First Terrain of 2021

 Feeling uninspired I have defaulted to terrain which always seems to recharge me.

With boards for Epic/40k and WW1 trench I felt a green woodland board was well overdue. This would replace the GW green sheet and work for my Relics, Warhammer Fantasy, Prehistoric and a host of others, as well as a base for the 4 Citadel Wood boxes I have had stored at the back of my room forever!!

As with previous boards I have used Foam mats for the base and first the first set focused on an open area and one feature tile, a pool.

first set with pool tile cut out and plasticard base

Base layer of Flexible filler + paint and soil

PVA gravel layer

paint and washes followed by stones painted.

flocking

Vallejo Still water with some Tamiya Black Green which will help it match up to the river sections

The first layer leaked out a bit so water level is a little low.

I have tried to keep the design scale free and low for storage.

I plan on adding some small long grass/reed sections I can place round the edge of the pool 

The next set will add some more open areas but also two hills and two quarry sections.

area cut out and the sides built up using more foam and bark 

sealed with Flexible filler and then layer of gravel and PVA added to add smaller texture

Stone and earth layers

Flocked tiles, will add some tufts once delivered!

Test setup with tree and other bark hills

i might look at adding a removable top layer to the quarry so I can use it as a large hill feature or cave/ burial mound.

Some shots using the Homo Erectus Tribe

Next on the plan is three more open tiles and then some coastal tiles.

My Idea for coastal/major river set is to cut three in half and slope them so they are the beaches/cliffs and lay some water painted sheet under them. It can be an end set up as the sea or between two set as a large river. This will enable me to have coastal/landing scenarios or even river boat conflicts or extended bridge etc.