Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Terrain: Hillpocalypse 2

So if you know me, you know that I like to line up a bunch of things (usually they are the same of that thing) and bang out a project. I'll do up a bunch of one faction, or a type of model, or a single paint scheme across different types of models.

What I'm about to show you is terrain.

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Sure, the Ogrun Assault Corps in these pics are all there just for scale.



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In case you can't tell, the positioning of the Ogrun shows you that this particular hill is kind of small. The second stage of this hill is smaller than most of the rest of the pieces.

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With this "wider" style hill, I went for the kidney bean shape. Except that it's a long kidney bean.

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A little wider than my "small" hill. The Ogrun at least look like they have breathing room.

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The second stage on this hill was left deliberately small to emphasize the bottom part's length.

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I'm still not sure what the ideal size of a hill would be. This has enough room on both stages to fit even a large based model.

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Whereas hills like this feel small no matter what I try to do.

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I'm rather fond of this wider design.

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While I had to put some Ogrun on the ground to make this piece stand out in the pictures.

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I'm pretty sure I could put any kind of large base anywhere on this hill.

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And this hill has some iffy places for large based models.

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But I intend to make less of these kinds of hills as possible.

However, you won't see me bringing any of these hills to your house  for a game. They are now the property of Chicagoland Games the Dice Dojo. I've been trading terrain for Battle Engines, and I expect to get two Troll War Wagons in February.

3 comments:

  1. I don't knowwww... they look a bit 'form over function'. just use grey felt.

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    1. If you can't play on it, why should it be built? I'm all for hills that models don't fall off of.

      Also, felt doesn't do multiple elevations well and looks really boring.

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  2. DarkLegacy, I *think* xenite is kidding because he's the one who taught me to make hills like this and we have form vs. aesthetic discussions about terrain.

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