Malifaux Terrain

So the "customer" (let's call him Mr. Fisher) said he was interested in having some terrain made.  Currently their malifaux campaign was taking place within a swamp.  He said he envisioned some long abandoned industrial stuff, perhaps some large steampunky gears or something stuck in the mud.

 So the bases are MDF, when I glued on the sand I left flat spots to add a boggy paint job and water-effect.

 Here I glued skulls to the cogs for that "steampunkiness".

okay the tower, of some sort has really seen better days, and finally...

Here's all 3 pieces including the Co. name on the tower.  it happens to be the last name of the customer, ha ha nothing like that personal touch.  I found a Stencil font in Word, printed it out, and then carefully cut it out of the paper to make a stencil.  Using a stippling method to stencil it on makes it look weather-worn.   

Woods

Here are some more woods I've just finished. Originally i purchase very small rare-earth magnets, and embedded them into each side of the tree and base. These magnets are very strong. Strong enough to hold the trees upright on the bases. It was perfect. Then I flocked the trees, and the flock and glue increased the tree weight enough that the magnet could no longer hold....it was disasters. I had to dig out the magnets and reattach the trees permanently to their bases. Ah well. Live and learn. heheh

Closeup of a single stand, I think I made 14 or so.Here they are, I cut out felt material in random shapes to delineate the edge of the wood.

Here's a birds-eye view, that's a 6-foot coffee table.

A bit closer view. They look pretty good.

Tower Terrain

So the local hobby shop gets free kits sometimes and they ask me to use them for new store terrain. In case you have learned by now, I dont like keeping kits whole for 2 reasons:

#1 because I feel like thats how you will mostly encounter kits, whole, painted just like you see on the box.

#2 Plastic kits often dont go easily together how the instructions say they should.

#3 I prefer to base my terrain. I use MDF type board, and bevel the edges.

Inside the tower base with a single wall layer topped with ruined wall bitz.

Side view of same.

Here is the top of the tower, and 2 lower floors on a scratch-made base. pinebark nuggets, and some hirst columns.

Warhammer Race specific terrain features

So, again, I've been on assignment from the local hobby shop to make warhammer terrain, and the rulebook has specific terrain features that can play a part of warhammer games, proximity to said features have different effects on units, and the game.

Lizardman spawning pool, the poor eggs in the area on the left didn't stand a chance.

Orc totems...if you know anything about me, you know I love orcs for some reason. heheh

Sacrificial altar of the witch elves...

Dwarf Brewhouse with a spill outside, apparently.

Warhammer Shrine/Chapel

Again more terrain features from the new warhammer book. This one is a shrine/chapel of some sort. In the game, being in proximity of these terrain features gives some sort of special condition (good or bad). This is WIP as because its sort of a ruined chapel I'll do some more stuff to it, like vines growing up the side, etc.
Also the statue inside is covered in bird poo. but its hard to see from the pic.

Lizardman Spawning Pool

So, this is a work in progress shot of my lizardman spawning pool. Again the liquidtex found ways out of the containment area, hehe seriously, I guess Im pretty bad sealing up my stuff. Still it does look cool and I plan on putting quite a few plants, grass, etc. around the pool before I call it complete so I left it. the pool on the left obviously became non-viable with the collapse of the wall and the water draining out. Poor little skinks...

Hey, post a comment if you think you know what's inside the spawning pool.

Warhammer Terrain

Here is a Wizard's Tower. My dread is there for scale. heheh Its' big. I looked through the Warhammer rulebook and there are several terrain features that can be represented with the terrain piece. Besides, it looks cool. 'How do you get in?' I hear you say...
Here is the door, in the base of the rocky crag the tower is built upon. If you know my reference material for the door design, you have known me a very long time. It is my college apartment door, it was hideous, and everyone knew which one was our apartment. heh.

BTW, I utilized the Warhammer Manorhouse terrain box and split up the various parts and added elements to make a bunch of terrain, rather than assemble it ad hoc exactly as pictured on the box top.

side view of same piece.

Warhammer terrain

I made the witchelf sacrificial shrine out of Hirst blocks, the large metal spikes are foamcore and card, with platicard rivets. I then filled the center with liquitex colored to resemble blood. i like the liquitex, but you gotta make sure you seal wherever you are putting it, because otherwise it'll leak out, hence the blood on the stairs...of course I like it and left it. (see brewhouse below)

This is another urban renewal project, this poor chaos church was in disrepair and I have based it and repainted it. It looks like you could really get your demon-worship on in there!
Here it is from the front.

Okay so my brewhouse starts off with the 2 Vats along its back wall, then I got it in my head that for some reason they might be sucking up some nasty sludge from a walled pen outside to make their deliciously refreshing elixir. Again, the liquitex found its way outside the containment area, and again I kinda liked it so I went with it. ha ha someone's gonna have a mess to clean up.

40K stuff - bunkers and ruins

I grabbed some beat up terrain from my friend's hobby shop and decided I would breath new life into it. She had a ton of the plastic wall bits from one of the big box sets a couple additions ago. I hacked them up and based them on a cratered base.

Two more cratered ruins for good measure. L-shapes can define an entire ruined building.

I dont know if these are towers or bunkers but they are made from foamcore and cardstock.

I made 3 of them. btw, there isn't a door on the other side so obviously I am not taking the pic from the business side of these fortifications, but the door detail is more interesting than the blank wall side, and I didn't do any battle damage, maybe next set.

woods revisited

So I took some busted up trees from the hobby shop, I pinned them back onto their bases and I re-"Flocked" them with hot glue and lichen. They look much better. I added lots of aquarium plant pieces around the base as well as my favorite, pine bark nugget rocks! The green felt is used to designate the "area" of the woods. Warhammer players told me I had to allow their huge blocks of troops to move the trees out of the way in order to navigate the woods.

pretty sweet

Terrain KITS

I've been working with a friend of mine, Vivian at All Fun & Games in Apex, NC and she's trying to update her gaming terrain so I've been taking beat up terrain home and trying to breath new life into it for her.

She gave me some kits that I've based and painted...here are some...

LOTR RUIN Terrain kit
Some Sweet Pinebark Nugget rocky outcroppings.
Here are some walls from the Warhammer Manor house kit. I have put them on hardboard bases and textured them so they are heavy and look good, imo.

Buildings, lots of them.

Front and back pics of 2 buildings, they aren't completely finished yet but they are close to it. I plan on putting in some "broken glass" on the windows, and some motivational posters on the outside walls as if the Administratum PR people had been by to motivate the citizens. I might wash the piece too but Im not sure. Painting is not my strongest suite.

woods & walls

So occasionally you stumble on an idea and you actually see it through to the end and it actually works out. It happens, but not often. I think these woods may be one such example as I really like them.

Here's another shot, more areial view. I'm doubtful these can take the pounding from a hobby shop crowd, but then again I haven't found any terrain that can yet. Do you think I should make the lichen more green? I could probably dry brush it, or spray paint it before installation.

The walls I made previously are made from casting blocks from Hirst Arts which are really well done. I then seal them and then wash them with water-based stain. But as I looked at them I got to wondering about stones made from different kinds/colors of rock and wondering if I could represent that in miniature. so before washing this batch I picked out random stones with 3 different colors of grey paint. Reminds me somewhat of the stone walls in civil war battlefields.

Some times my camera is almost too good because upclose pictures shows flaws you can't even see with the naked eye, let alone from distances more associated with gaming, so here's a pic from a bit further away.

A few pieces from Hirst molds.

A scientific looking eco-pool. Who knows, it just popped into my head.

Tank traps, or Necron-type things, I think of sleestaks if you are old enough to know what those are, heheh.

2 power generators and a control nodule or something.

So I'm a huge slacker, I've been busy and have s-l-o-w-l-y been working on some new pieces. I fully expect to take these down to the local hobby shop eventually but its a 30 minute drive and my days are packed with errands and kids and work, etc. heheh enough of all that, here's some terrain...

Rocky outcroppings are mostly made of styrofoam hills, covered in cement, the "rocks" are pine tree nuggets and look great!

Rocky Outcropping

Rocky Outcropping

The walls interestingly overhang each end of the base by about 1/4 inch so that they can be arranged in multiple configurations. each is about 6 inches long.