Quite a big African terrain project COMPLETE!

[Silent Invader]

Nice!  Love the ravine. 

[Johnno]

Looks amazing so far!!
Keep up the great work.

[Christian]

These threads always finish well Incredible work so far, Captain!

[Centaur_Seducer]

Lliant as usual Cap

[Bugsda]

You're doing God's work Captain 

[kingpin]

excellent job captain looking forward to the rest

[jmilesr01]

Very impressive work - well done!

[Muskie]

This is some good work.

[Captain Blood]

Thanks all 

Here’s the second half of the ‘donga’ board in preparation… The same process as already outlined…

Rough cut cork bark cliffs glued into position to start with, backed up by hills carved from offcuts of foam to the approximate contours you want.





The foam hills are then sanded to shape a bit more…



Then ‘iced’ with ready mixed wall filler to get the lie of the land as desired…





Then painted with a texture layer of sand / paint / PVA mix, with rocks / rubble / grit in different grades added using PVA… Paying particular attention to plenty of rockfalls and rubble along the foot of the cliffs, and scree scattered down the gullies.







I’ve also added a few pieces of slate to create outcrops of rock on the higher hilltops.



The final stage of 'terraforming' is to prime and seal the lot with matt black spray undercoat.

Here are some views of the black-undercoated donga or ravine, with the two boards together…











And here with a (slightly disorientated!) Bengal Lancer for scale…







I’ve also made a start on the fourth board, which will contain the bulk of a native village, with a cattle pen or kraal at its centre.

I’m probably going to be using resin huts for the village (although I might yet try my hand at a couple of huts), and Malamute was going to provide a resin kraal too. But I thought I’d save him the inconvenience of having to paint his one

(And anyway, I like built features to look like they’re actually in the miniature landscape, rather than plonked on…  )

Here’s the start of the kraal – basically just dried twigs in different gauges, snapped to irregular lengths, one end sharpened and pushed into the foam. The end product will be ‘basket woven’ and plastered in mud – so the whole thing will have plenty of PVA all over it and be well stuck together. So I’m not worried about the stakes coming out, even though I didn’t bother to glue them in…



The next update will be once all the four boards are completed to black undercoat stage.

After that it will be onto painting. Then adding grasses, scrub, trees and so on…

[Operator5]

That's a beautiful board and can't wait to see it completed. It is definitely to your usual high standards.

[Thunderchicken]

110% agree with Operator5's comments. I'm trying to think of the game scenario you're cooking up for this board. I know it's pointless asking, even blackmailing Malamute hasn't worked.

[Donpimpom]

  more! more! 

how do you cut the cork bark? using a broad modellig knife? a saw?

[voltan]

 

it looks stunning now, you could use it as an other world board with no further effort.

[M Blakey]

wow that is really really awsome  one day if i had the time and attention span.............

[Captain Blood]

how do you cut the cork bark? using a broad modellig knife? a saw?

A small handsaw 
And for cutting the foam I use a Stanley knife with a Stanley saw blade.