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Sunday 26 November 2017

Libuscha Prime Buildings Part 2 (Terrain)

Following on from my original batch of buildings, I organized myself some and pumped out another nine 5.5" square building blocks this weekend.  My vision/objective was to create 4 sets of 6 blocks (i.e. 24 in total) that could be stacked in a variety of combinations allowing me to create a battlefield that had lots of different heights and levels.  So this is where things ended up:


Each quarter of the board has six buildings: 1 x single-level, 1 x double-level and 1 x triple-level.

I base coated the outside of each building with matt black spray paint and they're held together using a square of perspex that, like the 'frames' of the buildings, was scavenged from local businesses.  Finally, I printed off various tiles from Dave Graffam's Spaceport Tiles #2 Terrain Set reduced to 80% on 210gsm card using our trusty HP Envy 4504 and stuck them to both sides of each title.  I did four different paint jobs of the building's outsides: a black undercoat, a light blue, red, yellow or green second coat at a 45-degree-ish angle followed by a very quick and light grey top-coat with my airbrush, in an attempt to create some more depth.  Some of them turned out better than others, but I did achieve both some variation and a sense of commonality, so mission accomplished.

Pretty quickly (and easily) the set-up can be altered materially.

Then the boys all had a play with what amounts to a giant-sized lego set.  Yep, I can see some more games in the near future which is at least half of the purpose of the project!  I've got a few tunnels, machinery and other bits and pieces to set it all off, so all-in-all it's mission complete!

What next.  No more terrain (for a while at least)!! Seriously, I am just about terrain'ed out.  Luckily (?) I've got an (evidently 😕) ever-increasing backlog of miniatures that are dying for some paint, so I need to pack away the power tools and stay out of skip bins for a while and turn my mind to more civilized pursuits.


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