Oldskoolrebel's Terrain Board Project (Picture Heavy)

[Captain Blood]

Yes. I just keep them in a box and pop them into the various boards as and when needed. You can't really see the pin holes in the terrain unless you're really looking for them. The trees do shed fragments of clump foliage every now and then, but not so much that you'd notice...

[oldskoolrebel]

A bit of work on the topography. As Captain Blood points out in his thread this stage always looks crap. It's only once we've got the icing and the gloop does it begin to look good.

So my first board. The curved corner road section, a cliff with a buff leading up to it and a very small hill. In from of the cliff there is a small body of water. So what do you think? Should I add anything to it?





Below is the split river section. I really like this. It start to make more sense with the exposed rock. I'm assuming the the river hasn't been able to erode the rock and so it flow around the rock. One side of the river has a little uneven ground, however the other side will be largely plain.



So there we have it, still quite a bit of work to do, but getting there.

[OSHIROmodels]

Coming together 

Might I suggest (although you're not at that stage yet) that the small hills and really blended into the surrounding landscape. Plenty of gentle slopes; will look more natural and allow better placement of figures 

cheers

James

[oldskoolrebel]

Coming together 

Might I suggest (although you're not at that stage yet) that the small hills and really blended into the surrounding landscape. Plenty of gentle slopes; will look more natural and allow better placement of figures 

cheers

James

That's my plan James, I will be taking a scalpel and sandpaper to them, before applying filler. I find it quite difficult to get the slopes right until the foam is glued down... I tend to end up cutting the end of the foam off!

[OSHIROmodels]

Me too 

[Mason]

Looking good so far, mate.
 

I wouldn't add the 'small body of water' in front of the cliff, though.
It looks to me that it would be higher than the road and would look wrong.
I would just go for making it into a dell as that would still provide a nice 'tactical' location during gaming.
 

[Elk101]

Perhaps a boggy area in the low area? You could model some marsh.

[Andym]

I would vote for the swamp under the bluff too mate. I'm sure Silent Invader did something similar on his GOT board.

[Hu Rhu]

This is coming on nicely.  I second the bog/marsh idea.

[oldskoolrebel]

Thanks for the advice everyone.

I'm not sure about the bog/marsh idea. I think it would look at bit strange. Especially with the depression. Can I ask why not a small water feature? Is the basin too high? I'll be using varnish instead of water effects so I didn't want it too high.


Any way, I've not made a massive amount of progress with this. It'll not probably be next weekend before I get the chance to spend anymore time on it.

I have been playing around with the board with the river bend on it. My plan was to have one side as being more upland than the other. Again I'm open to comments and critiques here... should I add more uneven ground for example.



I like the valley that the two hills have created. It will look even better when smoothed out with filler. Ambush, do I hear you say?

[Elk101]

I was thinking about a marsh because it would still give you gameable terrain rather than a water body which often tends to be avoided by players. I thought it could look good too, though I'm sure you would make a cracking job of a water feature too.

[Captain Blood]

Andy, if you want to make a pond, make a pond 
You can always make an additional tile with a marsh too - or fill in the pond and turn it into a marsh if you need to...

[Mason]

Andy, if you want to make a pond, make a pond 
You can always make an additional tile with a marsh too - or fill in the pond and turn it into a marsh if you need to...

Indeed.
But, if you do make a pond, you know the rules: Ducks or fish are compulsory.
 

[oldskoolrebel]

Indeed.
But, if you do make a pond, you know the rules: Ducks or fish are compulsory.
 

Like these??

[Eric the Shed]

looking pretty good to me...