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So I bought myself a Realm of Battle Board a little while back and took some pics during the construction.

Having only just played my first game on it the other day I thought Id just put up a topic showing the process of painting it.




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Ok the first pic here all I have done is unpack the board and glue ballast (medium sand stuff) around the hill sections.

The main reason I have done this is because in previous games where I have played on a battle board the sloped hill sections provide no end of frustration as your models slide all the way to the bottom.

The idea is that the ballast will provide a bit more grip, in the end some things still slide a little but it is nowhere near as much of a problem as when there is no ballast.




The Following pic is the same but undercoated black. Hard to tell the difference with the lighting though.





Next pic is the board painted in a dark brown as a base colour. The board took a few tubes of cheap acrylic paint I picked up from an art shop.





In this pic the board got a heavy drybrushing with a slighlty lighter brown.




Ok so here you can actually see some difference in the colour. The rocky areas around the hills and skull pits I have drybrushed with some more cheapo paint, pretty close to a bleached bone colour.




Continuing from the last pic I have gone over the same areas with a light drybrushing of dheneb stone.




The skulls where also drybrushed using dheneb stone, this time however I added some skull white to lighten the colour and make them stand out a bit more.




Soon I will add more pics, the next lot include adding grass to the board.

Looks cool, can't wait to see the next steps.

ConsumeTea wrote:Looks cool, can't wait to see the next steps.

definitely

Not bad

Ok the next steps show the board being grassed.

Ended up deciding to grass the majority of the board, mainly because I had a giant bag of static grass I was given a while back and was yet to use it.


This pic shows the grass just chucked on the board after having painted on a decent layer of pva, the trick is to do this quick so the glue doesnt dry.





Here's what the board looks like with the excess grass shaken off. Its a good idea to have a sheet of cardboard or such under each section to help in reclaiming the excess for re-use.





The grass looks a bit fluro because the glue has yet to dry.

Next steps I will post later today show blending the rock areas into the grass.

I was about to say, The grass is neon, and alien!

Ok, so to blend in the rocky areas a bit I put some dead grass about the place (straw gw grass stuff).

Probably could have blended the colours a bit better but it does the job.





Next up are some pics from the next day after all the glue has dried properly. I also gave the entire board a spray of matt varnish to help the grass stay on, also because I didnt want the rock areas to be shiny-ish.




The random dead grass spots are just where there were bald spots that I fixed. Looks a bit out of place, but it doesn't worry me much.




This is just a pic of the clips that hold the board together, they are incredibly annoying to attach to the board sections, but I do have to say they hold the board together quite well...after half hour of putting the clips on..




Ok last pics, just to show off a couple of models on the table after completion.







Overall the project took about 3 days to complete and the following materials:

-Roughly 5 tubes of cheap acrylic paint
-a can on black undercoat
-a can of matte varnish
-a rather large bag of green static grass (something along the lines of 5-6 gw sized tubs of grass)
-some pva
-a bag of ballast (for the hill sides)
-some brushes (house painting brush is good for doing the pva)


I think if I ever do up another one it would have to be snow based with lava coming up around the skull areas.

Now I just need to do up some terrain it the board is good to go.