[6mm]¶
A gaming board in a weekend¶

The board received a wash of dark brown, then green in patches.

The hill the Marines need to defend is occupied by 4 buildings the Squats need to blow up. I placed them in a way, that the engineers can move from building to building by using two actions, so one whole turn. They can also chance however, making a combat move (rolling 2D4) and hope to cover the distance in one action, leaving them one action to start preparing the charges.

The hills all consist of three layers of cork floor tiles glued together. I then used pliers to break of the edges, thus creating a rough and uneven cliff face.

Finally, the hills got some areas coverd in sand as well. On the large hill, the sand forms right angles around at least one corner of each building, so that I know exactly where to place them for each game.

Published 2014-08-10 12:08:00

6mm | SiFi | Space Marines | Stargrunt 40.000 - Rogue Rules | Terrain

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[6mm]¶
A gaming board in a weekend¶

I painted these models quite some time ago, but so far never used them in a game.

Now a new colleague who learnt about my hobby asked for a game during lunch break, so I thought again of these small models, which would need a smaller game board.

Only problem: I neither have a board nor any terrain...

The above models I painted according to the scenario description of Ork Hill. So it will be this scenario I have time to build terrain for this weekend... You grow with your challenges...

Here you can see my interpretation of the terrain description from the scenario:

So I need two hills, four buildings and the board. The woods will be brown felt areas with aquarium plants I already have (probably too large, but ready) and for the river/marsh I will use blue felt. So I hope the building and painting can be accomplished this weekend.

First, the board. It is 50751.2cm MDF. It got coated with PVA and sprinkled with bird cage sand. I then painted it in orange brown.

The buildings I designed on the computer, printed them and glued the prints to corrugated card board. I the cut the windows before cutting the walls. For gluing, I used Lego blocks to get nice 90° corners. There is a floor, inner walls that close the windows from the inside and serve as pillars for the roof and finally the roof. As I don't like 'unlogical' terrain, I needed an access to the roof. So I cut squares from card board, cut away the edges and glued them onto the roof as hatches. When dry, I covered the buildings in ready made wall spackle.

Published 2014-08-09 00:22:00

6mm | Games Workshop | Ground Zero Games | Orks | SiFi | Space Marines | Stargrunt 40.000 - Rogue Rules | Terrain

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[FullThrust]¶
Space Game Mat¶

Today I fetched my FullThrust game mat done by Hotz Mats from the customs office. It has some slight smell from enamels on it, but this is a good sign to me because it indicates it was freshly made for me :-)

I ordered a double-sided enhanced deep space game mat without any grid markings. One side I ordered as the regular coloured nebula/space dust, the other side as the alternative coloured nebula/space dust.

I am really happy with what I got. The mat was folded in a package, so I will need to iron out the wrinkles which you can still see in the above pictures.

Now I just need to finish all the started miniatures, then handle the GZG space ships...

Published 2014-05-08 21:34:00

FullThrust | Hotz Mats | SiFi | Terrain

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