This is the third battleboard I made for the Ronin
– Skirmish Wargames in the Age of the Samurai Campaign/Tournament on
this past weekend’s 10th
Annual Wargaming Birthday Bash/Winter Wargaming Weekend (and I’m sure
it will be used for many other games of Ronin and A
Song of Blades and Heroes!).
This terrain board is pretty
much flat and the terrain features are simply defined by the ground colours and
texture. The idea was to make something that looked like a clearing in a wooded
area that could be used for Duels (in Ronin
) or Dark Rituals (in A
Song of Blades and Heroes and other games) or ambushing enemy camps
or just chance meetings in the woods between antagonists in the middle of a forest
region.
(Remember: click on the pictures
for a bigger version):
Gluing down the sand and gravel
that mark out a part of the clearing where the grass has been trampled and worn
away by heavy travel and a few roads/pathways entering the clearing from
different directions.
This and all the battle boards
are really meant to be big modular terrain tiles. I will also be building 2x2
tiles and a bunch of 1x1 tiles – and so all of these roads exit and places that
would put them in the middle of a 1x1 tile as all the contiuous featres have
been designed to do (like roads or rivers) – just like in the River
Ford.
The second coat of (lighter)
brown. I also do a third coat of a very light brown (a tan colour, actually) to
just add a bit more highlights. But I waited until after I’ve done the grass
and stuff.
Gluing down the sawdust (that
makes the texture for grassy areas or woods). I press a LOT of sawdust into the
glue and then brush off the excess when it’s dry (or partly dry).
This if the first coat of paint
over the glued on sawdust brown areas represent areas of woods, green are areas
of clear ground.
After the final highlights with
trees in place. Unlike the Mountain
Pass the trees here are not permanently attached to facilitate ease
of storage and also so they can be moved out of the way to accommodate models.
Some Samurai and onlookers
gather for a duel in the clearing.
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
Another Terrain post (the Forest Swamp) and then the reports
of the weekends activities!
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