Trying to do a swamp/Cajun board [Updated February 17th]

[Centaur_Seducer]

I'm back on track once again after a long break from hobby life.
I've started a blog and here's a preview:

Once again I'm going over this project with sheer agony...



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[Centaur_Seducer]

That was a joke...

Starting up on the project once more. I do admit that there's some agony involved as the thing I pictured in my head doesn't really look the same in front of me. Well, it's not even close...
But hey, that's the joy of building stuff, especially when it's more about the learning and experimenting experience

I've started to add the first layer of water effect. I almost choked myself when half a bottle of water effect did almost nothing, and I started to see my credit card on fire when ordering the stuff once more :O
But, then I realised that it looked cool on the table (disregard the plateus, they've been fucked up since the beginning) and that it actually looked like an realistic ebb
I'm adding the whole bottle in the end, so it'll probably be a bit "thicker" and look better that it does now. And by the way, a hairdryer is a great thing to have when dealing with water effects, it helped me move the effect along the table and did dry it up at the places where there were just splashes of it.
Its really difficult to see, but the cliffs are the breaking point between swamp and river, so the far side is just painted so far. Probably add some fallen trees and debris to break it up a bit more.



As you can see, patience is one of those things that I don't really have, so I had to start some test flocking on the left side and below the cliffs. I also sprinkeld some thin flock into the water to add some more visual structure



I also started to place some of the trees (Don't worry, Blööd, they'll get speared later on ).



And some scaling, used a miniature from Musketeer Miniatures.

[Sinewgrab]

Looking good so far - what are you going to be using the board for, again?

[Centaur_Seducer]

Looking good so far - what are you going to be using the board for, again?

Zombie Survival, Darkest Africa and some Deep one hunting

[Hammers]

It's looking great, Skander. I can totally see a bunch of Belgians wading through that muck.

[Centaur_Seducer]

Thanks, Hammy.
Might be played on a SLAM near you Will add 3 more boards for the final table (of doom)

[Captain Blood]

I think it's looking good. Great foul looking swamp 

[Bako]

The gravy-waters are great. The veg floating about adds further flare.

[Fjodin]

GREAT JOB!

[Centaur_Seducer]

One large bottle of Easy water has disappeared on the board today. Can't really say that I've any changes to the height of the water Captain blood would probably build three large board for the amount of money I've spent so far...

[Smokeyrone]

Great stuff man!

Also, Chaos In Cairo would be good there (wshen the Mummy moved to the Loisiana Bayou in the Universal series)

[Centaur_Seducer]

Great stuff man!

Also, Chaos In Cairo would be good there (wshen the Mummy moved to the Loisiana Bayou in the Universal series)

That's on the to-do list as well Imagine Mayan mummies being transported in the early 1910 and then accidently dropped in the swamp when the expidition got assaulted by Cajun Cannibals

[.Per.]

Do you think adding some blue wash/ink or dark wash/varnish would add some to the water? Probebly hard now after the flock…I like the water zoomed out but up close it look more like glue, hard to say on pictures. All in all I like the board, the cliffs are amazing. 

[Centaur_Seducer]

Do you think adding some blue wash/ink or dark wash/varnish would add some to the water? Probebly hard now after the flock…I like the water zoomed out but up close it look more like glue, hard to say on pictures. All in all I like the board, the cliffs are amazing. 

I'll matt varnish the board later. The gloss will probably disappear.
And you'll see it in person next year as well

[WillieB]

Would make a nice terrain for the FIW as well