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Hi folks. Been busy this weekend building some bits and pieces for my city skirmish board. The obligatory foam board ruins which I think turned out pretty well are first up, followed by a burned out park/greenery feature. The red embers are a little muted so might have to go and highlight with a more vibrant orangey color. I also plan to add some green tufts around the edges to represent parts that weren't scorched. Then I have some fences which I quite like. I plan to add some foliage and toying with the idea of adding some ammo creates etc to give them the ammo dump rule. I also have some pipes that I plan to give the Promethean pipeline rule. I like the oxidation but think they're a bit to shiny elsewhere. I may need to address this. I plan to obtain some hand wheels and affix these.

And there you have it. Hope you like. If so feel free to upvote. I plan to make lots more terrain in the near future plus another half to the table to expand the board.

Later folks

Very nice!

Super Neat!

Quick idea on ammo dump for you. I have been using old and empty, plastic gift cards for "larger" non movable objectives. Like a statue that needs to be held, crashed tech, ammo dumps, and static weapons emplacements. the gift card is super thin and sits well on other terrain and it quickly give you several new and easy to use "mods" so to speak for existing terrain!

Hi, I'm intrigued, when say gift cards, do you mean like credit cards?

Andy,

I hope these help. Unfortunately I am so close to my storage unit that terrain lives there and is not swiftly available, but fortunately it is close enough that I can get to it quickly!

However I always are materials to build terrain at hand!

Here are the parts to this formula:


The GW bits are obvious but the gift card, at least that is what we call them in the states, is the odd bit. Its like a credit card, its the same plastic materials, but it hold a certain cash value only and it not attached to any credit organization or bank. So one of these could be valued at like $10, and once that $10 has been depleted you either throw these away, or reload them.

I found that Starbucks is a great resource as they often collect these cards to recycle, so going in and asking for a stack of "used and depleted cards" is pretty easy.

Here is more detail on the card:


As you can see it is the same plastic and thickness of a Credit Card, but it has no attached credit or bank system. The act like gift certificates.

Here is how I build these little piece of terrain:


Just makes a nice little foundation to hold the terrain objects. In this case I am using GW terrain, but it the past I have used everything from Polymer clay sandbags to minifigs from other games and cash register tape roll inserts.

Here is an action shot:

I am repainting an Ebay bought Tau Army, and I am using a cellphone so the lighting is horrible. But the concept is what we are going for.

It is just a little, easily moved and placed modification for standard terrain. I will get some better pictures in the future and post em!

I'll follow this thread, your stuff looks awesome! I'm guessing you're using some sort of foam?

Thegrav, I see what you mean now. Use them as a base. It would certainly give a nice uniform feel. Plus it wouldn't warp. I may well do this in the future. Nice idea, thanks.

Matthew, thanks a lot. Yeah it's mostly foam core and the thinner pieces are high density card. It's not great material, but it's nice and cheap, just like me.