I was short 6 pieces of jungle terrain to “fill up” my last box of jungle terrain.
Not one to waste storage space, the mission “that I chose to accepts” was to build these last six bases.
Armed with various “aquarium plants”, some round coaster bases and some assorted palm trees from Amazon I went headlong into the task.
In my experience getting paint to stick to fake plastic plants is not easy so for years now I haven’t bothered. I just stick them on the bases flock them and “Agatha’s your Auntie”!
We all know that jungle doesn’t take long to grow so in a few hours the job was done.
Is there ever enough jungle terrain? Well, we will just have to wait and see.
You’ve clearly spent some time wandering the aisles of a hardware store, staring at a bag of grey plastic and thinking, “I could conquer a galaxy with these.” You’re absolutely right: to the uninitiated, they are rebar chairs or slab bolsters, but to the budget-conscious wargamer, they are the backbone of a low-cost, high-impact tabletop invasion.
About a half a dozen lengths cut to size.
If you are playing Warhammer 40,000 or Necromunda, you know that “Gothic Architecture” is just code for pointy metal things that look uncomfortable to sit on and of course archers. You’ve just gott have those! Those circular wheel spacers, used to keep rebar off the ground, look exactly like sci-fi power generators or cooling vents. If you glue three of them together, spray them silver, and hit them with a brown wash for “rust,” you suddenly have a Promethium Relay Pipe that costs five cents instead of fifty dollars.
I cut some at the “forty-five” to be able to have a right angle corner’
There is a certain wicked humour in watching your opponent’s expensive, hyper-detailed resin tank get strategically blocked by a piece of plastic designed to hold up a driveway. Paint them concrete grey, or in my case desert stucco, add a little fake moss, and you have a defensive line that looks like it has been there since the dawn of the empire—or at least since the concrete pour last Tuesday.
Here is my Post Apocalyptic buildings with the arched walls.
There was even lots left over.
I picked these up from a construction site dumpster but they are readily available.
I will paint these up to match the buildings when the last three buildings are completed.
The 900X600 terrain board for the Pirate demonstration game.
A hill for the church and a hint of a waterway.
Fortunately I have the building completed
I don’t like the look of the tiled roof for the inn
The roof with the “thatching” cut to fit.
Sitting but not glued yet.
Something just didn’t feel right, The terrain board seemed to small for four players and the terrain was too big for the table. I think I’ll just reject it! Like Mr West!
I think I might go back to a previously used table and just rejuvenate it a bit. I still have a week and a half to go!
I was reliably informed that volcanoes are made with rum, brandy, pineapple juice, orange juice, and orgeat syrup. Oh and of course topped with a cherry! Nope not the right one?
Big Ben on Heard Island, Australia’s largest volcano.
Volcanoes are openings in Earth’s crust that release ash, gases, steam, and hot liquid rock called lava. When lava cools and hardens, it forms the cone-shaped mountain we recognize as a volcano. Most volcanoes are located around the edges of tectonic plates, on land and in oceans.
Volcanoes on land form when one tectonic plate goes under another. Typically, a thin, heavy oceanic plate moves beneath a thicker continental plate. This causes the ocean plate to sink into the mantle.
Mine were a bit easier than that. Hex hills cut from dense foam board and polystyrene cones.
Undercoated in ochre and then “painted” with a sand, brown poster paint, and PVA glue mix with a toothpaste like consistency.
Sloped on matt black paint.
Dry brushed with yellow orange red and magenta poster paints. Painted all over with a water based gloss varnish (to avoid foam melting) and then some various coloured fibre wool placed in the volcano crater to simulate eruptions.
To make the volcanoes fit into the modular hex terrain, I needed to do one last adjustment. The foam hex hills had tricky edges, so I had to find a way to ensure the terrain fitted together perfectly.
I decided to glue 6mm thick mdf hexes on to the bottom of the volcanoes. These fitted perfectly into the modular board and raised any imperfections above the adjoining 2mm thick mdf hexes to avoid any problems. I will do the same with all other hills.
During the Jurassic period, there was a lot of volcanic activity that greatly shaped the landscape, including about 100 volcanoes located in central Australia. These impressive volcanoes, which erupted between 180 and 160 million years ago, are now buried beneath layers of sedimentary rock, obscuring their once-active forms.
The volcanic area covered nearly 2,900 square miles, making it one of the significant geological features of the time. The volcanoes were active 180-160 million years ago. Their presence was somewhat unexpected because most volcanoes occur at the edges of tectonic plates, but these existed in an area that was mid-plate.
This eruption of lava and ash would have released large amounts of gases into the atmosphere, contributing to changes in the climate. As a result, this volcanic activity not only altered the environment but also played a crucial role in creating habitats that supported the rise and diversification of dinosaurs, allowing them to thrive in a variety of ecosystems across the globe.
Massive volcanic eruptions may have been more important in the extinction of the dinosaurs than we previously believed.
Recent studies in Science indicate that volcanic activity, particularly the huge eruptions of the Deccan Traps in modern-day India, may have significantly contributed to this mass extinction event.
Didn’t quite get these finished today. Just a few touch ups on the base edges to go.
For a rough and ready project these have come out better than expected.
They will make ideal dangerous terrain for the dinosaur game.
