Terrain Rounds

While I wasn't able to finish the project in time for game night (i.e. last night), I haven't abandoned it by any means. We do game night roughly once a month, holidays and life permitting, so I want to be sure this stuff is ready by next game night! It's for the best, give's me enough time to do things right rather than half-assed and rushed.

It turns out I had no chance of finishing the project by yesterday anyways, since I'm waiting on these resin "broken tiles" bases from Armorcast to finish off my Institution forces. I was expecting them Monday, and instead I got a notice from Armorcast that they had been "reshipped." Grumble grumble! Oh well. Them's the hazards of doing mail order. While I wait for my bases (and more miniatures) to arrive, I thought I'd get closer to finishing working on the terrain.

These are actually DVDs. They're all copies of "White Chicks."

So the first thing to do is create some bases for my terrain pieces. As you may have noticed I am a fan of basing terrain on CDs. I like CDs because they're easy and quick to layout, easy to store, and look nice on the board. Like with the Sniperwrecks, I just spray them down with some black primer to reduce the shine. While I didn't bother with the Sniperwrecks, this time I stuck a small square of black electrical tape over the hole on the "underside" of the CD. It makes the next step much easier, and gives more options when you actually stick terrain on the round.

Next I mix up some Kelly-Moore Kel-Seal and "Beautiful Brown Eyes" latex paint from ACE Hardware. This time I mixed it in a sealable container. It stores pretty well, but tends to separate a bit, so mix it throughly each time you use it. This is about four cups of kel-seal and 1/2 cup of paint, and after doing 10 CDs and 36"x2" of basswood I had enough left over to do another set of the same size. This Kel-Seal stuff is freaking awesome. I love it.

So I used a trowel to spread the kel-seal mix over the CDs and set them out to dry. It was raining hard and quite cold so they took almost twice as long to dry as the terrain board. Once they were dry and it stopped raining, I took them outside and went over them lightly with the ruddy brown primer. I've got pretty involved plans for a bunch of them. At least one of my ideas was pretty damn simple though.

Hot glue + tires = 2 minute terrain project

If all goes according to plan, tomorrow night I'll have a lot of cool stuff to post. I'm working on slag piles and junkyard walls. Getting very close to being able to fill the board with sufficient junk to sell the idea of an endless wasteland of junk.

It's like America, but in miniature.