My Terrain 10/12/16. Evergreen Bushes

[JC McMinis]

Welcome to my terrain thread.

Here is my latest ready to use terrain find. Got these at Joann Fabrics

Twisted Tree

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This came of a Hot Wheels playset called Joker's Haunted Highway. Just paint job here.

Single Hex Mini pines

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These also came of the Joker's Haunted Highway set. Did not paint the trees just made/painted the base and glued on the trees.

Jungle Ferns w/Tutorial

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I had two of these twin palm trees for a while left from a birthday cake. First thing I did was to take the trees off the excess plastic.

However once trimmed off I thought they were too small for trees and I did not like the way the leaves moved easily on the top.

I pulled the leaves off the end.

Then I fixed them to what was the bottom of the tree, which was thicker and prevented them from moving.

Next using a glyph and some balsa I made a base.

I then put a hole in the base and painted it with a base coat of Folk Art Evergreen.

Next using Testors Countour putty and my finger, I gave the base some texture.

Once the putty was set, I laid painted it with the same.color as the base and then went back and dry brushed a little Apple Barrel Wedgewood Green and Leaf green on it.

Glued to the base, here is the final product.

4 ferns on a 24 hex piece and a couple of figures for comparison.

@Grishnakh inspired rock fields

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3 Hex Desert Rock Field

2 Hex Grey Rock Field

Shrine of Chaos

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This is the only surviving piece of my old Grenadier Chaos Giant. It is going to be a destructable object. I have the stata for it somwhere in my classic customs thread. I will be making a card for it soon and will post it in both threads. I just glued it to a hex I cut out of plastic added some grass, a few rocks and a pieve of fake moss crawling up the side.
I give you the Shrine of Chaos.

Trees from Dollar Tree

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Green Trees

Snowy Trees

Bridge

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Made from the pieces of wood in the bottoms of old window shades, dowel rods, some chain and small screw in eye hooks.

The bridge has stood for centuries, one of many such built in a collaberation between the elves and dwarves. The elves provided the beautiful white oak wood and the dwarves brought metals that would never rust. Over the years many battles have been fought on the bridge and while the metal has not changed, the wood is now dirty, moldy and stained with blood.

Dead Tree

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This was a toy tree I picked up spomewhere and gave a paint job to.

Bunker

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Made from a plastic mushroom container from the store.

Building Rubble

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These were made from actual pieces of brick and mortal, some small pieces of wood and a bent nail in the larfe rubble.

Barrels

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Picked these up at my local Hobby Lobby and painted them

Cars

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Just a couple of toy cars I picked up at Dollar General

 

[gorthan313]

Re: My 1st piece of custom terrain.

Good work!

 

[JC McMinis]

Re: My 1st piece of custom terrain.

Thank You..I have finished it. Here are a couple of more pics.

 

[flameslayer93]

Re: My 1st piece of custom terrain.

I think the chains are a nice touch. Do you allow figs to jump off of the bridge and into the water?

 

[Quack188]

Re: My 1st piece of custom terrain.

Nice bridge, did you ever think about painting or staining it? Also, you could try shaving some wood off the edges, in between each board, to make it look more weathered. Does it fit over the hexes or is it just layed on the board?

 

[ladidadi.davis]

Re: My 1st piece of custom terrain.

Very nice looking bridge. I like Quack's idea of making it look a bit weathered but either way it looks nice. How do you calculate movement on it?

 

[JC McMinis]

Re: My 1st piece of custom terrain.

Thanks everyone.

@ Flame...I do plan on allowing chain jumping. It will count as 1 move point to jump it.

@ Quack...Im still debating on painting/weathering the bridge.

@ ladidadi...Though you cant see it in the pics there are hexes drawn on in pencil. Once I decide if I am going to do anymore to it will I make them more visible

 

[ladidadi.davis]

Re: My 1st piece of custom terrain.

Oh I gotcha. After really looking, I can see them. After you 'age' it or beat it up or whatever you want to do to make it look even better, probably just a bold sharpie outline would suffice.

 

[JC McMinis]

Re: My 1st piece of custom terrain.

Ok I 'aged' the bridge, used a sharpie to outline the hexes and even came up with a story for it.

The bridge has stood for centuries, one of many such built in a collaberation between the elves and dwarves. The elves provided the beautiful white oak wood and the dwarves brought metals that would never rust. Over the years many battles have been fought on the bridge and while the metal has not changed, the wood is now dirty, moldy and stained with blood.

 

[Yodaking]

Re: My Terrain final pic of bridge up

Nice bridge. It is nice to have a bit of a background story for a custom piece, usually gives it more character as you add the details.

 

[ladidadi.davis]

Re: My Terrain final pic of bridge up

I like what I see

 

[JC McMinis]

Re: My Terrain final pic of bridge up

Ok final final pic of the bridge this time in a actual battlefield

 

[Master of Disaster]

Re: My Terrain final pic of bridge up

Ok final final pic of the bridge this time in a actual battlefield

Looks good, very nice custom.

 

[ladidadi.davis]

Re: My Terrain final pic of bridge up

How stable is it? It looks like it just lays on the tiles.

 

[JC McMinis]

Re: My Terrain final pic of bridge up

How stable is it? It looks like it just lays on the tiles.

It is. I played 2 battles on it so far and had no problem with it shifting or wobbeling.

 

[JC McMinis]

Re: My Terrain final pic of bridge up

Heres my newest piece of terrain. I didn't make it, but found it on one of the small beached along Lake Huron...a small piece of driftwood. But when I saw it I scooped it up.

 

[Quack188]

Re: My Terrain final pic of bridge up

You might want to fix the links for your pictures.

 

[JC McMinis]

Re: My Terrain final pic of bridge up

Links fixed

 

[Porkins]

Re: My Terrain: Driftwood fallen log added 6/27

I like the bridge. I think my next custom project may be a bridge.

But I like the skeletons even more! Where are they from?

 

[JC McMinis]

Re: My Terrain: Driftwood fallen log added 6/27

I like the bridge. I think my next custom project may be a bridge.

But I like the skeletons even more! Where are they from?

I have had those for probably 15 years, they are from a game called Darkworld. There are actually 3 of them. I recently just did a little cutting, twisting repositioning on them to make them all different from each other. The shield on the one is from another mini that long ago broke so I salvaged the shield. Follow the classic custons link in my sig, they are the Unworthy Dead, though I have not updated the card with the new poses.