Terrain and Board Finished!

Here are the finished hex tiles and swap-outs.

Firstly, the board.

I picked up a pin board from Amazon, it cost around £12 including delivery charges and it is 2ft by 3ft in size. It is not robustly constructed (though I see no reason why that would be an issue) but it is doubled sided. The other side being very thin cork.

Next up are the swap-outs.

Firstly the hills, I have made one large and two small hills I'll have to add a couple of two hex medium sized hills in the future.

Marsh/Rough Ground.

Destroyed Woodland.

These feature shell holes from M.Y. Miniatures and the "Deadfall" set from Woodland Scenics. I mixed PVA and brown paint to line the bottom of the craters and then gloss vanished the hole to give it a wet/slick look. The brown staining around the crater edges was done with watered down Basetex.

Stream/River.

I made this using the same techniques I have already documented for the marshes. The bank is made from chippings from the Warhammer 40K basing kit.

Buildings.

I had these buildings lying around in my collection. I've overdone the roofs a bit but I will correct that at a later date.

Winterised Trees.

I nicked my partner's hair spray for this, gave the trees a good going over with it then shook on some fine snow powder from Woodland Scenics, immediately after shaking the snow on each tree was hair sprayed again to fix the snow in place.

Despite using the ridiculously expensive though recommended Hob-e-tac glue (£7 for 2oz!) my trees are still molting weeks after I first created them. Here is a picture of what has fallen off since applying the snow.

All this will get stuck back on with cheap superglue which does a far better job that Hob-e-tac.

Having got together what I hope will be enough terrain to get a good start I am now turning my attention to acquiring and painting some figures.