Lord of the Rings SBG Terrain Project - Part 1

Long time no post, anyway, I have semi-quit Warhammer 40,000 recently because quite simply I'd had enough of Space Marines. I don't want to get rid of my Salamanders, but I'm moving to a new system: The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game. Anyway, as you may have guessed from my other posts, one of my favourite parts of wargaming is building the terrain, and the LOTR SBG offers far more opportunities for me to experiment with scratch-built terrain. So here's the start of my first piece, a small copse of trees.

The trees I'm working with are detachable from their bases so I have stuck the bases down and started modelling roots. I've done a few more since this photo.

The trees themselves. I shan't modify these much, if at all.

A group of my Warriors of Minas Tirth (mostly unpainted as usual) emerge ready for war. I've dotted some lichen around to illustrate where the most undergrowth will be when it's done.

My one painted guy in front of one of the trees. I feel these trees may be slightly too short, but anything is better than the ugly GW forest...

To be continued when the milliput dries...

The Christmas Haul...

Today, for those cave-dwellers out there, was Christmas. I received a few Warhammer gifts today, including an Imperial Sector, and therefore my Christmas (at least the parts not taken up by watching Doctor Who or stuffing my face) consisted of gluing, slicing and mangling plastic. The end result was a load more buildings, meaning my terrain selection now stands at:

5 Manufactorums (2 medium, 2 small and 1 tiny, but I built this to go together modularly to form one large complex)

4 Basilica Administratums (1 extra large, 1 large, 1 medium and 1 small)

2 Sanctum Imperialis' (1 medium and 1 extra large)

1 Shrine of the Aquila

2 Gothic Ruins

2 Hills

1 Random Scratch Built piece of Manufactorum machinery

6 Urban Ruins and Barricades

8 Pieces of Aegis Defense Line

5 Craters

Expect pictures soon...

Warhammer 40,000 - More Terrain!

In my last 40k post, I mentioned needing more terrain. Well, after going to my local Games Workshop (local being a 40-minute train journey) I came home Friday afternoon with two Cities of Death building sets, a Basilica Administratum and a Manufactorum, of which I already have one of each. After a night of rigorous hard work.

Five hours of non-stop cutting doesn't do wonders for your thumb. 

I found this picture of my cat amongst the construction photos.
It was too funny not to post.

Eventually, I had constructed the pictured building from the Basilica Administratum set and one medium and one small building from the Manufactorum set. With the leftover bits plus some stuff from the Battlefield Accessories, an old CD Tower and a plastic lid, I also built a two-part cooling tower type thing. Leaving the glue to dry, the next day I began to paint. First was a layer of Chaos Black spray paint as the undercoat.

Basecoat done.

Then came building up the layers. I like my buildings dark, so everything was done with drybrushing. I used Scorched Brown, Tin Bitz and Shining Gold on my Basilica Administratum building. On my Manufactorums and the cooling tower I used Codex Grey, Boltgun Metal and Tin Bitz. It came out looking pretty snazzy. Below are some action shots.

New Battle Report coming soon...