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Kibutsu

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Leveling Up My Terrain
« on: 19 June 2019, 08:07:11 »
I have been busily building and improving cityscape terrain for some large battles recently, and have been admittedly inspired by Urban Warfare. Time to take things to the next level, literally and figuratively.

I started out with some pink foam I brought home from work. Aside from the actual buildings, which are from Hardware Studios, everything used for this project was cheap or free.

Foam cut and glued with construction adhesive.
Trimmed to fit elevated roads from Gamecraft

Cheap sheet plastic cut for the side walls

Notched for road ramp
Corners cut from the same plastic
Grey paint applied to hide any seems that might show through
Test fitting the base elements. The bases for the buildings are cheap vinyl floor tiles cut to size with a printed sidewalk glued down with spray adhesive. This gives the sidewalk areas a bit of relief and strengthens the whole piece. All the elements would be glued to the foam using Loctite spray adhesive.
Details! The sides were stippled with a few different colors to resemble concrete. Graffiti done using paint pens. Tunnel portals detailed using thicker sheet plastic.
Z scale street lights painted a metallic color from a rattlecan. The bag around the foam block is to keep the paint from melting the foam
Lighting tested and installed
All the elements together
I set up a small city diorama on my coffee table to take some "action" shots






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Re: Leveling Up My Terrain
« Reply #1 on: 19 June 2019, 09:03:45 »
 :o :o  Freaking awesome! 8) 8)  Great work and just love all the little details. :thumbsup:
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Re: Leveling Up My Terrain
« Reply #2 on: 19 June 2019, 18:08:06 »
Looks great.
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Re: Leveling Up My Terrain
« Reply #3 on: 19 June 2019, 18:52:40 »
That is one nice looking city  :thumbsup:

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Re: Leveling Up My Terrain
« Reply #4 on: 20 June 2019, 08:53:22 »
 :o WOW!  That's beautiful work!  :thumbsup:

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Re: Leveling Up My Terrain
« Reply #5 on: 20 June 2019, 13:29:05 »
Very nice work.  Especially liked the touch of using the battery to have the buildings light up.
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Re: Leveling Up My Terrain
« Reply #6 on: 20 June 2019, 14:26:04 »
Very nice!  I think building terrain for miniatures rules or AS set up is easier . . . lol, I saw it and was thinking I need to use gray paint on the tops of some of my hills to make them 'urban' rather than grass land hills.

What sort of light set up did you use?  Love the tunnel and ramp.
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Re: Leveling Up My Terrain
« Reply #7 on: 20 June 2019, 20:19:13 »
 :o amazing. Thanks for share the steps, makes me want to stop by the local dyi store and pick up some supplies..

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Re: Leveling Up My Terrain
« Reply #8 on: 21 June 2019, 07:49:19 »
Thanks guys! The lights were a LED kit I purchased from Evanstudios. It has 5 LEDs with the resistors already wired, plus the battery hookup. It's designed for dollhouses but it was exactly what I was looking for and it was dumbed down enough for a first-timer like me. I bought 4 kits and plan to do more, plus I'm looking at some Z scale lamps to make a park or something along those lines.

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Re: Leveling Up My Terrain
« Reply #9 on: 21 June 2019, 12:51:52 »
What an awesome centerpiece for a board! Nice work, Kibutsu.

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Re: Leveling Up My Terrain
« Reply #10 on: 21 June 2019, 13:09:31 »
*looking at Evan Designs (right company?)*  Hmm . . . ideas . . . I have some lights I bought on clearance, just b/c.  I also kept a faulty LED christmas light string . . .
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Re: Leveling Up My Terrain
« Reply #11 on: 21 June 2019, 16:36:35 »
 :drool: :thumbsup:

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Re: Leveling Up My Terrain
« Reply #12 on: 24 June 2019, 12:56:17 »
Wow... super cool stuff. Love that imagery with the Battlemaster, especially.  8)

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Re: Leveling Up My Terrain
« Reply #13 on: 24 June 2019, 14:36:35 »
Yeah, that midnight patrol is particularly...  :drool: