Martian/Desert Terrain (Pic heavy)

[Hubminator]

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?

[pocoloco]

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.

[manatic]

Great looking terrain, really an inspiration.

To post pics, just add 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.

[Hubminator]

Aha! Cool Pocoloco, thanks heaps

UNA Patrol



Top Down view


How did that get up there?



UNA vs Acklay

[Hubminator]

Cheers Manatic 

One more of the scenery without any wee men

[pocoloco]

Mighty fine terrain, very atmospheric (does Mars have an atmosphere? ).

How large board you have?

[Hubminator]

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

[Dewbakuk]

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? 

[OSHIROmodels]

I like that 

cheers

James

[SgtPerry]

Great gaming board! 

I noticed some Badlands rocks. 

Olivier

[No Such Agency]

Great work.  I especially like the "chunky" cliff faces and the fact that none of the hills/cliffs look like piles of foam.

[Hubminator]

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?

[Hubminator]

PS, Manatic thanks ;ots for your Dawn of the Lead blog, awesome stuff that has given me a lot of inspiration, cheers

[JediNinja]

Nice!

[ogryn]

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