So war-gaming...

My daughter is suddenly into Warhammer. I am not so much into the war gaming, but I do enjoy modelling, and have my own model railway.

So this weekend we started to build some battle boards and scenery.

Battle boards

The battle boards are 4mm plywood. I purchased them from a local timber merchant, as 4' by 8' sheets, and they cut them into 2' by 2' squares. They were actually a few millimeters off perfect, but were a lot straighter then I could do myself.

Action shot with figure:

 I sanded off the rough edges, and painted them with wood primer, which should stop damp getting into them, preventing them warping.

Two of them will feature a river. As that requires depth, the land will slope up to the river, which is not exactly prototypical, but there you go. Here is one, this will feature an island just big enough for one figure to stand on. So far the profile has been defined using strips of card from cereal packets.

At the back, you can just see some grass in the making. the timber merchant were kind enough to give me some sawdust (in fact a bag so big I struggled to carry it). I mixed the sawdust with ready made poster paint to make it green, and in the image above it is drying out.

Scenery Features

My plan for features is to have them free standing, but to leave spaces on the battle board where they can be placed. Each feature uses an old CD as a base, to give it a standard size  and to ensure the base will not warp.

Here are some weird plant-things, made from clay over cardboard tubes, inspired from Morrowind (sorry, out of focus).

The next two are earlier is the process. On the left, a gothic ruin, on the right an orb of power. the orb is a ping pong ball with a couple of LEDs in it.

Here is the gothic ruin with the clay added.