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With a "down to the brass tacks" approach that you've taken here, these techniques are very easily adaptable to regular ol' rivers and creeks running through a gameboard as well as lava, or maybe even ice! Super tutorial all around.

That's fantastic, will be trying this one on a smaller scale soon!

This is great! Love the result!

slice of toast wrote:With a "down to the brass tacks" approach that you've taken here, these techniques are very easily adaptable to regular ol' rivers and creeks running through a gameboard as well as lava, or maybe even ice! Super tutorial all around.

Thanks! I do need to get some pictures of my river boards. It was pretty much the same steps, except where I filled the rivers with Resin.

Very nice, i'm going to have to try this. Maybie with some ruined buildings in tho because I like that sort of terrain ^_^

Yeah. THis wil be great for a battle between my friends Salamanders and my Eldar!

WOW.... AMAZING! awesome detail, i would try (i mean try) but the turn-out would not be that good!

Quick question as I am having difficulty finding this myself. Where can I find and/or what are good how wire foam cutters and whatnot. Anyone have any good suggestions?

Want!

Excellent job, sir. thanks for the well done tutorial!

I had the pleasure of playing on this table a few weeks ago. Even with my mech heavy army, it was great fun and a beautiful table.

WOW!! Do you make any other boards(he says with hopeful look in his eyes)?

That looks god like
amazing board man

deadratman wrote:WOW!! Do you make any other boards(he says with hopeful look in his eyes)?

Yes I have a river board that is similar and 3 other "flat" boards with themed terrain on them. Maybe one of these days I can get some pics of them too!

Wow. I'm building one!

Okay... I'm making one... which way's the styrene shop?

That was awesome how it turned out I might have to try that.

Just wanted to make sure, is the foam 2" thick? I know they sell different thickness foam and just wanted to check to see if this is whast you used, thanks.

Impressive. The modular board I make will be a little bit more verdant, but the your instructions will still carry over. Thank you very much.

disposable24 wrote:Just wanted to make sure, is the foam 2" thick? I know they sell different thickness foam and just wanted to check to see if this is whast you used, thanks.

I think the standard DOW foam insulation is 1.5". If you start going larger then that the boards will take up quite a bit of space to store and transport. To me transporting them is very important to me as they get carried around to games all over the place.

Brilliant, would love to get my dark angels or crimson fists out on it.

I want to add my thanks as well for this fine tutorial.

We have a local competition here soon for Gaming boards. I think I am going to make it so the volcano in the middle spews out smoke via dry ice beneath it. I think that would be very cool!

Maybe we should just give you the prize now, none of the rest of us are going to come close to building anything so cool.

Relly Nice Job!

Ozymandias wrote:Maybe we should just give you the prize now, none of the rest of us are going to come close to building anything so cool.

I think it is submitted as a game club though, so it would be a SLOgamining entry. At least that is what I thought.

Oh in that case, go get em!!

thank you so much for this tutorial its great and it has inspired me to base my next gaming board on this! orky hats off to you

So, in theory wouldn't this tutorial also work for an Ice Flow board, too?

Like if you left sharper edges around the cracks and sprayed it white plus added some snow flock.
You could then paint the crevices a blue color and fill them with water effects gel or just leave them as-is.

Euron Crowseye wrote:So, in theory wouldn't this tutorial also work for an Ice Flow board, too?

Like if you left sharper edges around the cracks and sprayed it white plus added some snow flock.
You could then paint the crevices a blue color and fill them with water effects gel or just leave them as-is.

Actually I have some ice boards too! though they are just flat boards with movable terrain. This would work perfectly for ice flow boards too. I would recommend a light blue for your base color for the entire board then drybrush white over it. A plain what board would recreate snow better, but it is just kinda boring to play on IMO. For the ice in the cracks, you can just use similar techniques to make the ice; ie. smooth out the caulking more and draw cracks in it with a nail. Then once that is dry you can paint it up like ice. After that take some gloss coat and paint the ice to make it all shinny.

Hope that helps some!