My Homemade Terrain

[The Rebel Fleet 94]

I hope we can all share what we are making and how so we all dont have to reinvent the wheel!!!

This is my first attempt at Legion terrain, its going to be "Battle at the moisture farm" theme

Its still drying and I want to get some brown shading oil but this is my maim building, net some smaller out buildings, moisture evaporators, and rocky terrain

I used foam board and crazy glue, styro dome. Drywall muded it all with light sanding to give it a desert feel and some light tan paint! I also wanted a clear spot on top for climbing/jumpinp/jetpacking to.

[Extropia 1,475]

Nice work!

[Ghostofman 8,319]

Not too shabby

[steveisbig 152]

Awesome! 

[Undeadguy 5,749]

The dry wall idea is excellent. I'm going to steal it and claim it as my own.

[OldSchoolEmpire 80]

Looks like a great start, where did you get the styrofoam ball?

[The Rebel Fleet 94]

15 hours ago, Undeadguy said:

The dry wall idea is excellent. I'm going to steal it and claim it as my own.

Not my idea either, I saw it on a FOW terrain video for North Africa buildings. But go nuts!!!!

[Lord Ashram 988]

Heh heh heh, I have a feeling some of the more traditional FFG gamers will be in for a bit of culture shock when they run into the tabletop guys:)

[Attackmack 521]

Brilliant piece of terrain right there!

A few more pieces like this and you have a wonderful gaming table that people drool over (so make sure to coat the pieces!)!

[The Rebel Fleet 94]

22 hours ago, Lord Ashram said:

Heh heh heh, I have a feeling some of the more traditional FFG gamers will be in for a bit of culture shock when they run into the tabletop guys:)

Like how you never throw anything out before you decide if you can use it as a piece of terrain! 

[C3POFETT 833]

Great work, I too have begun making terrain for Legion. It was originally intended for 3D skirmish maps for Imperial Assault but I am amping them up for Legion.

I began with Tattooine huts or buildings and I am also working on a Death Star / Imperial Space Station Interior.

Here are 3 of the 10 huts I have done. Not painted and no doors put on yet. I plan to cut out windows and illuminate them too.

 

Edited August 31, 2017 by C3POFETT
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[The Rebel Fleet 94]

6 minutes ago, C3POFETT said:

Great work, I too have begun making terrain for Legion. It was originally intended for 3D skirmish maps for Imperial Assault but I am amping them up for Legion.

I began with Tattooine huts or buildings and I am also working on a Death Star / Imperial Space Station Interior.

Here are 3 of the 10 huts I have done. Not painted and no doors put on yet. I plan to cut out windows and illuminate them too.

These are my Death Star Decals printed on label sheets and each panel will be trimmed and applied in sequence to foam core.

Death Star weapon view port, Millenium Falcon in the Hangar Bay (Bottom Left) Detention Block Floor (Bottom Center)

Great work! how did you do the door arches?

[C3POFETT 833]

On 8/28/2017 at 0:26 PM, The Rebel Fleet said:

Great work! how did you do the door arches?

Thank you.

The arches are actually made of foam core using a protractor and an ex-acto knife. They are double layered using a two inch by two inch square rounding out the top half with the protractor. I doubled it up using a one quarter inch frame. The doors and wall supports are applied after the main structure including the dome has completely dried. The doors will be printed labels which will be trimmed and applied as soon as I am happy with the design and weathered look.

Edited August 31, 2017 by C3POFETT
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[C3POFETT 833]

For Round Tattoine buildings cut your foam core to the desired height and width. Along the entire width score the foam core vertically in one quarter inch intervals and hot glue your ends together.

Hope this helps if you want to change up the look of your structures.

 

Edited August 31, 2017 by C3POFETT
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[magnumhan 32]

good work sir, now i have good ideas to modify my square MDF buildings.

excellent idea on the door arches, for some reason trying to think of an easy way to do them, escaped me.  

question: where did you get the files for the internal DS decals , or as Ricky says "deck-nals" ???

 

 

Edited August 29, 2017 by magnumhan
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[Mep 2,290]

Umm, it looks like a cake. The dry wall effect just isn't to scale. May I suggest taking a trip to Ace hardware and looking at their spray paints. There are some there that provide a textured surface that may look good at this scale. Could also try using a sponge on the dry wall mix to give a more fine texture so it doesn't look like a cake.

[The Rebel Fleet 94]

9 hours ago, Mep said:

Umm, it looks like a cake. The dry wall effect just isn't to scale. May I suggest taking a trip to Ace hardware and looking at their spray paints. There are some there that provide a textured surface that may look good at this scale. Could also try using a sponge on the dry wall mix to give a more fine texture so it doesn't look like a cake.

One you paint and apply some shading oil/paint it looks totally different!

[tuco74 22]

On ‎27‎/‎08‎/‎2017 at 2:48 PM, Lord Ashram said:

Heh heh heh, I have a feeling some of the more traditional FFG gamers will be in for a bit of culture shock when they run into the tabletop guys:)

^This...having read a lot of the threads on here I can't help but feel a lot of people aren't quite getting the point of what kind of a game Legion will be.

[freebird285 22]

As soon as I repair my currently non-operational 3D printer I'm going to start making terrain for this game.  Some stuff I think can be easily scratch built. 

[Manchu 966]

Neat work so far - may I suggest using something like sand paper to apply a texture to the spackle before it dries. Could give a better sense of scale/less "cake icing" appearance.

@Mep also posted a good idea, could be neat to combine both techniques.

 

Also whose thread is it anyway - @The Rebel Fleet or @C3POFETT?

Edited August 30, 2017 by Manchu

[The Rebel Fleet 94]

9 minutes ago, Manchu said:

Neat work so far - may I suggest using something like sand paper to apply a texture to the spackle before it dries. Could give a better sense of scale/less "cake icing" appearance.

@Mep also posted a good idea, could be neat to combine both techniques.

 

Also whose thread is it anyway - @The Rebel Fleet or @C3POFETT?

Always open to new ideas and techniques, honestly this was my first attempt anything like this, and thread is open to everyone!! Hopefully we get some dedicated threads soon.

[Manchu 966]

Great result for first time! Good example of how you can get nice results without experience or tons of money. Ideas for details like texturing will start coming to mind whenever you happen to stroll through a DIY store from now on, trust me.

[Force Majeure 4,108]

I've always wanted to do some waterfalls or similar. How is terrain like a river or marsh handled in other games?

I read on the forums that there seem to be a lot of similarities between Legion and Dust Warfare--or was it Dust Tactics? Anyone have some knowledge to share?

Edited August 30, 2017 by Force Majeure

[Manchu 966]

Terrain in miniatures gaming has three basic purposes:

• block LOS
• provide cover
• modify movement

Rivers and marshes usually modify movement.

That's the traditional approach to terrain. There is a growing trend to make terrain interactive. Basic example: models within X" of Y terrain receive Z bonus.