MadMechaGuy

Bought some laser cut Mdf terrain from MadMechaGuy(http://www.madmechaguy.co.uk). His stuff is really cheap and looks ace considering the low price you pay for it! Got some shelters, helipads, containers, billboards, and a few different houses to try out for my city table later on. Needless to say I can really recommend him if you are in need of 15 och 28mm terrain.

I saw the sign!

Well, couldn't resist. Shame on me. Anyway, finished some signs as well as some more barricades to fill up the table and make it more believable that someone actually lives there. Or at least used to...

Printed some nice District 9 posters I found online, these will fit really good as I guess Ill mostly be fighting my friends Crustys on the table. Fry some prawns!

Corn corn corn corn...

No gaming table would be complete without some silos to hade behind, be it either Warhammer 40.000 och 15mm sci fi. I had been eyeing those cans of corn for some time, a taco dinner later and 

they were finally mine...

Made sure to pin the tubes between the cans so they won't brake of later on. And gave them each a base of plastic card.

Prefer the colorful "cartoony" look on both terrain and models, so these will be a great addition to the table.

For some finishing touches Ive added signs/posters. Just in case anyone thought it might be safe to stay parked behind them for too long...

Shanty Town progress

Finished most of the buildings I had done for the Shanty Town and thought Id share the process. Kept a fairly small palette and went for a heavy on rusty/worn look on these as well.

 

Usually start of with a red brown for the base layer. The most worn brush possible is perfekt here, try to staple the paint.

Add some orange on top, but be careful not get too much. Again a dead brush is your best friend here.

Finish it up with a heavy dry brush of silver, old faithfull Boltgun Metal in my case.

I prefer to add some more detailing once the painting is done. Foliage for bushes, turfs and stones to hold the roof in place are perfect for this.

How to make a forest in an evening.

Cheap and easy alien/jungle vegetation.

This is some kind of ball with plastic leafs used for decoration by people with really bad taste. Im sure similar "plats" can be found in pet shops. But these are really cheap at €1,5 each.

 They come in stands of four so cut them of and glue to the base.

 Gunnar is being helpful as always...

 I use sand and PVA for the base, once dry Ill give it another wash of 1/3 PVA 2/3water to make the bases sturdy.

 To make sure the paint won't chip I give the base a coat of varnish as well before the are done.

Finished the barricades and a few houses.

Finished the first few houses and its actually starting to look like a little settlement. Added minor details to the houses as well, like stones to hold down the roof and some vegetation.

Quick and easy to make barricades for the shanty town. Been using the same basic colors and tehniques as for the houses.  

First house done

More or less done with the first house, just need to add some minor details. Wanted to get a worn and weathered feeling to the houses so Ive been using maily brown and rusty colors.

In a terrain making frenzy I did 12 more houses in various sizes as well as some barricades to seal of areas. Been using the same method and incorporated some left over electronics I got from a friend.

Birth of a 15mm table.

After getting talked into trying 15mm Sci Fi and enjoying the Gruntz rules a lot. It was an easy decision to start working on a table. The original idea was to go for a City board with a Transmetropolitan/Judge Dredd flavor to it.
But being a bit low on cash at the moment I decided to go for a cheaper and easier table instead, more of a shanty/post apocalyptic town. That would be able to incorporate into the city later on.

For the core of the building I have used a think easy to cut plastic board, foam board would work just as well or whatever you might have around.

Once the structure of the buildings were done I covered them with sheets of corrugated card, commonly used for scrapbooking. To get a shanty town feeling to them.

Some of my Khurasan IFL miniatures for size.