Oasis

I have been thinking about making an oasis for our desert board for ages and finally decided to give it a go.

First made a foam base, cut out a whole in the middle,  glue a sheet of paper underneath and there we have the basic form. Ignore the tree trunk for now.

Then I had to decide how to fill up all the space on it. A quick trip to the floral shop got me some cheap plastic plants, a bunch of silk leaves and some spikey things which could act very well as some sort of cactus.. The spikey things have some plastic plants stuff glued on top, some other plastic plants are pinned into the softboard as vegetation.

The silk leaves were cut up to be palm fronds. The tree trunk mentioned earlier is a thin stick, bent with steam, wrapped with paper tape, then some thin string wrapped up and then finally covered in a tissues, wetted with water thinned woodglue
  

 Around now attaching the fronds to the trunk are giving me a real hassle and my local gaming shop miraculously could order some Pegasus palm trees within  a few days. So I ordered those, 3 palm trees, lots less hassle. This looked about right, time to get the base desert-fied.

So glued the palm stands on. Then blended them in with enough woodglue and but a thin coat over the entire base. Put basing sand on and let it dry. After that spray painted it black and painted the 'water' regal blue.  So far so good, now I need to start rememberting the colour scheme we used on our big desert gaming board.

Terrain Board

Only took us about half a year but we finally finished the terrain boards. We had a few dismal failures, but once we got the colours right, it went pretty smoothly. There is prob more room for improvement with detailing (like the skull pits) but good enough for now.

New terrain

Been quiet a bit since the great Belial Conversion. I finally decided to do a bit more and make some terrain craters for the new battleboard.

The crater technique I found somewhere (Prob TMG or Terragenesis).
And this page has some nice arid colour advice.

So we start out with the materials:

Tinfoil cake/mini pie forms, plaster, sand, some old cd's and the inevitable woodglue.


I cut off the thick edge of the tinfoil, formed a crater like shape (helps to form it over a round form to get the crater depth right) and then fill it with plaster to give it solidity. Wait for it to dry. Zzzzz...


Glue it on to an old cd, cover the edges with some woodlgue/sand paste so the crater edges form nice and smooth against the cd. Wait it for it dry... more zzzzzzz.


Spraypaint it black.


And use some paint colour advice from the above mentioned pages. Basically a lot of drybrushing various shades of brown and yellow for the sand, grey and white for the crater itself.

Citadel Modular Terrain

Amidst all the screaming and gnashing of teeth that it's a piece of overpriced junk and that you can make it yourself for 10% of the price, we bought it with some friends. We like it, we think it's worth it. So all you haters can go continue flock and sand your homemade stuff while we actually play a game or 2 :P

Anyways here we are painting it, did this in an hour or 2. The boards really looks nice and are very solid. The stripes are mainly the result of paint drying, hardly any visible on the dried boards.



Next step will be working on the rock faces and cracked earth. After that drybrushing into desert colours for the rest.