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Author Topic: Quite a big terrain project (FINISHED! - 3rd October)...  (Read 65206 times)

Offline Hammers

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Re: Quite a big terrain project (GRASSED!!! - update 18th September)...
« Reply #90 on: September 19, 2009, 06:23:06 PM »
Having several environmental biologist aquaintants, I have been toldd roughly the following:

"Only two genera of Lumbricid earthworms are indigenous to North America while introduced genera have spread to areas where earthworms did not formerly exist, especially in the north where forest development relies on a large amount of undecayed leaf matter. When worms decompose that leaf layer, the ecology may shift making the habitat unsurvivable for certain species of trees, ferns and wildflowers."

In other words the ballast the pilgrim brought in their ships there were Old World earth worms which totally changes the large northern forest.


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Re: Quite a big terrain project (GRASSED!!! - update 18th September)...
« Reply #91 on: September 19, 2009, 06:58:07 PM »
 :o  I've just had to instruct the valet to fetch a new pair of undergarments and a mop pronto.  Bit undignified, but couldn't be helped under the circs.  I'm not sure that viewing the finished article will be especially wise viz the old bowel/bladder flaccidity either, but when that post arrives I don't know that I possess the willpower to restrain myself.  Spiffing with a capital 's', old man.

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Re: Quite a big terrain project (GRASSED!!! - update 18th September)...
« Reply #92 on: September 20, 2009, 10:27:28 PM »
The end is almost in sight...  ;D

Here are the three boards together - now grassed and furzed...

Apologies to Silent Invader and other cereal conspirators - but I wimped out on the cornfield.
It's trampled straw instead...
The third field will be a small orchard.







A view along the as yet still un-wet river...




I've also started applying a few small lichen bushes and some strategically positioned grass tufts...
I think they add to it. The only slight problem is that I could spend another couple of days just gluing on individual tufts like this!






The guard barricade on the road into the settlement. I do like that tuft  :)




Here's a birds eye view of the whole thing...
The boards aren't quite aligned against the wall, but you get the lie of the land...




Not too far off the original plan...



... although it has been embellished a bit as I've gone along  ::)


I've now moved onto trees...

I have 40 Woodland Scenics decidious trees - 2" - 5" - value pack, 'ready to use'...
Hmmm - in quite which universe these would be ready to use, I'm not sure.
You'd have to be a pretty undiscerning railway modeller to use these straight from the box, with their shiny plastic trunks and motheaten foliage.
Also, because the basic armature is two-dimensional, they look flat as a pancake until you bend them around.

So - quite a lot of bending later, plus gluing on a lot of extra foliage to plug the gaps, plus some remedial drybrushing of the trunks - I now have a small forest ready to go.





With a 28mm figure, these trees ought to appear approximately 3m - 6m high. I'll probably get a few taller ones as well...

I buzzed off the feeble plastic nub moulded on the bottom of each tree, drilled out each trunk, and super-glued a steel spike in place - thus:



This inserts straight into the foam terrain, wherever you like where there's a bit of ground cover to conceal the base. Like this:






And can be repositioned as and when necessary, and with no holes visible to the nekkid eye.


Tonight, I made the first pour of 'Realistic Water' - we'll see what it looks like after 24 hours.
I'm expecting it to need 2 or 3 applications to get the desired finish.

Then it's add trees and buildings, and job done  :)

The next pictures will be of the finished project. Probably in a week or so...

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Re: Quite a big terrain project (The End Is Nigh!!! - update 20th September)...
« Reply #93 on: September 20, 2009, 10:51:30 PM »
What an incredible project.  Great work!
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Re: Quite a big terrain project (The End Is Nigh!!! - update 20th September)...
« Reply #94 on: September 20, 2009, 11:18:19 PM »
Brilliant work  :-* :-* :-*

Thanks for the inspiration.
Barry

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Re: Quite a big terrain project (The End Is Nigh!!! - update 20th September)...
« Reply #95 on: September 21, 2009, 12:31:17 AM »

That's a really good looking wargames table  :-* ... even without the blé d'Inde  ;)
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Re: Quite a big terrain project (The End Is Nigh!!! - update 20th September)...
« Reply #96 on: September 21, 2009, 12:36:13 AM »
That's a very impressive board, and I like the 'spiked' trees - an excellent idea to file away for that possibly-mythical future where I build terrain boards myself!

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Re: Quite a big terrain project (The End Is Nigh!!! - update 20th September)...
« Reply #97 on: September 21, 2009, 03:48:24 AM »
By all that's holy...where are we going to be able to play on that board at?
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Re: Quite a big terrain project (The End Is Nigh!!! - update 20th September)...
« Reply #98 on: September 21, 2009, 05:47:10 AM »
Richard, you shall get a citation for Practical, Effective Yet Stunning Achievements in the field of board making. It is fantastic to see everything come together so (seemingly) effortlessly. Knowing you consider your dedicated storage and hobby area being limited it is even more impressive.

I am gushing, I know, but think I will have to make this a How to... , just for its inspirational value.

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Re: Quite a big terrain project (The End Is Nigh!!! - update 20th September)...
« Reply #99 on: September 21, 2009, 06:48:24 AM »
So beautiful!

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Re: Quite a big terrain project (The End Is Nigh!!! - update 20th September)...
« Reply #100 on: September 21, 2009, 07:56:50 AM »
The tufts of grass and small bushes really bring it to life and add a little more of the "3rd-dimension" to it. As ever it's the attention to small details that turns a very good board into a superb one.

The tree idea is a very practical and ingenious solution to the placement of trees on a portable terrain. Can't wait to see it with the water finished.

Fantastic job, Cap'n!

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Re: Quite a big terrain project (The End Is Nigh!!! - update 20th September)...
« Reply #101 on: September 21, 2009, 08:03:44 AM »
Not much I can add to what has already been said. :o :o
Absolutely stunning board. :-* :-* :-*
The thread should be put as a sticky in the "how to" section.
Inspirational stuff.
Really looking forward to seeing this in the flesh.

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Re: Quite a big terrain project (The End Is Nigh!!! - update 20th September)...
« Reply #102 on: September 21, 2009, 09:37:30 AM »
Cracking stuff Cap`n. I love your trees I have 30 waiting to go plus some I bought from Phil already made.

How did you manage to bulk out the foliage as my first look gave the impression they wouldnt take that much scatter stuff.

Have you a secret or was it merely put on in layers?

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Re: Quite a big terrain project (The End Is Nigh!!! - update 20th September)...
« Reply #103 on: September 21, 2009, 12:14:44 PM »
Well done indeed! At first I thought the boards weren't green enough myself, but on reflection I think they look alright considering this is on the frontier and presumably recently deforested. On my grandparents' farm in SW PA the forest floors were absolutely bare except for rocks, dead leaves, and pine needles.

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Re: Quite a big terrain project (The End Is Nigh!!! - update 20th September)...
« Reply #104 on: September 21, 2009, 04:04:26 PM »
 :o :o :o :o it is fantastic must see it in real !!!
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