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When I first saw Avatar, my initial thought was "Man, this movie is Dances With Wolves, but with blue Indians." But my second thought was, "Those floating mountains would be awesome Warhammer terrain", so I cobbled it together and it turned out pretty nicely. I want to do about 3-4 more smaller ones to have a whole game board so we can run a scenario around them. I think they'll work well for Fantasy or 40k, and once I get them all together we're going to run a Titan battle around them. A few Eldar Phantoms against some Warhounds and Knights should be fun. The rules for them that we came up with are that you can climb them by the vines using your initiative as your vertical movement, especially in Fantasy, so your Elves and Skaven will scamper right up there while your Dwarfs and Orcs will take a while. We also have a few things we could put up there for objectives, such as dragon nests, magic items, etc... For 40k it changes a bit, but I just like the possibilities. Anyway, enjoy!

Excellent job, that waterfall is awesome!

Wow... I'm sorry but... can you tell me how you did this? A how-to post would be awesome. Did you scratch build it from foam?

That is quite kool, nice work

creeping-deth87 wrote:Wow... I'm sorry but... can you tell me how you did this? A how-to post would be awesome. Did you scratch build it from foam?

The mountain itself is just chopped up blocks of styrofoam glued together, then hit with a heat gun to melt them into rocky shapes. I went over them with a dark grey acrylic paint, then started spraying with camo green, lighter grey, and darker grey coats from the airbrush. The waterfall is the primary support and it was the toughest piece to do. It's polyester casting resin poured into an aluminum foil mold. Once it dries, you have to turn it over and cast the other side too, otherwise you'll get one side that's textured and one side that's not. The foamy spray from the waterfall is micro fiber stuffing that you find in stuffed animals, sprayed with some spray on glue and then sprinkled with Woodland Scenics snow. For extra support some brass wire makes the fines that come down to the base, and that attach the little islands.

That's pretty awesome.

From above: Huh. That's pretty cool.

From below: Ho. Ly. !

I imagine these would be even cooler in person, as you could walk around them. It's the separation of the sections and the fantastic rocky underside that really make this piece, for me. The fourth pic is a thing of beauty.

This could have been done to look pretty average.
But you have done it superbly. It really does look amazing, and the best thing about it is how realistic it all looks.
What you plan to do with it sounds quite cool as well.

I was wondering...how do you keep it upright? Are the vines made of steel or....hmmm...

Stick some Tau on it to complete the Avatar look!

Nice work - I'd love to see some pics (batrep please!) of your Titan mash-up.

WOW!!

great work,agreed in person it has to be epic!

+1 to dangerous terrain tests

O.O...thats frigging cool! i bet you could play a whole game on that thing...imagine some Havocs on the top part...mmm super range...Really awesome piece all in all. Do you have any more epic peices to show your new found fandom?

alabamaheretic wrote:O.O...thats frigging cool! i bet you could play a whole game on that thing...imagine some Havocs on the top part...mmm super range...Really awesome piece all in all. Do you have any more epic peices to show your new found fandom?

Oh I've been posting terrain and models on here for a while now. BTW, I probably know you if you're around the Montgomery/Birmingham area.

Epic floating mountain is epic.

You should be especially proud of this piece.

Edit: I just looked through some of your gallery images and wow... you do a lot of great work in addition to this terrain piece.

Great piece! The effect you got with the clear casting resin is fantastic! Brilliant work sir!

Awesome

eledamris wrote:

creeping-deth87 wrote:Wow... I'm sorry but... can you tell me how you did this? A how-to post would be awesome. Did you scratch build it from foam?

The mountain itself is just chopped up blocks of styrofoam glued together, then hit with a heat gun to melt them into rocky shapes. I went over them with a dark grey acrylic paint, then started spraying with camo green, lighter grey, and darker grey coats from the airbrush. The waterfall is the primary support and it was the toughest piece to do. It's polyester casting resin poured into an aluminum foil mold. Once it dries, you have to turn it over and cast the other side too, otherwise you'll get one side that's textured and one side that's not. The foamy spray from the waterfall is micro fiber stuffing that you find in stuffed animals, sprayed with some spray on glue and then sprinkled with Woodland Scenics snow. For extra support some brass wire makes the fines that come down to the base, and that attach the little islands.

Absolutely brilliant dude! Do you mind going into detail on how you cast the other side? I can get my head around spreading the foam out on the table and pouring the resin into it---but how did you flip it over and adhere the resin on top? Or did you just pour another mold and stick the smooth side down into it while it dried?

Again, stellar work.

This is a really neat idea, I might have to steal it......

eledamris wrote:

alabamaheretic wrote:O.O...thats frigging cool! i bet you could play a whole game on that thing...imagine some Havocs on the top part...mmm super range...Really awesome piece all in all. Do you have any more epic peices to show your new found fandom?

Oh I've been posting terrain and models on here for a while now. BTW, I probably know you if you're around the Montgomery/Birmingham area.

Actually i am over in phenix city, not too terribly far though about a hour and a half drive or some thing like that. well this is my first time seein your work so my apologies.

they look great, i love the waterfall!

Looks very cool - I was thinking of doing something similar for my Eldar when I eventually get round to sorting out that army and some army specific terrain for them

I love this stuff!
Any chance of seeing a full board of it once they are all done, with a whole army of modles?

Looks pretty awesome, would love to play on it with jump pack troops

i think BA would cheat on this terrain lol

Wow that's just awsome....

Would be a great board to play.

great work! the water effects look amazing.

That's wicked cool, wish i could make terrain like that haha

very cool idea, and nicely painted! I love the waterfall!

A full board of this terrain would be really kick-ass. Create custom rules for movement, and flyers would be king. Very awesome.