Rough Terrain

Rough terrain pieces

I have managed to get a lot more hobby time in  this last week, despite having yet another trip to the Doctor, but nothing of note ...yet.
Before becoming completely incapacitated though I had managed to complete several terrain items (the flat terrain boards, the river banks and finally the subject of this post, some rough terrain)
Once more I used pizza bases for the bases (they're light,fairly strong and cheap!)

Initial shaped pieces glued to base pieces

Unlike the black bases I used for the jungle I've used slightly thinner bases glues together.
 

The pieces cut out and their edges bevelled

Filler and grit added

The pieces were covered in filler (of the £1 a box Bargain Buy variety)
and then liberally sprinkled with some course grit that I've had for many years and have rarely used.
The filler did have some PVA glue mixed in with it and a thin coating was also applied when the filler had set hard.
Once the pieces had thoroughly dried they were given a brown base colouring, which turned out too brown (looking like fresh dog poop) and was darkened very quickly .

Dog poop !

Greenery added !

 The dog poop effect was quickly overcome when two shades of green (to match the terrain boards) was added along with some sparse vegetation, gravel 'rocks' and some twigs from my hedge that I've had drying in my bits cupboard for a couple of years! 

Finally some highlighting to finish off the pieces.

 

 

 

Here's some individual shots of all nine rough terrain bits:

One of the larger pieces

Another large piece

One of the medium sized ones

A small(ish) one

Another small(ish) one

One of my favourites (though I may go over the plasticky looking greener

Yet another one (Bored yet?)

I didn't go too overboard with all the fallen logs

The final one (and probably the smallest)

 

 It was only after having finished these and looking through the "Adventures in Jimland" rules, terrain selection chart that I realised I only needed a maximum of two rough terrain pieces, but at least I can have some variation in which two I get to use! (I only need five jungle pieces too).
Nonetheless as these will also be used on a larger table for my pirate games it does mean I can fill a much larger table  with them!
As a bonus the pictures below show a couple of rough terrain bits mixed in with some jungle bits (can you spot the pirate?) and my attempt at solving how to represent a swamp (not needed for Jimland, but I'll be incorporating swamps into the terrain rules too)

Rough terrain and Jungle

Feeble attempt at a swamp

Building work in progress

As this last week went on, I've been feeling a lot better and as such have finished off one batch of scenic items and  started on a building! I was so enthused with the building that I did several hours (not all at once) on it over the weekend - something I rarely do!
I'm hoping by next week I'll be 100% recovered  from the aches and pains I've had to endure over the last three weeks and may even get my fist Adventure in Jimland underway.
In other news, as I've been saving my pocket money for several weeks now,  I've also sent off an order for more figures from North Star Africa's range and have been making a shopping list for things I'd like from either the Shildon or Stockton shows as well as waiting for the next Foundry sale! I'll also be starting my Xmas shopping list too.
Whilst awaiting the arrival of my North Star shinies, I'm looking around for cheap Halloween plastic goodies that may be useful in Jimland - giant flying insect, spiders and other bugs could all be useful though currently I'm staying away from the more obvious lost dinosaur world type of thing.

That's it then from a much happier me this week, thanks for taking the time to visit and and as always your comments are both welcomed and appreciated (- probably more than your think).

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