On The Table: Rusting Practice

After reading through a few of the articles over on Scratchmod, I decided to give this one a try to work out a few of the kinks that inevitably come from trying a new method.  I plucked out an old piece from a Sherman I never got around to building and got to it.  All in all, I'm really pleased with the results.  For my next test piece I'm going to get hold of some kosher salt for a much chunkier looking finish. Some rain marks and additional oil weathering will go down on the next piece.

Field Report: Team Tournament Objective Markers

Team Tournaments seem to be popping up all over lately and if you can limit the broken combinations they are a lot of fun.  Big Al over at Hogs of War has come up with some fantastic objective markers for an Eldar and Tyranids team.

Field Report: Hardboard Panel Terrain Basing

This was a handy little nugget I picked up from a friend, BDub, on the Austin community forum. I've always been a proponent of basing terrain pieces on a piece of hard board, in my case I always cut up a big 2'x4' piece of MDF into smaller pieces. With these hardboards, I believe I'll save a lot of time when it comes to city scape basing. That's not to say you're left out if you're not planning a city table, by picking out an appropriately sized piece and then cutting down you'll be saved some time and hassle as well for your organic shapes.

Field Report: Scratchmod

I am always digging for a new resource to soak up information from.  Usually it comes from outside of the wargaming community and I sift through the new ideas and techniques and play with the idea of using them in a future project.  Today's report comes in the way of SUPER weathering and vehicle destruction, Scratchmod shows you just how to go all out with no hesitation.  You could easily make use of these techniques for terrain pieces from old messed up models or find a nice balance between these and others to create a new, realistic, look on say your newest project (stay tuned :p).

Friday Quick Tip: Durable Blastscape

This just in from the Better-Late-Than-Never Department:

If you've seen the GW Blastscape sets in person, you know what a disappointment they are.  These pieces are very thin and can easy be damaged.  Drop a metal model or drive a Land Raider over it and quickly the peaks will be crunched.  But when JWolf of War Games Con (formerly known as BoLSCon) gave me three bags of these sets I knew I couldn't turn them away.