Jungle Terrain

[Easy E]

Greetings!

This is my completely modular jungle board! It is built on 1ft by 1ft vinyl floor tiles. The ground bases and trails were just painted on and drybrushed flat interior paint. The vegetation is hotglue gunned onto free AOL cd's painted to match the base colors. The vegetation is plastic aquarium plants, Super tall trunks from cardboard tubes and masking tape, and pipecleaner trees with Lichen as the foliage.

Since everything is modular it can be changed into a variety of conigurations. Also since the plants are based seperately you can move them around to accomodate troops and vehicles.







Comments are welcome!

P.S. I am really bad at this uploading image thing. Let me know if it doesn't work!

[proximity]

Its nice to see some jungle terrain that doesnt look like someone raided an aquarium

[Serpent]

Mmm... Pipe cleaner trees... I've built such myself, and they look a lot better if painted over with watered-daown PVA glue. Paint sticks much better, too.

Very good job, I'd say.

Serpent

[When Black Roses Bloom]

It's quite big, which is nice, but shouldn't there be more trees and bushes?
As for the tree models and the main terain it's awsome, although I prefer cities and ruins for myself.

[Easy E]

The problem is you have to balance out playability. Originally I was going to line all the paths and clearings with lichen, but after some play testing this was revealed to be a major hinderance to unit coherency and movement. In addition, if you put to many plants on it, you start to lose models, especially green ones!

[Lithian]

That's pretty cool. I'm diggin' those lichen trees. I really like the differences in scale you get with those big roll trees, really nice. Good job.

[Crazy Harborc]

Darn good terrain!! Useable, easy to change around, room for models to be moved around upon. Good use of AOL CDs Now, don't let the boys at GW know you didn't use their over priced jungle plants.

Keep making terrain...........you can/might become an expert, with terrain sought after by gamers who see it, want it and buy it.

[Orcdom]

try doing your trails ect by getting some cheap brown dyed sawdust flock and sprinkle it as your trails with a cloth under your tiles, dunp the flock and take out side and dust off the cloth. or unless you have a dust buster handy for cleanup.

Steve

[Easy E]

try doing your trails ect by getting some cheap brown dyed sawdust flock and sprinkle it as your trails with a cloth under your tiles, dunp the flock and take out side and dust off the cloth. or unless you have a dust buster handy for cleanup.

Steve

Good idea.

I thought about adding texture using kitty litter, but I decided that it could make the bases sit uneven on the surface.

[Serpent]

I thought about adding texture using kitty litter, but I decided that it could make the bases sit uneven on the surface.

...and probably smell.

Serpent

[blue midgets of doom]

that terrain deserves two thumbs up, great job . i am also a city person myself but that is some darn good terrain making.

[Captain Sicarius]

I'm very found of those 'half trees' you made to give the impression of a much higher tree canopy as my main gripe with most jungle boards is that your average tree is no taller than a marine.

[Orcdom]

the problem i found with using kittylitter is if by chance it gets damp, paint and glue can do this, then anything heavy gets on it it crumbles to dust.
and if you use much gravel for terrain the gravel is very hard on paint finishes.
i made a blood bowl stadium and there is a lot of gravel used (woodlans scenics browns) to represent mud in certain parts of the fields, now i have to touch up alot of figs.
next stadium will be all static grassed.
Steve

[Crazy Harborc]

I didn't know that about kitty litter!! I know guys who use the stuff too!! I have a half a lifetime's supply of flockings left over from model railroading and a hobby shop.....No more recommending cat litter!!

A drawback with using "hard" flocking (gravel for small rocks etc.). It chips/rubs off fairly easy. It's best when slightly embeded and coated over with a sealer.

[Orcdom]

try using clear silicone caulk and spread with a putty knife, then sprinkle your flock or gravel use plenty to not get the silicone to seep through. press in with a little pressure.
and for the best trick i think no one thinks of.

saving the excess flock or whatever, use a dust buster lil hand held vacume, they have a screen inside to catch every thing, so vac up your excess and dump right back in the original container.
i have one that i keep just for terrain (providing the kids havent killed it yet)
but static grass it too much a pain in the ass to use it with.
Steve

[Crazy Harborc]

I use folded out pages from our daily newspaper. We have the old fashioned style of newspaper......double-wide and high as it were.......Anyway, I spead out pages on approx. a 4 by 6 foot area of my table top. When I'm done cutting, I dump any chips into my wastebasket. After painting/flocking, I dump the excess flocking back into the containers it's kept in.

[Orcdom]

thats why i mentioned the dust bustor, when you glue down a color of flock, vacume it up and dump the filter back in your box, do another color repeat.

saves on woodland scenics flock, it goes along way anyways, this just makes it last even longer.
Steve

[Pertinax]

Looks good. Nice to see large terrain pieces, as has been mentioned.

The walls and floors look familiar too...