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Axis & Allies miniatures Winter War terrain WIP

Posted Sat, 02/12/2011 - 19:15 by Shaper and Maker
Creating roads and trees in winter terrain piece

This terrain is going to show you step by step how I'm doing my winter war gaming terrains for Axis & Allies miniatures. I'm going to post the photos for start, and write more text later about creation process. You can find some details about the terrain creation process in Axis & Allies miniatures ww2 town terrain, WIP -post.

Axis & Allies miniatures ww2 town terrain, WIP

Posted Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:35 by Shaper and Maker

This post shows you detail about constructing models and terrain bases for ww2 town terrain meant to be used with Axis & Allies miniatures. You can see photos of the ready terrain in another post. You can see details about construction phases by bringing the mouse pointer on the photo.

Barricades in construction.

Diorama: Winter fight

Posted Mon, 03/14/2011 - 12:27 by Shaper and Maker
Completed diorama photo

Completed diorama photo

This small diorama -photo was made for a small maxminis -competition. Some terrain props I've made before were used in the diorama, and potato flour to make the ground look more authentic. Sky was taken from a photo and added to it using Gimp.

Below is the original photo, with original background:

Gaming terrain: Ancient cemetery

Posted Wed, 03/21/2012 - 17:24 by Shaper and Maker
Graves, crypts, creepy trees and statues

A classic theme in fantasy games, this cemetery terrain has gained some inspiration from Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Montmartre cemetery in Paris. These terrains have often seen use in rpg's, and they really bring atmosphere.

Graves, crypts, creepy trees and statues

Materials used

Plaster cast in mold (statue, tombstones, wall on the background)

Cardboard (Crypt walls and roof, bases, thinner obelisk parts)

Objective marker flags for WW2 games (printable)

Posted Fri, 03/04/2011 - 12:47 by Shaper and Maker
Axis & allies miniatures target area flags

Target area flags prepared

These flags can be tied to piece of wire, cocktail stick etc. and when attached to a simple base, they can be used to mark objective hex in axis & allies miniatures games. You can make the flag look more live-like when you make the flag a bit curvy ( see the pic below). The printable image has two sets of flags, one for thinner wires and second for a bit thicker cocktail sticks.

Prepared tokens, wrapped around piece of thick wire. The 

Objective marker flags for WW2 games, part 2

Posted Sun, 02/12/2012 - 19:48 by Shaper and Maker
Target sector flags

My earlier victory area flags have been quite popular, and because of a request, I've made a new set of flags. I haven't been able to print them myself, so the photo below is from dano903 at http://www.axisandalliesunderground.com and http://community.wizards.com . If you're interested in these flags prepared and based, ask him!

Target sector flags

Scratchbuilt exterior terrains for miniatures games

Posted Sat, 03/10/2012 - 17:41 by Shaper and Maker
Settlement battleground divided by a river

I found a bunch of photos I've taken of my exterior terrains, of which I haven't been posting much photos. These models see use in almost every fantasy rpg session!

Camp site attack!

Snow-covered gaming terrain

Posted Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:18 by Shaper and Maker
Playing DDM in winter terrain

Playing DDM in winter terrain

One of the earliest terrain items I've created, after dungeon walls and some woods and rocks is winter terrain. Having often seen use, this terrain can be used in almost any genre and world; Marines invading arctic base of an evil mastermind, friends of Drizzt adventuring in Icewind Dale, An icy planet to be explored... 

Tatooine -like rpg/miniatures gaming terrain

Posted Mon, 08/01/2011 - 20:35 by Shaper and Maker
Sarlacc!

 

"If there's a center to the universe, then you're on the planet that it's farthest from!"

-Luke skywalker, speaking of his homeworld Tatooine

Addition: I added a few WIP pictures of the buildings to the bottom of the post.

WW2 fighters - coolness and nostalgy!

Posted Thu, 04/05/2012 - 14:25 by Shaper and Maker
Classic duel - Spitfire vs. 109 over the channel

Did you assemble and paint WW2 military aircraft as a kid? I did, although I really didn't like much the glues and paints used in them, the ones I'm using currently in modelling and with miniatures are way easier to handle, an healthier too I guess. I also read Commando -comics and was generally fascinated about technology of The Great War. If you are also Plasticrack addict(tm), you'll be easily tempted to these.

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