My 40k BATTLE ZONE MORTALIS board set.

Like most of us I cannot justify spending money to buy an official one from forge world, so I have decided to have a go at making one myself. And as always I'm looking to keep things as cheap as physically possible, using materials that you can easily get around the house. So after I did a little bit of research I realise that I plan to make a 4X4 boards worth of tiles Plus in time I'm going to make little bits and pieces of scenery as well as bulkheads doors, to make things look a little bit more realistic.

The tiles themselves are very simple to make, using polystyrene cardboard formboard and textured paint.

A simple project and hopefully it will inspire you to make your own as you can see of hundreds of pounds doing it yourself and as always with a little bit of work, it's easily enough done, and looks great on the table top.

For painting I wanted it to be dark and Gothic I didn't want to much colour which and I also ruled out painting the floor silver as I thought it didn't look quite right. As things stand I'm really pleased and in time Will definitely be doing a couple of other little bits and pieces to add a little bit more character to the boards look over all.

How to make 40k Desert Scenery Part 2

This is probably my last post in February 2013, so it seems this year that I have been spending a lot of time doing scenery, and something which I've actually quite enjoyed and in some ways I find it easier and more enjoyable than painting miniatures for a number of reasons. So below you can see some of the pictures for the progress that I have been making with my desert scenery.

Above is the base coat and below is some pics of the first steps of highlighting.

Not much to see, but an update nonetheless, so hopefully next time I will have a little bit more progress to display, so until then.

New Necromunda 40k Hive World Scenery Update 2

I managed to get a little bit more done today, with painting textured paint on the scenery basis. Which is something that I always enjoy and look forward to, because you really do get a sense of the whole project coming together. Although I'm still not finished as I would like to add a little bit more which in turn would give it a more urban feel, for example car's that have been abandoned and destroyed, as well as some industrial plant. All of which are easily to get a hold of with cheap toy's that are available in £ shops locally.

New Necromunda 40k Hive World Scenery

Well you can't exactly play Necromunda the game if you don't have scenery. So it goes without saying that there is no better time to start a new project, and for me this is probably the best bit of my hobby. And after getting my son involved  over the weekend, this is the progress that we have made so far.

How to make 40k Desert Scenery

So it's a well-known fact that I have been neglecting my first love, my hobby blog over recent weeks. So with a little bit of time on my hands, I am going to update everyone with all the going on's and happenings in my hobby life at the minute. So with the next N.D.G.H 40k tournament on the 20th of this month, I thought it was about time that I started a new desert scenery project. 

 I have actually wanted to do this for quite some time, so hopefully it will come out all right.

Using texture paint is definitely the way to go.

So once I had finished all the hill's, I wanted to do some rock's.

 

So there you have it quite simple to do and hopefully by following the pictures above you can get some much-needed inspiration, and in the next update I'm going to start painting.

How To Make Trees From Green Scrubber Pads

So with a tournament on the horizon I have been spending a lot more time making scenery, and this is currently one of the projects that I have been working on and overall I must admit it's came out rather well.

Well first things first it's the most simplest thing you can ever do, 

1. Simply go to a supermarket and get yourself some green scrubber pads, their cheap and effective.

2. Go into your garden and get some sticks.

3. Cut up your pads into various sizes

4. With a pencil punch a hole through the centre of each pad, then slide them up the sticks keeping the smaller bits to the top, after all it is supposed to look like a tree.

And there you have it as simple as that,below you will see some pictures of the work in progress.

Because I was doing mine as a ice world I painted textured paint over them to make it look like snow.

So there you have it hopefully it will give you some inspiration to do your own.