Battle Game Boxset Scenery

A simple generic piece of terrain to be used on a multitude of gaming boards.

Materials

Games Workshop Lord of the Rings scenery
Old CD
Rapid set filler (or equivalent)
Green stuff (or equivalent)
Textured paint
Sand, small rocks, etc.
Chaos Black
Scorched Brown
Bestial Brown
Bubonic Brown
Codex Grey
Fortress Grey
Bleached Bone
Skull White paint (or equivalent)
Static grass
Hobby plant terrain, etc.

Step 1

Take an old CD and cover the hole in the middle. Figure out roughly where the scenery pieces will go, ensuring that figure bases can move between the pieces. Mix some rapid set filler with water to make a runny consistency and apply to the uncovered hole side of the CD. Cover this with sand, small rocks etc. Try to avoid the area that you want the scenery pieces to go with the rocks. Press the scenery pieces onto the sand covered mix to leave an indentation and then remove. By doing this it allows the scenery pieces to sit more naturally on the terrain piece, while allowing the filler to maintain its natural contours.

Step 2

While the filler is drying prepare the GW scenery pieces. Clean up all flash and mould lines as you would a miniature. Mix some green stuff and fill the rear column cavities. Get a fairly smooth even surface to try and match the plastic surface. Using a rock, "stress" the surface of the putty. By gently pressing a rock onto the putty it will result in a more natural looking surface. Using your model knife/sculpting tool, match the brick lines on the rest on the scenery piece with your green stuff.

Step 3

When the putty and filler are dry, glue the scenery pieces to the base, matching your indentations. After this has dried, paint the GW scenery pieces with your textured paint. Rather than paying $60.00 AUD for a 4 litre pot of the Render Effects paint, I bought a sample pot of Dulux Sand swept paint (essentially paint with sand in it) a much cheaper and more subtle texture. Once dry, undercoat with Chaos Black.

Step 4

Drybrush the ground using Scorched Brown, Bestial Brown, Bubonic Brown and Bleached Bone for the dirt areas and Codex Grey, Fortress Grey and Skull White for the rocky areas.

Step 5

Drybrush the walls using Codex Grey, followed by Fortress Grey. Next, wash the walls with a 2:1:4 blend of Brown Ink:Dishwashing Liquid:Water. After this has dried, lightly dry brush the walls with Bleached Bone and Skull white, concentrating around the edges and highest points of the walls. If you want to add weathering to your walls, now is the time to do it. I don't do this step simply because I haven't come up with a technique that I think looks good.

Step 6

Flock the ground in a style to match the rest of your collection. Whenever I create scenery, I tend to make it fairly generic so I can use it in any of the game systems that I play.

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