Collins Does Yavin IV Table Build

If anything stays in the jungle longer than 5 minutes then something else starts living on it.

as such I’ve started adding dirt and grime to this storage tank to make it look a bit more interesting.

the first thing I did was to add a brown wash to areas I thought would collect dirt, eg the top pooling area, certain side bits and the a few good streak marks. I then did the same in a more gentle fashion with a grime type paint (typhus corrosion). To make really dirty bits.

after that i used a green wash to add the effect of moss or general green plants starting to grow on the tank. Once it was all dry I protected it with Matt varnish and added two types of flock concentrating on using the darker shade and some small rocks.

finally I decided to make the tank have a small leak, could lead to some explosive fun in game if I so wished! The paint I used for this was nikolide oxide, a bright green technical paint, I was heavy handed about it too.

I think the scatter terrain looks good atm. The base on the mini shield generators is too big I feel so that might get redone.

the trees are just what the FLGS has on the tables at the moment, they are the worst scale in the world for legion but are good representations of woods for games. They will need changing for this as they aren’t jungly enough. Too much like a deciduous woodland.

So my life took over my time recently and I haven’t had time to make much progress on this project. I am not going to be getting it done in time for the end of the month. Still I shall carry on anyway as I plan to keep improving the tables at the FLGS.
For this section I planned to make this a removable piece so it could be used on several boards or removed all together. I started this with a piece of 3×3 foam that is only 1/2 inch thick. Its the same stuff Lloyd has used for a lot of his VLOGS just a lot thinner. I started by getting some cheap black paint and putting it in a bucket / washing up bowl (an old one so the wife doesn’t murder me) with some water. I then plunged the foam into the watery dark abyss. Its now sat out in the garden drying out.

So whilst my foam runway continues to dry I’ve started on making a simple temple section. I would really like feedback on how this looks people as I’m not convinced with my outcome yet.

So to add some detail

first I cut and glued using hot glue gun and then I washed the paper off the foam board. I recommend that if you do this you wash the paper off first and then glue it, will save you time and glue.

then I took a biro and drew on a pattern of smooth nitted rocks that are typical in Inca holy temples (very impressive, go look at some!)

then using cheap tester pots of paint from wilkos I painted a base colour and dry brushed highlights.

after that i made a wash using cheap brown paint and water which I splashed on all over. The idea being for it to pool in the recesses. It didn’t work as well as a proper shade but hey, this is terrain!

after the (heavy) wash I needed to bring back my original colour choices so that involved drybrushing the wilko paint back on.

finally I made a brown green wash with cheap paint and washed that onto the bottom of the piece and made splotches in other areas on the sides and top.

what do you think of it? I think it’s too brown, I’m thinking a yellow or sepia shade would have been better

As I mentioned before I was not happy with the brownishness of the temple once it was washed. So I made a brown and yellow wash which looked suspiciously like watery baby poop from a baby that’s not feeling well (yuck!).

i slapped the baby poop on my next test piece and made comparison. I have to say, I think I like it! Makes the temple look a lot more like the research images from post 1.

With two shades of grey from wilkos I started slapping it down. Firstly the darker shade in as even a fashion as I can. Then the lighter shade in a very haphazard fashion. The idea being to generate areas of light and shadow, or perhaps dry and dampness which you see a lot of in the jungle, or at least the jungles I’ve been in have always been very damp lol.

To work out the rough scale of the boxes for xwings I went to wiki and wookiepedia to figure out that an xwing is about 12.5m long, at a rough scaling of 1:54 that means that 1250 cm comes down to 23cm. So naturally I went for a nice round 25cm haha.

looks good enough for me but if I was to redo it I would make them more rectangular rather than square as y wings and u wings are much longer and would also use these parking spaces haha

As you will know I’ve been wanting to make this jungle. However since I’ve run out of time for the competition I’ve decided to rename the project to Collins does Yavin IV table build.  I still plan to continue with the project of course.

So let’s move onto building some jungle terrain specifically scatter.  Full disclosure none of this is new or innovative basically borrowed from the terrain tutor and his videos can be found here.

Ive been collecting bits throughout the month for these scatter pieces, mostly from wilkos and the range.

As you can see the aquarium plants are very bright greens whereas the garden plants are muted.

I’ll have to make some bases and most likely I’ll be building so wire trees with steel wool toppers. I hope that I’ll build them in a better scale for the wargame.

I started with a sheet of 6 mm MDF and cut it into many random shapes.  Then after that i used DAS modelling clay to add some bumps just like TTT did.

The trees were made by taking 1 mm garden wire and twisting it together. After that they were then cut and twisted again into different branch shapes, Eventually leading to single strands of wire, after that I hook was made using the last of the wire.

Once I was happy with the random  I then covered the whole thing in DAS modelling clay.  I used a sculpting tool to make bark like scratches in the DAS and left to dry overnight.

once dry the trunk and main branches were painted using a cheap brown house paint.