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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: blacksoilbill on April 16, 2015, 02:00:41 PM

Title: Sci fi terrain tiles
Post by: blacksoilbill on April 16, 2015, 02:00:41 PM

I've just built some terrain tiles for my Pulp Alley meets Rogue Trader project. There's a tutorial over on my blog if you'd like to see how. http://preacherbyday.blogspot.com/2015/04/sci-fi-terrain-tile-tutorial.html (http://preacherbyday.blogspot.com/2015/04/sci-fi-terrain-tile-tutorial.html)
(http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo233/blacksoilbill/IMG_7782.jpg)
(http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo233/blacksoilbill/IMG_7778.jpg)

Title: Re: Sci fi terrain tiles
Post by: FunkyBrush on April 16, 2015, 02:52:35 PM

This looks great. Thanks for the turorial.

Title: Re: Sci fi terrain tiles
Post by: Michka on April 16, 2015, 05:04:05 PM

Damn that look nice.

Title: Re: Sci fi terrain tiles
Post by: blacksoilbill on April 16, 2015, 05:13:20 PM

Thanks. They do come up well for a very simple technique.

Title: Re: Sci fi terrain tiles
Post by: Dewbakuk on April 16, 2015, 06:54:40 PM

They look great.

Title: Re: Sci fi terrain tiles
Post by: verd on April 17, 2015, 01:26:06 PM

Great work! Thanks for sharing.

Title: Re: Sci fi terrain tiles
Post by: n815e on April 17, 2015, 01:38:02 PM

That is nice work.

Title: Re: Sci fi terrain tiles
Post by: d phipps on April 18, 2015, 01:37:20 AM

Excellent work, Bill! I'm looking forward to seeing the tiles in action.  ;)

Title: Re: Sci fi terrain tiles
Post by: Andym on April 18, 2015, 07:41:41 AM

They DO look good! 8)

Are you just painting the lines on the cork? I believe cork is fairly soft, why not inscribe them first before painting?

Title: Re: Sci fi terrain tiles
Post by: blacksoilbill on April 18, 2015, 08:23:00 AM

Thanks. The lines are just painted on. In my experience at least, cork doesn't scribe all that well. It tends to pull up all the little cork bits and leaves a pretty ragged line.

Title: Re: Sci fi terrain tiles
Post by: Westfalia Chris on April 18, 2015, 12:27:11 PM

Most impressive, indeed. At first glance, it looks remarkably 3D. I wonder if you could do the black lines with a fine pen, but the following white highlights would possibly smudge the ink...

I'm also fascinated by the surface effect. All the cork stuff I've found so far seem to have a rather prominent pattern (due to the growth patterns, obviously) which bleeds through all my attemps to disguise it other than textured paint.

Title: Re: Sci fi terrain tiles
Post by: blacksoilbill on April 18, 2015, 02:15:39 PM

Yes, the effect is quite convincing. When I showed my kids, they all ran their fingers over the tile, expecting to feel the lines.

I'd love to see a photo of the cork you've used. It sounds quite different but I'm having trouble picturing what it looks like. This stuff has a pattern based on the granules of cork compressed together, but it's flat enough to give you a bit of texture without being too bumpy. That's one of the reasons I love it compared to foam core - the texture is already there. It also cuts so much better.