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I just came across your terrain thread and I am suitably humbled. Love some good quality terrain and your stuff is great.

Definitely plan to try and copy some of your ideas and may drop in to ask advice as I am planning to try and do an 8' x 4' table with modular 1' x 1' squares....

But I have more pressing concerns of my time so that project will need to wait until Christmas.

Keep up the work as I am enjoying your stuff immensely.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Must see pictures...

Oh and I am a 50 mile drive. It is not bad, but cost the earth over here with the price of fuel. (and a silly car)

Pictures of the tables are here http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/622743.page#7345830

50 miles in the UK? That seems a bit much given the size of Great Britain. Wow.

I can't remember if I've posted here already. I have a system of subscribing to a thread and then when I've read it all transferring it to my exalted list where I will comment on updates. What's odd is I definitely read and very much enjoyed your thread here but I can't find a post and it's in the wrong list. It must have been a late session where I fell asleep before I got round to posting...

Anyway, long story short, great blog. Keep this terrain coming, it's very pretty.

Hunh

Thanks for the compliment. i'll try to keep it coming.

Thanks Archer. Consider modular 16"x16" instead. (a 3x6 grid instead of a 4x8 grid) Faster set up, heavier tiles so less chance of movement. Also, harder for people to pre-measure on if that is an issue.

Like now. A few planters I hastily constructed for the tournament

As you can see 2 of them will fit in nicely with the hab modules. After some touch up on the paint job.
A wall experiment

I kind of like it.
And for the LoER...

A gate for the fence. As can be seen, it is an enclosure (about 24"x24"), and will have gates at 2 corners, a garden house or gate house in one corner (where the corner form is serving as a placeholder) and something else in the final corner. There is the proverbial much more to be done though. These are just the roughed out blanks.

Thanks for stopping by.

 Red Harvest wrote:
Hunh

Yep I'm pretty confused as to what happened too. Lets move on from that, haha.

The hex pattern on that wall is nice and well executed. Is it both sides? All those walls look great together in a perimeter.

Thats some gorgeous stuff! I want it on my table. How long has it taken work wise?

Ig

Love your hexagons! (At least, it sounds better than I love your curves!)

Ooo, the hex wall looks nice.
Good work on the planters too.

I'm trying to imagine what sort of garden, the person who has a wall like that, would have within it. (I'm sure there's some kind of English fail in that sentence, but whatever, dyslexia) Looking good.

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Thanks all. I suppose I could do more with the hex wall soon enough, but I have another fence to build first.

The garden, a good question Doc. I have a few vague ideas, but it is way down the road, and not part of the contest either, so a problem for another day. Now the garden shack, OTOH, That is perplexing me, and is today's problem. But I'll figure something out. I already have a nice idea for connectors for the sections, and for the detail work on the walls.

IGtR= wrote:
Thats some gorgeous stuff! I want it on my table. How long has it taken work wise?

Ig

All of it, or just the fence part? The fence part is 5 minutes here and there and then let it sit overnight while the glue thoroughly cures. Not much actual work time on it ( a couple of hours tops) but a lot of hurry up and wait time.

Feel free to borrow ideas and build your own. Heaven knows I borrow ideas, pretty much from everywhere.

Lots o punctuation edits. Ack. And a tone fail of my own

The gatehouse for the LoER

With detachable roof. Now onto the the actual work.

But I of course distracted myself

A little more papercraft, just to keep up with it. I find it oddly calming to do. ANd I will go back and deal with those lines. It is supposed to be a Mausoleum. It was a freebie from the old WoTC D&D site. They're all gone now that WoTC re-did the web site. Sad.

Going big with another adobe house. That is a Jotums on a 55mm base ( a big mini)


Also, a bit of painting. Early WIP of the civvie from one of the Dire Foes sets

A side by side with the Limited edition civvie from Icestorm. They are both wearing the same garments, but obviously, one of them has been skipping leg day at the gym. And the HGH too I ought to paint it she-hulk green.


I know I need to get stuff painted. I'm thinking Sundays will be for mini painting only, and no terrain. Wonder how long I can stick to this? I really want to get to the Icestorm minis.

Thanks for stopping by.

All coming together nicely.

Love that your following actual floor plans.

Are those plans you've made or are they for a real building?

Nice VIP models. Are you going to paint them the same?

Looking forward to the house. Love how it's sized appropriately.

Gatehouse looks nice.
New house build looks complex. I like that direction.

and, painted miniatures... in Red's thread...!?
Looking good.

The new floor plan is great. I am new to following your blog and am sure you have gone into it in the past, but could you tell me where I can find info on how you bend your walls like you do?

Nice Autocad work there as well as the amazing terrain!. Do you plan all your builds in cad first?
The table you took to the tourney looked great. I'm really liking your LOER fences too. Did we have to make a compound?
Anyway as always I'm left dumbfounded after catching up on your blog.

Thanks all.

Not autocad. Just a floorplan I found online. We just need to make a fence, but you know how fences are, either to keep something in or something out.

 Archer wrote:
The new floor plan is great. I am new to following your blog and am sure you have gone into it in the past, but could you tell me where I can find info on how you bend your walls like you do?

Go back to page 12. I think there are other tutorials on this thread too. If not, try here http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/574664.page there may be some images.

 Dr H wrote:
Gatehouse looks nice.
New house build looks complex. I like that direction.

and, painted miniatures... in Red's thread...!?
Looking good.

Most of the minis in this thread are painted have some paint on them. But yeah, It has been a long time since I set down to just paint minis. House is much bigger than I though it would be. A pleasant surprise, to be honest.

 ckig wrote:
Nice VIP models. Are you going to paint them the same?

Looking forward to the house. Love how it's sized appropriately.

Yeah painted the same. I figured the one can represent a 'hostile' civvie in game. Plus, I am not so motivated to imagine new painting schemes.

 JoeRugby wrote:
Love that your following actual floor plans.

Are those plans you've made or are they for a real building?

They are from a real building, or I should say commercially available blueprints. Floorplans and elevation I found online, as noted above. Just type something like adobe style house floor plans into the search box and check out the images. Works for all sorts of building styles.

New house (not a shack at all!) looks very promising. Not very curvy, though: changing styles?

And:

 Red Harvest wrote:
...I know I need to get stuff painted. I'm thinking Sundays will be for mini painting only, and no terrain...

You lead, I'll follow

Fair enough.

I finished the base coat on She-Hulk Detail work next Sunday, or not. Maybe I'll base coat some more stuff first.

Remember these are both still WIP. The G.I.T.S briefcase submachine gun is too cool, eh?

Not changing styles, Littletower, just expanding on the adobe style building I started as proof of concept for a true scale building for 28mm gaming. I figure I have my Bourak buildings Table-- the one with all those curves, the Hab Module table and now the adobe buildings table. That ought to keep me busy. And result in 3 distinct and fun to play on tables. They might even look good too

But even though it was paint the minis Sunday, I could not help myself,

Is this believable as a road? It is the packaging from some ground beef. The Cryo-vac container or whatnot. It is XPS, but it does, at least in RL, look like asphalt to me. Observations and Ideas? Pay no attention to the painted lines. If I were to do this for real, I would lay down tape so the lines would be nice and clean.

Another use for that packaging is as homebrew foam-core. Eventually, I'll figure out how to make real terrain from it...

I used it to mock-up some buildings to see how a table idea I had would work out. The Idea was about the contour hills. I need more cardboard to complete the mock-up though. Now to train your eyes, the above photos make the table look a bit open? This is a common comment about tables when photos are posted.

Here is a closer to ground level view,

Not so open. I think the overhead shots that we routinely see tend to distort people's ability to 'judge' a table.

Thanks for stopping by.

Yeah the black stuff certainly looks like asphalt.

Dammit red - you're actually making me want to play infinity single handedly.

All looking most excellent.

Actually like the road surface. Looks very effective. Feel like your cheating though after the LoER comp?!

Like the look of that stuff for tarmac. Do you know exactly what it's called and/or if it can be purchased somewhere?

Road looks good. If anything, maybe the dents and scratches are a bit too long/thick, and/or too many, for an actual road (trying to say, potholes are more common than grooves on the tarmac, unless you wanted to mimic the full wheel furrow of heavy vehicles (in which case it'd ran full-length along the road). A lees beaten up one would help. But that's close to obsessive nitpicking, it actually looks great, and it's an excellent use for waste packaging material, very modular too.

@Casey: If I got it right, it's from extruded polystyrene tray from groceries packing. No need to buy it, already paid for with your last steak!

Good progress on the girls.
Briefcase guns are always cool ... That's given me an idea for how to make one for a model in the future... added to my list.

Texture is pretty good for tarmac. Would need painting to bring out the features. Good base to start with though. Torn up and reassembled it may even work well as cracked tarmac too.

Table layout looks fine to me. But then I know not a lot about that sort of thing.

Did some searching fro extruded polystyrene and found a few sources. Searching for 'meat trays' on ebay gives you a load of hits and is a good place to start. A search for fast food containers might work even better but I got all the information I needed from that. Didn't find anything with a bigger surface that had the same sheen and texture.

Yah, packaging for steak (O how Argentinos love their red meats, eh? Or so the stereotype goes. ¿Es verdad?) Sausage, ground beef, and in some places even vegetables are shrink wrapped on a tray. :S But only get the black stuff. I think actually trying to paint it black would defeat my goal of quick and easy to do.

All the surface marks were pre-existing. When/If I get serious I will turn them into pot-holes and cracks, like a properly weathered road. They'll look nice and random too, this way. Serendipity I guess.

Cheating, Cam? Hardly, well almost hardly Just playing with ideas.

They mostly come out at night...mostly...

Brown Marmorated Stinkbugs. Nasty invasive species here on the East Coast. Saw this one crawling on my Alguacil (All-gwah-THEEL, or All-gwah-SEEL) So I took a quick snapshot before dispatching it. The trick is to crush it, but only a little bit. That kills it, but doesn't release the stink. I sort of roll the sole of my shoe gently onto it. It makes a satisfying crackling sound too Man I loathe the things.

Anyway, quick experiment with this

Styrofoam packaging always looks like it could be something cool, but then you start working with it and, bleah. This time I had an idea...
Remove the top

Build a few door frames

I'd say mini included for scale, but it's She-Hulk, so mini included for grins I like the mini, but I would like it more if it were less ginormous. On Topic: rather than deal with the styrofoam directly, I coated it in a thin coat of wood glue-- a very thin coat, like it were contact cement. Then I wrapped it with poster paper (more or less 110# stuff) to make it some sort of homebrew foamcore,

Now I can do something with it. It is about 41' by 34' in scale, so I'll add a partial second story, and then detail it like any other adobe building-- vigas, patio, textured finish, etc... and of course some interior work eventually

I think it may actually work out. Hmm, have to get back to the fences too.

Thanks for stopping by.

Great work, and good thinking on the lining, stealing that one, often have looked at this stuff and always throw it because of the hassle involved, but now I think I might have a go. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.

Omg that bug pic D:

Terrain is great but I keep scrolling back up to look at the bug lol. Glad I don't have them around here