Winter - Gaming Table and Terrain (by Vulpine)

[Vulpine]

Hi all, it's been a while since my last post, but I had to get this posted...

In keeping with my last board set in Africa (See: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,5712.0.html) Ive done a new one based on Northern Europe - Russia in winter.

Unfortunately I didn't do a step by step, however here we go...

Me and my mate (Ant Aka Dim reaper) really like the winter idia of a new 15mm were doing. We thought about Bastogne from 'band of brothers' and in the winter (around the time we ordered the models) we were up walking in a secret yet massive wood that nobody else seams to know about. It's around 5miles walk from my place and the woods are around 3 square miles.

It was knee deep on places (I kid you not!) and it looked fab. We now call that wood "Bastogne" That was the influence for the board:






So the board. Made as normal from a MDf base with cut in poly/foam sheets (not by us! It's an old board my mate got in a very bad state). Coated with, white emulation (I am a decorator) with sharp sand in. This made it textured. Then a coat of white ontop to help seal it. Then another and then sprinkled while still wet with snow flock. The river was then varnished to give it a gloss look.








So the terrain features. I had two forge world 40k bunkers with no roofs. I had some corrugated card and Ant cut them into rectangles (he's the plasticard guy) and I glued em and painted them up and then sprinkled snow flock on while still wet:


Next, £7 for this airfix building. Bargain I say. Nive barn that fits in with sci fi as well as WW2 etc. it has a bombed out rear so tanks can drive in as well as troops and a tank fits in beautifully with its cannon out the window, after painting it I sprayed the roof with varnish and covered in snow flock:


Ant then made the first of a few fantastic bridges from plasticard... I really don't know how he does it so well! :


So. .. Trees....

[Vulpine]

So trees, found some amazing furr trees, but at £12 for three I went off the idia. Also, the other side there are some very cheap but very bad trees out there, I settled for these http://picclick.com/16-X-Model-Pine-400231134929.html that I think are a fair price and also a decent quality.

I then mounted them on card and  sprayed them with Varnish Spray and sprinkled them with snow flock. Here they are:


So then, we got some MDF boards and mounted them, and here are the results:










Comment welcome. Oh, I know what your thinking and me and Ant/Dim are thinking the same... Need twice as many trees yeah?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice.
Too many trees on a base is a pain to move figures through, but more bases of trees is never a bad thing!

[Vulpine]

Hi Mad Lem! Already thought of that, you cant make it out so here's some close ups. Trees are well spread on the boards. A simple ruling of,"if your on the board, your in cover" as I would think there are more trees and foliage in that area.

It will work nice for tanks also, so instead of one board with 6 trees you could have two of 3 with a 3cm gap between tree boards, to represent  that it is free of debris and such and so the tanks can role through with no problems and is technically still in the foresty area. If its on one of the tree boards it's likly to get blocked or have problems etc

[GordonY]

Very nice looking board.

[barbarian]

If you can, you could put snow on on the tree bases.
That's wonderful.

[Techno]

Cracking job V !
Looks terrific.
Cheers - Phil.

[Hertsblue]

Great terrain, Vulpine. But I agree with Barbarian that the tree bases need to be snowed too, as per your woodland photos. Bearing in mind that the trees already have snow on them this seems reasonable. Otherwise - great effort! 

[kev1964]

Great job Vulpine, excellent work on the river,

kev

[Vulpine]

Thanks all,

Tree bases still to do  

Should do them on thurs, thinking mud (we have a mud textured paint) and snow ontop.

Thanks for the comments!

... Oh, done some work on the waterfall so it looks like a stream flowing over the top, instead of dribbling down,  ill get the pics up soon!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Having been up many frozen waterfalls, I thought it looked pretty good!
http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/nejournal/dec2010/5/2/cautley-spout-917843916.jpg

[i_am_win]

Top show old chap!

Seriously very cool board youv'e done! well done dude! 

[Vulpine]

Thanks for the pic, my waterfall is going to be water not ice, I wouldn't know how to start doing the same in the pic... But it does look ace!

Here are my pics:

[Rob]

Brrrrrr! Makes me shiver looking at it.

[Vulpine]

48 more trees orderd!