Terrain repairs "GW Desert table"

The Games Workshop Realms of battle Desert table.

It is showing wear and bald spots. The are indentations, craters, and chunks sticking up. This is mostly my fault. The initial layer for sand was wrong. I got so cheap sand from Home Depot. Not play sand, more like construction sand.

The sand was not uniform in size. It created a very uneven surface. Stands and model would be off balance and tip. The rough nature also was very rough on terrain and models. Some larger chunks stuck at odd angles and stuck up too much. Those broke off right away. There by creating holes.
Also half way thru I started to sift the crap out. Then the nozzle on the spray bottle clogged. It was not spraying, but shooting out a jet. The jet moved the base layer around, increasing unleved, crap surface.

The table has been around for about 2 + years now. In the condition that it is currently in and with little to do this week, it is time for repairs. The first step was to scrap the top genteelly with a paint stirrer. This would bust off the larger chunks sticking up and attached poorly. The surface was then brushed and vacuumed. The second step was to take FL beach sand, very fine sand to level the surface. I soaked the original layers with watered down white glue. Then using a shaker bottle coated it in the fine sand. The fine sand self levels.

I don’t want it totally flat and level, because ground just ain’t that way. Just level and flat enough that stands are not wobbling like drunken sailors.

The edge along the hills took a beating.

The 3rd step is matching the tiles to each other. 3 different home made flocking mixtures were used.

If you even do this, remember sand gets darker when wet. You will need to soak it. As in below, it does not look very desert more afghan like. Once it dries, which will take forever, everything will lighten up.

Terrain "The Rivers"

I had a bunch from long ago. Mostly purchased over many years at the HMGS Cons. All from Terrain Concepts, I think. Then maybe 4 years ago these rivers developed a limited availability.

While in Argentina I bought a collection that had a huge number of them. Plus some of the smaller and largest sizes. After returning to the states they surfaced. Now I got some time to finish them just before the Holiday BS starts.

The edges touching the water are flocked with the desert table base. The outer edge get the FW table green flock.

47 Additional river pieces completed. Now all the river sections are done and match. Next the Desert table repairs!

Warmaster Terrain

Right back onto the desert theme. Starting off proper with a fish tank pyramid.

The scale is ok for Epic. It is about 5 times too small for 10mm. Above it sits on a GW foam. It 5 28mm holes longhand 2 1/2 rows high. The thing could not be much bigger.
In true scale, it would be unplayable. At that size it would be the only thing on a table half. A 10mm dude on a camel should be pretty close to two-isn blocks tall.
It is not a great pyramid, It doesn’t have the 8 sides and the top is more representative of the bent pyramid. So my excuse is its a earlier bent pyramid.

Still I gave it the metal cap stone.

The oasis I got long long ago. It is one of the rubbery dudes. I mounted it to 2.5mm thick plastic card. I had to! The thing was overly flexible and I worried about how long a finished piece would last. If I was to pour resin water, would the resin pop out?

As always scale matters. Cheap china-men ebay palms. I did chop the truck and then buried them 1cm into the rubber dude. They are kind of close to proper height, but if they were true scale you would be knocking them over all game long.

Shogun magnetic bases. Why? Mostly because I want movement trays! They are based good enough to play and not feel like a cunt.

I am or my wife is rebasing my undead army. She was board and breaking my balls. I needed something she can’t mess up. Something to train her on. Sniffing glue helps with the realization that she is now doing my shit for me.

Movement trays sprayed with Army Painter. And hosed the sides of the magnetic bases. (thanks Eric) I got the lips as you can see.

Finally I have started the Araby army. None of which will be GW. That dude in Italy selling recasts and the rest of the eBay rapists can suck it. I am old glory and pendraken.

February is Game time.

The unpacking continues. Lucky me none of the paint blew up in the bags. Most every bag was double bagged. Still if one leaked that would have been the end of whatever was in that bag.

I need to put my ass to the grind. There are Zombies, scarecrows, snowmen, warmaster, buildings and IFs that need to be finished. As they were shelved as we left for Argentina.

The Blue Jackets from way back in September are still awaiting basing. Where did I put their guns?

Epic

GW Realms of battle

This was one of the tables snatched off eBay. I never did anything what it. While working on the City Table I got the bug to finish this one too. This time I stole the table idea from Luke’s youtube channel. I did not go totally desert on this one. This battle board needed to pull triple duty. warmaster, force on force, epic, maybe Africa/Sudan

Games Workshop battle board

5 dollar 25lb bag of sand from Home Depot, 2 cans of dark brown spray paint, dark green and spring green flock (hand mixed with the sand), spray bottle, and quart semi gloss poly. Everything was sprayed dark brown. Then poly was brushed on. A shaker was used to flock it. The sand was the cheap shit. After the first tile, I found out the rocks in the sand were way too big. The sand mix needed to be sifted.

All the holes the large rock created had to be fixed.

Dam Skulls

The skulls were filled in with the same method used for the city table. This time they look more like dried up watering holes.

Following the railroader method, the tiles were coated with watered down PVA 3 times. They say it keeps the flock in place and prevents it from being rubbed off. This beast will get a proper testing at HMGS’ Fall In.
If it takes damage, it ok. I have save enough of the sand mix to repair any damage. Plus the damage it takes will allow me to adjust my method.

Matching terrain pieces.