Cosmic Horror Terrain (Late Terrain Challenge)
Salvaging Terrain
When I got the rules I knew I wanted to play with painted minis and nice terrain, but I had no suitable terrain.
I hunted around and found stuff to use, convert or scratchbuild.
I have tried to do a tutorial on some of the bits and pieces. Hope it gives you some tips and ideas.
So here is my adventure.
I realised that I had a suitable house I could build, the Sarissa Precisian Post Apocolyptic House. Leaving off the hasty repairs/armour I could create a house that would still work for both 1920’s and PA.
Normally I would plank the outside but I am pressed for time, so I am doing more of a basic build, but I have still gone mad on little details as usual.
I did not take any early pictures of the house, but I built as instructed, adding internal door and window frames from .5mm x 5 mm teak strips from the Cornwall Model Boat Company, i always have this available, marvellous stuff), a back window ledge, worktop from leftover mdf sprue, and a canvas finish on the roofs using an old cotton shirt, and the ubiquitous teak wood strips. I will be doing a lot of weathering on the outside of building, which I will share with you
I found this Tractor on ebay, it is 1/43 1922 Fordson F by Hachette, I got this for £8.00 far cheaper than any resin model. I matt vanished it, gave the whole model a coat of Agrax Earthshade, and once dry an additional coat of Nuln Oil over the engine. I drybrushed up to Brainmater Beige, followed by scratchy edge highlight with a thinned down white. The wheels were drybrushed with progressively lighter shades of red, mixed to match the existing red. Some rust effects, a few additional details on the engine and the steering wheel were completed. All that needs doing is adding pigments to lower half and wheels.
Some existing tokens I finished off/rebased to be used as objective marker/clue tokens or just plain old set dressing.
Inspired by the axe in the tree trunk, I have utilised some sticks to make a log seat, a pile of large logs with a sawing station. And I have still to finish the small logs ready for the wood burner, just need to cut up lots of small logs, also need some to be stacked by the house.
For the saw I used a piece of photo etch sprue, to my mind it does not matter that one edge is not serrated as the piece will always be viewed from above and will not be noticed. The handles are two chair legs trimmed down, and then superglued together.Next I will be showing you how I built a wood burner from my bits box.
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