Even more sci-fi ruins.

Its a quick build and paintjob but it will do.

I tried to give all the buildings some kind of graffiti or tags. A quick paintjob but the colours lifts the overall effect on the buildings.

Shown here are also some of my Shaltari for scale.
Camouflage are for cowards...

More 10mm ruins for Dropzone Commaner

I just love these ruins.
They are easy and quick to build and gives a rather good end result. Especially consider the effort put into them.

Thats what I like, to get a nice end result with little time or effort put into it. In time I hope to have a whole gaming table with ruins to battle on.

The Shaltari miniatures are there to show some scale. I will have to get me some humans soon to give a better picture on how big these are as the Shaltari battlesuits are larger then a man.

10mm terrain

I have gotten bitten by 10mm terrain making it seems....



I found the two buildings while I searched the net and downloaded and printed them. Unfortunately I seems to have lost the page so I cant really give credit to the maker, Im sorry.

The playground is self made in cardboard based on a plastic base.

DzC Ruins

You can never have enough terrain pieces.

The building ruins are made mostly out of cardboard, they are glued on to a masonite board that I broke the edges by hand instead of sawing it to get a little rougher edges. After the cardboard was attached I applied sand and rubble on the ground and on the inside of the building. Next step was to prime it with black and after that a sort of "zenith light" priming with dark grey.
After that I teared of bits and sides of the printed paperbuildings you can find at Hawk Wargames homepage and glued it on the outside of the buildings.
http://www.hawkwargames.com/pages/downloads
By tearing instead of using a scissor I get an uneven edge.
Next step is to glue some more sand on the front side to cover where the printed paper ends.
And finally I used black acrylic paint diluted with lots of water to let the natural colour variations on the sand shine through.

They are far from perfect but for the amount of time it takes to make them they are great.

It would be nice to be able to have an whole city like these in the future.

Here are some of my previously made ruins.
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2014/07/dzc-ruin-apartments.html

Birds

Just a small update.
Some birds to add detail to the gaming boards or maybe could be used as objectives.
Nothing fancy, just a quick paintjob, but it will do.

Two ducks and a hen and a rooster, they are based on 25mm flat bases from Renadra and the miniatures are from Magister Militum.
http://www.magistermilitum.com/type/figures.html?cat[]=61928#order=name&limit=36&p=undefined&dir=ASC&cat[]=61928&cat[]=59633

I tried to base them rather generic so I can toss them into all sorts of games and settings.

New paper tent

I made a new variant of my paper tent. I made the tent somewhat bigger and I think its starts to look descent in size now.
I only needs to make the roof part a little bigger.

Oh well, I guess I will have a whole camp by the time Im happy..

The tent got evidently a little damaged in my bag when I carried it home after last time at the club where I glued it together. But I think its still good enough to keep. Better be more careful when transporting these and not just lump it in the bag with the rest of the stuff there...

 

Tutoral: Desert hills

I think that we were in need for some new hills for our desert terrain at the club, so I built some.

And I did a tutorial on each step.
Keep in mind that this is the first time I have done hills like this so these are a sort of testrun and next time I might do some things differently. But it works.

I have done these terrain pieces over  a couple of days in my basement. The overall time in not much, 5 minutes here and 10 minutes there and you get some nice looking terrain in the end. The things that takes time is to let it dry between each step.

 First up a base, some expanded polystyrene and woodbark. All glued together using woodglue.

Next I covered  the polysterene and some places of the bark with plaster. The plan was to cover the polysterene from the primer later on.

And then I added  woodglue and sand on chosen places.

 A black priming using a spray can.

I found some places not totally covered with the plaster but I think it will be all right.

Next, a sort of "zenith highlight" using a brown primer at about 45 degrees angle. Leaving the black primer on the bottom part and places "in the shade" on the terrain pieces.

 Next up was more woodglue and more sand.

And after this some small patches of flock. This is to get a greater colour variation on the terrain piece more then trying to imitate real hills or cliffs.

And we are done.

With 15mm DAK

10mm Scifi, a Shaltari force

And the main reason that I did them, as terrain for the clubs Crusader project.

So what have I learned?
Next time I will not use expanded polystyrene found in packing materials but the harder ones commonly used as building material/ insulation for houses.
And I might try to use another colour then brown for the highlight but in this Im not sure.

A easy way of doing nice looking terrain non the less.