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Elven Weystone |
The army that i am collecting now are mainly Lizardmen and LOTR army, which both come form the Warhammer Fantasy Group. So Do you need experience to do these things? in a word NO you don't. As long as you have a good imagination and are creative, you can do whatever you choose to do, the sky is the limit. If you are having some difficulties in coming up with ideas then i would highly recommend the Game workshop book "How to Make Wargaming Terrain", for some very good tips hints and tricks. So i hope that some of these pictures will fuel your imagination and get you into the mood of exciting new projects and crafting ideas.
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Space marine captain atop a greek pillar ruin |
On the left you can see that I have placed a Spacemarine Captain to show you that although the terrain is slightly larger it is still relative to the model itself so as not to dwarf the model too much, such as In the picture above of the Elven Weystone/ Landmark Oblisk. This obelisk was made using cereal box card as corrugated cardboard was not flexible enough. I also stuck on green gems in teh middle as well as painted some high Elf Runes and stuck some stones at the bottom, to add some weight to the base.
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early stages of corrugated Iron Shelter |
On te right here you can see the stages of making a "Corrugated Iron" shelter out corrugated cardboard. what i did was to strip one of teh plain sides of teh cardboard to expose teh corrugations , which perfectly mimick what corrugated iron looks like. I then decided that it would look great for a terrain piece and so gotto work building a platform and two windows so that a space marine could be on teh top or teh bottom and shoot through teh window if necessary at teh enemy. I also put in some "bullet holes" by making small indents and holes with my pencil so that it looked as though it had been shot at a couple of times. I also added some rocks and stones to teh base so as to weigh it down alightly, there is nothing more annoying when playing a game and you accidentally knock teh gaming terrain. there is a small platform between the top window and bottom window although you may not be able to see it.
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back of shelter |
On the left you can clearly see where i decided to put the platform and yes space marines can jump using a jetpack. There are obviously set rules on how to go about doing this in the Rules Book. To also make the platform say where it is i put barriers on either side so that the soldiers could get full protection form the left and right hand sides if needs be. I primed the whole thing in black first so as the paint would adhere to the surface otherwise you would have a soggy piece of wargaming terrain and no one wants that!!
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bottom front of shelter piece |
On the right here I have painted the entire shelter in a grey colour and also added a "rust" effect by stippling on a terracotta and red brown mix of paint on the roof and around the bullet holes to make it look as though they had been there for quite a while and the weather had started oxidising it.As you can also see on the rock i painted a Dark red streak to show that a soldier had already been shot and that the blood still
hadn't exactly dried out yet so was still quite fresh. I also painted "Cracks" in the corrugated iron to show that it it hadn't bee made form just one piece of corrugated iron just to add some sort of character to the terrain piece.
Well I hope you enjoyed my terrain pieces and hope it inspires you do some as well. So remember keep those creative juices flowing and who knows , you may even start up your own business making wargaming terrain for yourself or even your friends and have a great time.
Happy Wargamming and Stay in the Fight!