Scenery is definitely becoming a problem – so I decided to do something about it..

Like most people, no doubt I love Forgeworlds new Realm of Battle Zone Mortalis scenery but Hells Bells is it expensive – not very flexible and only one level. However – a friend of mine passed me some files for World Works Games scenery he’d bought and never used – so I had a go but they were flimsy, fiddly and not suitable and I like the thick walls in the Forge world ones. Ah well back to the drawing board..

So I did what I always do when stuck for ideas I trawled the net for inspiration and/or drink loads of alcohol – not necessarily at the same time.. However after lots of futile searching I came across this blog – Incunabulog and his ideas for building terrain from world Works Games Scenery and I loved the canals – so I zipped over to World Works Games (www.worldworksgames.com) and bought myself some Himmelveil Canals etc. – really high quality and dirt cheap – my idea of heaven –  Sad basket, I know!

So using some of the ideas from Incunablog I created my own buildings and rooms and the results were great – especially as I’m lucky enough to have access to a really good colour laser printer – consequently I made loads – and then stupidly noticed I had nowhere to put them…  So I slapped myself silly for a while – mildly entertaining, stacked them in the spare bedroom – to be mauled by the cat and kicked by the kids and went back to painting my chaos renegades.

Well I don’t know if it was the repeated blows to the cranium or leaving the project alone for a while but I had a revelation during the night – I didn’t leap up shouting eureka! – She who must be obeyed would certainly have objected to that – she’s not at all pleased the back bedroom is full of foamcore card buildings, but I did creep downstairs and jot my ideas down.. and this is what I came up with..

I like the Terrainlinx system for joining the tiles together – it’s a neat system – but I wanted thicker, chunkier walls so I thought of sticking the Terrainlinx tabs top and bottom to form T tabs for the base tiles and + tabs for the next floor. The walls to be made by sandwiching foam core card between two foam core walls with spaces for the tiles and pillars on one end, similer to the Forgeworld Battle zone tiles..

Next I took apart the scenery I had already made and using the Himmelveil Canals, Sewers and Streets packs and the Orbital Packs all from World works – I created the following … and I think it works all I need to do is work out doors etc and I’m laughing -well giggling slightly in a corner of my padded cell!!

I’ll post more as I do more

Happy Gaming