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Nebulas By: grey_death 
With the Babad War Campaign coming up this year from
Bell of Lost Souls, I've been bitten by the
Battlefleet Gothic bug that's going on. It started out by just buying and painting up my
Sons of Medusa Battle Barge "The Might of Heracles". As I started reading the rules for
BFG, I began to feel the pull of
BFG terrain. And I just couldn't help myself. After a quick trip to the local
Hobby Lobby craft store, I was ready to start my table.
I knew I didn't want some boring just stars type starfield to battle over. So I broke out the spray paint and got to work!
You'll need a black cloth for this technique, so if you want a hard table for
BFG, you're kind of out of luck on this technique, sorry! But I think a cloth cover for normal tables is probably best because
BFG is definitely a flavor of the week game, and as such having a dedicated table seems a bit much! For my cloth I purchased an approximately 4'x6' foot section of Black Jersey Knit cloth.
You're also going to need a small selection of spray paints. I did the first trial with reds, but for this I've used a single
Rustoleum blue spray.
To start out, flatten out the cloth on a flat surface, and then take up a small knot worth and curl it up like so:
As you can see, these photos are somewhat bright, it's because I opened up the garage door since I'm working with spray paint! Have good ventilation when using sprays people!
When you have something similar to this, just spray the balled up area with whatever color or colors you want the nebula to end up being!
Next just flatten it all back out!
As you can see, the knotting/balling up of the cloth has created a lot of great variation in the paint that gives the nebula a really nice random and natural look!
The final step in nebula creation is to dust the entire thing lightly with an additional spray of blue to add some more glow to the already vibrant nebula.
Throw some stars on using a toothbrush and some white paint and you're good to go!
I hope this little technique was helpful, BFG is very niche, but it's a dedicated group that love the game! This will hopefully find those of you interested in the game well, and hopefully, we see more variation on those starfields for any space based gaming!
