Show us your terrain!

[panzergator]

This stuff looks SO GOOD! It makes me anxious to try something like it.

[BurtWolf]

Looking real good, That tower is a nice piece!! Thanks for sharing!!!

[6mmwargaming]

Hi all

I've finished these new industrial terrain pieces and them on my website. There is the School, Radio tower, and reconditioned a Garage and Trucking yard.





More pictures and information here

http://6mm.wargaming.info/page303.shtml

Cheers
Kieran

[CDP]

Made a couple of fields in the quiet time over Christmas. Bases are a collection of credit cards sized plastic that people tend to hand to you in the street. Had to recycle them into something useful.















My first attempt at Grape Vines.



And some cheep Chinese trees sold as orange trees in Z scale but they are massive for 1/285. I cut off 1 cm from each trunk to try to reduce their size but they are still too big. The "fruit" would be as big as a figures head. Still it only cost me less that $5 and I can use they on a 28mm scale project I have going.

[dougeagle]

Nice stuff you have there. Who would've thought that credit cards and such would be an ideal thought for fields and such

[AllenRockwell]

A few days ago I did a little photoshoot to see what kind of results I could get using a cloth battle mat. I think the results are pretty cool. What do you think?

[RedDragon]

CDP

Really nice work! The orange trees look great even if they are pumpkin sized at scale, just count the monster orange orchard as hazardous terrain for infantry!
I think the grape vines look spot-on but I'm not a vintner...

Allen,

Very nice rolling farmland effect, you garnished that mat well!
One curiosity, is that type of construction common in the European countryside? It looks great I am just curious about the structures, are they GHQ?

[AllenRockwell]

Allen,
Very nice rolling farmland effect, you garnished that mat well!
One curiosity, is that type of construction common in the European countryside? It looks great I am just curious about the structures, are they GHQ?

Thanks.

Those European half timber structures ... not really specific to any particular region, just the sort of thing you would see many areas of Europe.

No, the buildings are not from GHQ. This is GHQs forum so I'm not going to promote another company here .. but I think from the copyright on the photos you might be able to figure out where they came from.

[CDP]

Thanks Red Dragon,

Your comment of "Pumpkin Sized", gives me other ideas. The orange fruit tend to drop off the trees any way so if I harvest them I could plant them on a field. hummmm.

Quick unglued test subject...

[CDP]

Thanks again. That looks like it will work. I wonder also if I can get them in green? I have a copy of "Night Drop" by SLA Marshall about the US Airborne drop on D Day. In it he mentions that the US Paratroopers dug into a field of either lettuces or cabbages. The attacking Germans could not differentiate between the US helmets and the vegetables so could not effectively return fire.

As a wargamer it could give a bonus to dug in troops.

[RedDragon]

CDP,

Ha, that's awesome! Pleasure working with you!

[PolishGI]

A few pics of what I am working on…

[BurtWolf]

I have been using the Terrain Maker hexes to build a board - I have made enough to do a 4' x4' battlefield. I deliberately made the stream blue as i just want things to pop a little - i know it should be a dreary color.

I still have to build a frame for the hexes - pics will be forthcoming. Anyway, here are three interchangeable bridges I made from scratch. One is the "blown" version and the other two are intact...

[CDP]

One of the things I have really wanted to make for a long while is to create swamps. Now looking online at Terrain creator web sites you can see that a lot of them regard swamps as 3 lakes or ponds in close proximity to each other with some long grass close by. This is not how i see swamps. My idea of swamps it more like the Florida Everglades with islands of over grown plants surrounded by muddy water.

So last year I came across a railway grass may by a company I think is called Heki. Now this grass mat is broken up into sections with long grass and short grass sections between them. I bought some of this stuff and cut fitted it to some 3 mm base MDF. I then painted the between sections with a muddy brown and used clear silicone for the water. This failed and looked horrible as the silicone was in sections patchy and taller than the reeds. It also looked odd as the swamp sections were higher than the surrounding terrain. So I gave up on this.

Since then I have discovered another water product that comes in both a gel and a liquid. I again tried to make swamps but this time had it indented below my terrain bards and tried to raise up the dry areas. So fa so good until I put down the water affects again. The Gel is OK as it dries clear but the liquid remains white.

I regard these as failures as they did not dry clear. So I though I would post some photos of my work to see if any one else has attempted the same or come up with a better way of doing it.

Any criticism or advise accepted.



Water affects applied.




General swampy area from the side:





After a month of waiting for the water affects to go clear. BMP's for scale.









Some of the original pieces with new water affects added.

[madman]

Well your overall effect looked excellent. Too bad about the clear. Perhaps you should post the brand so others can avoid it. Did you contact the manufacturer? Possibly an off batch or they changed the instructions.