i'm getting a little sick of the same lame cardboard battle zone in the same
game jerkshot plastic terrain over and over for my war games
i want to play on an epic cinematic battlefield but first i have to build it
hey you guys jay here welcome dean's a battle we're not just a youtube channel that makes
wargaming hobby videos but we also make wargaming terrain stls our patreon supporters can download
print out and paint to populate their game boards at home so they can have some
epic environments to play their tabletop war games on a few weeks back we made a
video showing off tons of terrain all designed by nick and all painted by me in this video we
have teamed up with radio minis to offer you guys some awesome terrain through our patreon
and painting is only going to be half the battle i'm also going to be breaking out the foam and
hot glue too stay tuned to see some epic gluing some saucy painting and the best manufacturing
terrain board of all time sorry games workshop but i think we can do a little better than this
hello i'm dr j and i have to design an entire board so i have to come at this with a plan
so this is my board and i want it to be a factory and so it should have a big focal
point in the middle to look at and that's going to be a molten metal waterfall a metal fall titanfall
that's going to be my base but i'm going to use the catwalks
from radium minis to give it another whole level to play on
i'm going to have a big one running through the middle and then i'm going to have a few
jet outs on either side to give just a little bit more vantage point to play with
and then i'm going to fill in the rest of the board with some incidental terrain
maybe some buckets for holding the molten metal and then really i should have some kind of a
larger piece of terrain maybe something with a nice big base and then it's going to need
some kind of roof structure to keep the soot and the fire from getting into the delicate machinery
and then really it should probably have some walls to keep all of the machinery contained
what the [ __ ] is this while jay amuses himself i'll do the real work i have two
3d printers up and running for this project but i don't want to print more than i need to
i loaded up the stls into blender so that i could
improve upon jay's original design double the decking for double the fun
two gantries to deliver molten metal and plenty of access points to the top decking radium minis
provided great machine bits and buckets that i can scatter around and i'm glad i started planning in
blender it started to feel like the machines were too big i scaled them down 80 percent to keep a
nice clear path for movement give it a try in blender although it is quite resource intensive
this whole project adds up to one spool of filament which comes out to a whopping
22 dollars compare that to what gamesworkshop would charge for something similar it would
probably cost around three hundred dollars plus i can't even find anything similar but
what i did find searching through games workshop strain was this chunk of wall for eighty dollars
can someone explain this to me anyone could make this with toothpicks and elmer's glue for five
bucks games workshop is just being a all right all right so i have my design it's time to get to work
for the base of this monster pink foam is the way to go it's cheap and easy to work with
now i'm allergic to math so not wanting to use a ruler i just traced the outside of my game's
workshop cardboard kill team board worked like a charm to cut the pink foam nicely you need
to make long smooth cuts if you go too fast or you wiggle you'll rip and tear the foam most
of you watching are probably more careful than me so yours will probably look better than mine
the pink foam is one inch and the green foam is half an inch i had a nice big sheet of
pink but only random chunks of green but this worked in my favor as patching the
floor together with small pieces ended up looking more interesting anyways
and liking my patchwork floor i lightly sanded all the edges to make these more pronounced doing
what i can with what i got leave a comment if you know where that quote's from because we need to be
friends now i have my flat ground but i wanted to be a little more interesting so i took the pizza
protector for my last pie and pressed it firmly into the foam to gouge in a diamond-shaped texture
now until right in the script i didn't realize pizza protector was a super local thing this is my
pizza protector it is very simple to use it comes in an easy to use dispensing unit to keep the
product organized please leave a comment if you have ever experienced pizza protector like i have
but granny grading wire mesh or any other similar thing with texture will do the job i glued down
my big foam pieces using hot glue this does melt the foam pretty bad but it holds well and it's
underneath so i don't care as long as the mess is hidden i apply the same logic when i'm cleaning
my house now the base is complete it's time for the molten metal fall for this i broke out my low
temperature glue gun this thing was a lifesaver i don't use it much it doesn't squirt as much glue
but it was perfect for this i can glue down my little pieces of foam without worry of melting
bottom
now with my tower built it was time to make my molten river i decided to try and use paper i
needed something long and unbroken so i cut some strips of paper to size and i rounded one side
on each and glued them together i took my long piece of paper and draped it over my board using
lots of elmer's glue to stick it down the rounded seams look a little like ripples maybe it's mostly
just a flat ribbon but it did the job once it was dry i gave the board two coats of a 5050 mixture
of acrylic paint and pva glue to seal the foam i used gray paint and then brown paint so i could
tell the difference between the two coats to make sure i got everything with the board all done it
was time to take a dump i got ready for all the decking i took out all the 3d printed parts and
sorted them into piles this is called knowling and it makes my brain happy to make little organized
piles and it saves time no hunting and picking i would highly suggest giving it a try if you ever
find yourself in such a situation the decking is wide enough to fit 25 millimeter bases up to
40 millimeter bases comfortably but i want the main thoroughfare to be roomy so i glued down
two pieces of decking together then i glued them all together to make my catwalk this terrain i am
using is the machines of industry terrain created by radio minis and available to the eons of battle
patrons for the month of may and radium minis is a terrain making force to be reckoned with
over in his patreon in may he has the dysprosium precinct and you can find all his previous work
like the sump sea dockside depot perfect for your necromanda gangers and the grimdark industrial
factory which has some large buildings perfect for blocking line of sight in games like 40k
all of this can be found in their myminifactory his parts are very detailed but not broken into
an excessive amount of parts so it's nice and simple to assemble and paint once my second
floor was figured out i began accessorizing the board adding on the railing figuring out where the
stairs are going to go putting these giant molds into place and it filled out the board nicely
i was super jazzed the building phase was over and now it was time to begin the painting phase
i loaded up my supplies and took my battlefield outside i sprayed the board black the double coat
of acrylic paint keeping it safe from being melted by the spray paints i made a stripe of white in my
molten metal river a selective spray of gray to add some definition to my floor and a misting
of red paint to tinted a nice shade of rust on all the 3d printed parts i used the metallic paints it
was already looking kind of cool a good sign now to finish it off i used my airbrush and blacking
to accentuate the lines in my foam and i spattered on some burnt umber ink all around to make it feel
like a lived-in world they don't clean this place very often on either side of my molten river i
left two long thin pieces of foam i taped them off and primed these parts gray then i took a
hazard striped stencil i made and sprayed on some black paint it's always a good idea to incorporate
a little logic to make the world feel real and logically they would want to mark the edge of the
molten metal clearly once it was black and white i airbrushed on transparent orange and
yellow inks to make it that classic color scheme we all know and love then the best part d masking
it looked slick to make my strip of paper look more like molten metal i airbrushed some orange
and yellow ink over the white on the edges where it would start to cool then i stippled on some
black paint this represents impurities and cold spots that have solidified and to blend them in i
sprayed a dot of red ink to show the cooler metal surrounding these spots and with my rusty factory
floor done it was time to move on to the decking i masked off the floor tiles so i could easily spray
the grating on the sides and middle with brown ink then i dusted all the parts with teal paint
i want the stuff to contrast against the dark rust red of the floor i gave these parts a black wash
and then it was time for the final assembly i superglued it down to the board and i was
in love it still needed a little something though a little spice to push it over the edge and that
something was orange rust i made up a pigment soup and brushed this on here and there to the decking
it's it's done
it's finished ah i'm so happy i don't know if it truly captures the artistry of my original sketch
but i think it's pretty darn good this took a long time to make i was able to listen to two warhammer
books while doing this cyphus kane for the emperor and day of ascension and they were both really
good but not as good as this board i'm calling this battlefield the foundry and many epic stories
will be told on this board it reminds me a lot of some of the stuff we saw in the trailer for kill
team too this board is a little more interesting than our usual couple of partially destroyed
buildings but it still offers the full kill team experience models can use the legs of the decking
the buckets and the rolling arms to get a little cover and they'll need it as the whole upper deck
we're counting as vantage points but it's also the danger zone as there are many ways to get up there
operatives can climb the staircases or scale the supports or use these giant molds to get up there
so snipers will not be safe from close combat units now the molten river cutting the board in
half might seem like an oversight in a game like kill team where movement is crucially important
but we have created a special rule if you have to move over the molten river you can perform a
hazardous leap you can go across the river but you must roll a dice and on a one you are dead just
dead no re-rolls no second chances risky worth it for those last minute objective grabs this wasn't
that hard the parts go together really simply and easily if you can build lincoln logs you
can build with this terrain a project like this might seem really daunting but a good
rule of thumb is to do your best not to paint individual things different colors but instead
layer on lots of colors stacking colors on top of one another letting them mix and overlap adds
tons of value and interest with subtle color ships and tone and saturation i've never gotten to play
warhammer on a real board before not something like this i tend to think of these games more
as rpgs than balanced strategy games i want to feel like i'm in the universe of 40k playing
a game is just seeing what would happen if two factions met what would happen if orcs and krieg
met each other in the bowels of a manufactorum i can't wait to find out thanks for watching