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| Author: | Parintachin [ Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Terrain for TRC! |
Hi guys Here's our rapidly growing Epic terrain set:  And here it is with my friend Mads in the background, wearing his best 'nononono! Not me, the TERRAIN ffs' face .. He's responsible for getting me into Epic and 6mm wargames in general, and for most of the terrain seen. 
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| Author: | mango2 [ Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Terrain for TRC! |
cool, looks like you have alot of storage with heaps of cupboards i have just been looking into terrain and checking out the free cardboard terrain and wondering if it will do for nice cheap terrain so i can spend more $$$ on the models 
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| Author: | Legion 4 [ Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Terrain for TRC! |
Very nice !!!! |
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| Author: | Parintachin [ Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Terrain for TRC! |
Most of the walls are lined with cupboars indeed. Membership means you get a cupboard or two for armies and tools dice and stuff.. It's a great place; love to hang out there (o: |
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| Author: | mango2 [ Mon Jan 30, 2012 10:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Terrain for TRC! |
Parintachin wrote: Most of the walls are lined with cupboars indeed. Membership means you get a cupboard or two for armies and tools dice and stuff.. thats a really cool idea! |
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| Author: | Parintachin [ Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Terrain for TRC! |
I would steer clear of the paper terrain. Terrain is fairly easy to make, and all it takes is open eyes and a little imagination. That multitiered blueish building front left in the bottom picture? A couple plastic wrappings filled out with plaster, placed on top of each other, given a few spare bitz, and painted. The one to the right of it? $1 tube endings from the local hardware store, cut off the thick ends, placed on a base and painted .. Other things: 40k fuel drums, coca cola bottle tops, aluminium mesh for wire fencing and barbed wire .. I doubt we'd've saved much time making them from paper printouts, but there'd be loads more frustration, and the end result would look like paper cutouts, and much less sturdy than this. And best of all: It was good fun (o: |
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| Author: | Lord Aaron [ Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Terrain for TRC! |
nice looking stuff! now THIS is the kinda stuff I love seeing on this site! gets me inspired to make stuff for my self. The only thing I gota say is you guys need to get a sheet of plastic card for the bases, it dosnt warp like most things, easy to work with and fairly cheap if you buy a large sheet (4x8 is like 30$ and thats the thick stuff) I do all my terrain on it and you can use the left over scraps as bases for objectives and other odds and ends. oh and if u need more epic like ruins pm me... |
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| Author: | Parintachin [ Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Terrain for TRC! |
PLasticard is indeed great stuff - I use it for bases for my eldar skimmers, among other things Those bases are MDF though; we stopped past the local hardware store and had the dude precision cut all of these bases and more to spare - we haven't used any of the large ones yet. All those bases, plus a few extras, cost us about $40, and MDF doesn't warp. Steer clear of cardboard .. |
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| Author: | Spectrar Ghost [ Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Terrain for TRC! |
MDF does indeed warp, but to nowhere near the extent of cardboard. Paint shinks as it dries, so most flexible materials will warp if painted on only one side due to uneven loading. Painting both sides will equalize the loading and prevent or minimize warping, however. |
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| Author: | netepic [ Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Terrain for TRC! |
I used plywood instead of MDF. Have yet to assemble it though, will update you with the results  .
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| Author: | Parintachin [ Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Terrain for TRC! |
You're right, of course, spectrar, but not enough to make it a problem; in 20 years of making terrain I've never had to discard a mdf base .. |
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| Author: | Spectrar Ghost [ Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Terrain for TRC! |
Here I am being pedantic, and somehow I thought you said hardboard. Seems difficult to do when I actually wrote MDF. I agree, MDF almost never warps noticably. I've seen warping on hardboard, which is of course less dense and more flexible. |
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| Author: | EpicBattleBaggz [ Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Terrain for TRC! |
Want to see more!
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