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Preparing terrain and dinosaurs

23/7/2021

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Our recent work started with building and painting terrain and painting CollectA dinosaur models for the upcoming playtests.

​Arthur has over over a decade of experience building in this field, and it shows, so let's start with the finished product and walk you through the steps.
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A parasaurolophus standing on rough ground terrain.
The base is made of reclaimed scrapwood. After liberally applying spray paint, brushed-on paint, and glue, we had the following base:
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Styrofoam and pebbles forming the base of in-game rocks.
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Bright green flock, some aquarium plants and green bush material from a railway scenics manafacturer for detailing. 
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They looked fantastic on the board and worked really well to demonstrate the purpose of "rough ground" in the book. 
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The collecta models that we bought arrived and they look awesome. This feathered T-Rex is fantastic and our favorite sculpt we'eve seen to date. The base was quite chunky and we wanted to remove it to put it on a "cretacea" friendly base. This was quickly done with a dremel tool (it was messy work, if you're ever dremeling soft plastic be careful to wear the correct protective equipment). 
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Giving every dinosaur a base that fits the model size, and preparing them for painting. Bottom left is our new sauropod and behind him is a carnotaurus and a brontosaurus we aim to get playtesting soon!
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All our work in action. The small trees came from Arthur's terrain box. We didn't make them and they're ordered from china, a giant box of trees for about £10.00. Arthur did however base them on washers and spray them with varying shades of green. 
As you can see, the work pays off so much. Anyone who has been to a wargames convention can tell you that the boards with beautiful terrain stand out.
Terrain on a game board is like a salad: you want all the food groups and all the colours, and our game board is a beautiful salad if there ever was one. 

More to come 
​Charles
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