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Tonight Craig and Norm are playing 40k. Death Guard vs Tyranids
What is the hardest part of a terrain collection? Making it? Nah.
Sturdiness? Sometimes. Well what? The hardest part is storing all that stuff!
And If you haven't watched Mel Bose's video on his Terrain Triad ( youtu.be/MMTjNJ2KqOU ), you should give it a watch.
My last post on Jungle terrain is about how you can take the same jungle and make it fit multiple genres. This gains you an efficiency in that you can reuse terrain and then make it feel totally different by changing out key elements and scatter. The arrangement of the terrain can change the tabletop, but the supporting bits that give the terrain its "feel" can really make the difference. These last photos will show the difference between a generic-modern jungle (ie Indonesia or Indian Jones movies), a fantasy jungle, and a sci-fi jungle. Just changing the scatter can make a big difference.
So save yourself some space and money. Build a solid core set and then outfit it with a variety of theme elements as needed. The same core jungle can have endless variations without taking up endless space.
Wow. Very impressive.
Now I have CCR’s Run through the Jungle playing through my head. All I can say is awesomely awesome awesomeness
HOW TO: Floating Tentacle Creatures on Sci-Fi Jungle Bases
Materials List:
- 3" (75mm) MDF circle bases
- 3/8" Acrylic Rod cut to 5-6" lengths
- Large fender washers with 3/8" hole
- Titebond II Premium Wood Glue (or your favorite PVA)
- Texture Paint (Sand
- Grit/Texture (your favorite mix)
- Primer (I used Bob Ross Gesso for terrain)
- Acrylic craft paint for your base (2-3 colors)
- Your favorite blend of Jungle Flock
- Modge Podge (matte) or PVA to affix your flocking
- An assortment of craft store flowers/plastic plants (catch them on sale and use coupons)
- An assortment of aquarium plants for that "Avatar" look to make them pop
Links for the products listed above:
Titebond II
www.homedepot.com/p/Titebond-II-16-oz-Premium-Wood-Glue-5004/100144210
Primer
www.amazon.com/Ross-R6257-Gesso-473-Ml-Gray/dp/B002643CZS/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1523556446&sr=8-...
Modge Podge www.amazon.com/dp/B000HWY6EM/ref=asc_df_B000HWY6EM5437162/?tag=hyprod-20&creative=394997&creative...
Jellyfish
www.ebay.com/itm/Decor-Jellyfish-Aquarium-Decoration-Artificial-Glowing-Effect-Fish-Tank-Ornament...
Aquarium Plants Samples
www.ebay.com/itm/10-Mixed-Artificial-Aquarium-Fish-Tank-Water-Plant-Plastic-Decoration-Ornament/1...
www.ebay.com/itm/Artificial-Plastic-Aquarium-plants-Mixed-lots-Lots-5-10-15-plants/222896270404?h...
Captions on the photos will have specific instructions
HOW TO: Sci-Fi Jungle Scatter on Old CD Bases
Materials List:
- Old unplayable CDs (I saved them for a reason!)
- Titebond II Premium Wood Glue (or your favorite PVA)
- Grit/Texture (your favorite mix)
- Primer (I used Bob Ross Gesso for terrain)
- Acrylic craft paint for your base (2-3 colors)
- Your favorite blend of Jungle Flock
- Modge Podge (matte) or PVA to affix your flocking
- An assortment of craft store flowers/plastic plants (catch them on sale and use coupons)
- An assortment of aquarium plants for that "Avatar" look to make them pop
Links for the products listed above:
Titebond II
www.homedepot.com/p/Titebond-II-16-oz-Premium-Wood-Glue-5004/100144210
Primer
www.amazon.com/Ross-R6257-Gesso-473-Ml-Gray/dp/B002643CZS/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1523556446&sr=8-...
Modge Podge
www.amazon.com/dp/B000HWY6EM/ref=asc_df_B000HWY6EM5437162/?tag=hyprod-20&creative=394997&creative...
Aquarium Plants Samples
www.ebay.com/itm/10-Mixed-Artificial-Aquarium-Fish-Tank-Water-Plant-Plastic-Decoration-Ornament/1...
www.ebay.com/itm/Artificial-Plastic-Aquarium-plants-Mixed-lots-Lots-5-10-15-plants/222896270404?h...
Captions on the photos will have specific instructions
Finally had a chance to finish the flying beasties for my sci-fi jungle. Interactive terrain is the only way to play
I will do a proper photo shoot with the rest of the jungle and figures on Friday
Pet smart!
Richard Shirley Richard Busby Sr. Kevin King Nathan B Ortega
I know those look great
Good morning working on CD based alien scatter terrain to add to my jungle to totally transform the feel from fantasy to sci-fi. I will work on my flight stands for the alien jungle beasts probably tomorrow night. Family stuff to do the rest of the day.
Our resident WWII German painter extraordinaire, Jason Garner, is working on a a new camo-pattern on his Tiger II.
New terrain project started. Will wrap it up and post a how to tomorrow night. Flight stands on 3”(75mm) bases and the others are old CDs repurposed for scatter bases.
I can see this being useful
Knights of Dice
Time to get our Legion on! Scott and I both have our sets, no doubt we'll both be busy painting over the weekend!
With painted figures, of course we need something to keep them in ... so we quickly whipped up a box set for the Core Box today. This is an insert designed to hold the Core Box stuff and go back in the Core Box.
We'll expand on this after we come back from the Easter Break!
Have a great weekend!
Tonight it us WarmaHordes
Circle (Bryan At Ocala Garrison) vs Cryx (Norm)
Minions/Gators (Paul Lipori) vs Khador (Craig Plummer)
40k tonight at Craig Plummer's - Death Guard vs Ultramarines
Go go Death Guard!
I'm going to have to work with them on the terrain. Not enough of it there. That'll encourage static lines instead of move and shoot gaming which is the strength of marines. Gotta break some bad habits...
After a great week of painting half of this Circle lot, i had some time tonight to finish some woodlands basing
Tonight we are learning/practicing Warmachine and Hordes. First up is brother vs brother, Khador (Craig Plummer) vs Cygnar (Chris Plummer)
Anyone looking to buy more? Looking to offload what remaining armies I have left.
Not at this time