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[Slade Deleportas]

Just something I've been working on lately, my completely customizable 3d terrain.

Lots of 'Mechs too, all painted by me. A few of the photos are POV battle shots, and you can also see the progression of the terrain.

http://s599.photobuc...nished%20Mechs/

[Hayden]

Slade_Deleportas, on 15 December 2011 - 01:21 PM, said:

Just something I've been working on lately, my completely customizable 3d terrain.

Lots of 'Mechs too, all painted by me. A few of the photos are POV battle shots, and you can also see the progression of the terrain.

http://s599.photobuc...nished%20Mechs/

Beautiful work, sir!

Out of curiosity, what construction material did you use?

Edited by Hayden, 15 December 2011 - 01:26 PM.

[TheMagicMan]

That's cool. What's that made of?

[Slade Deleportas]

2X4's for the hexes. You absolutely need access to a table saw for this, and a chop saw helps too. We started by chopping the 2X4's into foot long pieces, then ripped them with the blade set at 90 gate set at 1 5/16ths of an inch, then you set the gate to 1 1/16th of an inch and the blade at 30 degrees and rid the 4 corners off (Note: when looking at the "square" stock you will notice it is a rectangle, the wider side needs to be the top/bottom or you hex comes out all wonky, personal experience here lol). The shadow box is made from 1X4 and 3/4 inch plywood. The terrain tokens are made from 2mm sheet styrene (model railroading stuff). Total costs so far: 2X4's 13 so far: $45, paint 1 gallon of the light brown: $10, terrain token: $20 (styrene is $5 a sheet, and we went to a print shop to get the trees printed off) and a crap load of time. LOL. So total cost, with incidentals like gas etc is probably $100. Thankfully my brother had the table saw and chop saw for me to use.

Edited by Slade_Deleportas, 15 December 2011 - 01:36 PM.

[Xhaleon]

You could use cardboard for the terrain too, you know. At that size, minis should be able to sit on a small hex comfortably without the toughness of wood. Cardboard boxes also happen to be a dime a dozen.

Hmm. Maybe simple watercolor paint could be used for terrain types as well, plus simple pen drawings for buildings and features... Much easier than working with wood, I think.

[Brenden]

Not to bad, though i've never played the board game before.

[Slade Deleportas]

On the first day it took me and a friend 6 hours to cut 8 2X4's, learning curve etc. Second day we cut we did 5 boards in about 2.5 hours. That's including setting up the tools etc and clean up times. Not too bad. It's the painting where I got into time. All those level "0" hexes took forever to paint, the level 1,2,3,and 4 ones not so bad. Once again the second time we cut, then I painted it went like a breeze thanks to my brother giving me a better way to paint them. Took a cookie sheet, laid a foam "stamp pad" and soaked it in paint, then just rolled my hexes across it, stamped the ends and set them on a drying rack.

I don't even want to think how long it would take to cut out each individual hex with scissors, then enough to make to scale level... That would take months.
Note: there are well over a thousand hexes in a 2X2 map setup which is what that is.

And for hex heights: Level 0 are 1/2 inch, level 1: 1 1/2, level 2: 21/2 etc.

For buildings I had bought the Hex Pack Cities and Roads a few weeks ago, works perfect. (it's also where I got my heavy and light woods tokens images, scan and print baby, lol)

Also: why I went with individual terrain tokens: That way I'm not forced to have certain hexes in reserve just for woods etc. I can just set up a battlefield, then place woods and rough and buildings as i see fit.

Edited by Slade_Deleportas, 15 December 2011 - 02:18 PM.

[Sebatian Teech]

Playing on the terrain is absolutely BOSS! It give very clear lines for sighting issues, and keeps the visceral feel to the game.

[Slade Deleportas]

Teech, just because your two mechs walked off the field.. lol

[TheMagicMan]

Wow that's real wood. That's pretty l33t, well done. I've totally got a table saw and a chop saw too, if I ever get really into TT I'll definitely be doing this.

[Slade Deleportas]

Just PM me and I can give you all the hints and tips I've learned. Somehow neither me nor my friend have even remotely injured ourselves yet. LOL

[Mechteric]

freakin sweet, thanks for takin photos

[RangerRob]

Very nice work Slade.

I've been playin' hexless for years, but I can appreciate the work that goes into getting a table lookin' that nice, with hexes no less. Well done sir!

[Slade Deleportas]

Thanks everyone for the praise.

On a side note, the Heroscape terrain which consists of the master set, and two Underdark sets: Anyone interested in a trade?
And if this is frowned upon would one of the Mods let me know, be glad to delete this if so.

[Ulric Kell]

Very nice. You can use a cookie cutter on the cardboard. It's what we did. Very easy to cut them out that way. No need for a scissors.

[Fiachdubh]

That is an impressive piece of work, looks amazing.

[Waylandx]

Nice that Catapult looks great!