First half of my coastline board

[Super_Gibbon]

I've been redo-ing an older green terrain  board I had into a snazzier coastline feature to give my Vikings somewhere to raid and to give fellow member Aaron's eventual Hornblower game somewhere to go ashore, blow up the signal tower, magazine, save the aristo chick thats actually a dance hall girl, whatever the hell that guy is always up to.

Here's the old board after the painful first cut:



And now:



Its been a blast taking a break from minis to do some terrain, especially when my basement painting area has been a little to hot to get hunched over a mini.

I'll do a nice viking photo spread when I get the other boring half done.

[Mad Doc Morris]

I stand in awe! That's an amazing wave effect. Any hints how you made this, please? Funny enough I was thinking about a coastline lately, too.

[Hammers]

I recently did a coastline to. Just a trial piece to see how to go about it. What did you do for the water area and waves? I used a sandy bay color photo reference for painting and then apiled silicon chaulk in wave patterns. Not super easy but effective, I think.

[dodge]

Utterly brilliant.

[Grimm]

I like these dark water it looksw a bit like the cold northsea ,good wok.

Grimm

[Regulator]

Great water and a great beach. The withered grass looks nice too.  And I realy like those waves. How have you made them?

[Super_Gibbon]

Thanks for the compliments guys. The water is just a few layers of spackle smoothed roughly with my hand, working it in a big arc to approximate the direction of the waves, a light sanding after dry, glue your rocks and sand, and then the fun part, painting with some cheap craft paints, a bright blue and green with straight black to give it that odd sheen and dark look, and a little brown for the hell of it. Then a few layers of progressively lighter paint toward the shore (more green and blue), some random streaks in line with the waves, and a light dry brush at the sandy edges to pick them out. Then a wash of the water's base color, very diluted around the rocks to unify everything.  Then a couple coats of Krylon gloss spray and you are ready to raid! 

[Wirelizard]

The water looks great, a simple technique that really works well.

Where does the neat Viking longship come from?

[Aaron]

Greay job Sky. I have some terrified Saxon peasants and monks ready to defend the shore!

[Super_Gibbon]

That's going to be a fun day Aaron.

Wirelizard, thats the good old Old Glory Viking ship.

[El Grego]

Very nice work there S-G!   

What are the dimensions on that board?  And approximate weight?  One of these days I'll have an appropriate gaming area, to make and store such boards... 

[Maenoferren]

Wow I just love the water effect there... TOP BANANA

[Super_Gibbon]

When the other half is done it will be 4x4 feet. How much does it weigh? Man, hmm....its a few wooden slats, the two pieces of 2x4 hardboard, and lots of spackle, maybe 15 pounds max? That's .0068 metric tons for you sophisticated Euro types! Or 6800 grams! I guess almost 7 kilos is what we're after. Because of action movies we in the states associate kilograms for measuring cocaine. That's almost 7 kilos of pure, uncut wargaming terrain.

[Operator5]

That's almost 7 kilos of pure, uncut wargaming terrain.

On the street you could get a couple a hundred bucks for that.

Beautiful coastline. Makes me want to put my Saxon village there and raid it with some Vikings.

[Maenoferren]

Picture the scene...
 A dark lot down by the docks.... A dark coloured saloon sits engine off, the four occupants sit as dim shadows within. Moments later a car pulls into the other end of the lot it flashes its lights then four men get out.
They walk half way between the two cars, stop and wait. The other doors slam and the four from the first car walk to meet them.
"You got it?" snaps one
"You got the dough?" comes the answer.
" I got the cash, now lets see the goods!"
A click of the fingers and two of the men move back to the car, pop the trunk and pull out something long and rectangular. They walk forwards and place it on the floor.
A second snap of the fingers and the opposition step forwards and unwrap the 'goods'
"It looks okay boss!"
"You dont mind if I check..."
A nod.
Bring it out, a man hurries back to the car and brings forth something small which he places on the goods....
They all look at the small viking sitting there.
"Scales, good...You got a deal!"
As they pick up their respective packages, flashing blue lights arrive, they try to run, but too late.. they are busted!