Gidians custom terrain (10-05-03: some new terrain)

[Gidian]

10-05-03
Some new terrain

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Map/album/medium/0003.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Friedhof/album/medium/0003.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Dungeon/album/medium/0004.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Mauer/album/medium/0008.jpg


More pics can be found here... (http://gidian-gelaende.de/03c19899c41346c08/03c19899c811e320a/index.php)



09-12-23
On page 10 you´ll find some new terrain. Nothing special, but better than nothing. :)

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/2_Ufer/album/large/0027.jpg



08-08-14
On page 9 you can find my entry for terrain contest #13 - another but completely new jungle map.

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/new_jungle/album/large/0001.jpg


08-05-13
I build an observatory for games like Warhammer and others you don´t play on hex-tiles. Not HS, but maybe also interesting. Take a look at it on page 8.

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Gidian/Observatorium/album/medium/0001.jpg

08-05-08
There are some new graveyard pics on page 7.

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Graveyard/album/medium/0001.jpg


08-05-06:
On page 7, you can find some new pics: "From ice to swamp".

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/MarroJungleMap/album/large/0033.jpg



08-02-04:
Check out page 5 for some new Marro-Terrain:

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/IMG_0481.jpg


07-12-16:
On page 5 you´ll now find some of the promised pics from my jungle terrain. More can be found in three galeries on my homepage: Gidians Heroscape Terrain (http://gidian-gelaende.de/03c19899c41346c08/03c19899c811e320a/index.php)

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/Wald1/album/large/0012.jpg

07-12-10:
On page 4 you´ll find a new forest. Better pictures will follow.

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Wald/HS_WIP_Wald_01.jpg




I reworked my complete homepage and that´s why many linked pictures in this thread don't work anymore. The easiest way to show you all of the pictures is to link you directly to the new galeries on my homepage. Hope, you´ll like it:



http://gidian-gelaende.de/images/01hsmapcols4.jpg HS Map 1 (http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Map1/album/index.html)

http://gidian-gelaende.de/images/29hsmapcols4.jpg HS Map 2 (http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Map2/album/index.html)

http://gidian-gelaende.de/images/hsaltar03cols4.jpg Altar (http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Altar/album/index.html)

http://gidian-gelaende.de/images/img4303cols4.jpg Road (http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/FelsenUndStrasse/album/index.html)

http://gidian-gelaende.de/images/gelaendelava01cols4.jpg Lava terrain (http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/Lava/album/index.html)

http://gidian-gelaende.de/images/gelaendebruecke02cols4.jpg Bridge and other small stuff (http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/Kleinkram/album/index.html)

http://gidian-gelaende.de/images/minisfeldsteingolem01cols4.jpg Lava and Stone Golem (http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/Minis/album/index.html)


Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Ormus]

:jawdrop: Hats off Gidian!!!

I love the altar of the Moose gods. And that haunted treestump is great. Post pics of the Moosey altar once it is done.

[PochoMan]

:jawdrop: Hats off Gidian!!!

I love the altar of the Moose gods. And that haunted treestump is great. Post pics of the Moosey altar once it is done.
Second.

Click HERE (http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidiansHeroscape/index.html&prev=/language_tools) to see his webite Xlated from German to English.
He has alot of good ideas and custom projects.
*I especially like the Lava Tutorial (http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidiansHeroscape/00000097850754e03/03c19898e90cdb02f.html&prev=/language_tools).
*Would like to see some info on the Teleportals (http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidiansHeroscape/00000097850e5350a/53531197b51186910.html&prev=/language_tools).

Off Topic- I see you're in Hamburg. I was stationed in Kaiserslautern 99-02. Worked in Einseidlerhoff, but lived in Vogelweh.

[markwars]

Wow your stuff is amazing! :D

[Hex_Enduction_Hour]

Whoah. That is amazing lava!
Nice work. Love the Moltarn hero (?)
http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidiansHeroscape/images/gelaendelava01.jpg

[HSisforcoolkids]

The bridge and lava are very cool.

[demon_llama]

all hail the Great Moose God (as long as he doesn't bit your aunt).

haunted tree stump rocks also. nice piece of work.
can't wait to see the completed work. maybe include a play -by- play on how you made it. good work...

[Lyricoz]

It's just amazing :passout:

Could we have more pics? :lol:

[yagyuninja]

That is what lava should look like!

[Glitch]

WOW! awsome man I love the moose god heads :D ! i couldn't help noticing that you are from Hamburg, and i hope you don't find this offensive but my family and i have been wondering if people from Hamburg are called Hamburgers, if not what are you called?

[noodles]

Whoah. That is amazing lava!
Nice work. Love the Moltarn hero (?)
http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidiansHeroscape/images/gelaendelava01.jpg


I have to agree. This is one of the best customs I've ever seen. The detail is amazing and the lava hero in the picture is incredible looking.

[Gidian]

It's just amazing :passout:

Could we have more pics? :lol:

In the gallery on my homepage you can find more pics:
Gidian´s Heroscape (http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidiansHeroscape/00000097810fafddf/index.html)

There are some more pics of the Lava Golem as well, e.g. painted as a Stone Golem:

http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidiansHeroscape/images/ministeingolem02.jpg

Or a Fieldstone Golem:

http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidiansHeroscape/images/minisfeldsteingolem01.jpg

A tutorial for the lava terrain can be found here (unfortunately only in German):

Lava Tutorial (http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidiansHeroscape/00000097850754e03/03c19898e90cdb02f.html)

Here is some stuff, I´m currently working on (not for HS):

http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidianGelaende/images/wipobservatorium24.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidianGelaende/images/wipimperialeshaus07.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidianGelaende/images/img1991.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidianGelaende/images/img2413.jpg


And here you´ll find a gallery with my warhammer stuff and a guest-gallery with terrain from Wolfgang. You definitely have to take a look at his buildings. That´s what I call great terrain:
More Pics (http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidianGelaende/03c19899280940b01/index.html)



Btw - most of the pics I´ve allready posted in other threads. I hope nobody has a problem with posting it twice.



I love the moose god heads


Hehe, I´ve been to IKEA (I think you have it in the USA as well, don't you?) at the weekend and there I found little drinks called "Moose Blood". And the moose heads stuck on the bottles, so I had to buy two of them. ;)


i have been wondering if people from Hamburg are called Hamburgers


Not Hamburgers, but Hamburger (without the "s"). But in German that means the same like hamburgers in English.
But I think, as John F. Kennedy said in Berlin: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner), he didn´t mean: "I am a donut." ;)


Greetings from Germany, the home of hamburgers ;)

Gidian

[Fezzikthedoor]

Wow. That lava actually made me look twice...I thought that it had to be photoshop or another program. That is (with appologies to the custom masters here at the .com) by far the best looking custom terrain I've ever seen.

By the way, I'm teaching English in Korea right now, so don't worry--your writing is very clear and the only mistakes you made are very common to 2nd language learners (build is an irregular verb, for example, that everyone wants to change to builded, not built). I'd love to have a student as able as you in one of my writing classes. I'd give you better grades for doing custom Heroscape terrain!

[wicked cool]

is the tree stump with face custom made and if so from waht and the building with the robed figures styrofoam? awesemw stuff by the way

[Gidian]

is the tree stump with face custom made and if so from waht...


Yes, it´s completely custom made. The prototype was made of clay and then I made a mold of it, to cast resin copies.


and the building with the robed figures styrofoam?


You´re nearly right. Again, I made molds of the wall elements and the figures. The prototypes were made of styrofoam and paperboard, the copies are casted with plaster.
The first plans I made with sketchup can be found on my site: >CLICK< (http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidianGelaende/53531197ca0a7fd04/index.html)

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[monkeyfish]

One word: Cool :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop:

[Gidian]

Does anybody of you have some good pictures showing the glacier terrain? I want to build something similar on my own, but I don´t know how high they are and what their shape looks like.

Thanks

Gidian

[Doc_Savage]

Gidian - this stuff is great! What kind of plastic is that blue stuff? I assume you paint it later?

[Gidian]

I finally finished the altar (and some other projects, I will post later) and can show you some pictures. Unfortunately I had not much time this morning for taking the pictures and the camera is not good as well. My wife will be back tomorrow with our other camera and then I will take some better pictures and integrate them into my homepage.

Hopefully the pictures are not to big:

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Altar/Altar_3.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Altar/Altar_4.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Altar/Altar_5.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Altar/Altar_6.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Altar/Altar_7.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Altar/Altar_8.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Altar/Altar_9.jpg


I split the altar into two pieces, making it easier to transport and maybe I will build another rise leading to it.
http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Altar/Altar_10.jpg


Hope you like it.

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Ch1can0]

Hope you like it.
definitely. :)

The altar is cool, the ancient look is great! big change if you compare it with the first pictures. just WOW

I also like the general symbols on the columns, nice touch :up:

[dra(gon)]

once more fantasic :!:

all other is in the other thread :wink:

[super kyrie]

Amazing!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: I hope you will continue to create and post pics of more projects. :lol:

[Gidian]

I hope you will continue to create and post pics of more projects. :lol:

Me too. :lol:

I finalized some more buildings, but not for HS. I will post them later when I resized the pictures.

Btw - as you can see, I started to flock my terrain. It´s less work than I thought. ;)

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[LilNewbie]

The altar looks awesome, Gidian!! Nice job.

Newb.

[HSisforcoolkids]

Awesome altar! You are one talented guy, Gidian.

[IAmBatman]

:bowdown: you make me proud of my German heritage!

[NecroBlade]

What they said. :shock:

[Cale]

very sweet. i likey a lot. sehr gut, große Kreation. i think i got that right :)

[insomnimaniac]

I can't stand it














It makes me envious. Great job and I like going to your website!
:star: :star: :star: :star: :star:

[Onacara]

I am going to ask my wife is Gidian can come live with us on some sort of exchange program.

:D

[Gidian]

I promised you some pictures of non-HS-terrain, so here they come:

Observatory:

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/110607/Observatorium_1.jpg


http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/110607/Observatorium_2.jpg


http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/110607/Observatorium_3.jpg


http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/110607/Observatorium_4.jpg


http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/110607/Observatorium_5.jpg


http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/110607/Observatorium_6.jpg


Cityfight Building:

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/110607/Cityfight_1.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/110607/Cityfight_2.jpg


Jungle Pyramid:

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/110607/Pyramid_1.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/110607/Pyramide_2.jpg


Tree:

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/110607/Baum.jpg

Unfortunately the quality of the pics is not the best one. I will take some better photos when I have some time and then I will integrate them into the gallery of my site.

[EDIT]: I forgot the update on my custom tiles.
I reworked the first casting results a little bit and made I final mold of them. Now I have the base of the tiles and I can glue differently shaped pieces on them to get different terrain pieces. Here is an example for a street:

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/110607/Tiles_2.jpg

As you can see, one of the tiles has 4 small holes. I use it for terrain with plants which you can stick into the wholes.


Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Cale]

very nice! your work has upped the bar a bit. :) i'd like to see more heroscape buildings/temples. i really like the way you paint/weather your work. great job

with the custom tiles do you use plaster? i've been thinking of making some molds for tiles myself, but was thinking of just doing a RTV two-part mold. are your tiles able to stack on top?

great job and look forward to seeing more heroscape customs!

[Gidian]

Hi Cale,

you´re right, I use plaster to cast the tiles. I was thinking about doing a two-parted mold but I decided to go for two-parted tiles for two reasons:

1. I just have to change the upper part to get different tiles. And I don´t have to cast the upper part necessarily. I can also build it from foam. That´s good for tiles I just need a few times.

2. It´s quite easier and faster to cast one-parted molds.

And yes, you can stack the tiles on top of the original tiles. That was very important for me and that´s why I had to go for the two-parted tiles.

Btw - I builded the prototype completely without using the original tiles to prevent from any copyright issues.

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[MI_Tiger]

How well do the plaster hex pieces hold up over time? I think of plaster as being fairly brittle. It seems like the interlocking pieces would get chipped and worn down from frequent assembling and disassembling. Can they survive a little abuse?

Beautiful work on everything. And I love the Heroquest figure on top of the Observatory. I've been trying to remember the name of that game for a month, and now it makes 2 appearances this week (also in Leifkicker's custom terrain thread).

[Cale]

I builded the prototype completely without using the original tiles to prevent from any copyright issues.

i think it's the locking system that would have the copyright- so i don't think you are safe and can sell those. might be wrong though.

[Daddio]

Glad to see these updates, Gidian. I am officially a fan!

I've been inspired by your work to continue my efforts and hopefully show level of competency that approaches your fine craftsmanship. I hope others feel the same way.

P.S. I think Cale is right about the locking system. No need to risk trouble, right?

[HSisforcoolkids]

Your custom terrain is outstanding Gidian! I hope I can approach your level of talent and creativity one day.

[Ugly-Caco]

Wow, man...Friggin amazing customs.

[Gidian]

i think it's the locking system that would have the copyright- so i don't think you are safe and can sell those. might be wrong though.


I´m not sure about that. That´s why I wrote a mail to hasbro Germany nearly 5 months ago. But they didn't answer yet. Maybe they are very buisy. ;)
But I don't want to sell them anyway, so that wouldn´t be a problem.

Btw - I´m currently building some rocks as LOS blocker and I took some photos of the building process to write a short tutorial when they are done. Maybe someone could help me with the translation? And maybe someone could help me with the translation of the lava tutorial as well?

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Cale]

http://babelfish.altavista.com is a really good translator. also if you have a mac, one of the widgets already loaded is a language translator(not the best but still good) i would like to help, but i have no German skills whatsoever.

by the way anyone know how to type the special characters of different languages on a mac? i couldn't figure it out.

[Gidian]

Don't worry, you don´t have to do the whole translation. I would translate it into English, but I need someone who corrects all the mistakes and makes it a bit more understandable and more pleasant to read. ;)

[Cale]

hey i could give it a go... seeing as your tuts helped me out some, i'll help you out too :)

just pm me

[Gidian]

On the weekend, I finally finished my rocks. At least most of them. I what to build two more rocks, which should be destructable. I want to make them two-parted with magnets in the middle.
And I have also finished my first 9 road tiles - as well as some more flocked grass-tiles.

Here are the first pics of the rocks and the road:

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Felsen/Felsen_01.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Felsen/Felsen_02.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Felsen/Felsen_03.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Felsen/Felsen_04.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Felsen/Felsen_05.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Felsen/Felsen_06.jpg


Hope you´ll like it.

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Jonathan]

Spectacular - almost too beautiful to play HS on! I really like the destructible idea as well.

[Gidian]

I forgot one thing: my living tree. It´s not a unit but terrain, that effects the figures around it:

http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidianGelaende/images/img2702.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Customs/PeacelovingTree2.jpg

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Raudulfr Shieldcrusher]

I'd love to see a tutorial on how to make these rocks. You are a true artist Gidian. Great work!

On the weekend, I finally finished my rocks. At least most of them. I what to build two more rocks, which should be destructable. I want to make them two-parted with magnets in the middle.
And I have also finished my first 9 road tiles - as well as some more flocked grass-tiles.

Here are the first pics of the rocks and the road:

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Felsen/Felsen_01.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Felsen/Felsen_02.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Felsen/Felsen_03.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Felsen/Felsen_04.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Felsen/Felsen_05.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Felsen/Felsen_06.jpg


Hope you´ll like it.

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Gidian]

Here is some new custom Terrain - now with some jungle plants. Hope you´ll like it.
More pics can be found in the galery of my reworked homepage: Gidians Galery (http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidiansHeroscape/00000097810fafddf/03c1989983148d501.html#03c1989983148eb02)

http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidiansHeroscape/00000097810fafddf/03c1989983148eb02/xl022.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/GidiansHeroscape/00000097810fafddf/03c1989983149bf1f/xl009.jpg

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[NecroBlade]

:bowdown: You must have the most amazing looking battlefields to play on.

[Gidian]

:bowdown: You must have the most amazing looking battlefields to play on.

No, not really. For the guys I play with, atmosphere and a nice looking battelfield is not that important. If they build the map, they mix all types of tiles without looking for grass (flocked and not flocked), sand, etc. In the end, our gaming tables are very... colorful. ;) :(

But when the customization of all my tiles is done, it wouldn't be important if they mix it. Then hopefully all maps will look good. ;)

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Jonathan]

Cool stuff - makes me want that Ticalla Jungle even more :D

I REALLY like that bridge you made - possibly the best one I've seen.

[SlikkRikk]

Just wanted to say this is incredible stuff. You and Grishnahk need to get together immediately.

[edridtc123]

That lava is sweet. Do you have it available for purchase? I understand if you don't want any copyright issues, but it's soooo cool.

[sodtiwaz]

Did you ever do a tutorial on how to make the bridge you have in those pics? link?

[Onacara]

Did you ever do a tutorial on how to make the bridge you have in those pics? link?


Those are made out of a mold if I recall correctly....right Gidian?

[Gidian]

Right, but the protptype I made myself. It´s not really difficult to build. Just take two long pieces of wood and glue planks made from balsa wood on it. Cut away some edges with a sharp knife making it looking older. Then take a string and put it around the planks.
At the ends, glue a piece from a HS tile (just cut out a piece of the rim), making the bridge fit to your tiles so that you can put it between them.
Glue two last planks onto the ends to prevent the bridge from sliding down.
The rest is just painting.

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Gidian]

Last weekend, I found some cheap plastic trees at a small store and I thought, the would fit to HS perfectly. So I bought about 20 of them and started to build a forest including some terrain pieces with forest soil (right word?). The photos are very bad because I took them this morning with very bad light. I will take some better photos within the next days. So take this just as a preview. ;)

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Wald/HS_WIP_Wald_05.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Wald/HS_WIP_Wald_01.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Wald/HS_WIP_Wald_02.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Wald/HS_WIP_Wald_03.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/HS_Wald/HS_WIP_Wald_04.jpg


Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Uprising]

Great looking stuff Gidian. Impressive as always. 8)

[Raudulfr Shieldcrusher]

The forest looks great! My only concern would be access to the figures. Moving them could be difficult and determining LOS could be tought as well.

[Gidian]

The forest consists of several single pieces and I just quickly put them together this morning for the photo. At the moment, I have:

- 6 trees on 3 tiles each
- 2 bigger trees on 4 tiles each
- 2 pieces of forest spoil (correct words?) with 7 tiles
- 1 piece of forest spoil with 3 tiles
- 4 pieces of forest spoil with 1 tile

That gives you enough possibilities to build a forest with more oder less LOS. But I wanted to have some terrain that is not ruled by armies with ranged attacks and that´s why I like the trees with their big rocks which block the LOS.

I will take some better photos the next days when I have all my terrain back.

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Cale]

looks great Gidian, and it's good to see you back doing customs. can't wait to see more

[Gidian]

Thanks. In the last weeks - or let´s say month`- I had no time to build custom terrain and not much ideas. Everything I wanted to build would have took me days and so I didn´t build anything.
But together with the trees, I bought some cheap aegyptian statues and I want to build some desert terrain with them next. Nothing special, just some pillars, statues and maybe the ruins of a small temple or something like that.

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Gidian]

As I promised, I took some better photos of my jungle-terrain, which you can find in some galeries on my homepage: Gidians Heroscape Terrain (http://gidian-gelaende.de/03c19899c41346c08/03c19899c811e320a/index.php)

Here are some examples:

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Map3/album/large/0001.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Map3/album/large/0017.jpg


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http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/Wald1/album/large/0001.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/Wald1/album/large/0012.jpg


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http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/Wald2/album/large/0001.jpg



Hope, you´ll like it. And here is a short preview of what comes next:




http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/Preview.jpg



Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Cale]

very very sweet!(awesome) it's always a pleasure to see your creativity... keep it up.

[paradox22]

Awesome Jungle terrain!!! Do you know the brand name of those trees? They look perfect! :shock:

[Gidian]

Thanks for your comments.

@paradox22: Unfortunately I don´t know the brand name of the trees. I bought them (here in Germany) in a 1-Euro-Shop and there was no name on them. I would guess they come from Taiwan.

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[redic_rogue_07]

the tree's look great as always.

[Metaknight]

It's a very realistic jungle!

[johnny139]

GAH! I love that jungle! Nice, thick Line of Sight Blocking trees, and the little bits of wood and leaves and such on the terrain is... perfect. Really, it's just perfect.

[Billtog]

- 2 pieces of forest spoil (correct words?) with 7 tiles

I think you mean 'soil.'

Those trees look awesome (well, everything you post looks awesome). Keep it up!

[Ugly-Caco]

Cool jungle terrain Gidian! The best jungle terrain custom for me so far. I like the trees with big leaves. Those are real LOS blockers.

And this is great plant arrangement:
http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Map3/album/large/0001.jpg
You, sir, have a :thumbsup: (greenthumb).


Also those Egyptian stuff will go great with games with Anubian wolves.

[Skeletor]

Ahh man we must know how to get ahold of some of those trees

[moorific]

That jungle terrain is probably the best I've ever seen!

[elf326]

BEST. CUSTOMS. EVER. :shock:

[Gidian]

First of all: Thanks to lifekicker for his tutorial on the Marro-terrain. Giving the terrain-pieces its structure wasn´t the problem but I was allways thinking on how to build that stuff without spending hundreds of Euros for Greenstuff or Miliput. Because I didn´t know Apoxie Sculpt, I wanted to build it with Fimo, but polysterene or foam don´t stand the heat, Fimo needs to harden. The tip with the aluminum foil was great. That was everything I needed to start with my Marro-terrain.

So here are the first pieces of the "cursed land" - more will follow:

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/IMG_0481.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/IMG_0480.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/IMG_0485.jpg



Hope, you´ll like it.

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Creationist]

nice marro stuff. Those trees are fangoriously awesome. :passout:

[Fezzikthedoor]

Hi Gideon.

I took the time to translate your Lava tutorial into english, but I was wondering what color and kind of paints you used to get that "glowing" look. What were they, exactly? I couldn't find it on your site.

P.S.--That castle with the lava flowing out of it...man. That looks like something out of a movie. I am honestly floored by that. Just....wow.

[Gidian]

Hi Fezzikthedoor,

the paint I used for the lava tiles is nothing special. It´s just normal paint you usally use for painting walls (indoor). The glowing effekt comes from the combination of light colours (yellow) and darker ones up to black. The only thing that is a bit tricky: you need a very soft color gradient (right word?) from yellow to orange to red. To reach this, I painted the tiles with much more paint than usal and mixed yellow and red directly on the tiles while they are still wet.

When the paint job was done, I covered the whole surface with clear coat (or clear varnish?). That might increase the glowing effekt a little bit, but most of it comes from the painting.

It´s even hard to explain that in German - in English it gets even harder. ;)

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Fezzikthedoor]

Hi Fezzikthedoor,

the paint I used for the lava tiles is nothing special. It´s just normal paint you usally use for painting walls (indoor). The glowing effekt comes from the combination of light colours (yellow) and darker ones up to black. The only thing that is a bit tricky: you need a very soft color gradient (right word?) from yellow to orange to red. To reach this, I painted the tiles with much more paint than usal and mixed yellow and red directly on the tiles while they are still wet.

When the paint job was done, I covered the whole surface with clear coat (or clear varnish?). That might increase the glowing effekt a little bit, but most of it comes from the painting.

It´s even hard to explain that in German - in English it gets even harder. ;)

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

Ha! Yes, the thing I noticed about the tutorial was the importance of painting them while they were still wet to lightly mix the colors...and I do remember you writing that the varnish would give it a bit of shine.

Thanks for the information. When I get home in a couple weeks the lava is on my list of things to try.

Oh, and your wording was just fine. Heckuva lot better than my German! :)

[robbdaman]

I hadn't seen your stuff before and have to agree it looks awesome! Love the lava tiles too, but really think the stone pillars are fantastic. WotC should take note because they are a good example of what I believe they should do with terrain. Their repaint of glaciers is neat but these are better.

R~

[Einar's puppy]

wow there really should be a clap emoticon. Only half the pictures are loading for me but from what I saw it was great :thumbsup:

[Hex_Enduction_Hour]

Simply fantastic Marro terrain.
http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Kram/IMG_0481.jpg


And this is a great shot! Never seen the AE look so cool on the board!
http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/Wald1/album/large/0012.jpg








Great work, as usual!

[Ugly-Caco]

Great work on those Marro themed obstacles, Gidian! :thumbsup:

[Gidian]

I took some new photos last weekend. Nothing special - excepting the rock in the middle of the map. There are two magnets in it so that you can remove two of the rocks on the top:

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/MarroJungleMap/album/large/0033.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/MarroJungleMap/album/large/0018.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/MarroJungleMap/album/large/0023.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/MarroJungleMap/album/large/0027.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/MarroJungleMap/album/large/0005.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/MarroJungleMap/album/large/0011.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/MarroJungleMap/album/large/0015.jpg


Much more pics can be found in this galery: >CLICK< (http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/MarroJungleMap/album/).
Just take a look.

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Gidian]

Wow, the new pics left you speechless. ;)



Some days (or weeks) ago, I showed you some WIP pics of my graveyard. Well, I finished it, but I´m not quite happy with the entire look. Imho I build the crypt to big because I wanted some figures being able to stand on the top.
The tiles I used for the graveyard I could only paint - not cover them with sand and/or moss. I wanted to keep the flexibility to put the graves everywhere onto the graveyard-tils and that´s why the need to have a very flat surface.
All in all, I think it´s not bad but I wouldn´t build it again that way.

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Graveyard/album/large/0001.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Graveyard/album/medium/0005.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Graveyard/album/medium/0008.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Graveyard/album/medium/0009.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Graveyard/album/medium/0010.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Graveyard/album/medium/0013.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Graveyard/album/medium/0018.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Graveyard/album/medium/0021.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Graveyard/album/medium/0024.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Graveyard/album/medium/0028.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Graveyard/album/medium/0033.jpg


Much more (and larger) pics can be found here: >CLICK< (http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/Graveyard/album/)

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Ormus]

Dang, that is some sweet customization....

Another win Gidian!!

[yagyuninja]

Man alive. I look at your stuff and it almost - almost - makes me want to put the work into doing that kind of stuff myself. Its so cool how you just decide you want new stuff for your battlefield and make it, while most of the rest of us sit around waiting for the next official release. :)

[SNOWMAN_the_TACTITIONER]

That is truely amazing! I can't imagine how much time that must take.

[Raudulfr Shieldcrusher]

The walls for the graveyard are nice! Nice work as usual!

[da_bomb]

youe yutorials are in GERMAN, I can't read them.

[Raudulfr Shieldcrusher]

youe yutorials are in GERMAN, I can't read them.

Funny, I can't read your post either. ;)

[Gidian]

Thanks for your comments. Glad to see that you like it - even if I´m not really satisfied myself.


That is truely amazing! I can't imagine how much time that must take.

To be honest, it didn´t take that much time. The walls are made from Hirstarts blocks and just painted. All in all they took me about an hour (without the time, the colours needed to dry).
The graves and tombstones took me a little bit longer but just because I made some silicon molds of them and casted them afterwards with resin.
Painting the tiles is pretty easy: Just paint the top (the green, grey or beige parts) brown, paint some black wash over it and then drybrusch the tiles with dark green. That´s it.
Even the crypt just took me a few hours. All in all maybe 4 or 5.
The hardest thing to do was the tree. It was made of tin foil covered by fimo. The details (skulls and mushrooms) where made with milliput.



youe yutorials are in GERMAN, I can't read them.

Do you mean the tutorials on my homepage? Well, it´s mainly a German site and unfortunately my English is not good enough to translate all the tutorials into English. That would take me hours (or days) and probably noone will understand what I mean. ;) But I posted some English tutorials in this board, so maybe the one you are looking for can be found here.

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[keglo]

Awesome work as always Gidian. I love all of your stuff. :D

[Gidian]

And now to something completely different. ;)

I build an observatory for games like Warhammer. Even if it´s not Heroscape maybe it´s interesting for you:

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Gidian/Observatorium/album/large/0001.jpg

More pics can be found here: >CLICK< (http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Gidian/Observatorium/album/)

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Raudulfr Shieldcrusher]

Hey, you finally finished it! It looks great!

[Gidian]

Thanks. It´s not as good as I expected (or hoped) but I´m happy with it. ;)

[Ormus]

Looks scale to me. Stick it in the middle of a map as LOS blocker or even a scenario feature....

Great job,.,,

[Flame Gryphon]

Those customs are awesome!

P.S. I have a contest with nobody doing prizes, and possibly only one person entering, so could you supply prizes?

[Gidian]

P.S. I have a contest with nobody doing prizes, and possibly only one person entering, so could you supply prizes?

Sorry, I just read your post and I think it´s too late now, isn´t it? But even if I had something here I could supply as a prize, the shipping would be more expensive than buying something from HMG you could hand over to the winner. Germany is far, far away. ;)

Greetings from the other side of the big sea.

Gidian

[beanreal]

So I haven't been very regular on the forums lately, but since you bumped this thread I got to take a peek.
Here's what I've got to say: WOW.

The observatory is amazing. I can't even imagine how much time/effort went into that thing, but it's nothing less than amazing! Wow. :D

[Lotus]

Very nice, did you hand carve all the stone texturing or is it molded?

And are those Blood Berets I see?

[bad_calvin]

Very nice work man. I am impressed. You do fantastic stone work. Thanks for sharing and keep it coming! :)

[DragonSlayer2]

Wow, very nice stuff. It all looks great.
Do you ever try to not have half spaces with your customs buildings and walls????

[scottishlad5]

Beautiful lava terrain!

[Gidian]

Thanks for your comments - even if I hadn´t come with something new (but I´m allready working on some new terrain).

Very nice, did you hand carve all the stone texturing



Yes, in this building, everything is handmade.



Do you ever try to not have half spaces with your customs buildings and walls????


Hm, my English is far away from being perfect and that´s why I don´t understand this question. And understand the words, but not the meaning. ;)

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Gidian]

Terrain contest #13 has come to an end (congrats again to Lonewolf), so now I can show you my new jungle also in this thread.

Just a few notes: this jungle was meant for playing. I wanted enough terrain to build a whole jungle map with it. That means really a whole map. No other terrain types around it. So the ground is completely covered with a self-mixed forrest soil. In the beginning I planed to build more trees, more palm trees, more bushes, more Maya stuff and so on. But I had to find a good balance between playable terrain and jungle atmosphere so I reduced the amount of obstacles and build a lot of "naked" forrest soil tiles. That means less atmosphere, but unfortunately otherwise playing on the map would be no fun.

I think, you allready know the pics from the contest, so I show you some others. Even more pics (around 50) can be found here: Jungle (http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/new_jungle/album/)


http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/new_jungle/album/large/0001.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/new_jungle/album/large/0003.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/new_jungle/album/large/0008.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/new_jungle/album/large/0011.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/new_jungle/album/large/0015.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/new_jungle/album/large/0018.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/new_jungle/album/large/0026.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/new_jungle/album/large/0032.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/new_jungle/album/large/0038.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/new_jungle/album/large/0042.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/new_jungle/album/large/0052.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/new_jungle/album/large/0055.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/Karten/new_jungle/album/large/0059.jpg




Hope, you'll like it. And sorry, if I posted too much pics. ;)

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Raudulfr Shieldcrusher]

Unreal! Absolutely beautiful. You are an inspiration Gidian.

[Cavalier]

Excellent Jungle, Gidian!

[Ugly-Caco]

Absolutely beautiful.
:word: and true that!

[Onion Knight]

Fantastic job Gidian!

[Gidian]

Thanks for your comments and by the way thanks for voting my jungle to the final poll.

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Einar's puppy]

Wow, this stuff is amazing. But, unfortunetly, I can only say that looking at the pictures on page 1. Most just come up as little red 'x' s...

[scottishlad5]

Woah! Beautiful stuff man! I love those exotic trees, I bet those things will be awesome to play on!

[Gidian]

It´s been a while since I posted my last custom terrain. Well, it´s been a while since I played HS the last time. ;)
So I restarted with something simple. It´s nothing special, just some flocked tiles and some painted stuff I had at home. And yes, you´re right: It looks a bit like my older terrain. ;)

If you want to see some more pics: CLICK (http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/2_Ufer/album/index.html)

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/2_Ufer/album/large/0006.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/2_Ufer/album/large/0008.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/2_Ufer/album/large/0016.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/2_Ufer/album/large/0019.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/2_Ufer/album/large/0023.jpg

http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/2_Ufer/album/large/0027.jpg



Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[nyys]

Fan-freaking-tastic Gidian!

[Hahma]

Great looking terrain and pix Gidian. :thumbsup:

[Ormus]

I'm loving the submerged skeleton... I have been deliberating on doing a sunken-beast-bone-pile custom piece for use w/ the DnD setups....

But my favorite is this....
http://gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/2_Ufer/album/large/0027.jpg


Yessss....


Great illusion...one would have thought this pic were photoshopped if not for the prior pic....Well played...

[Mossman]

Great stuff! I love looking at pics of custom terrain. It adds so much to a game.

[Sapper]

Very nice indeed. I would love to play some scape in your jungle setup.

[dra(gon)]

nice impale of carr. :shock:
and nice shot.

[Gidian]

Hi Scapers,

I found some time during the weekend to take some pictures of terrain I built within the last weeks. Nothing special. It´s some functional gaming terrain:

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Map/album/medium/0003.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Map/album/medium/0001.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Map/album/medium/0008.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Map/album/medium/0011.jpg






http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Friedhof/album/medium/0003.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Friedhof/album/medium/0001.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Friedhof/album/medium/0013.jpg







http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Dungeon/album/medium/0004.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Dungeon/album/medium/0002.jpg








http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Mauer/album/medium/0008.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Mauer/album/medium/0002.jpg

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Heroscape/GelaendeMinis/HS_Mauer/album/medium/0006.jpg


Much more pics can be found here... (http://gidian-gelaende.de/03c19899c41346c08/03c19899c811e320a/index.php)



And here is an older piece of terrain for Warhammer from which I took some photos as well:

http://www.gidian-gelaende.de/Material_HP/Gidian/Altar/album/medium/0005.jpg

More pics can be found here (http://gidian-gelaende.de/03c19899280940b01/03c19899c4139102b/03c19899e41499c03/index.php)


Gruß

Gidian

[Gidian]

(Note to self: no one´s interested in this kind of terrain anymore)








;)

[yagyuninja]

Are you kidding me? I was just drooling over your lava tutorial again recently. I like the flocking you did, too. :thumbsup:

[keglo]

(Note to self: no one´s interested in this kind of terrain anymore)
;)

I second what yagyuninja said. I love your terrain and your tutorials. I am one who actually painted and flocked my terrain like yours. I also created my lava by following your tutorial. I love your stuff and I hope you keep it coming.

[Gidian]

Are you kidding me?

Maybe a bit... ;)

So don´t take my comment too serious. I just noticed more than 100 views and 0 comments. ;)

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Carnival Man]

I only wish I had half the skill & imagination Gidian has! (I might have a quarter, but not even close to half...) ;)

[A3n]

Gidian,

Do those base tile you made sit on top of a tile that is next to stacked tiles?

I have said it before, but it's worth saying again your work is BRILLIANT!

Cheers

[Kaiser Cat]

I love that skeleton!

[Gidian]

Gidian,

Do those base tile you made sit on top of a tile that is next to stacked tiles?

I have said it before, but it's worth saying again your work is BRILLIANT!

Cheers

Unfortunately you can just put those custom tiles on top of the original ones - not next to them. Otherwise they would need a completely different structure at the edges.

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Wolvie]

How did you make your lava?

[Tagawa]

I love the flocking on your tiles, and all of the great jungle shrubbery and trees, and that lava..., those rock pillars too.

You must make more.:pray: If you don't make more soon I will die of lack of awesome terain.

[A3n]

How did you make your lava?

He does have a tutorial on his site gidian-gelaende.de (http://gidian-gelaende.de/03c19899c41346c08/03c19899c908e0302/03c19899c908e1e04.php) it is in German but the pictures are quite descriptive :). And if you use Google Chrome as a browser it will translate it for you also.

[Porkins]

Hi Gidian, I hope you are still around the site. I just found this thread. I think your work is awesome! I have a couple questions. I really like your dungeon wall pieces. What are they made out of? What are the bases for the dungeon wall pieces made from?

[A3n]

Hi Gidian, I hope you are still around the site. I just found this thread. I think your work is awesome! I have a couple questions. I really like your dungeon wall pieces. What are they made out of? What are the bases for the dungeon wall pieces made from?

He actually moulds & casts them. I hate him for his brilliance. :p

I wish I had the time confidence & money to get as good.

[Porkins]

He molds the bases? After looking at his website I realized that the dungeon walls were probably made from insulation foam.

I wonder if he would sell us all some bases.

[A3n]

He molds the bases? After looking at his website I realized that the dungeon walls were probably made from insulation foam.

I wonder if he would sell us all some bases.

The original he makes from insulation foam or plaster then he creates a mould from that so he can reproduce it, quickly & efficiently. Somewhere in these posts you will find where I asked the same question & that's what he said.

[omen20154]

How are you making your bases for your walls. In the pic it looks like mabye balsa wood you cut down but then again it looks like it might just be molded. Could you give a detailed explination to teach me how to do them?

[Gidian]

Oh, I haven't been around here for a while (a few month), so it's just a coincidence that I read your posts.

A3n is right, the walls are made from plaster. I built a master from insolation foam and made a silicone mold to reproduce it. That applies for the bases as well. They are made from a thin insolation foam under which I glued a few pieces of balsa wood as the frame (edge? rim?) so that they don't move around on the board. ;)

Greetings from Germany

Gidian