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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Hubminator on March 12, 2013, 05:39:31 AM
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After seeing movies like Starship Troopers and John Carter recently, have been inspired to make some desert terrain, After searches on the internet (man people have made some awesome stuff!) I got practical ideas and techniques and ended making the stuff below, will use it for the 28mm version of Gruntz I am trying to play, plus Dust Warfare plus D&D plus AT 43 plus whatever :)
http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/016_zpsfac1cf2e.jpg
Red Blok Ambush
http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/018_zpsa070274d.jpg
UNA Patrol
http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/014_zps45e3243e.jpg
Martian Wadi
http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/011_zps40a34a1b.jpg
Urg, can't figure out how to post an image in the message... any advice?
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Great looking terrain, would be a treat to play on that.
For images, choose the lowest of the choices photobucket offers you when you select from four different choices. Copy paste that link to your post and you are good to go.
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Great looking terrain, really an inspiration.
To post pics, just add (http://and) around the image URL. Or when typing a message, just select the URL and click the second icon from the left (the one that looks like a painting/photo) above the row with all the emoticons.
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Aha! Cool Pocoloco, thanks heaps :)
UNA Patrol
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/014_zps45e3243e.jpg)
Top Down view
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/027_zpsa02ad26c.jpg)
How did that get up there?
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/018_zpsa070274d.jpg)
UNA vs Acklay
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/017_zps5ed127b9.jpg)
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Cheers Manatic :)
One more of the scenery without any wee men
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/010_zpsab86312e.jpg)
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Mighty fine terrain, very atmospheric (does Mars have an atmosphere? ;) ).
How large board you have?
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Good point! I guess those troopers have a very short time before they do an Ahnuld in the original Total Recall ;)
Cheers for the nice feedback, I have 4x 4"x2" boards plus scatter terrain/mesas etc... have got some of the excellent battlefield in a box badlands stuff but am thinking of painting it a wee bit to bring the colour more in line with the boards. Have had one game on it so far, Gruntz for 28mm, where two squads of terminators fought three squads of UNA troopers to a standstill, man that game can be brutal, a UNA shoulder mounted missile launcher took out a small mech/large power armour suit in one hit doing more than 3 times it's damage rating... The terminators were getting pasted till they charged and got into melee, which evened things up nicely... lots of fun
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Very atmospheric and look great. Can we have a normal pic of the terrain as well though so we can see what it looks like? ;)
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I like that 8)
cheers
James
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Great gaming board! :-*
I noticed some Badlands rocks. ;)
Olivier
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Great work. I especially like the "chunky" cliff faces and the fact that none of the hills/cliffs look like piles of foam.
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Thank you!
The hills were suprisingly easy to make, I started out hot gluing bark chunks to a carved blue foam form, but that took a fair while, in the end I made most of the mesas by gluing three layers of blue foam on top of a carved polystyrene base (that forms the scree slope around each mesa), scraping the surface of the cliff with a serrated knife to get the rock effect and carving out the deeper cracks with the handle of the same knife, then polyfilla-ing the joins of the layers, I then glued different grades of sand/pebbles on the top of the mesas and around the bases and painted. I think I would like to get a bit more colour contrast but am a little unsure how to do it, maybe some desert/alien planet type plant life?
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PS, Manatic thanks ;ots for your Dawn of the Lead blog, awesome stuff that has given me a lot of inspiration, cheers :)
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Nice!
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I am plan to work on some desert terrain myself after this weekends con for rogue trooper and infinity. What key words did u use for the Internet search?
Nice terrain btw.
I also plan to play gruntz in 28mm. Probably starting with at-43. Do u know if anyone has converted/built stats for any of it yet that I can steal?
Any recommendations for adapting the rules?
Thanks
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I think I would like to get a bit more colour contrast but am a little unsure how to do it, maybe some desert/alien planet type plant life?
Break out the science and imagine what Earth species would be the first to thrive on a partially-terraformed Mars (if that's what this is supposed to be). Cold-tolerant, low and scrubby to resist sandstorms, and very hardy. Depending on how much work you want to do you could even make little stunted cliff trees, like natural bonsai. That's what grows in marginal environments here on Earth.
Or you could just hit the aquarium store and make some wild alien life.
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Sorry, stop trying to fool us.
These are just pictures from the Mars Rover, aren't they????
(look fantastic!! :-*)
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great terrain!
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Some really nice, effective work.
A great result!
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Those photos look great, especially the deep shadows created.
Very atmospheric.
8)
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Hi ogryn, I just did a search for (miniature) desert terrain in google and checked out the images that came up, that got a good range of stuff people had made and actual desert pics, also got screen shots off movies like John Carter and starship troopers.
For gruntz, I have some stats I have done up for at 43 squads and vehicles...does this forum have a pm function? Sorry am a newby, will send them to you when I figure out how to do it :)
With the rules, I have kept it pretty simple, just doubled the rnage of unit coherency and tripled the range of weapons, however I have only had one game of this, and I suspect tripling ranges might be too much, still the game was a lot of fun, it's a cool ruleset.
Cheers
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Nsa, thanks for the advice, have got some aquarium plants for my jungle terrain, so will try using some of those, cheers :)
Thanks for the nice comments on atmosphere, just took the boards outside on the drive at home and snapped some shots, we've had the best summer in decades here in wellington, so all it took was a couple of snaps in the mid afternoon sun.
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most impressive :o looks like the cursed Earth or the forbidden Zone 8)
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most impressive :o looks like the cursed Earth or the forbidden Zone 8)
What he said.
Very useful terrain. Great work
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Great looking terrain and very flexible too. I also thought it looked good for Rogue Trooper.
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Have picked up Wargods of Aegyptus with the recent Kickstarter and am using my sci-fi terrain for that, plus broke out the old Spacefarers (one of several 40K precursor games) and am planning to do some desert games so thought I would resurrect the old thread and add some new pics to it... :)
Hirst Arts Terrain
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/106_zps29cf4d42.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/hubminator/media/106_zps29cf4d42.jpg.html)
Wargods
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/113_zpsc32dbf3f.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/hubminator/media/113_zpsc32dbf3f.jpg.html)
What a mess!
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/103_zpsb68a26a9.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/hubminator/media/103_zpsb68a26a9.jpg.html)
Will take some better photos and upload some of my urban terrain too, thanks for looking :)
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The buildings look nice.
I'm looking forward to some more photos.
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I'm looking forward to some more photos.
Me too. My table is covered in almost-ready-for-the-tabletop "alien" vegetation at the moment, so the more inspiration that I can get the better :)
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Finally got A into G and got some more pics, still not great quality, need to clean up my games room and sort out some nice flat lighting...
Large Hirst arts temple with nearly done Mastabas in foreground
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/DSC_0177_zps65d0493c.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/hubminator/media/DSC_0177_zps65d0493c.jpg.html)
Interior of temple...pretty simple and needs a roof
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/DSC_0185_zps0719ec45.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/hubminator/media/DSC_0185_zps0719ec45.jpg.html)
Dust storm sweeps over temple complex
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/DSC_0179_zps04c9fb60.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/hubminator/media/DSC_0179_zps04c9fb60.jpg.html)
Otherworld Idol in hirst arts temple
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/DSC_0183_zps8f140294.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/hubminator/media/DSC_0183_zps8f140294.jpg.html)
Nearly finished Typhon hero lurks near temple
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/DSC_0180_zpse5ec8f88.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/hubminator/media/DSC_0180_zpse5ec8f88.jpg.html)
What another mess!
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/hubminator/DSC_0186_zpsab8e7175.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/hubminator/media/DSC_0186_zpsab8e7175.jpg.html)
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Really excellent work!
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Your rocky terrain really looks great - atmospheric is definitely the word. Temple stuff coming along nicely too.
Bill.