Of course it definitely needs breaking up with something more vivid, green vegetation would be the best.
Maybe try some on some lvl1s elements at first?
A small spring of water would also break the pattern.
Yeah man, im planning on doing lots of terrain later on, though I'm gonna be sparse with open water since the planet is undergoing such violent breaking down, but I was planning on doing a ravine.
And you just gave me an idea, the ravine might have cracked open where a river used to run!
I do like the idea of the upper surface being burnt to ash and charcoal, and as you said the hills are outbreaks of molten rock and lava quickly pushed to the open and then quickly cooled to an obsidian-like glass.
BUT, the contrast of the lighter desertish hexes against the dark grey is really appealing to me.
Im in a bind here, dunno what to do =/
Ive carved out some more terrain pieces, just ordinary hills as the one ive already shown, but both these and the board itself is now in need of black primer so any future work on them must wait until some other day.
So in the meantime ive made some tried creating trees. Ive read several tutorials and guides and thought of an idea that will be extremely cheap and, it turns out, doesnt look too shabby even when done quickly.
Basically, I take a bit of electric wire, the one used inside pipes in walls and such, and if removing the insulation of one individual wire, it consists of 7 very thin individual copperthreads. Then I twist these in a treelike formation, as described in basically every tutorial i can find on trees =)
As foilage ive used small pieces from a sponge.
I think if i put at least a little more effort into it they could look better.
Ill probably be prefrabricating a bunch of these, and even if it turns out I wont use them at all its no harm done.
Tips and ideas are very welcome, you guys are great.
But main question now, hexes....tan or black =/
