Show us your terrain!

ZAJACMWZ · Post by **ZAJACMWZ** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 1:51 am

Thanks for the idea, Mark. I'm about to build a couple more boards and will have to play with that - or maybe dark circles instead of rows....

Matt

catseye72 · Post by **catseye72** » Sat May 09, 2015 6:35 am

Bump, I love this thread. Great battleboards, I love seeing the terrain you guys build, fantastic work!

Clint

Bezmozgu7 · Post by **Bezmozgu7** » Sat May 09, 2015 5:27 pm

Matt,
That is a great set up. How are you doing contours on your hexes, it looks like there is a hill in one of the second set of photos posts?
Steve

AllenRockwell · Post by **AllenRockwell** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:24 pm

This was a demo game I was running all weekend at a convention in Los Angeles a little while ago. I normally do fixed, hard terrain boards ... this was my first time doing modular hex terrain. I kinda liked it because of the flexibility it offered.

7.62 · Post by **7.62** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:44 pm

Some wonderful terrain folks, please keep it coming.
There is always something in every photo that we can all learn from.

BurtWolf · Post by **BurtWolf** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 4:15 am

Hi guys, I just developed a small village terrain piece I wanted to share with you. If you remember, I used a cast resin system to form two molds to build two different bombed out houses. After casting them I tried to make them unique by adding small items and painting them.

I then started my village. I used a cheap piece of acrylic as a base and then added brick plastic sheets to mimic cobblestone. I left enough room for my nine houses and a couple of bigger spaces. The houses all have the same base size so I can interchange them easily. It was a simple layout for a test run. Note I chopped up styrene for bricks - that is the small pile on the left

BurtWolf · Post by **BurtWolf** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 4:21 am

I used caulk as a base layer and added debris such as sand, stones, and other small items.

I had two craters I was going to place in the middle of the streets, and after building them I went ahead and painted.

BurtWolf · Post by **BurtWolf** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 4:32 am

Here are some shots of the final results, I'm very happy about this pilot project and intend to improve upon. I haven't used it in a game yet, but I think it will work out really well.

BurtWolf · Post by **BurtWolf** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 4:35 am

AllenRockwell · Post by **AllenRockwell** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 6:51 am

Really great looking stuff there BurtWolf. Well done.

Dog Smack · Post by **Dog Smack** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:31 pm

BurtWolf,
Nice looking village! Really impressed with your process there. For the bricks did you get a really thin piece of styrene and cut them or did you have to first make a thin strip then cut the bricks? Also, where did you get the cobblestone roads? Is that something that you can get pre-made or did you have to create that yourself?

Steve

BurtWolf · Post by **BurtWolf** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 2:56 am

Thanks guys! Getting feedback always keeps me going! I am a real novice, but am learning as I noodle around. The casting bug has bitten me - looking to do rail cars next

The road is N scale brick styrene sheet made by JT via ebay. I don't like it as much as Plastruct but it was a bit cheaper and I wanted to try it. I don't use it for buildings, so I figured it might work well for a roadway.

The "brick" I cut was from using thin square rods of styrene and basically dicing it into little pieces. Probably not to scale, but it pops out to me much better and looks brick like.

TAMMY · Post by **TAMMY** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:44 am

Dog Smack

you may find cobblestone sheet in N and Z scale in the Noch catalog

Noch is a German company manufaturing accessories for tailway modleling and is worth a look for many other type of road.

If you want to see some cobblestone roads try to find some images of the Tour of Flandres, a cycle race famous for its "pavÃ©" (French word for cobblestones) roads, very hard for the cyclists.

Dog Smack · Post by **Dog Smack** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 9:42 pm

Burt Wolf and TAMMY,

Thanks for the clarification...I'll have to check that out.

Steve

CDP · Post by **CDP** » Sun Sep 13, 2015 2:28 pm

Here is another project I have been working on since last Christmas. Building from British Company Levan. Smaller in scale than Timecast so closer to GHQ scale in buildings.

This is the Hotel it looks more like an Insane Asylum to me. Maybe its just me.... Still need to add water to the fountain.

Sdkfz 234/3 added to some pics for scale.

Show us your terrain!

First time doing terrain hexes

Bunch of Buildings