Guitarheroandy's NW Frontier Project - 22.4.14: Terrain Completed! (Pic Heavy)

[guitarheroandy]

Hi All

Well, after a long hiatus, I have finally managed to do a significant amount of work on my NW Frontier project which will be gamed using T&T Colonials and my own modified 'make it up as I go along' LoTOW rules.

Here are some pics of my terrain table. The base-cloth is a 9 x 4.5 foot piece of upholstery material that has been treated with various light coats of various sand coloured spray paints.

The stepped hills are by Tablescape and have had a light coat of Plasticote 'Stone' spray paint - the stuff that comes out textured. The big rocky formations are aquarium ornaments or large rocks from my garden. The wooded hills are old GW ones which have had garden slate polyfilla'd into place, followed by a hefty layer of sand which has been painted with very watered down Foundry Base Sand Shade and highlighted with Base Sand.

There is also a Last Valley hill and a GW modular plastic hill on here.

Rocky outcrops are from a variety of manufacturers and the whole thing has been enhanced by lots of lichen.

Apologies for picture quality, but I can only really do this sort of thing in the evening and the light in my kitchen-diner is dire for photography.

Some pics have a bunch of Old Glory and Castaway Arts Pathans in them. I painted them using my dip and highlight method. About 40 more of those and 3 companies of Anglo-Indians are in various stages of painting as we speak.

The style is undeniably 'old-school' but the great thing is that I can do up to an 8 x 4ft table, can pack the stuff in two large Really Useful boxes and run participation games at the club. I am really pleased with it. I also have 3 typical middle eastern buildings that will work, although I'd like a Pathan watchtower...

Anyway, pics of the terrain...

[warlord frod]

Wow great looking table! 

[Bryanbowdell]

fantastic

[marianas_gamer]

Very nice  I would be very happy to play on that table!
LB

[Traveler Man]

Impressive!   

[Driscoles]

The table Looks very nice and is very NWF look alike.
Regards
Björn

[S_P]

A great table set up.

[FifteensAway]

Upholstery material or marine vinyl?  I think the latter.  I have three sheets of the stuff and now I know what to do with it.  Where did you get your spray paints and were they all flat?  And how about a list of colors?

Nice.

[guitarheroandy]

Upholstery material or marine vinyl?  I think the latter.  I have three sheets of the stuff and now I know what to do with it.  Where did you get your spray paints and were they all flat?  And how about a list of colors?

Nice.

I got the material from a little stall in the city market. It had no label, but the stall generally sells materials of varying types with which to repair/replace upholstery. It is kinda vinyl-like, so you may be right about marine vinyl...

As for spray paints, I used up what I had in the shed! I know that one was 'sand' (I think it may have been Revell) and I had two Plastikote cans, both satin, actually, and I think that one was Grey beige satin...I seem to recall one mentioning 'coffee' in the title, but I can't remember exactly as I threw the empty cans away! However, anything with that kind of beige/dust/sand, etc kind of colour would do. The trick is to be sparing in the coats - spray from a distance and keep the can moving so it gives a less intense effect. The satin effect isn't really visible on the fabric.

I hope that helps.

Thanks for the kind comments. I am very pleased with the effect I managed to achieve and it has spurred me on to complete more figures now to actually get some decent sized games going on!

And, of course, parts of this same set up can be used for games set in the Old West (am thinking 15mm Plains Wars as well as general Wild West skirmishes) and Crusades era, El Cid Spain, even Eastern Roman Empire against the Sassanids. Multi-purpose terrain!!! 

[Marine0846]

Sweet looking table.
Can you move the rocks setting on the hills,
or are they glued on?

[guitarheroandy]

Sweet looking table.
Can you move the rocks setting on the hills,
or are they glued on?

Thank you!

The 2 large and 2 smaller hills with lighter green pine trees on have the rocks fixed in place, but I fixed them in such a way that you can get models on in defensive positions as per one of the pictures above. All other rocky outcrops are separate. The modular hills from Tablescape can also be larger or smaller by simply rearranging the sections. It's a very flexible system and I can create lots of variations with it. I intend to run a 'participation campaign' over the next year or two, with bi monthly games set in the fictional province of Afghulistan. Players can opt in or out as they wish and all games will be linked by a narrative. I want to do everything from tiny skirmishes like patrol ambushes to more major actions involving multiple companies of Anglo Brits and hordes of Pathans, so I needed a flexible system. All I need to do now is paint a lot more figures