With some paint and snow effects it can be turned into a very nice looking terrain piece. One of the most useful pieces from that old game was the plastic watchtower. You got plastic armies, a battle mat, and some 3D terrain. GW had a contract with MB to produce a mass battle game and for a while it sold very well. It came out in 1992 and was kind of a simplified version of Warhammer for a younger gaming age. Of interest, the plastic watchtower is from WAAAY back in the day, from Milton Bradley's "Battle Masters" wargame. In addition, I used one toy cow skeleton and also a left over banner skull from the old GW Ogre Kingdoms regimental boxed set. I used a combination of GW skulls from their skull set and also Secret Weapons Miniatures metal human and animal skeleton parts kits. The skulls and bones were one of the most labor intensive parts of the project.
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Much of it is simply the gray basecoat with a single drybrush of lighter gray. I gave everything the same dull, gray spray primer coat to give everything a dreary, cold and desolate feel. I made enough terrain to easily fill a 4 x 6 table for 9th Age and to absolutely pack a 4 x 4 table for a skirmish game like Frostgrave. It involves a combination of plastic model kits that I purchased, both plastic and metal skulls and skeleton fragments kits, left over bits from various GW terrain kits, Harry Potter toy chess pieces, yogurt and other food/household containers, clear glass fragments, garden stones and pebbles, several different types of bases including both craft wood and plastic mini. I very carefully planed the project in terms of what materials I would use. Here I present my first terrain project: my completed winter terrain set. I will hopefully be posting many more future terrain projects as well! I also decided to start with this project because I think winter terrain is far too absent from so many gaming tables, particularly those who play Chaos or Ogre Kahns, or even Beastherds, which are all ideal factions to have in winter settings.
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Winter terrain tables have always been one of my favorite settings to play a wargame in, whether it be historical winter wargaming scenarios or just being able to have an immersive frozen battlefield to play fantasy battle games on. I made this terrain primarily for those two games, however I also intend to use it to play massive 9th Age games in a desolate, winter landscape! I play the games Frostgrave and Arcworlde, two skirmish games that both take place in cold, wintry settings. Just tonight I finally finished one of my most ambitious terrain projects.
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I have gotten so much inspiration and energy from you guys to make my own terrain projects a reality, can't thank you all enough for being the amazing community that you are! Hello my fellow hobbyists and terrain lovers!Īttempting to follow in the footsteps of such legendary terrain builders like Little Joe, Izzilduuur, and many others I decided to finally start my own terrain thread.