Found something nice.

So yesterday I had some time on my hands, went out for an early dinner with the other half since we skipped lunch. I went to our local thrift store, and I find this, an MDF board which is approximately 6mm thick, which would also mean, no warping of the board will happen. The board is a little less than 8 inch by 12 inch.

I figured that it would be a perfect display board for my Dark Eldar and/or pre-heresyBlood Angels (since I use the same basing method for both). It fits nicely into the IKEA Detolf glass cabinet without taking up the entire space, which would mean that I can place it in any way I want.

After rummaging through some of my boxes for terrain pieces, I built a small terrain piece to be set at the corner of the board. It's meant to create another surface level for me to place more models on.

Tonight will be my last night to continue with this as tomorrow I'll be flying back to Penang for Chinese New Year for a week.

Terrain - Temple of Skulls.

For the past few weeks I've been very busy as usual, but nothing is gonna stop me from painting! After I got saturated with my commission work, I've decided to take a break from painting rank and file models to painting terrain.

Looking at the fact that Hobby Forge do need more terrain for the 4 gaming tables, there's no doubt that I've got to buck up on painting more terrain.

I hereby present you, da Temple of Skulls!!! Really huge and cheap terrain piece and I find it the most interesting terrain to paint out of all that I've painted.

I'm loving this part here. The pool of blood.

Using some sponging techniques, I made it look as if some victim was dragged up the steps whilst still bleeding.

I've added the grass to break the monotone colour of the terrain piece and I can say it's very effective.

The blood splatter was really fun to do. It somehow looks very convincing and real. I might make a tutorial on how to make blood splatter sometime later.

There you have it. Get one and start making some sacrifices! :D

I really got to get a proper camera, it doesn't look as good since it's very yellowish. Haha.

Overloaded with projects.

I've been really busy for the past few weeks! I've got commission work to do, luckily one of my clients dropped a full army project or I don't think I will have time to even blog.

These are the Daemonettes for his Chaos Daemons army. I'm making it a dual 40k and Fantasy army. Obviously they are not done yet.

I'm also working on my Chaos Renegade Militia. Finally got some tanks up.

I've also started work on some of my Dark Elf characters. Really love these Avatars of War miniatures.

This is the sorceress from Avatars of War.

This is also another commission work from another client, luckily I don't have to paint his entire Dark Elf army, or I will have 2 Dark Elf armies to paint. I'm almost done with this Supreme Sorceress.

Don't forget, I also have to paint the terrain for the shop. I'm really churning out a lot of time to make sure the terrain for the shop is looking good. Especially when I have to make sure I have enough terrain for more than 4 tables, because players want to switch out terrain every once in a while.

Hope I can rush these things up as fast as possible!

Terrain Project - DIY Crater

This article was written by Wong, a local player at Comics Mart in Malaysia where we frequently play 40k. A little intro about him. He's a follower of the Imperium and he loves sharing with us his gaming ideas and funny thoughts that we enjoy a lot. He also makes terrain for us (thank you Wong!) and we always use his terrain for gaming. Everyone should appreciate their terrain maker!

Anyways, in this article, he will show us how he makes craters for us to use whenever a vehicle suffers a Vehicle Explodes result on the Vehicle Damage Table...

Wong: Firstly put. there has been a crisis of lack of crater in CM (Comics Mart) of late. Ever since 5th edition made vehicle better a slow but steady increase in Rhinos and Land Raiders alike jam, then the battlefield is like the Federal Highway during peak hours. When the fight starts and they start exploding in fashion, craters soon pop up everywhere; then soon we ran out of craters, and most will witness the miracle of teleporting craters and even deadly hinting craters i.e using big blast templates as one. :D

This is when I decided to try this out.

1. The main point of any DIY stuff is to be cost efficient and to use materials which are in abundance, what better way to use dead or old CDs eh? In addition, it is in the perfect size for a Rhino, Emperor be praised.

2. Using paperclay as the main modeling material for like a pack of RM 7 you can make 3 to 4 craters... If I am dead rich I will consider green stuff one day >:D

Note: It is a good idea to use real stone to create the stony texture

3. Rinse and repeat

4. Spray them brown.

5. Multiple layers of white glue + super glue for final finishing. Burnt soil of RM2 is enough for 50 craters and more... Most expensive part of the venture? Super glue. I would appreciate it if any of you can point me to a cheap source of it. :(

On field review (players in CM):
Jin Aun: "Cookie!"
Peter: "Add raisins for better taste."

Alvin: I would say, "It's cookie making time!!". Then the onslaught of vehicles will begin... The "cookies" were very well used nowadays since everyone had been happily destroying vehicles all over the place.

It's one very effective way of making terrain since craters are hard to come by, I mean the cheap ones...

Again, thanks to Wong for this Terrain Project and allowing me to share it to the rest of the world!