Strange New Worlds – a TerrainFest of alien forestry

The pieces in this set have 5mm diameter indents to allow them to be magnetised. These pieces can be combined in all kinds of awesome ways, and I don’t want to lose that versatility – so I’ll be magnetising mine also.

I counted up all the holes and calculated that I’d need about 80 magnets.

Mostly, the magnets fitted into the holes quite snugly. A dab of superglue holds them permanently in place.

There were a few pieces where the hole was just too tight. Fortunately I have a small flat-end file from a multipack of needle files that was just the right width. Giving it a good twizzle around a few times helped make the holes the right diameter.

For any project beyond one or two miniatures, I always create a moodboard so I can bring together imagery and examples of the kinds of things I’d like to achieve.

I want this terrain to be usable in a few settings:

• Star Trek (naturally!)
• Age of Sigmar exotic Jungle
• Victorian steampunk/War of the worlds

Fortunately, the Mortal Realms for Age of Sigmar have massively opened up the opportunity for all kinds of exotic Flora beyond green jungle. And a steampunk/War of the Worlds setting allows great scope for alien plant life or genetically engineered oddities from Victorian geneticists.

Project system keeps timing out which will definitely make this months TerrainFest harder…

Here is a look at the box contents.

The main ingredients for this build is the awesome Alien Forest Terrain Crate from Mantic Games which was on Kickstarter earlier this year. The box arrived the week, and contains tonnes of lovely modular pieces.