What shall I do?

[Lowtardog]

Following on from Captain blood and his penchant for Rennaisance how about the last Valley with Omar Shariff and Michael Caine, lots of nice buildings marauding swashbucklers and the like

[Bullshott]

Prof

Try building something that is unique to one of your painting projects  -something that you can't buy from commercial terrain and none off your wargames friends has. So choose your favourite paintign project and design some buildings unique to that project.

Personally, since you have been such an inspiration to many of us to try BoB, I would love to see how you imagine Kashgar looks. Perhaps starting with the office of the BOB Times?

[UncleRhino]

I feel your pain there, brother, and yes, we are all brothers in the All-Seeing-Eyes of Grimm.  We all have our lead mountains, we have studied the philosophy of cork and so on and so forth.  I am not here to preach to the choir...

Part of being in this hobby is finding what you can do or make that works in the life-space that you are able to set aside for it.  I don't know how many of us have tremendous storage areas for large-scale projects and huge terrain and building archives, but I know I have a good amount of space that is taken up with clutter and half finished projects...enough of that.  

You have, admittedly, thousands of beautifully painted miniatures, try and figure out what you can build to make a setting for the ones you like to use the most, want to use more or are just completely in love with.  For instance, pulp gaming can take you damn near anywhere on this planet or others.  

1.  Some sort of African village...huts and so forth and so on...maybe a colonial office even.
2.  Some kind of crowded marketplace in the Near East...think Cairo from Raiders of the Lost Ark...and buy tons of cork board
3.  Pulp city ....with a waterfront or without...make the terrain in such a way that you can either have a board for each or figure out a way to make things interchangeable

My point is that if you make things just a bit generic enough, you can use them for different time periods and get more terrain time out of less building time.  Sometimes, you really just need a Tibetan Temple and it is going to look like exactly that, and that is fine, but identify what you think you need and go at it a building or terrain bit at a time.

UncleRhino

[lethallee61]

Prof

I feel I must be the sole voice of reason. Run now, run away very fast and don't look back.

Once the She-Devil of terrain making has you in her clutches, you will never escape and soon become a mindless slave to her constant bidding. You will not be able to resist the urge to clamber in skip bins, explore building sites and spend your weekends lost in the mazes that are DIY stores and craft shops in the vain hope that you might be able to appease her unquenchable desire for just "one more bit of terrain".

Escape while you can, change your identity and begin a new life free from her torments....

Either that, or build a 28mm replica of the Museum of Antiquity in Cairo from the "Mummy" movie. :roll: