Re: Operation Badlands - (day 4) -FINISHED-

[orkblasta]

so a while back, almost a year ago I posted stage by stage pics of my game board as it was being built. For those of you who don't remember this is what it looked like.



simple enough with a few things about it that are pretty cool. Well me and my fellow gamers thought it was getting old playing on the same board and there were a few things about the board that were starting to getting irritating. So we've come together and are starting this project.

we're going to blitz the project in one long weekend, 5 days. We're going to resurface it, design it, and then build it.

So we're at the beginning of the second day and thought we'd start the log.

so this what we've got so far:







So the pics aren't the best quality hopefully on the next update they will be better.

The towers that are positioned in the middle of each piece are actually the supports for a highway that's going to run the length of the board. That part isn't finished, but we're working on it.

we're also going to construct a few army based terrain to match the board so we can make the board appear to be from specific races during each battle.

The armies we own in our little gaming community are: Tau, space marine, gray knight, tyranid, eldar, necron, and orks. So we'll build 2 or 3 army specific pieces for each army.

well wish us luck, there will be an update at the end of each day for the next 4 days.

cheers.

[canadianone]

those look like they are going to be great when you get them painted, hurry up, i wanna see pics!

[Tyamius, Shadow Lord]

Its very.....orky. I like it.

[Deleted]

Looks Great!
Remember this though... If you have any spikes/spires, I MEAN ANY, you must impale a PONY!!!

[orkblasta]

o....k.... then,

thanks for the comments,

we're working as fast as possible, but the drying of paints and glue and other stuff our progress has been slowed.

so we also started on some smaller removable pieces to go with the board, 2 bunkers and some barricades as well as the army specific pieces.

cheers.

[orkblasta]

sorry for the late update on our progress but yesterday we worked late into the night on various things and never got around to taking pics.

So when we woke up this morning we went out for breaky then came back and took pics and here we are.

so here's our progress after day 2, unfortunately the pic quality hasn't improved, must be the lighting.






a mixture that I put together was applied to the entire surface of the field. craters where built up as were the barricades and such. This process took a few hours, we also started working more on the highway piece, pics will be coming on that.

anyway, I promise there will be an update at the end of this day, hopefully we'll get to spray painting by that time.

cheers.

[orkblasta]

well here's the end of day 3 update:

we finished constructing the highway and all the little pieces of terrain, although we weren't able to make many army specific pieces, we did manage a necron piece, tyranid, imperial, and ork pieces.

so we started painting at around 10:00 pm determined to finish all the painting that night but fate was against us, we ran out of spray in two different colors effectively shutting us down at 11:30. So we plan on getting more paint and finishing in one day.

here's the pics:










cheers.

[Phenious]

That road is looking awesome. I'm curious how you got the crumbling cement look to the foam.

[Reaper]

Wow that looks awesome! I especially like the cracks on the highway! More pics would be greatly appreciated.

[orkblasta]

update, end of day 4, WE'RE FINISHED.

[orkblasta]

update, end of day 4, WE'RE FINISHED.

the road was finished, the spray painting was finished but the extra pieces will have to wait for another day, we ran out of spray paint, again.

but anyway the board itself is finished and man we are so tired.

I am very honored to present to you the finished product of operation badlands.

WARNING CONTENT IS PIC HEAVY














Phenious: we achieved the cracked look by using a modeling knife and splitting the foam carefully then applying a light coat of spray which melts the foam slightly sharpening the edges.

Reaper: commenting on your own board just to get another comment, seriously.

I am very pleased with the final product, we worked very hard on it, hopefully next weekend the smaller pieces will be finished. We also hope that next weekend we can dedicate the board with an apoc. battle.

C&C welcome of course.

cheers.

[Talonis]

That is Awesome!

You should make a house rule...

Jumping off the bridge:
A model may jump off the bridge, but must take 2 dangerous terrain tests.

Excellent work there

[robomummy]

you have inspired me to finish my own board. how did you make the road

[Reaper]

the road began as a long piece of wood. Not sure what kind, but orkblasta knows. We glued pink foam to it, and then carved the cracks and craters in.

Then, we spray-painted it black, painted what pink we could still see by hand, then sprayed it again. Then we drybrushed it grey. The yellow lines are gw paints.

The sides of the road are also just foam glued to the main road.

btw, that's me in the blue.

[orkblasta]

The bridge is actually to far for a regular unit to get off or on, about 7 inches from the lower areas and 6 from the hills but even then you wouldn't be able to keep the unit in coherency to get up.

so our plan to make a bridge that only jump infantry and grav vehicles can use effectively from the side worked.

glad you guys approve.

cheers.