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Thanks! It's lots of styrofoam covered in spackle, plaster and sand.

It looks very sturdy.

I'm going to be working on mine in the next few days, just need some foams.

I'm in with (wait for it...) orks! I've got all the minis done I want to enter, and am going to start on the board one of these days. WIP's to follow once I figure out where I left my motivation.

Awesome idea.
I just finished my terrain/board a few minutes ago.
Took me a few weeks or more. I first thought about an 'Assault on Black Reach' theme = SM vs Orks.
2nd thought was an Ork-attack on some Tau I got but I decided to keep it simple and just put my Ork on the mat.
They won the comp last time due to the fact that I was new to the local community. I didn t even have an own board cause I didn t know it was required. So here it is:

Thoughts welcome if there is something I should change!

The tree is scratchbuilt (wire, GS, paint and moot (?)).
The pond is made off hot glue and the Koi in there is a bit of GS

Looking good!

man, you guys...putting in all this effort, hand-crafting big, fancy terrain and everything...I'd only planned on some kind of thematic re-paint of one of my old realm of battle board tiles

...I also haven't even decided which of my armies I want to do this for yet ...also, I don't really want to just slap down an army of already-painted stuff

...my orks, which are probably my favourites, but I'm not entirely sure how to go about displaying them...which kind of units, etc...also, most of the kind of things that would be good for display, are painted...
...my nurgle chaos marines...typhus, zombies, converted plague marines with converted rhinos...something like that - but I've already got all that painted
...my nurgle daemons...plaguebearers, nurglings, plague drones, a GW great unclean one...I've got "a box" of all of those painted already, and 2 more boxes of each still to paint...I could paint up some more and put them on display...
...orrr I'm just starting a 30k salamanders army...I've got about 40 old RTBeakie marines, a salamanders contemptor, 5 pyroclasts, and 5 firedrakes...but they're all unpainted...and that would probably take a while!

Looking great, Kustomer D!

I like the koi!

I think you need some Orky trash. Bits they discarded, junk piles, etc. Make the board show who they are when they're not "home".

And ZoBo, already painted stuff is absolutely fine. It's Armies on Parade! Not paint an army from scratch!

Thanks Buttery,

Here is a pre-setup. I guess there ll be not enough space for orky trash - but I still have about a month to think about it.
There are still some guys to paint. The Chinork will get 5 Boyz, one of the Koptas and a Weirdboy still need some attention.

Looking great! A shame you're not competing in Sweden, I'd love to see that in real life.

Thanks man.
I just hope there ll be a bit more competition on my flagstore this year. I mean, I d like to repeat winning the gold batch but to be honest, I would like more to get 2nd o 3rd place cause the other guys come up with awesome stuff too.
We ll see in a few weeks

Lovely stuff here people! Can't wait to see them all finished!

Finally finished off my board tonight:



Now just to get the rest of my models painted.

My depression manifests in escapism, so I can tell that I must be depressed because I am painting like 5h a night at the moment.

Given all of these factors, I am trying to get a compliant AoP entry together based on an old eldar battleforce I have. I also want to do a nebula effect, so here is the wave serpent (interior painted and magnetised as well)

E: I'd also like to talk about what a piece of gak this model is. The 1997 cast was utterly maddening, it was worse than forgeworld stuff.

Welcome back to us, KB.

Great stuff so far! Looking forward to see the finished boards.

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It's just the aquila and statue left, plus a lot of minis to paint.

Looking good!
I have my base drawn out, am just waisting on a foam cutter.

My board is all finished up I will have pictires up the day of the parade

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It's just the aquila and statue left, plus a lot of minis to paint.

Looking good! Are you going to paint the rim black or another colour?

Can't wait to see it finished

I can enter the Sylvaneth army Im painting this week, but Im definitely not doing a display board.

Is it your army, Zach?

I did the basics for my foams today. Need to fill it, seal it and stone texture paint it. I also need to cut some foam core to hide my rough edges on the outside.

My "name plaque" may be the strangest on the day.

Looking good, buttery!

And yes, The sides will be painted black. I'm planning writing a backstory, which I'll print out and put on the sides.

I'm thinking about maybe placing platicard all around the edges... Yes/no?

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I'm thinking about maybe placing platicard all around the edges... Yes/no?

I’m no expert, but it seems that would be a good idea to protect the foam/etc. from chipping or otherwise getting damaged. I’d worry about seems being visible if you use a number of smaller bits put together.

I was going to use foamcore or something, so I think it's a good idea.

Finally, I got a chance to work on my board! This is 3/4" pine cut w/ a jigsaw (just use foam; trust me). Plan is to flock all the horizontal surfaces and paint the slanted surfaces of the hills to look like sandstone or some other kind of sedimentary rock formation. The sanded pine looks so nice raw, I just hope I don't screw it up; hopefully it looks even better painted.



On display will be the warboss, two kannons w/ grot krew, my Tankbustas, a squad of Freeboota shootas w/ kaptin and a squad of Deathskulls shootas w/ boss nob.

That is some NEAT woodworking there dude, well done!

I'd suggest possibly roughing up the rock faces somehow as this will give you an easier time creating texture/depth when painting


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Done and done.

Annoyingly I've found out that I fly back from Orlando the day AFTER parade day (got my dates mixed up), so I'll be enlisting a friend to transport my board and set it up, which is killing the control freak inside of me!

Hope you like

Bro...

Both of your things look great!

Wow, guys. Just wow!

My board is under a gross mix of filler and PVA glue at the moment, tonight I am sanding, building the road, and hopefully fitting textures.