Warhammer Terrain WIP

Hi all, here's a quick picture of the scenery I've been working over the last week.

I've made something for 7 out of 10 of the mystical monuments in the rulebook.

I made all of them from old CD's (bases), 1 ruins set, odd bits from the bits box and random crap from the garden. I'll post some better pictures when their painted.

Also I dug out my Keep from the really old GW game Battle-masters. I think its about time this got a re-paint, at the minute it looks a little dated to use next to my other scenery.

And after another let down by my Warriors of Chaos at the last tournament I went to, I've decided they need something other than troops. So I found out my old Giant model in my bit box and gave him a face lift (horns to be exact), he can double-up as Cycgor in my old beastmen army. Also I've ordered a Hellcannon, which should give me something to do in the shooting phase :)

Thanks,

Andy

Fixing up old scenery

As well as more Chaos Warriors, I have also been fixing up some of my old scenery for 8th Ed and some of the other games I have been looking into starting.

First up, is my woods. Before, all our trees were on separate bases, which was fine for games like Lord of the Rings but for Warhammer and 40K a proper base is much better.

I wanted to keep them as generic as possible so I can use them for over games systems like Warmachine and Flames of War.

Here's the bases I have made. We played our first game the other day and decided to tone down the Mysterious Woods rules by saying these are normal (everyday) woods and we used the Games-Workshop 'Spooky Trees' as a Mysterious Wood, which worked really well.

I've also fixed up my really old Wizards Tower which I originally made about 10 years ago. I used some moss to cover up where the paint and roof tiles fell off.

I love the new scenery rules, got loads of ideas for the other scenery in the book.

Thanks,

Andy

40k Defense Scenery - Part 1

For a while now Me and Matt have been gearing up for a campaign, in fact since we started our Ork and Space Marine armies, which has been a bit of arms race.

Where almost there, just need some scenery for our armies to defend.

We aren't using planet strike, so we don't have to worry about mounted guns and stuff like that.

We need:

At least 2 Imperial Bunkers

At least 2 Ork Bunkers

Barricades for both armies

and 1 fort each for the imperials and Orks

I've been off work this week so I have made a start.

For the Imperial building, I have gone down the bought route (or Xmas present to be exact).

I decided not to add the walls with guns, because I didn't think they needed them and I'm thinking about using them for something else.

I've scratched build the Ork buildings.

Started with upside-down plant pots and a CD on top.

I stuck lots of corrugated card squares to the sides, building up layers, then stuck lot of bits to them to give them a junk-yard feel.

The one on the left still needs stuff adding to it.

The back of one of them.

I also found this fort I made way back for Gorkamorka about 10 years ago. Looks really dated, but i'm unsure wether to try and restore it or start with something fresh.

Yeap, thats real dust, not some really cool weathering effect.

Making a Quick Blood Bowl Pitch

At my club blood bowl has become popular recently. So I thought it would be useful to have as many pitches as I could get my hands on, then new players would only have to worry about getting a team together.

A couple week ago, I almost throw away these static grass paper mat as I thought I would never need them, Games-workshop cloth static grass matts are much better.

Measured out the area I needed (77cm x 45cm), then cut it out.

Then I marked out a grid using a green maker pen (squares are 29 x 29mm).

My first attempt I tryed to draw the black crosses without marking a grid and it was a nightmare!

I then drew the pitch marking in a red marker pen.

Then I trimmed the edges off to make it look a little neater.

Finished! and Im really happy with the results.

The paper grass matt cost me around £5 and I only really had enough to make one,

But if you buy Games-Workshops cloth static grass matt (and you needed a lot) you could make 6 for £2.50 each.

Spooky Trees! as a group

Here's the trees on there base

Spooky Trees!

Here's some close ups of the chaos themed trees I've done

Tree number 1

The back

Tree 2

Tree 3

Zoomed in

Fantasy Hills - Finished

I've finished my hills. I'm going to need to add a few more bits before it starts to look impressive, not bad for a weeks work!

Long Grass

A few people have asked my how I do my long grass.

I bought this stuff about 8 years ago from a model shop (I dont think they sell it any more). Long grass on one side and cotton wool stuff on the other.

You take a clump and pull it off

Pull the wool off and paint PVA glue on to the bottom

Push into place

Should look something like this

Add static grass around the edges, so it blends in and hides any rubbishy bits

Fantasy Hills - Day 4

The hills are now painted

The next stage is to add grass. I think this could make or brake them, because they might not fit in with my gaming board.

The paints I used are Homebase masonry paints (tester pot). I find the pots they come in are big enough for painting scenery with out having to buy a massive can.

And I mix the paints as i'm painting.

These are fine for hill, rock and other natural areas, but are to thick for detail painting.

The woods still need finishing before I post up any pictures.

Fantasy Hills - Day 3

Tuesday - Day late posting.

Nothing to show today.

I've undercoated the hills brown and started paint the trees.

Fantasy Hills - Day 1

I've got this week off work, so my task for the week is to put together some fantasy/middle-earth style scenery to go with my 40k 6x4 gaming board.

To save time and the fact I already had half the modular hills, I opted for GW plastics hills and there spooky trees which I want to make more chaos-fide so it looks like they are on the border with the chaos wastes.

The hills are going to be basic because I want them to fit in with Fantasy and Lord of the Rings. My Gaming board is build for Moonscape/City Ruins stuff and currently has no greenery. Hopefully by adding static grass to the hills and the wood I can change this.

Paint all the hills with PVA glue.

I sat the hills in a box (same size as the one the hills came in) and sprinkled the flock on. When finished I could poor the excess flock back in the tub.

DAY 2

I gave all the hills a coat of very watered PVA glue, to seal the flock, not really tried this before, so hope it worked.

Tomorrow (Tuesday), I plan on giving them a undercoat of brown paint.

Wednesday, Paint them properlly

Thursday, flock with static grass and long grass.

The wood I'm going to do like any normal miniature (ie. spray black) because of the detail I don't want to lose when using thick paint.