Table Update
I have been steadily collecting peices for my gaming board since my last post. Let me highlight a few of them:
First up is a huuuge 5' x 8' matt from the Terrain Guy. As you can see, it's desert, but it's not completely tan. It's made of a heavy canvas and covered in a gritty flock. It looks pretty sturdy. It came rolled onto a peice of PVC pipe and packed in a huge box that freaked out my local postal workers.
You may recognize some of these hills. They are plastic GW products. The small ones are single piece. The larger one is actually a lot bigger than the others and comes in four quarters, which can be split if you want to place a hill on the board edge or corner. I originally bought the FoW years ago and painted them green. Steve and I used them in some WWPD battles, but we found that they didn't hold 15mm stands very well, and the cliffs were unweildy for FoW tanks. When I started this project, I retreived them from Fortress MacLauchlan, and repainted them tan.
The red mesas are from Battlefield in a Box. There's one of each mesa type. I think I might like a few more, to make a canyon effect. Also from Battlefield in a Box is the smallish hill in the back; it's resin and I've seen it in a few different colors.
I was not able to get as many Hall of Heroes pieces as I wanted, since they kept going out of stock. I did get the one set, which you can (maybe) see in the far corner. I gave it a tan drybrush just on top of its natural grey color. I think I want a base of some kind for these walls -- they look kinda funny rising directly from the table surface. Maybe some gravel to go about their base.
The forests are from Woodland Scenics. I purchased a few bags of tree armatures for varying sizes. If you're not familiar with these - they are basically tree trunks. You're supposed to glue flock to them to make foliage. I decided I wanted a baren look, so I just drybrushed them a bit and assembled them. The forest bases are cut out of Woodland Scenic matts.
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