Monday 20 July 2015

Pizza, Pie or Escarpment

Over the last week I have been working on my biggest terrain project yet. Its for a specific scenario I have in mind for a future Desert Raiders game so I won't give the game away by stating where it is, all I'll say is that it represents an escarpment somewhere in Libya. The inspiration for this project came from the Rejects glorious leader himself. Postie made a couple of hills for our Broadside demo game and we were all very impressed with the quality of the finished terrain. In fact I was so impressed that when Stuart offered to make something for me I jumped at the chance.

Rather than making a generic hill I asked if he could make me something specific and I quickly drew a rough design of what I was looking for. I wanted a corner hill representing the edge of an escarpment leading down to the plain on which the main battlefield will be situated. A couple of weeks later a sculpted and primed hill was handed over and all I have had to do was finish painting it and add detailing like grass and rocks.

My Daughter said it looked like a slice of Pie or piece of Pizza, so....

Postie made the hill from high density insulation foam and then coated the whole thing with tile grout. This sets hard and adheres to the foam really well. Then the whole model was painted with brown emulsion and allowed to dry thoroughly. I then used a small Tester Pot of sandstone emulsion (just £1 from ASDA) to drybrush the cliff edges and block paint the plateau areas on the top. When dry I coated the flat areas with PVA and added some sand coloured static grass that I bought from TSS (The same flock they use to cover their 'desert' hills). Unfortunately the static grass got up my nose and made me sneeze... right into the bag! Everything in a three foot radius was covered in sand coloured static grass and a week later I'm still cleaning it up (I am SO popular with the wife right now!!).

The last stage involved adding several packs of Silfor Grass Tufts and small stones to add detailing. The finished terrain fits in well with my existing TSS Hills and will make an excellent addition to the game I am planning. 

16 comments:

  1. Great looking piece of pie, sorry terrain

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  2. Looks well cool!! And I bet Guys n Gals that Lee could fit it all in as well, I've seen him with Apple and Blackcurrent pies!!!

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  3. That's huge for 6mm! But the joy is that it can be used for any scale. And many many periods!

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    1. Yep...its the whole short edge of a 6x4ft table.

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  4. Certainly making me feel peckish!

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  5. That really looks cool. And yes....Certaintly looks like a pizza slice ;-)

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  6. "When a moon hits your eye like a big..."

    Just be careful with that around your fellow rejects, especially if they've missed out on breakfast/lunch/dinner! ;)

    That's a nice piece from Postie and a great finish from you :)

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    1. The lads have already taken a couple of bites out of it!

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  7. In my humble opinion, it needs more pepperoni! It is quite impressive none the less.

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  8. Very cool. Love the unusual shape and looking forward to seeing it in action!

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  9. I thought it was an Imperial Star Destroyer from the thumbnail!

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  10. Sneezy Pizza with extra Ah-Choo! Looks good.
    cheers

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  11. I'll have what he is having!

    Great terrain feature!

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