Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Scratch-Built Hill

I've been devoting a lot of energy, lately, to painting my Warhammer Dwarf army, and I've also been building some terrain to match it.  My first ever attempt at terrain building was my dwarf fortification, and I've just finished a hill.




The top of the hill is large enough to hold a large unit of Thunderers or Quarrelers, or a couple of artillery pieces.

This was a pretty simple piece; I just cut out a kidney-shaped piece of styrofoam insulation, sanded it and glued it to a piece of MDF board for durability, then took some smaller pieces of styrofoam, shaped them with sandpaper and glued them around the edges.  Painted, added grass and snow, and done.
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6 comments:

  1. TreyOctober 26, 2011 at 5:44 PM

    Very impressive! Hard to believe its a first attempt.

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  2. Sean RobsonOctober 26, 2011 at 6:32 PM

    Thanks, Trey! I bought GW's How to Build Wargames Terrain, which has lots of advice and ideas.

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  3. JimOctober 29, 2011 at 6:56 PM

    Great stuff! Be sure to share pics of the hill in play!

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  4. Sean RobsonOctober 29, 2011 at 9:42 PM

    Will do, Jim; I hope to have a whole bunch of Dwarf terrain built for my next Warhammer campaign. My next project will be a dwarven brewery.

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  5. The Happy WhiskOctober 30, 2011 at 5:24 PM

    I'm digging the grass and the snow. Very cool. Happy Halloween and I hope you have an oogie boogie week.

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  6. Sean RobsonOctober 30, 2011 at 9:52 PM

    Thanks, Whisk! I've spent the weekend watching zombie movies, so I'm in the right frame of mind. Tomorrow I take my vampire daughter trick-or-treating.

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