Martian/Desert Terrain (Pic heavy)

[No Such Agency]

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?

Break out the science and imagine what Earth species would be the first to thrive on a partially-terraformed Mars (if that's what this is supposed to be).  Cold-tolerant, low and scrubby to resist sandstorms, and very hardy.  Depending on how much work you want to do you could even make little stunted cliff trees, like natural bonsai.  That's what grows in marginal environments here on Earth.

Or you could just hit the aquarium store and make some wild alien life.

[supervike]

Sorry, stop trying to fool us.

These are just pictures from the Mars Rover, aren't they?




(look fantastic!! )

[majorsmith]

great terrain!

[Mason]

Some really nice, effective work.
A great result!
 


Those photos look great, especially the deep shadows created.
Very atmospheric.
 

[Hubminator]

Hi ogryn, I just did a search for (miniature) desert terrain in google and checked out the images that came up, that got a good range of stuff people had made and actual desert pics, also got screen shots off movies like John Carter and starship troopers.

For gruntz, I have some stats I have done up for at 43 squads and vehicles...does this forum have a pm function? Sorry am a newby, will send them to you when I figure out how to do it 

With the rules, I have kept it pretty simple, just doubled the rnage of unit coherency and tripled the range of weapons,  however I have only had one game of this, and I suspect tripling ranges might be too much, still the game was a lot of fun, it's a cool ruleset.

Cheers

[Hubminator]

Nsa, thanks for the advice, have got some aquarium plants for my jungle terrain, so will try using some of those, cheers

Thanks for the nice comments on atmosphere, just took the boards outside on the drive at home and snapped some shots, we've had the best summer in decades here in wellington, so all it took was a couple of snaps in the mid afternoon sun.

[Dr.Falkenhayn]

most impressive  looks like the cursed Earth or the forbidden Zone 

[hubbabubba]

most impressive  looks like the cursed Earth or the forbidden Zone 

What he said.
Very useful terrain. Great work

[Elk101]

Great looking terrain and very flexible too. I also thought it looked good for Rogue Trooper.

[Hubminator]

Have picked up Wargods of Aegyptus with the recent Kickstarter and am using my sci-fi terrain for that, plus broke out the old Spacefarers (one of several 40K precursor games) and am planning to do some desert games so thought I would resurrect the old thread and add some new pics to it...


Hirst Arts Terrain




Wargods



What a mess!



Will take some better photos and upload some of my urban terrain too, thanks for looking

[hubbabubba]

The buildings look nice.

I'm looking forward to some more photos.

[cheetor]

I'm looking forward to some more photos.

Me too.  My table is covered in almost-ready-for-the-tabletop "alien" vegetation at the moment, so the more inspiration that I can get the better

[Hubminator]

Finally got A into G and got some more pics, still not great quality, need to clean up my games room and sort out some nice flat lighting...

Large Hirst arts temple with nearly done Mastabas in foreground




Interior of temple...pretty simple and needs a roof




Dust storm sweeps over temple complex




Otherworld Idol in hirst arts temple




Nearly finished Typhon hero lurks near temple



What another mess!

[warburton]

Really excellent work!

[blacksoilbill]

Your rocky terrain really looks great - atmospheric is definitely the word. Temple stuff coming along nicely too.

Bill.