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I'm interested in buying a Johana now that there should be a few more of them around. Preferably in Australia, but I'd consider anywhere if the price is reasonable. Thanks!

That's understandable, it's the reason I opted for thin basing also! Here's a picture of the finalised board, I ended up with too much terrain, so the fences are missing for this set up, but extra is always good!

This styrene is probably the best trade off between sturdiness and thickness I've found, but you can get it in a whole range of thicknesses, so maybe a thicker version would work for you? I opted against the fire place because I wanted to create an abandoned feel for the board, and so I opted out of any man-made pieces that didn't look a little decrepit. A few of those options also went through my brain, and I may have a go at them if time permits, but for now I'm just sticking with a few simpler bits. Here's a couple more pieces updated: Scatter terrain painted up and ready to go! The next two are both height 0 hazardous and severe terrain respectively. Neither are particularly exciting unfortunately. The hazardous piece is meant to be kind of decaying land, I'll add a few gravestones in I think as well, just to give it a bit of a rotten air. The severe piece is just thick grass. I really just wanted them to not get in the way of placing the models down, but I think they could be better. Let me know what you think! It's all just about over now, next lot of pictures will likely be the final product!

Thank you Viagrus! I was considering doing a mine cart and bits of track to give the board a little more flavour, but then I quickly realised that it didn't take that much terrain to cover a 3x3 board! The idea is currently in the "if there's room" pile. Those barrels and crates actually aren't Hirst Arts! They were made by someone from my local (local in Australia - hah) club. I was under the impression that he sculpted them himself and then molded them, but I looked up the Hirst Art set and they look almost exactly the same! Maybe he used their's as basis for his but I'm not sure. Yeah I would really like to incorporate some hazardous terrain into my board but the ideas I have just aren't coming to life. I also was going to do a fire, but it just isn't going to happen I don't think. Best of luck in that endeavor, I'd love to see the final result! The styrene sheet is half a millimetre thick (.02"?), and it is a little flimsy. It pretty happily sits so long as the weight of the piece on top of it is equally distributed to the amount of sheet. For instance, the side of the burned down house without the wall has suffered much more warping than the other side. I presume this is happenng because of the difference in weight. Otherwise yes it is pretty good, and relatively cheap.

Sorry for the slow reply, been busy at uni! The bases are made from styrene sheet I ordered from eBay, but if you're America you can probably get it in store somewhere. An update with some bits and pieces of scatter terrain for the board, all height one terrain for lane blocking and cover. After this is too smallish pieces of height zero terrain, one severe and one hazardous, then a few lengths of height two terrain, and a couple of scatter hazardous pieces and it's all done!

Looking pretty good! The shadowing on the vest is especially nice, well done!

That all looks both very beautiful and very tedious! I applaud your patience! The cobblestone looks great, is it all nice and flat? Or a little bumpy? I also really like the look of the stone bricks, are the coloured tiles just the side of boxes with pictures on them? It actually looks really good in the pictures, like textured stone. Are you leaving them like that or will it all be coated and painted? Interested to see how this goes!

I might try to mix up some mud, but I don't really want to buy anything else and I don't have gloss medium. I do have water effects, maybe that'd work? Added a few single trees for scatter terrain: Unfortunately most of the interesting bits of terrain are built now! I'll get a few more full board shots soon though, and when I'm all done I'll take some good pictures with a real camera! Any ideas for scatter terrain are appreciated!

Cake looks well painted! Rayquaza's looking cool, is it actually made with a Dawn Serpent model or is that something else? If you run the yellow paint back over the centre or edges of the chain pattern on its body you'll also get a brighter little feature on it that will pop a bit more! Don't forget to try playing with the green stuff just after it's cured, that can be a good time to learn how to cut straighter edges into it with a hobby knife! Keep up the theme!

I have gone with two mid sized forests, and I will also make some single trees too thanks for the suggestion Lusciousmccabe! And the compliments also! I will also probably make one more piece of severe terrain that isn't forest, preferably a Ht 0 piece, I was thinking mud too, but I'm not sure I have the materials too make it look good. I'll think on that one. Yes Gremlin Guy you are correct that is why it looks funny! It all makes sense, but it's also too late for me to want to try and repaint it! Next time I will be prepared though. Here's the forests I made, no work in progress pictures sorry. I tried to keep it mostly flat, and not too cluttered so it didn't get in the way of play, but it will count as severe, dense, and soft cover. Also if I wanted to have bigger forest...

That shack looks painstaking! Really awesome, but painstaking! How long does it take you to pen in all the wood grain? Tree is looking pretty nice too, will look good with all the foliage!

I actually went looking for that insulation foam but couldn't find it, this was a few years ago now though. Oh well, I lived without! Interesting idea for the burnt look! I didn't even think of that, I ended up painting it instead, but that would have been interesting to try (may burn down my house though). Here's the end result: Just for you Gremlin Guy, here's the mine: And an update on the breadth of coverage for the board: With all this done it's time for a few mid-sized pieces and the scatter terrain! I wanted to have some forest pieces in for severe terrain, but they may be a little too big considering how much room is left. I'll either have to alternate is forests and buildings, or just make the forest bases smaller. Any idea on which would be better?

Hey guys! Thanks for the comments! Yeah I've made do with what I can find here in Australia, and you definitely can, it's just not quite as simple as it may be elsewhere! We don't really seem to have hobby shops or game shops almost at all, and the ones that do exist get such poor business that usually hyper inflate the prices of everything. It's a shame, but can be worked around. The bases are made of styrene sheet, sometimes called plasticard, which is just basically sheet plastic. The stuff I'm using is 0.5mm, but thicker would probably be fine or maybe better. It does warp a fair bit, but it bends back fairly easily too. It mostly seems to have issues with PVA glue, but I've been able to twist it back to shape or put heavy things on it and flatten it out. Spray paint didn't warp it at all. I will try to make the fire damage look a little less like water damage, thanks for the tip!

Thanks for the tips guys! I may put a bit of roof on, but I was trying to avoid for ease of access. We'll see how things look when I get done. Gremlin Guy your buildings take a lot more effort than mine do, so take your time! Here's an update on my attempt at fire damage, not quite as good the one in the tutorial, but not too bad. And also the mine entrance I'm also working on simultaneously. What does everyone think?

Ah okay, are you not going to use all the other terrain for the board?

Looking pretty good! Lots of terrain on that board! You need a bit of scatter to fill in the gaps though! That brickwork is also fantastic, great work for a scratchbuild! Keep it up!

That is actually a really good idea, consider it taken! Thank you very much!

Thanks Gremlin Guy, I appreciate the motivation! Here's a little update on the next piece, and one of the last larger pieces I will make. It's another building, and probably the last one I'll build. It's quite a bit smaller than the other, and a lot more to scale! The unfortunate of that however is that with all the walls up it is too small to comfortably fit your hand inside, so I decided to knock down half the walls and make it open for ease of play. Now I actually built all four walls before realising this, so the two that are up look relatively intact and I'm not sure I'll be chop them up much now that they are glued and stained. So I need some other options for making it look a little damaged. I'm going to throw around a bit of snapped wood to give the impression the other walls have rotted or been knocked down. I'm thinking I'll put up some thicker mould or rot stains on the standing wall too give it an illusion of being more destroyed than it is. Any other ideas?

Thanks Sigmar! I actually had a similar problem on the hair as the pants, found it difficult to highlight up from brown. I think I did better on the hair on the pants, and it's a little more noticeable in person than in this picture, but considering that I've got a couple of suggestions to fix it up I will have try a bit harder next time. Thanks for feedback always good to know! I think I may be mixing my browns in a way that isn't very complimentary, I'm not sure. Most of the darker brown on these models began as a out of the pot dark brown (GW Scorched Brown) and was highlighted up with a mixture of the same brown and varying amounts of cream (GW Bleached Bone). Often I feel like cream is the wrong colour to lighten it with, but I can never seem to find a better alternative either.

Thanks guys! I've been working fairly hard to get my skin tones looking right so I appreciate the comments! I am also very rarely happy with my brown tones, especially dark brown, I'm really not sure what colour to highlight it with. On top of that, the pigment in my browns always splits in the palette after a few minutes and needs remixing. Any tips on using brown tones?

I think most of the sticks I am using actually are coffee stirrers, although I put them in a big pack and they just called them craft sticks, but they look about the right size. I actually tried my sprue cutter, but it didn't work very well. I think it might be a little small for the job! It is also a little difficult to get specialised tools here in Australia, not a lot of support for hobbyists, especially outside of the big cities! Davicus I also thought the shelves were a lot smaller, I completely forgot to check for scale! Even once I'd realised they were probably a bit big I didn't expect them to be so ginormous! Luckily at least that shelves could be that big, so it's not too jarring. Here's an updated shot of how much coverage I've got so far with the terrain. It's actually taking up a lot more than I expected! So I might be able to get this done a lot quicker than I thought I would!

The house is all coming together! Looks great! What did you use for the carpet?

Thanks Ruki! Yep the hats are made entirely of green stuff, they were my first ever entire sculpts made from screen stuff, pretty happy with how they turned out. The hair on the back of their heads is also sculpted in. Viktoria on the right was painted to significantly earlier than Viktoria on the left too, you be able to tell that I started trying to learn to paint metals correctly during that time!

These are all very well painted! The lines are very defined, it's an interesting style! I especially like the dark purples on Mr. Tannen and Mr. Graves. Overall it all looks very well done, there really isn't much to complain about! And your photography looks good, but not your lighting! Maybe try some pictures in the daylight, and if no luck there you might need a few desk lamps. Well done!

The old metal Ronin are some of my favourite models in the entire Malifaux range. The western theme is probably my favourite genre Malifaux fits into! As of yet I have only painted two out of three of them, and I am pretty happy with both! I tried a few new things on them with mixed results. On this one I tried out making a patterned hat, it's supposed to look like a straw hat and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I also attempted free hand on the back of shirt, but it failed miserably and I spent a fair amount of time layering cream back over it, which was a little sad! On this one I painted the two tonal colours in large portions for the first time, the hair I think came out great for a first attempt! And the white jacket I am also pretty happy with, it didn't picture as well as it looks in person, but could still probably be a little better. I had a hard time shading it, I tried using grey-blues but it was more difficult than I thought it'd be. I also hadn't quite finished the base on this one before I took the picture, and I bent the sword a little straighter also (which is also painted a little lackluster). Any comments or criticisms are appreciated!