Billtog's Super Customs

Billtog · #1 January 2nd, 2008, 08:17 PM

Hello, all. These past two weeks I've been working hard on learning how to make custom terrain. Thanks to fantastic tutorials by Chicano and Renquist, I was able to learn the basics. I made a few silly terrain pieces loosely following their tutorials, and decided to set out on my own. I made these bridges out of dowels and craft sticks. Sorry for the poor photographs, I'm still learning the basics of photography too.
Let me know what you think.

One-Hex

Two-Hex

Three-Hex

The whole family

On the battlefield

In action

You might not be able to tell, but there's actually a very nice red tint to these (if I do say so myself).

Here's the underside of these babies.

They lock quite nicely onto hexes and are extremely sturdy.

Yes, that is a full bottle of green tea.*

These redwood bridges look best with grass or swamp terrain surrounded by trees and with samurai charging across them, just as I intended.

I also made some other sorts of bridges and some walls that I will upload later.

*Green Tea appears courtesy of Lipton and was not created by me.

Fuzzie Fuzz · #2 January 2nd, 2008, 08:51 PM

Cool!

moorific · #3 January 2nd, 2008, 09:13 PM

I'm surprised Kaemon Awesome was only in two pics. With that aside, nice bridges! How well do they hold up huge figures?

Raudulfr Shieldcrusher · #4 January 2nd, 2008, 09:44 PM

Welcome to the dark side!

Billtog · #5 January 2nd, 2008, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by moorific

How well do they hold up huge figures?

They are extremely sturdy. A bridge can easily hold up 2 huge figures.

allskulls · #6 January 2nd, 2008, 09:46 PM

Cool bridges!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raudulfr Shieldcrusher

Welcome to the dark side!

When I first saw the title I thought he was coming over to the Marvel side

chief · #7 January 2nd, 2008, 11:27 PM

Sweet i like them alot

NecroBlade · #8 January 2nd, 2008, 11:40 PM

These bridges have been hereby endorsed by NecroBlade and the Kaemon Awasome

fanclub.

~~Onacara~~ · #9 January 2nd, 2008, 11:42 PM

I would love to see a pic of the bottom of the bridge to see the cool little way you made them so they "lock" onto the hexes

HSisforcoolkids · #10 January 3rd, 2008, 10:48 AM

Excellent bridges, Billtog. They fit in really well with the Heroscape terrain.

Renquist · #11 January 3rd, 2008, 03:15 PM

Billtog has been converted to customizing....

THE SAMURAI SHALL REIGN SUPREME!!

Billtog · #12 January 3rd, 2008, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Onacara

I would love to see a pic of the bottom of the bridge to see the cool little way you made them so they "lock" onto the hexes

Ask and ye shall receive. (added to first post)

The angle of the planks keeps them from moving from side to side, and the length of them keeps them from moving back and forth. I got this idea when I wanted to build a bridge that fit in between rather than on hexes like Renquist, but didn't want to glue them onto the hexes themselves.