Gaslands Car Barriers

I had some spare crunched cars from my car barrier project three years ago. I wanted to make long and thin barriers so made these ten ones. They are the length of a long straight template and should make good lanes for vehicles to drive down in a race or demolition.

I cut the bases out of plasticard, as I already had the bashed cars. I did rough them up for painting ith a scrubby pad.

I used my dremel tool with rotary end.

It came out really good but I had to give it up because...

...I noticed small things hitting my safety glasses. They were the metal bristles!

I then used my mini grinder.

Here is a closeup of a car with the mini grinder.

I painted the plasticard with dark brown and swirled around lightly a lighter brown.

After I used Gorilla glue to put three to a strip, then came the wood stain mixed with water 5:1.

You saw the results in the first pic and here is a closeup. Do this outdoors and in the open air. Give a few days for the stain to dry and stop giving off fumes.

Terraforming Mars Big Box

I received my Terraforming Mars big box kickstarter! It ended July of 2020 so it only took a year to be designed, made, and shipped which is quite good. Below you see the base game and all the expansions that will fit inside.

It also came with 3D tiles for the game! What you see in the picture fits into the top two tiers of the box.

Here is a closeup of the tiles.

The greenery 3D tiles.

Here is the bottom two tiers holding all the other parts.

The Turmoil political boards as well as the indented player boards, Colony boards, player cubes, metal cubes, corporation cards and box, project cards with sleeves, miscellaneous tokens and first player token.

Here is a closeup of the first player token, the Pathfinder rover.

The metal cubes for keeping track of megacredits and recourses have a good weight.

Here are the trade fleets and turmoil expansion chairman seat.

I am looking forward to playing more of the expansions and regular games in solo mode or with friends.

Armorcast Japanese Wooden Bridge

I bought this over ten years ago and felt it could use some paint. It is an old Armorcast design when they used to do all kinds of terrain for different eras and generes. Its a Japanese wooden bridge and was painted with dollarstore paints (dark brown rough drybrush, brown drybrush, brown with yellow light drybrush, brown with more yellow lighter drybrush). Its made for 25-28mm scale but good for smaller scales.

Alien Artifact

Here is an alien artifact or high science device I made for use in small scale games. It will be used as a scenario objective or backdrop for a game. Even space games something big.

I created it with found parts that were going to be recycled at Pacific Mobile, who take hard plastics as they do not have recycling symbols for city recycling. It just goes to show what you can create with found objects.

TT Combat Sci-Fi X City Scenery

 I picked these TT Combat Sci-fi X city terrain items up from a local fellow selling his Dropzone Commander models, still in the packaging. More on Dropzone Commander later this year once I work on those models. It will fit a three by three foot table and with some of the other small scale terrain I have, I've got enough for a for a four by six table. It has taken a few weeks to put them all together and the online instructions on the TTCombat website are well done, although there are extra bits. Some items fitted tight enough to not need glue but most did. I have not painted them yet as I am still researching how to properly prime them, as I have not worked with MDF terrain much.

I will show overall pictures and then pictures of the individual sets provided by TTCombat.

Pictured with the scenery I've used 10mm Dropzone Commander Scourge models and Wizkids Mechwarrior 6mm mech/vehicles and 12mm infantry models I use for Horizon Wars. I think the scenery looks fantastic with the models. Very thematic. I will also be using them for Firestorm Planetfall and Bot War.

This is the City Accessories set. It includes overhead signs/traffic lights, fences, barriers, subway stairs, and news stands.

Helix Labs, perfect for places that have nastiness escape from.

With Brownstone Rows, you get four buildings.

With Westside Brownstones, there are two buildings in the set.

The back or side even has a fire escape! Cool.

Pythagoras Tower.

The Level Steel Steel Building.

Regal Financiers. 

If you do not glue the two together you can use them separately.

Lastly there is the HUGE Cradle Commerce.

Like the Regal Financiers building, if you do not glue the upper and lower portions together you can use them separately. 

Once I figure out the best way to prime them, I'll try to finish them before the end of the year.

Country Cottages

Nothing says a quiet countryside like thatch cottages. I cannot remember where I got them but these painted up quick with Dollarstore paints. They will make for nice objectives or solid terrain in wilderness games with small scale models, like these 6mm scale Wizkids Mechwarrior infantry.

More Trenches

I picked up these angled tranches from Miniaturemarket's Tiny Terrain series. 

They expanded on the ones I bought before and painted in 2019. They are good for small scale up to 25mm scale, as the 30mm Warmachine Swordknight looks a little big. I think I drybrushed them with a little too much yellow in the brown though. 

Armorcast Building

 An old Armorcast building I've had laying around for a few decades, made for Battletech scale games. Now I will use it for any small scale games. Painted with Dollarstore paints.

Even More Firestorm Planetfall Terrain

I've made some more purchases of Firestorm Planetfall items and with them came more terrain. They are made for 10mm scale and go together very nicely. Even though they are made of cardboard with plastic frames they hold up together very well. I have been expanding the amount I have over the years here last year and here in 2015.

Here they are with 6mm scale Wizkids Mechwarrior models that I have painted up for use with the Horizon Wars rules.

They also come with these items for utilizing connecting walkways between buildings and adding decorative features to the tops of the buildings.

Here are the buildings with 32mm scale Stormtrooper from the Star Wars Legion game and a 30mm Cygnar Swordknight for Warmachine.

Here they are with the 10mm scale Aquan Planetfall models. 

These should be great for any modern to future small scale miniature game.

Escape Pod and Crashed Escape Pod

Form Miniaturemarket's Tiny Terrain series is the Escape Pod and the Crashed Escape Pod. It is a good scale for and painted up quick. Perfect for Horizon Wars, Planetfall, Dropzone Commander, Bot War, or any 15mm scale or less miniature game. Could be used as a cramped single model escape pod for larger models too. They were painted with various Dollarstore paints.

This model is a little top heavy but can glue it to a larger base.

Elder Sign

Elder Sign is a one to eight player game set in the Lovecraft world of unknowable horror. I picked this up a while ago used for cheap at a gaming convention. The game ends when either the common enemy is defeated or the players are eliminated by reducing their mind or health to zero.

Here is the table after I finished the third solo game and managed to defeat the enemy. There are lots of items to keep track of, common in many Fantasy Flight made games.

The main opponent is drawn randomly at the start of the game. Each is different and can sometimes influence the game as it is being played or reserves its strength for fighting the players at the end. The end phase of the game takes place when their right side is filled with tokens, which happens as cards and events occur.

The character that you play is also random and each has different mind and health stats as well as special abilities and starting items.

As the game progresses you can use up and gain items to help you against the minor and major foe.

When attempting goals you have to succeed in tests, determined by a roll of the dice and usage of items and spells. If your first roll does not succeed then you can keep some dice and reroll the dice pool as long as you get more dice to succeed. If you fail to get any successes then you must discard one die and roll again. If you fail there is a penalty in the lower left, in this case two health damage and a token placed on the main foe. If you succeed then you get what is on the lower right and place token on the success board equal to the number in green on the left side of the card, two in this case.

This game is fun and captures the unknowable horror of the Chuthulu mythos.