Manda’s (Amachan) Gaming Table

Here is both my second small woods and large woods completely finished.

The woods were done in the same way as I did the previous one. The only difference is that in this I added a couple of logs and some tree stumps around. The painting for those was the same as I did for my trees. Links to the individual entries down below.

This is my steep hill for my gaming table.

For this steep hill I started with a piece of ePVC foamboard, cut and bevelled it to the size I wanted for this piece of terrain. I then glued a couple of pieces of cork bark in a slight circle to form the cliff edge of the steep hill. I cut to shape a piece of expanded polystyrene to fill in the centre and filled in little gaps with off-cuts from the expanded polystyrene. I cut and sanded the polystyrene flat and into a shape that I wanted and then went over it and filled it in and sealed it up with filler and smoothed that out with a wet cloth. Once dry I added some rocks, sand and debris to hide unnatural areas and generally improve the look.

I primed it using a black aerosol primer because aerosol primers don’t get absorbed as much by the cork bark as normal paint would. I then basecoated the piece with Vallejo Surface Primer German Red Brown (73.605), this will be my new basecoat colour going forward with my terrain. You can see that in areas the filler did not fully seal up the polystyrene and the aerosol melted little holes in the piece, don’t worry, these won’t be visible in the end.

To start of is an overbrush of Vallejo Model Color Basalt Grey (70.869) over all the stone and followed by a coat of Secret Weapon Wash Algea (W013). I then applied a drybrush of Vallejo Model Color Medium Sea Grey (70.870) followed by a lighter drybrush of Vallejo Model Air White Grey (71.119) over the stone.

A baselayer of 3 tones of flock went down as I did before. Once that was dry and I shook off the excess I started little tufts and clump foliage in and around the cliff.

I used this video by TheTerrainTutor as my guide on how to make this piece of terrain.

This is my rocky ground for my gaming table.

For this rocky ground I started with a piece of ePVC foamboard, cut and bevelled it to the size I wanted for this piece of terrain. I then glued pieces of cork bark down on the base to form the rocks. I filled in most of the base around the rocks with filler and smoothed it out with a wet cloth. Once dry I added some rocks, sand and debris to hide unnatural areas and generally improve the look.

I primed it using a black aerosol primer because aerosol primers don’t get absorbed as much by the cork bark as normal paint would. I then basecoated the piece with Vallejo Surface Primer German Red Brown (73.605), this will be my new basecoat colour going forward with my terrain.

To start of is an overbrush of Vallejo Model Color Basalt Grey (70.869) over all the stone and followed by a coat of Secret Weapon Wash Algea (W013). I then applied a drybrush of Vallejo Model Color Medium Sea Grey (70.870) followed by a lighter drybrush of Vallejo Model Air White Grey (71.119) over the stone.

A baselayer of 3 tones of flock went down as I did before. Once that was dry and I shook off the excess I started little tufts and clump foliage around the rocks.

This is the Runed Pentagram Altar from Fenris Games.

This is the Runed Pentagram Altar from Fenris Games. I started with a 100mm MDF base, I bevelled the edges and sealed it using filler. I then glued it to the base. I smoothed the transition between the resin piece and the base with some DAS modelling clay.

I primed the whole model in black and painted it with a coat of Vallejo Model Air Rust (71.080) with my airbrush.

The stonework first got an overbrush coat of Vallejo Model Color Basalt Grey (70.869) and then a coat of Secret Weapon Wash Algea (W013). After this I applied a heavy drybrush of Vallejo Model Color Medium Sea Grey (70.870). In hindsight I should have waited longer for the wash to fully dry before doing this. I then applied a drybrush of Vallejo Model Air White Grey (71.119) over the stonework.

I basecoated the skulls in Vallejo Game Color Bonewhite (72.034) and then coated them with Vallejo Game Color Sepia Shade (73.200). After this was dry they received a drybrush of Vallejo Game Color Bonewhite (72.034). I basecoated the main alter in Vallejo Game Color Tinny Tin (72.060) and the snakes in Vallejo Model Color Bronze (70.998) and then followed that up with a coat of Citadel Shade Athonian Camoshade (99189953024) and when dry followed up with a drybrush of Vallejo Game Color Bright Bronze (72.057). Now a coat of gloss varnish for protection and a coat of anti-shine to remove the shine of the gloss varnish.

I covered most of the base, at least where I wanted flocking, in a watered down coat of PVA. I then followed up by flocking the base with the same 2 colours as I did my table. After the glue dried I shook off the excess and started adding tufts and little bits of clump foliage where the glue didn’t really take that well in order to fill up the gaps. I also added some tufts and clump foliage where I thought it would look good. I then added some light flock on places where I think moss would grow. After this is all dry I spray a bit of heavily diluted PVA over it all to seal in the scenery.

As a finishing touch I a layer of AK Interactive Diorama Water Gel Swamp Green (AK8006) in the centre of the altar. Once this is dry it should be finished. Once this was dry it gave me an effect I was totally not expecting or wanted. So I managed to get most of it out with only minor damage to the paint. So I patched up the paintwork with the same colours I used earlier. So now to create this water effect I used AK Interactive Diorama Puddles (AK8028) mixed with a bit of Vallejo Airbrush Thinner (71.161).

This is the Summoning Gate from Fenris Games.