Started Terrain Project

It didn’t go well, the guy at Home Depot who cut my foam, got progressively worse, and to compound things, my foam cutter can’t cut 12 inches, I need one of the hot knife style ones I guess. So despite buying squares and using perfect 12*12 backing boards, my first two terrain tiles have some poor cuts.

I made the inside trench four inches wide instead of three because, it makes them more playable. I plan to put wood lining in all the trenches so that will make them slightly smaller, plus detail bits and firing positions will make them smaller. I wanted them big enough so terminator/nob bases would fit, at least mostly, but dreads, I don’t want dreads fitting into my trenches.

I also cleaned and sanded a bunch of resin. Got to use my Dremel some, but also exacto knife and sand paper. All and all not a very productive day, but I’m started. Tomorrow I will be painting things black, then adding details, then painting things black again. I’m going to make a couple tiles at a time. I need to make 24 in total to have the table done by Astronomi-con Vancouver.

I eventually started a dedicated miniature painting blog and I even finished a couple of terrain tiles then my life got worse. My miniatures, paints, models, and hobby supplies were in storage so long I wonder if I remember how to paint. I sacrificed years of my life to studying for the CFA® exams. I managed to pass them all. One day I’ll make terrain again, but likely not in 2022 and not until I move to a larger place, terrain projects especially an entire modular table take a lot of time and effort and space.

This entry was originaly posted on April 9th, 2010, it was last edited on May 1st, 2024 and is filed under: DIY, Hobbies, & Interests and tagged: 40K, Home Depot, Miniature Painting.