For the early part of the new year I had a plan to slowly build up a collection of terrain to match the Universal Terrain Table from the new SAGA book of battles.
As it turned out both Meredith and I were feeling rather sick so we decided to postpone our trip to Kitchener to visit some friends so I decided to get a start on the project. I had some Woodland Scenic trees and decided I would go with foamcore bases. I had always been a bit reluctant to use foamcore because it is not the most durable but I realized that foamcore was good enough and was within my ability / available tools to actually do something with it.
I cut foamcore into the appropriate square for all the non-hill pieces (they would be made from styrofoam) and started carving the foamcore for the forests.
The bases for the trees were glued down (I had thought of using magnets but again decided that the theme for this terrain build was just to get it done, I would just glue them -- There is enough space to put figures around the trees without too much trouble and if it does prove to be a pain in play I can build another set of woods sometime in the next decade!)
I used latex housepaint (the blue is from a D-DAY beach piece I did quite a while ago) to bind some sand to the base to add some texture
The peices were primed and painted with some brown and green to have some background colour. I was happy / surprised with the progress I was making so I made two marsh pieces as well which were brought up to the same stage.
Next some flock / static grass was added to bases -- the very green flock was added around the ponds in the marsh before I poured in the resin water.
The water has been poured into the marsh and the trees put on the forest bases -- I have also started the field pieces, I made furrows in drywall patching compound which seemed to work well.
Some highlighting on the fields and the marshes are flocked (and the two last pieces of foamcore waiting to be carved)
The flock is added to the fields and finished on the marshes.
The last 4 pieces (hill, rocky hill, rocky ground and ruins) have been assembled and sand added. Hopefully I will get them primed before the end of the Christmas holiday. Even if I don't get further, I have made much more progress than I expected and our next SAGA will have a lot more terrain choice.
