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Joined: Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:00 pm
Posts: 2277
Location: Suffolk, United Kingdom
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Hello! 
So, I'm in France, which means I can get started making terrain for our Wargaming facilities, huzzah! ?Here I'll detail Epic and 6mm sci-fi specific pieces I shall be making. ? I wanted to start by making the actual boards (I'm making 12 for our planned start up which will be in September), but so far I've found it difficult to get hold of any which are the right size; I need 6 foot by 4 foot, but the nearest I've found is one DIY place which sells them at 8 foot by 3 foot ?
Anyway, before I show what I have been doing, here's a shot of my terrain making loot, accumulated over 18 months of steady hoarding and eBay splurging 
Lots of 40k Cities of Death stuff, platformer stuff for Urban War, trees, jungle plants, various junk (essentailterrain making ingredient!); but you've probably spotted the Epic 40k boxes, these have got plastic ruined buildings & sprues for Epic. ?The shoe box on top contains loads of the plastic & cardboard Epic buildings (my thanks again to Otterman for his help in replacing my collection of these which got stolen!).
Anyway, probably because Epic has become my first love in terms of model making, I couldn't wiat to get started on Epic terrain. ?I've been accumulating some CoD pieces, some Necromunda plastic bulkheads, and some of the Epic ruin pieces - with these I will make a terrain centre-piece, an Imperial Governer's Palace/Fortress. ?I started getting stuff together for this on Friday night, but after spending two hours cutting Epic Ruins & Necro Bulkheads to shape I decided I was probably getting ahead of myself - I need to get a good selection of 'generic' terrain before I move on to the big stuff.
So I've been starting to put together some ruins:
THis shot shows the general morass of Epic Ruins, CoD stuff and bulkheads. ?I've also been cutting squares from foamboard upon which I'll be mounting the ruins & buildings - this is pretty tedious & time consuming when it's being done in the quantity I'm going to be making! ?After taking this picture I started sticking ruins to some bases, I'll post some pics of my work later this week.
In the meantime I thought I would tantalise everyone with promises of forthcoming projects as part of this whole Epic Terrain marathon:
- lots of woods
- lots of jungles
- lots of ruins (ha!)
- city blocks
- defensive structures
- Industrial/Factory type stuff
- and some set pieces: the Governer's Palace, a Command Bunker, a Space Port, an Ad Mech Titan Factory, amongst other things.
So despite the paucity of pictures in this first post, I hope that this thread will provide great entertainment and inspiration for other Epic model makers. 
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