Luftwaffels modular 40k board

[Luftwaffel]

Hello everybody!
After several years looking through countless threads on this forum and getting tons of inspiration from the many talented people here, I decided to try and make my own board. As I play both Apocalypse and regular 40k as well as longer campaigns, this board had to be able to represent not just a bombed out Imperial city but smaller settlements, space ports, normal landscape and so on. The idea is to be able to make a board that is suited to the different tiles in the Planetary Empires box from GW. This way you can set up the board to represent that particular fight in a campaign.

On to construction!
I've used the summer to make the squares for the board. The idea I got from a video by Miniwargaming. Only I was going to make smaller pices, 1x1', 2x2' and 1x2'. Below is some of the first I made.

1x1:


2x2:


And a collection of several pices, laid out to test if they fit (which they did):


Thats it for the first post, more to come very soon!

[Luftwaffel]

Next I was going to put something onto them!
First several pices of different road tiles:





The roads was built using foamcore to make the sidewalk and a form of rough spackle to make the road itself. The longer road with a crater in it was buildt in the same way but had a moonscape crater added in a hole I cut in the plywood so that the bottom of the crater would be lower than the surrounding road. None of these pices are painted yet, as you can see.

[Luftwaffel]

When the modell for Sanguinus first was anounced my first thought was how awseome it would be as a statue! But beeing a Chaos Space Marine player, I couldn’t just leave it as a regular statue. Of course I had to defile such a celebration one of the Imperiums heroes! So I mounted him on a column from Forge World, made a rock from polystyrene and a fountain of plastic and plaster surrounding it. I used a dremel to cut of his head and replaced the Iron Halo with a Chaos icon! The surrounding area and water in the fountain is going to be covered in dead guardsmen and spacemarines to represent a last stand defending this (what used to be) holy site. Of course Chaos won (at least on this city tile) and cut of the head with a melta. You can see Sanguinus’ head lying at his feet if you look closely on the second picture.




This tile is not finished yet as I have to glue more corpses and rubble to it. When I’m going to paint it, I will use water effect mixed with reds to make the water.

[Daniel36]

For your next batch, may I suggest using the stuff you use to fill bird cages with... I don't know the name, but it often smells like aniseed.

If your throw in just a little bit of it in your paint, you will get instant texturing, much like the texturing that was brought by using the textured spray cans GW made, I think they're discontinued now.

This makes your road sections a little more textured, but not too much. It will make drybrushing them more fun. Check my log to see what I mean.

Good start! Smart idea to raise them, so you can add craters (have not done that myself).