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Hi all

Just wanted to share some past terrain projects of mine with everyone. Enjoy!

Wow...That is some nice stuff!!!! Ive always wanted to do great stuff like this....any tips for the terrain newb or maybe some tutorials of sorts? Thanks!!!

Fantastic terrain!!!!!!!

Any chance of commision work?

You win a Morley, this is very nice terrain.

Excellent - love it - especially the light effects from the lava and green gloop pool.

Very nice terrain, very untraditonal when it comes to 40k buildings.

Very impressive. I've recently thrown out a lot of my old beat-up terrain, and now I'm inspired to create some more.

Very nice!

Thanks for the kind words, everyone! I appreciate it.

I'm going to be updating this thread with more photos of new pieces as I get them finished.

I may consider writing some tutorials in the future, but work is keeping me pretty busy building terrain & painting models, so who knows when I'll find the time.... But it's definitely something I've always wanted to do.

-Ulf

Runes and lava effects looks great!

Try painting the lava onto the crystal for fun, im sure it'll be really nice too!

I love the pastel effects, your style is very impressive and cool.

Lovin' the Chaos Portal thing, great lighting effects, well done!

The best thing about your work is that all the pieces are painted to such a high standard and finsihed really well.

Good job.

I think the blasa multi-level forts are particularly cool. Good stuff.

Strong themes, rich colours, very well made. Beautiful, professional work IMO.

great wOrk!!!!!

Are you ScarletFaerie on Ebay? If so I have you on my watch list, I like seeing what you do with your terrain projects.

Any tips on how to achieve the wood paneling for the floors and walls and such? I've never done terrain before, just painting minis, but I think some terrain would really improve on the games I have. As for now, I tend to use shoes and boxes and anything random found around when a game is played, and I think a neat little ruined building would help a LOT.

@Clay----- Yes, that was our old username. We're "Game-fusion" now, to bring our user ID in line with our company identity. But yeah, that's me.

@CENart---- The wood paneling is constructed from individual pieces of wood, cut and shaped to fit, then just glued into place. Pretty much the same thing for the wooden structures. It requires a little more care than your average Joe Gamer wants to put into their terrain, but I think the end-result is really worth it.

@s.j. mccartney--- Thanks! That's what I'm going for. You know, a lot of people make terrain, but it's that little bit of extra effort right at the end that makes the difference, in my opinion.

great scenery m8 , i just love it , i always wonder how you paint the scenery , would love tutorials on the painting of scenery

I guess the short answer would be; just treat it like a big model, with less concern for the fine details. The same basic techniques apply, just scale everything up. Bigger brushes, same tricks.

I like them,

I would love to play some games on your table, those are really awesome pieces of work - I especially like the lava mountains. My favorite would have to be the three stoned altar with fire in the centre!
Maybe blend the hills in some pieces so you don't have rigid walled cliffs going on?
Regardless, very sharp!

These are great without exception!

I especially like the lava pit with the nice OSL, the bubbling acid pit, and the bridge (very simple, but very neatly executed).

I'd be interested in seeing some tutorials also.

I decided to post some more photos. These are of some more recent pieces.

Here are some more pics:

Nice work, I really like the earth motes(the floating ones), the lava affects are awesome, how did you do them?

wow! Great stuff, not sure about the Imperial fortress though it might need some bitz on it.

Stunning.

What else can I say?

Howard A Treesong wrote:Strong themes, rich colours, very well made. Beautiful, professional work IMO.

Wot he said.