Line-of-sight-blocking terrain has always been important in 40k. Back in the early 90s I built a big polystyrene hill, which is usually a central feature of my battlefields. It's made up of three separate sections, so it's quite flexible, though I do usually just use the full version.
However my battlemat (from Urbanmatz.com) is double-sided. I've been using the Badlands side as that's very flexible, but this green hill really doesn't work for the Desert side. Hmmm...
I found some inch-thick sheets of polystyrene languishing in a box in the garage (I never throw this kind of stuff away if I can help it) and after hacking it around (pinning the rocky outcrops with cocktail sticks and gluing everything together with PVA) assembled this:
Polystyrene is (obviously) really weak. My fifteen-year-old self hit on the idea of covering the earlier hill with a mix of paint and sand (about 50-50, so a pretty stiff mix). I added a large dollop of PVA to the mix for good measure and a scattering of gravel to represent fallen rocks. After a rough spray with the remnants of a can of black spray, I arrived at this stage:
Cracking bit of cover, that! I really like that it could be a natural rock formation or the battered remnants of something man-made. Lovely either way!
ReplyDeleteThat's a lovely bit of terrain. I've very jealous - my attempts at polystyrene hills wouldn't pass their geology test.
ReplyDeleteThanks both!
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