Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Landscaping your Tablescapes


Tonight we have two tastes that go great together.

A brand new set of Tabelscapes tiles from Secret Weapon Miniatures, and a whole metropolis from Burn In Designs!!!


Lathan, Master of Lasers, carefully plots the layout of his Medieval village.


As you can see, the structures are designed to have decent height, as well as a wide enough base to actually block LOS, instead of hiding the foot of a goblin. :-)  Check out that windmill!  And yes, it does spin!!


The Tablescapes tiles are held together by some ingenious plastic clips.  They fit snugly, but can be removed without too much pressure.

We rolled dice on them, and we were pleased with the lack of clattering, and that they did not bounce all over the place!.  It was so much nicer than a certain other variety of plastic tiles that we all remember...

Joe also happened to have some very neat flame markers on hand.  These were LED tea lights with painted cotton over the top.


Another view of the windmill.


We all loved the fountain, as well as the Astronomer's Observatory.  You get a nice view of the flame marker as well!


The Tablescapes could be oriented in any direction, in any combination.  Once these are painted up, it will present a magnificent table on which to play!

The terrain is not so tall that movement trays will topple over, but enough to get the point across.


The Black Coach/Hearse is a very nice item.  There is even a casket which can be partially open!  Bring out the Dead!


These towers are just that... towering over the battlefield.


Down on street level, you can see just how cinematic this scene can be with some paint and some minis!!!


Rudy certainly appears to be excited!!!


In other business, I meant to show you those rivets that were cut from the tubes of baked sculpey.

As you can see, I have two sizes.  I mention once more that it was so much easier to cut these from the tubes than it has been with the polystyrene tubing which I have used thus far.

Those chunks just flew off into space like comet landers with no harpoons.  Not so with the sculpey!!

So, kudos to Mr. Justin and Lathan on the incredible work they have done making such wonderful terrain for us to enjoy!!!


14 comments:

  1. Excellent terrain pieces. Look forward to seeing them painted up - no pressure ;)

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    1. Hehe... these are not in my possession yet, so for the moment you will be getting more Wild West buildings from Lathan.... ;-)

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  2. Those are from burn in design yes? how well do they scale with Warhammer minis? And also would you prime the buildings in order to paint them. they are gorgeous I may want some :)

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    1. I haven't primed any of the buildings that I have painted. You can see the painting WIP posts on some of his other buildings to see how well the paint adheres to them!

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  3. Love the layout! Are those scaled to 28mm, 32mm, or trying to split the uprights in between? Without a model down I can't quite tell.

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    1. It was designed for Warmachine and Wild West Exodus, so probably in that 30mm range...

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  4. Woo, I was my hope you'd get some tablescapes James :). I know you don't have them yet, but hopefully eventually!

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    1. No Tablescapes for me :-( These are Joe's. However, I imagine that I will be the one who has to paint them :-)

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    2. That seems wrong to me. James needs tablescapes! :)

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    3. Hehe... sadly, there were no available funds at the time. I think Cathy would have really liked the urban rubble versions for Zombicide :-)

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    4. Well it's available outside the kickstarter now...for future debating! I'm currently debating it myself. Maybe I'll get a 249.99 xmas bonus...haha

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    5. I won't be getting those for myself, as I have way too much fun with foam and such :-)

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  5. They split the difference. They floor scale is 3" per level. The top of the door is about 2" high and 1.125" wide. The bottom of the windows are about .75". I wanted to make sure that models on bases could still see in and out of the windows but still get cover and not be fully seen.

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    1. Lathan tries to make it so that the miniature fits in there... but there is also some room for your hands to get it in place too! :-)

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