and i just burned it you're making a lot of noise over there pumpkin
no fudge it is still pretty sticky
so i just got done live streaming on youtube by the way we live stream every night from 9 to 10
pm central come hang out i've been painting some malefo stuff but i had an idea tomorrow
the boys are coming over we're gonna play kill team our first kill team game in a long time
we've been really busy uh eon's battle editor in chief nick and my nemesis sean
and we're gonna play a big old game of kill team and i had an idea we have a
big kill team board terrain project in the works and i think i think i can get it done
by tomorrow the boys are coming over at 12 and that gives me about 12 hours to build the board
and two hours to clean up and get ready for game day and i think yeah i'm gonna do it
i prepared for the battle ahead of me hours and
hours and hours of painting but painting with a purpose
i came up with the idea for a spooky forest here's my original artwork and radium mini
sculpted this for us for our patreon this is the train for the month of june and nick has finished
printing it all out so i am going to put it all together for our first kill team back the boys are
going to be here in the morning actually i guess in the afternoon so that should give me plenty
of time to build this thing right right right i started as all game boards do with the base
so the foundation of this board is going to be foam usually i like to use insulation foam but
turns out insulation foam right now is crazy expensive and all i could afford was this
styrofoam and styrofoam is less rigid less dense so i'm sure it'll be just as good also um i don't
know exactly how i'm gonna cut it because it's not it's not dense foam it's it's made up of like
it's made up of this stuff uh which i actually got all over my car when i went to go pick this up
because it was too big to fit in my car and so i actually had to in the parking lot sit there with
my keys and cut it to pieces and so i'm sure this stuff's going to be all over my basement now too
but i don't know how to cut it a hot knife would be great um or a band saw but i can't fit this
on my band saw so i'm going to use a bread knife oh i bet this is going to make a wonderful noise
i don't know how effective the serrated knife was probably just a really thin sharp knife would
have been better but i don't have one that's over an inch and a half long so i made it work
i double stacked the styrofoam to make it more rigid gluing it with hot glue and smoothing the
sides with 60 grit sandpaper this also made a fun noise you know cutting the styrofoam
is actually not the absolute worst although all of the little shaving dust it produces
definitely is i have a lot of work ahead of me the spooky trees are printed in two
halves the trunk and the branches and to get rid of the seam i used lots of super
glue and i sprinkled on baking soda this filled in the gap nice and easy
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uh it just struck midnight actually it's been a little while i can show you on my phone
midnight look at my ray screensaver but i think i'm in good spots uh i got the board cut out and
i have a full work day ahead of me it'll only be eight o'clock in the morning so
yeah i drew on lines to help me decide where the pieces should go i want the big split
demon face in the middle with the trees on the edges i glued everything down using hot glue
so i wanted to give my board an uneven battleground i mean it's a forest it shouldn't be
perfectly level and the way i did that is i actually took it outside and i held it upside down
and it took a lighter and i just kind of waved the lighter around and burnt the foam and it worked
really well uh i didn't want to do it inside so i actually took it outside and i was in the dark
only being able to see by the light of the lighter but you know what it got the job done glue
time goo time i made up a slurry of 50 50 wood glue and water and coated all the exposed foam
and i poured on some general purpose sand i bought from the hardware store this stuff is
a mixture of different grain sizes and it made for a nice turf i am loving how that's turning
out i have a space heater plugged in to make the room a little hotter so that hopefully dries
quicker but the downside is the room is getting really hot but that's good the sand looks great
i'm probably gonna have to put on another coat of pva just to keep that sand nice and stuck down but
i was really digging what i was seeing it was all coming together in the wee
hours of the morn while i let that dry for an hour i moved on to some small trees
let me show you how i made one of these i tore off a square of tin foil crushed it into a small ball
hammered it into an irregular half sphere then hot glued on my trees these aren't new they're
actually just the branches without the trunks you get a lot of mileage out of these stls okay so too
close check out this big brain idea i just had um the board is dry dry but i'm really nervous that
as soon as you start playing all of the sand is gonna get knocked right off so i wanna do another
thin layer of pva but i am going to mix in some acrylic paint with that pva so that that pva can
be my first layer of paint so i'll actually be getting some paint on the board yeah there you go
i primed the trees and applied my paint glue mixture on top of the sand ah everything's going
pretty well and i made myself a sandwich i was trying to run out of energy call this the old half
and half because it's half classy french corsa and half cheap lunch meat that's gonna go bad tomorrow
while my board was drawing i decided to start a new little project some cobble together elevated
platforms the reason i'm making these is i do want there to be a little bit of vantage
point and kill team vantage point is very important especially for shootier factions
and so i do want a little bit of vantage stuff like this provides good cover but uh i'm just
gonna make two of these little guys just to add a little a little extra kill team spice to the board
easy breezy lemon squeezy vantage points and after that little detour my board was ready all right
she's dry i have everything built i have everything primed i mean listen to this
that's pretty good that's that is dry so now i'm ready to go
time is it it is 5 43 so i've got a good chunk of time left i could totally see
this getting done don't sass me airbrush i could totally see this board getting done
time to paint first i airbrushed on some light gray giving the board a modeled xenothal highlight
then i sprayed on some magenta ink to add some color that will hopefully show through
on the final product and then a dousing of green paint then a dry brushing and a wash
it's a board a couple of colors dry brushage and a wash which i really hope doesn't disappear once it
dries i have a bad habit of putting too not enough matte medium in my washes when i mix them but
i can be happy with this and it's only a little after six i have plenty of time to
accessorize and what do i mean by accessorizing well thanks for asking i have this moss
and this moss and i'm gonna sprinkle it on the board i used hot glue to stick it down and after
many many finger burns i learned a low temperature glue gun would have been much better for attaching
foliage on the branches i slobbered elmer's glue all over and then i laid on some stringy moss
this actually looked really good it turned the simple branches into a thick tangle
then i stuck clumps of foam foliage on top i'm used to always painting everything but
using pre-made stuff is really nice i mixed up some watery elmer's glue
i've never tried this before but i was pleasantly surprised i squirted on my hand
it is still pretty sticky
i set the board aside one more time to dry and the clock struck 8 am time to feed the dogs
i uh i went to bed for a couple of hours
all right back in the zone it is 10 56 i have about one hour before the boys arrive
and i have just one or two more things i want to do this kill team board to make it
real nice the board is looking good but it was pretty flat and saturated so i broke
out the airbrush one last time i sprayed on some light grey to highlight the skulls my hands were
a little shaky at this point then i airbrushed on some black to make the eyes and noses darker
and then i sprayed blue ink over the skulls to give them a pop of color so they stand out
from the gray sand and last but not least to hide the horribly ripped up foam sides i wrapped it in
electrical tape i don't know if i recommend it but it does look a little bit better than duct tape
after that the board was finally finished it was time to clean up so as i'm cleaning up what makes
sean my arch nemesis well i'm glad you asked he always always always beats me in kill team
and that's really that's really it but to add insult to injury he doesn't own any of
his own models so every week he beats me with my models which is okay i don't mind sharing but it
is extra an extra little twist of the knife that he beats me with my own miniatures and i suspect
that today will be no different because i am so so tired i don't know how well i will be able to lead
my guys to victory alright it is 12.05 the boys should be here any oh nick's here
well sean wins hooray
this terrain is made for demons by demons i painted mine very neutral but this would work
great for age of sigmar war cry malefo maybe even a particularly upsetting star wars planet
green for nurgle red for corn blue for zinc you could even maybe get away with slaanesh if you
put speakers in the eye sockets i really love this terrain it's an idea i've had in my head
for a really long time and now it's a reality i got this board done in a night and i'm pretty
happy with it it's very different from the other terrain i've built if i could go back and do a few
little tweaks i would love to add a bunch of grass tufts and maybe try out a static grass applicator
to get some patches of grass and i would like to paint on some foot baths to show
where people have walked around this demonic landscape the next time i do this which will
be never i am going to do 12 hours during the day because all-nighters suck i am ready for bed