Tzarinchilla's attempts at terrain

[Tzarinchilla]

Well I usually hide out in the random section of the forum, but seeing as how I have just finished my first big scenery project, I thought I should perhaps diversify and enter the realms of the terrain section.

Now initially I will be working with pre-made kits and doing conversions on them and basically keeping it simple, but I also plan to move towards scratch building and expanding from there.

Luckily, a fellow wargamer and good friend has a massive basement so we can build several boards if we wish so we can try lava boards and winter boards and also have room to store them all. The good thing is, the terrain bulding will be my projects and he will work as lacky so I get to be as creative as I like but will have someone to help with the grunt work!

First off, the reason I am posting in here and also the reason I now plan to build and paint lots and lots of different scenery:



As an off the shelf product I really like the Realm Of Battle board. It is sturdy, has lots of details and is actually really quick to paint. In total this board probably took about 7 hours to paint and glue grass to. At this point it still requires varnish, but the weather is too cold and too wet at present to do this, so it wont be getting any usage till this is done.

Now that this is done, I will have to progress with my other projects sitting in the below picture. Please note however that I have a load of fantasy scenery sitting but its in another house so I havent taken a photo yet.

[Daniel36]

I wouldn't call that RoB board an attempt. That's a very well done gaming table. The scenery could use some paint, but hey, that's why we're here, to make sure you get off your butt and start doing some actual work!

Tip : Put every unpainted piece of scenery away, out of sight, except for one, and do not even look at the other stuff until that one piece is finished.

Then take the next piece of scenery and paint that up. Honestly, it's a silly psychological trick but it WORKS!

[Tzarinchilla]

I wouldn't call that RoB board an attempt. That's a very well done gaming table. The scenery could use some paint, but hey, that's why we're here, to make sure you get off your butt and start doing some actual work!

Tip : Put every unpainted piece of scenery away, out of sight, except for one, and do not even look at the other stuff until that one piece is finished.

Then take the next piece of scenery and paint that up. Honestly, it's a silly psychological trick but it WORKS!

Thanks. Yeah if I had more room to hide the scenery I would though I store it at a firneds house (where we game) and at present I just have a single piece of fantasy terrain at home, so can give that a go.

Looking at the pics, i'll take a few close up of the boards so people can see the transitional paint/grass from soil to rocks.

[Tzarinchilla]

So apparently i'm addicted to scenery!

Well i'm enjoying it at least. Unlike an army, each piece of scenery is a major achievement and helps to improve what is almost comparatively a complete army.

What I mean is, I have the main board finished and I think of this as the equivelent of a 1000point army. It's great, but already I want to expand my force. So a scenery piece at a time.

So I have opted to start with Dreadstone Blight.

This kit is a simple yet really nice looking piece of terrain. I was especialy please to find the half hidden/bricked up TZEENTCH symbol.

So enough chatter, here's my WIP photos:





I still have a lot to do, but I plan my scenery to be finished to a reasonable level. May even try weathering powders on it to try and give it a nice finish.

What do you think? Feel free to comment.

[Tzarinchilla]

So last night after posting the pics. I just couldnt stay away from it and proceded to do another layer of work. This took me about 15 minutes, but as far as I am concerned has already improved the stone work 100%







What do you think? Feel free to comment.

[ModernKiwi]

I really like how you did the wooden floor there. Care to tell how you did it?

I'm painting up the Witchfate Tor at the moment and there are two of the wall panels with Tzeentch's icon behind them. One has been greenstuffed into more bricks while the other has ended up with a clock from the Chaple covering it.

[Tzarinchilla]

I really like how you did the wooden floor there. Care to tell how you did it?

I'm painting up the Witchfate Tor at the moment and there are two of the wall panels with Tzeentch's icon behind them. One has been greenstuffed into more bricks while the other has ended up with a clock from the Chaple covering it.

Being a tzeentch player I just love them, so have made it into a focal point of sorts.

Ok the wood:

1: Base chaos black
2: Heavy drybrush of scorched brown x 2
3: Heavy drybrush of mixed 1 part scorched brown, 1 part Snakebite leather x1
4: Medium drybrush of snakebite leather
5: Medium drybrush of 1 part snakebite, 1 part bleached bone x1
6: Light drybrush of bleached bone x1
7: Pick out timber pieces by washing them individually with either Devlan Mud, Gryphone Sepia or Badab Black
8: Light wash of Badab Black on broken edges of timber.

Looks a lot in typing but very quick and easy to do.

[ModernKiwi]

Very good, I will give it a try tomorrow night.

I already have finished the Dreadstone Blight so thought I had enough hidden altars to the lord of change. And two in one building seems streching it a little.

[Daniel36]

Oh I really like what you did with the Tzeentch icon. I might have to revisit that particular bit and paint it a bit more like this.

[neovo]

Dreadstone blight looks great, I like the tzeentch symbol