Sunday, February 7, 2016

Alien Tropical Jungles

I recently made 8 pieces of area terrain depicting alien tropical jungles for our gaming club. I was inspired by the fluff behind the Xilos Horizon, the scenario of the starter set for Beyond the Gates of Antares, so I wanted to have a jungle table myself!

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These were made using various items found in aquarium stores, glued to thick cardboard and then layered with my "dirt texture". Here you see the pieces next to a Concord trooper (28mm), to get a sense of scale:

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These pieces have sufficient empty space to accomodate models within the area terrain, and I even added a couple tracks of beaten grass here and there.

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This below is probably my favorite piece, a very alien-looking tree:

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And here is a pic of the table set for our game of last saturday, featuring the 8 pieces of area terrain, along with the river sections I made a couple years ago (mostly for use on our games of Black Powder).

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6 comments:

  1. Very nice, I've done something similar in the past using both aquarium stuff and artificial flowers from a florists warehouse, If you can find somewhere that sells artificial plants they are well worth a look for alien of prehistoric foliage.

    Cheers Roger.

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