than red, but I appreciate the feedback!

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  5. How did I miss your Riflethings for so long? They look great. Nice contrast to your Armie's Armies guys in green, actually.

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  6. Well, thanks very much Allison, but I have you to thank for coming up with the colour scheme! It really struck me as something different, so any kudos is due to you- thanks very much!

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