I have been continuing to build a few more terrain features for my Star Wars Legion project while also painting up a few additional miniatures I managed to pick up at some recent clearance sales. These sales seemed to have come about due to a change in the game's ownership, with Atomic Mass Games (AMG) taking over from Fantasy Flight Games (FFG). With the change there are rule changes and the discontinuation of some older figures and units. Since I am using Squad Hammer Core rather than the official Legion rules, the changes will not affected my games and so the sales have been a bonus. At this point, I have managed to collect and paint pretty much most of the units I was after plus one or two extra, so the painting of miniatures is beginning to wind down for now and I can focus to finishing off the terrain.
This past week saw another building and some scatter terrain completed. I am still making the buildings from any wood off-cuts I have lying around in the garage, along with old downlight globes and leftover piping from the house renovations.
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| I cut out some triangles from 12mm MDF board to add to the building's sides and a couple of pieces of 3mm MDF board is used for the roof. Old piping has been added to the top and is removable so it can be used as scatter terrain. |
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| The old piping being used as scatter terrain. |
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| Here I have switched the piping and used an old used down-light on the roof. |
I came across three old unpainted Games Workshop craters I had stashed away, and these have finally been painted up. They will be very useful, either as rough area terrain or as lava pits to represent river-like obstacles in the One-Hour Wargaming (OHW) scenarios that call for rivers.
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| Some of the painted up craters. |
To create the lava pits, I place red-dyed stones in the crater. The stones, which are porous and from a model shop, were soaked in watered-down red paint and then left to dry. This allows me to repurpose the craters as lave pits when I need them.
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| Red stones are added to repurpose the craters into lava pits. |
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| The three craters as lava pits being used in the OHW scenario - Double Delaying Action where the original scenario has a river. |
It seems like it has been a while since I last wrote a battle report, so I might write up one of my Star Wars games using Squad Hammer Core rules for the next post.
Some great looking terrain and I like the idea of the stones for lava pits
ReplyDeleteThank you. It’s useful to be able to repurpose the craters when needed.
DeleteMore inspirational terrain, Peter. You give us less imaginative types some great prompts to get up and have a go at creating. 👍🏼
ReplyDeleteHaving to use what is available and what I have stashed away as useful forces a level of creativity.
DeleteThat's brilliant
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Thank you.
DeleteMore nice scenery for a galaxy far, far away!
ReplyDeleteA couple of more buildings should be enough and then a few more games set in that far away galaxy.
DeleteGreat additions to your scatter terrain, really like the idea for lava pits, they look super. Cracking work.
ReplyDeleteI had to come up with something to replace the rivers in many of the OHW scenarios.
DeleteMore interesting terrain pieces! I want to know more about Squad Hammer.
ReplyDeleteI have had a look to see if I can convert it to a grid more suitable for a remote wargame.
DeleteMore excellent additions there Peter:). Certianly the bigger the figures, the easier it is to use household items to create terrain.
ReplyDeleteThe larger scales do provide more opportunity to repurpose items for terrain, and I am always on the lookout for items.
DeleteFantastic idea for the lava pits Peter! Very clever and I promise to steal it 😁
ReplyDeleteNot only lava but toxic sludge, water, and what ever else I think I need. A very handy idea indeed!!
I like the toxic sludge idea - possibly using green stones.
DeleteObviously there are benefits from doing DIY - all those off-cuts and bits make great structures. I think the lava pit is a great way to double-hat the craters although I think I'd go for lava in a more vibrant colour and dry-brushed black where it's cooling round the edges.
ReplyDeleteThe dry brushing is an excellent idea. I probably need to throw in some yellow or orange coloured stones.
DeleteGreat terrain pieces to dress your excellent games boards.
ReplyDeleteThank you. The terrain is slowly coming together.
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