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Hey guys! I enjoyed being able to post WIP photos of terrain here last year as we ramped up for the Golden Throne GT, so now that terrain building/repairing is in full swing for 2014 I thought I'd start up again.

The GTGT is an annual three-day event held in the San Francisco Bay Area. This year it's being held on August 1-3 at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton.

We have a few fairly straightforward goals this year:

To improve the overall presentation of tables at the GTGT (better paint jobs, repairs, improved ruined building bases, etc).

To build some unique, cohesive table themes.

To guarantee every table has adequate terrain, including a combination of ruins, area terrain and line of sight blockers.

Here's my first photo; it's a work-in-progress design that we'll end up making a few dozen copies of to block line of sight. I'll add a flat roof, possibly with some sort of rail or generator on it, and shingle the sloped sides.

I put a roof on the first building and put the walls together on a second in the same style. The slight gap on the sloping section of the roof is okay because I'm going to cover it with shingles, anyway.



A while back I was messing around with scratch-built ruins and came up with this behemoth. It's too big to be practical at about 14 inches wide by 14 inches tall and 14 inches deep, but I figured I'd finish it off anyway. The sides don't have windows and the lower windows on the front facing are 4 inches high, which means this thing does a pretty solid job of blocking line of sight. It still needs a base -- none of the MDF squares I had already cut out are large enough.

I spent some time adding bases to and repairing broken GW terrain today. Progress is all that matters, right?

A couple of brief updates tonight:



I spent some time painting and flocking a crate of hills that were cut and textured but not finished last year. This is about half of them.



Now THIS is what I'm excited about. Watch Fortress Kasp, a Deathwatch fortress overrun by Tyranids that's the centerpiece of our new Siege of Kasp narrative event at the GTGT Prime! This is the first shot, where I was just sizing everything up. It's going to be challenging to build this multi-level, playable fortress on a 4x4 board in a way that allows me to get it through the door when I'm finished. I'm expecting to use several wooden dowels and magnets along the way.