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Stop Using Standard Terrain

January 18, 2019 ~ daedleh ~ 1 Comment

A long while back, I was very apprehensive about the RC providing recommended standard terrain heights for Kings of War. I felt that if they were to do that, then people wouldn’t play around with terrain heights and types and the variation from game to game would diminish in favour of the recommended standards. For … Continue reading Stop Using Standard Terrain

Rocky patches

June 30, 2017 ~ daedleh ~ Leave a comment

We're going to be making a simple piece of difficult terrain; a rocky patch. This is easy to make but gives you a good foundation in the core skills. All we're going to be using is some 25mm styrofoam, MDF for the base and your basing texture. Let's get started! 1. The initial base Make … Continue reading Rocky patches

Materials

June 30, 2017 ~ daedleh ~ Leave a comment

Well at the start of any major project, you need a shopping list. Here's a view of all the materials we're going to be using, minus paints (click for big):  

Texturing terrain bases

June 29, 2017 ~ daedleh ~ Leave a comment

Adding texture to a miniatures base is pretty simple - coat the base with PVA, dip it in some sand, done. This is fine for such a small surface area, but the larger the surface you want to texture, the more bland this becomes. This is especially a problem with terrain where you can often … Continue reading Texturing terrain bases

Making a terrain base

June 29, 2017 ~ daedleh ~ Leave a comment

Making a base for your terrain is the single most important thing to do. I keep banging on about the durability of terrain and I think generally people undervalue this, or take it for granted with plastic kits. Your terrain has to survive being dropped. It has to survive being thrown in a crate at … Continue reading Making a terrain base

Scenic basing tutorial

April 9, 2017 ~ daedleh ~ Leave a comment

This is one that I wrote a fair while back and shared as a Facebook album, but that doesn't seem to work too well. So here it is reproduced! What you'll need: 2-3mm MDF base (I buy mine from War-bases.co.uk) Some spare 2-3mm MDF (another base is perfectly fine) 10mm Styrofoam - not polystyrene! Also … Continue reading Scenic basing tutorial

3D printing is not the future

March 13, 2017February 18, 2019 ~ daedleh ~ 8 Comments

Has the "3D Printing is the future!!!!" hypetrain died down yet? Because it should have. I've been of the opinion from the start that it wouldn't take off in any huge fashion and having played around with it for 5 months, I'm absolutely certain. My Printer I own a DaVinci Mini by XYZ printing. It's … Continue reading 3D printing is not the future

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