Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.125 - SdKfz10 half-track with 2cm Flak 30

[Corso]

A fine, methodical and effectual way to make a mountain for your board!
A great step-by-step tutorial! Thank you for sharing!

I second that!

Brilliant scenery

[Silent Invader]

Nice choice of rock formation - does the job very well 

[NurgleHH]

The Master is back and with a Big Bang. Fantastic work, North Africa is growing in a small hobbyroom in England...

[.:Gunslinger:.]

Really cool! First of all the use of this material for wargaming s a great idea! I find these step by steps so inpriring and watching you applying different materials and textures is so satisfying!

Now I start thinking about building a gaming tabe again...

[Phil Robinson]

Super stuff, I shall rename you Charles.

[Captain Blood]

Thanks fellows...

The mountain is finished...

I have sheets and sheets of this stuff at the theatre... This was so easy, I might do a whole set of NW Frontier boards. Real mountainous terrain!

After priming with car spray, here it is getting its emulsion top coat...



And here, after drybrushing with various layers, some washing to bring out some of the detail, and then addition of various tufts and a few burnt grass patches...





If you are the type of wargamer who prefers flat, terraced hills - look away now.
I'm satisfied that my figures will stand up on most sections of this mountainous terrain, except for the impassable escarpments - which is exactly how I want it... 





Here's the table set up for a small skirmish game with some friends of mine tomorrow. Currently 5 tiles, so looks a bit weird, but I've got two more tiles to do still.





The view from the mountain...



By the way, I took these pictures with my iPhone.
For some reason, the images sometimes appear to reorientate so they appear the wrong way round or upside down when viewed on this forum on iPad or iPhone.
Dunno why.
Weird.
Sorry about that. I'll revert to my proper camera in future... 

[Phil Robinson]

I say old boy, one can feel the heat and taste the dust, splendid work.

[.:Gunslinger:.]

Breathtaking! I absolutely agree on the more natural hills, even if they might be a more difficult to play on!

I love the shots with the miniatures as well, the guy sitting on top the armoured car just fits so well!

[Westfalia Chris]

Those really look the part. Forgive me if you've posted it previously (went back to the first mountain post and couldn't find it), how "deep" is the moulding, i.e. how high does the escarpment rise above the "desert floor" of the boards? It looks something like 4-6 inches to me.

I'm currently embarking on a Crete project for the first quarter of 2018, and this might be just the ticket for getting some natural-looking elevations to line one end of the table (logistics notwithstanding, but if I cannot get it over here, I'll probably settle for the old "paper-maché over wire mesh" approach).

[Captain Blood]

Thanks Chris.
Yes, the depth of the moulding (at its deepest relief) is around 130mm.
Bear in mind, across an 8ft x 4ft sheet of 1:1 scale 'rock face', the depth of the moulded texture varies a lot.
Interestingly, in the supplier's catalogue, the depth is given as 100mm - but it's definitely deeper than that at its extremes.

http://www.peterevansstudios.co.uk/rock-faces/
I've used a small piece from product PD134 - you can probably make out the contours of the small section I've used, in the bottom left hand corner of the overall sheet...

You can see that - if it were only possible to transport a full size sheet around, once mounted on a rigid backing board - just one of these would make a very interesting basis for a complete mountainous table top!

I've got access to offcuts of several of these different rock faces. I've used many of this company's products down the years for stage scenery. Their catalogue is well worth a browse 

The other thing is that this stuff is thick ABS - much more heavy duty than the old Bellona pressed plastic wargames scenery. And it only costs around £20 a sheet IIRC. So for what it is, it's dirt cheap. If you would like me to try to assemble you some offcuts and post them out to Deutschland, I can see what I can do 

[Utgaard]

This desert terrain with your new hill really looks really good, very well done!

[Mason]

That looks like a brilliant, simple, easy but very effective way of building some 'rough' terrain tiles.
Bravo, old bean.
 

[Romark]

Nicely done Richard,top notch scavenging , resulting in a fine addition to your terrain boards

[voltan]

You can see that - if it were only possible to transport a full size sheet around, once mounted on a rigid backing board - just one of these would make a very interesting basis for a complete mountainous table top!

PE563 looks ready made for this.

cracking job with that new module.

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

The whole thing looks wonderful