Same rules as before, any scale, any time period, any owner (yours or googles), and feel free to critique but go easy if it was made by user.
Remember, different games have different requirements for terrain, so what might be bad for 40k is possibly really good for necromunda, infinity, hell even kings of war.
Play nice Veeky Forums
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as a computer engineer I love that picture
Afternoon Veeky Forums - my table I barely play on since my friends burned out on Wargaming the past year or so
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nice table, if not a little simple, what's going on with those gaps, edges and how they don't line up 100%?
that shale/woodfiller mound is really solid. Gradual rolling landscale/plaster to make them isn't as easy as it looks
rip Circle. No longer have them
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Budget build / didn't have picture of the fram I set the table into. Sort of rough edges to slot them into a wood frame that protects the table and prevents stuff from rolling off. I did more sanding/correcting after
WIP DZC City Board - about 8 buildings deep so far.
I don't have any finished pictures, but this is a WIP on my Theoden display for a family friend
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looks real nice
Cardboard boxes glued togheter and painted with cans
Looks great! And it's nice to know that somebody still uses LotR minis.
Technically, this one is a vehicle, originally posted as "counts as CSM Rhino."
Though it does open up the possibility of floating, raised platforms like this.
lookin' good with a low investment
did you line with pen or brush?
I like the pillar masking the flight-stand
simple yet 10/10
skills
This one's one of my favorites. Not really in execution, but in concept. Great way to mask empty spaces on the board while also giving it a lot of flavor. I'm tempted to do something like it in the future.
I love the idea
nice but why did you put all the buildings and trees on the border of the map? You gotta cut that LoS if you want some sweet CQC
Nice. Time to write up some house rules about the risk of falling off edges
This is a great idea for frostgrave
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cool photo lol - but with KoW we barely use terrain
>The mystic tower of Bo'Tel, home of the Inebrius order of Wizards
>Those with the courage to approach in the dead of night speak of indistinct chanting, splintering wood and ominous clinking.
How do you do the plateaus? Is that just styrofoam with the edges cut off with a hot foam cutter.
yeah, insulation foam, each level is a separate piece
God that looks nice. How do people do the grass and foliage? It's just so intimidating.
patience and care, same as 28mm scale
Fully modular, fully magnetized 28mm terrain.
>kickstarter.com
looks like a decent price too, fuck me
What do you guys make your boards from? Just use cardboard or Styrofoam?
Cool buildings are those hand made or from an online store?
For the individual bases for different features and structures, I just use FDM bases. For the actual board, I use plywood topped off with lots of PVA glue, plywood, and flock.
what do you mean boards?
like the piece bases?
I used MDF
if it's a strong building or something it probably doesn't need a base.
If you're starting off then you can use cardboard, cake bases, etc. My hardware store sells 24"x24" pieces of hardboard for dirt cheap, of course you need something to cut it with...
Yup, while I was tempted by BattleSystems, no terrain kikestarter has appealed to me until this one came along. Quick and easy customization is a godsend for Infinity, as more static terrain inevitably becomes a bit dull. Plus, those interior sliding doors are just straight up dope.
Can easily paint it to be whatever you want, but I've been hankering for a nice pre-fab jungle colony / Acontencimento outpost once fluffed up with some Sarissa accessories and jungle plants.
sorry, not my photo, it belongs to google.
looks handmade though,
3d printers are going to end the world user
I mean the board you put everything on. I have some cardboard fold outs meant for shit like school presentations, but I was thinking about a big Styrofoam board so I can add cures and gradients to it. However, it wouldn't be as modular or easy to transport.
God I wish. Wonder how much the qualities ones no a days go for? Especially vs how much vs a quality cast?
I am tempted to buy some of that guy's designs and print them out myself. I mostly just print gridded tiles and a few features, but not any major buildings like that.
you want good thick wood if it's like a table base
like if you're doing home-made battletiles you want MDF or hardboard or plywood.
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perfect for a dredd game
iso cubes, 8 years
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The reasonably priced ones don't meet the quality of at-home resin casting yet. Hopefully one day in the future user.
Man I love this pictures. I just can't understand how people did their fields and grass so well. Like what are the techniques?
I really like the idea.
Those buildings look like shit though.
looks like just flocking for grass, and clump foliage for hedgerows.
Perfect for a standard game of Deadzone.
I love the Ronnie/Fisty Glue Man billboard on the top there.
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Furry board not related.
END TEDDY BEAR CRUELTY
That's sustainably-farmed teddy bear fur. Regulations on that shit is so tight it's more cruel to the workers than the bears.
Looks pretty damn solid.
what are those scattered washers for?
while this is awesome to look at, how is it in terms of play ability?
With the way deadzone is written, it works perfect. For other games I can see it being a struggle.
Deadzone is a game that encourages extremely heavy terrain, without punishing the gameplay for it, like other games do. It's pretty slick.
what I was more referring to is that it looks hard for someone with meat hands to move models around, especially near the inside areas
And that would be an issue. Luckily the game doesn't use measuring tapes and such. It all works on a 3"x3"x3" cube grid system, and your movement stat is in cubes, not inches. That helps alleviate the issues with measuring sticks, gauges, and tapes at least.
Well, that's mostly because you aren't worrying about inches in Deadzone. Instead, movement in handled by 3x3x3'' cubes, so you don't worry too much about precision in terms of movement. Can just be fancy and use a croupier stick if you wanted.
Posting some Tekumel stuff from Chirine's Workbench.
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Progress shot on my hirst arts zone mortalis tiles. Still have some basecoat painting to do then a bunch of washing and drybrushing.
thats dead fucking sexy bro
How would one go about learning how to do stuff like this?
jeeze, and I thought I got addicted to casting that stuff...
It's all hirst arts plaster molds. The hardest part is learnign how to cast with them, which there are tons of youtube videos showing how to cast with them.
After that those little plaster brick are pretty much wargames terrain lego. Your limits are your imagination on what you can build.
I love mine so much. I was doing 2 casts a day to pace myself and it took a long long time.
fuck that's sick. Props, dude.
I realised that eventually I was casting simply because the conditions were right and I could, because I'd long cast up the requisite amount of stuff for making things I needed. Though, I have a new project in mind that could benefit from a bunch of pipes and machine bits so maybe it's time to start up the routine again...
Yeah once you get a routine going the process becomes rote.
the hirst arts website has top notch tutorials, if you want to get into that stuff, start there
This. The guy is a very generous contributor to the hobby. I get painting and building advice on his tutorials and I don't even use his molds.
I saw an itnerview with him at gencon once and he said he used to be a schoolteacher, so he applied the same teaching techniques in his tutorials and stuff.
>It's all hirst arts plaster molds.
Man those look awesome.
How long does it take to put something together with them would you say?
5 molds. casting about 2-3 times a day. 5 months. 18 tiles. That's just in casting and building. Painting is taking its own sweet time too.
I wrote a blogpost on how I did it and what molds I used. You can see the progress of building everything there.
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If I remember my routine right, casting a batch is a bit over an hour with drying time and faffing time.
Putting stuff together though is pretty easy, everything is designed to standardised measurements so it's really easy to set up stuff and then just glue together.
The moulds are initially expensive, but I worked out when I did some industrial terrain that I was down to pennies per crate after a while, even with miscasts, compared to a few hundred times that in buying resin ones. And damn it, it's crates and pipes, I don't need super quality for something that isn't diorama tier. And bloody hell this board would have looked 100% better with a decent ground mat and some roads to hand.
the trick is you need a wife or husband to cast stuff while you build with your fancy legos
keep in mind that plaster pieces are far heavier than foam/foamcore so if you mean to transport the pieces a lot hirst arts may be a bad idea (if not a cool one)
Weight is the one thing stopping me doing more than using them as detailing pieces. Shifting a ton of resin is bad enough that I avoid it, MDF kit stuff tends to be ok, and works well with the hirst arts stuff added as additional detailing due to all the nice flat attachment surfaces.
This is a quick build from a year or so ago - big can of biscuits (emptied) or something, hardboard base, and a little side building made out of hardboard too (with little details made out of cereal box card and other kitchen bitz).
The ladder is a bit of wire fencing clipped and bent, put into holes I drilled into the can.
I stenciled the Eagle onto it, and stuck bits of cut up sprue around the base.
Looks like they might be roof nails, with the plastic holders on it. Im guessing to hold that shit down.
Or its washers. I dont know.
Or kids, as the terrain tutor on youtube uses his kids to do his castings. I've got little girls that I am looking forward to when they grow up and do it for me.
speaking of youtube shilling, anyone know other good youtube channels? I used to really enjoy the terrainaholic even though his production quality is super low, I loved his inspiration series where he'd buy junk from thrift stores and just ramble about them.
I checked his channel recently and while there's excellent frostgrave stuff all his recent videos are batreps
I've got a couple pieces in early wip, emphasis on early wip, tomorrow I'll hopefully have them finished and ready for photos
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