Making Wargaming Terrain? Terrain Tutor’s Book A Must Have! + WIN 40K Dark Angels #OTTWeekender
February 5, 2021 by brennon
This week on the OTT Weekender! Having trouble making wargaming terrain? We look at the Terrain Tutor's new book, a must-have for hobbyists. You can also win a Dark Angels Codex & Combat Patrol!
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#PathOfConquest Painting Competition Winner
We look through some of the shortlist for the Path Of Conquest Painting Competition and pick our winner.
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Indie Of The Week
We get a look at the new Terrain Essentials book by Mel "TheTerrainTutor" and Dave Taylor which looks to be a must-have for any hobbyist making wargaming terrain.
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There is plenty in there to help you with wargaming projects from across different genres and time periods. Are you going to pick it up?
Tabletop Gaming News
Here is some of the wargaming, tabletop and miniatures news this week which caught our eye and made us go "ooooh!"
- Mythic Americas From Warlord Games - Play as the First Nations, Aztecs, Mayans and Incas with this new Warlords Of Erehwon spin-off
- Monster Hunter World Board Game Preview - Look ahead to this new Kickstarter from Steamforged Games
- Victory At Sea New Releases - Playout massive engagements between the British and Germans with these new releases
- Wargames Atlantic Lizardmen - Miniatures which fit into Fantasy, Pulp and Sci-Fi wargames
- New Warhammer Board Games - Three new board game to use as entry-level products for those wanting to play Warhammer
- Total War: Warhammer III Announced - Kislev, Grand Cathay and more announced for this new Old World, Warhammer Fantasy Battles video game
Let us know if something from this week made you "oooh!" and if we missed anything!
3D Printing Is The S**T!
We take a look at two Patreons which are offering up a selection of fun miniatures for you to 3D print at home.
- Dance Of The Vampires By Raging Heroes - A stunning array of new Vampire miniatures to print at home.
- Dungeon All-Stars Monsters by Warploque Miniatures - Pick up a new selection of fun creatures for D&D, Pathfinder and more
Let us know if there are any 3D Printing Patreon projects which we should be looking at in the future.
Tabletop Gaming Kickstarters
See what you make of these fundraisers we've picked out from this week on the funding platform...
- CoraQuest - A game for all the family packed with dungeon-delving adventure
- GRIDWARS: Age Of Cyberpunk - A fully printable wargame for the Sci-Fi future
Let us know if you'll be checking out these projects in the comments down below.
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Happy weekend everybody!
Looking forward to the new GW releases, but you can’t beat having great terrain to play games and provide a setting for beautifully painted minis. ??
happy weekender guys
A Happy Weekender everyone. Mythic America does seem to be heading in the right direction and I’m a fan of the tribal nation set although I’m not a fan of the zombies but look forward to further expansions. Always happy to see my patron backing is allowing Warploque to turn out great sculpts and a lovely 50% off every month is always welcome but I think I might well be taking a closer look at CoraQuest as a post lock down gift for mates boy who I think would have a fab time with this clever little game.
Another weekend… by my calculations I’ve had well over 3,000! I always look forward to the next one though…
Nice to see Mel’s book in print.
+1 for terrain essentials. It’s a great achievement, great technique and … well it’s Mel on a page.
I do like the idea of a concise terrain book. Are there going to be non-English versions of it?
my gut feeling would be no, having talked to larger companies like Mantic, the struggle they have getting foreign language versions along with the costs mean for a two-man outfit it’s probably beyond reach
It is not the text itself, but the names of the tools, devices and materials people may have problems with when reading the English version. And with people I mean, for instance, myself.
However, if there are pictures of everything being used it will be fine: Go to a DIY in my country, show the picture, and: “I want that.” That´ll be funny.
I know what you mean, even between english speaking parts of the world it can be difficult. It took me months to work out that spackle means ready mixed plaster wall filler. However, the discord is a good place to ask things like that as it’s a fairly spread out bunch
@jemmy I’ve got the same ‘problem’.
for what it is worth : there are plenty of pictures in the book of all the tools and materials.
A lot of it looked familliar even though it had english names.
And I think most of it should be available in a (good) DIY store.
If you’ve got arts & crafts type of stores in your area then they probably will have the stuff you can’t get at the DIY store like DAS clay and Modge podge.
Maybe there’s a gap in the market for an IKEA inspired pictures-only assembly guide 😀
Ha. The weekend starts now!!
Oeh. My brother would love the Dark Angels set.
He just started his Primaries army.
These would go great with it.
Looking forward to buying Mel’s new terrain book.
“but these Fokkers were Messerschmitts”
Ooh its show time.
Wow all the figures are fabulous looking congratulations everyone.
Boobs! … no, wait, that was the other YouTube video…
So much book to read… why didn’t we make Terrain Essentials the book for the book club @warzan ?
Good thinking warren with all the holidaymakers having to stay in hotels when they come home ?
So Gerry, what would be your pick of mini to represent Jon Shannow?
not sure, from the Black Scorpion range maybe an Earp, there are some nice minis from Dead Man’s Hand, Clint from Pale Rider could work well. I think he needs the long coat with magnetic collar and twin pistols. Then either bearded or clean shaved, a lot have tache’s which would require fixing. Wargames foundry have some that could do the job and also most come as mounted and foot figures. It will require more thinking.
Black Scorpion do have a long-coat wearing, clean-shaven 7th Cavalry “Deputy” that might suit. Only issue might be no hat and he’s clearly wearing a uniform under the long coat. It’s tricky as Shannow has a very specific look to him, gunslinger and preacher, that is not too terribly common. Has got me thinking though – it’s surprising that no one has really tapped into Gemmell’s works for inspiration on the tabletop. I know Kev from Hasslefree has an excellent take on Druss (one I’ve brought multiple times), but I’ve never really seen anyone take a stab at his other… Read more »
The last of the Mohicans verses the last of the Romans?
I sailed to Iraq on HMS Ark Royal. Flew by Sea King to the Al Faw Penninsular, fought, and was awarded a mention in dispatches.
40k is all the way 🙂
I don’t say Blaa blaa Blaa Lol
Woo Ho nice one guy’s
I demand: End the week now!
A timeline for Warren https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191736674.timeline.0001 Olmec begin about 1200 BC Stepped pyramids, giant heads 1000 BC Chávin de Huántar becomes the centre of the first Olmec civilization of south America Zapotec continue Olmec civ 400 BC centred on Monte Alban Nazca (those giant desert pictures) 200 BC Mochica (fancy pottery) 200 BC Zapotecs 150 BC Maya civilization begins 50 BC Teotihuacan, the dominant city in the northern highlands of central America, introduces the god Quetzalcoatl Wari 700 AD Sican 800 AD Toltecs 950 AD The Mayan city of Chichén Itzá is captured by the Toltecs 987 The Aztecs settle on… Read more »
Very handy 🙂
At what point did the Ancient Aliens show up? I keep seeing them mentioned on the Discovery Channel. 8)
must be before 1000 BC, stepped pyramids come in then and are clearly UFO landing pad or recharge stations and they’d have needed a while to get the ancient unions on board 8)
It’s the Weekender! ??
Friday Night sat watching the Weekender, beer in one hand, Painting my Frostgrave terrain with the other.
Now thats a good start to the weekend.