Quite a big terrain project (FINISHED! - 3rd October)...

[Admiral Benbow]

Richard, before this thread is going to get the well deserved sticky let me just say:

This is a hell of a terrain board!!!
 

[Captain Blood]

Richard, before this thread is going to get the well deserved sticky let me just say:

This is a hell of a terrain board!!!
 

Thank you Michael. I'm honoured you think so, because you set the standard to aspire to.

When I manage to pull off a project as perfect as your gold mine, I'll be a happy man.

 

[answer_is_42]

Meh. It's alright.
 

[carlos marighela]

Congratulations Richard, that's an excepetionally nice layout.

[UncleRhino]

Great Scott!  That is a damn fine looking terrain board.  If I am ever attacked with a shrink ray and the effects turn out to be impossible to reverse, I will want a kingdom such as that to rule over.

Ryan

[Saya]

AAAAARRRRRRRRRHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! I have only one word: "Outstanding!"
Congrats and thanks for sharing

[yamaneko]

Beautiful work.  One of the best terrain boards I've ever seen + I learned a lot watching this come together.  Your documentation of the process is fantastic.

I've added a link to this thread on my blog.  I hope you don't mind.

[Captain Blood]

I've added a link to this thread on my blog.  I hope you don't mind.

Not at all. I'm glad you like it. Thanks 

[yamaneko]

Not at all. I'm glad you like it. Thanks 

Thanks, CB.

[Cheeky Monkey]

Damn!!! I have been watching this board progress and now that its finished - WOW!  Truly an inspiration . My hats off to you sir!

[Krimson]

I am fascinated to know how you transport and  store such beautiful boards? I have boxes of scenery but the drive to the club to  a show and then the quick breakdown at the end takes a dramatic toll. I am now using faux fur as a base rather than boards because it is so much more robust, and there are no gaps. But my biggest problem is trees. I use Woodland Scenics fixed to Cds as bases and after about 18 months they are really falling apart! I have just got some more robust tress, but obviously they do not look so good.

[Captain Blood]

I'll come back to you on the transport issue once I've transported them to our British Lead Adventurers Meeting this weekend!

I have sprayed the Woodland Scenic trees with an awful lot of scenic cement, so they're pretty solid, but obviously any type of miniature tree covered in flock type stuff is prone to deterioration over time. I wouldn't be happy about the Woodland Scenic trees individually based or in small CD-based clumps, in a box, all knocking against each other in transit. But the joy of the 'spiked' approach, is that you plant all your trees in your terrain boards (or in a spare slab of styrene for transport) and they are inherently stable. They cannot move around or rub up against each other causing foliage to fall off...
Obviously, the downside is that you need a big enough car to move the boards intact. Public transport would be right out 

That's the theory anyway. I'll let you know next week if it worked. 

[warriorwoman]

I just wanted to say that this work is fab and could quite easily inspire me to take up a new hobby of scene building.
I found this thread by following links from your WW1 trench scene on another site, which I found originally by researching ingredients for mud. I found myself late at night with a stressed daughter who needed to create a trench scene for her homework (typically due the next day). Your post enabled us to raid the DIY cupboard and knock together quite an impressive mudfest.
Thanks!

[Captain Blood]

I just wanted to say that this work is fab and could quite easily inspire me to take up a new hobby of scene building.

I think you should! 
It's quite therapeutic.

Your post enabled us to raid the DIY cupboard and knock together quite an impressive mudfest.
Thanks!

Excellent - glad I could help 
Hope the homework got a good mark!

[UncleRhino]

Damn that turned out nicely. 

Ryan