"Star Wars mins terrain" Topic

anyone built any cool Star Wars themed terrain for the new d20 minis game? I am looking for inspiration and not sure where to look. Your thoughts are appreciated.

I've been making some while I waited for the the games to arrive.

Purchased some white sytrofoam from a craft store in the form of blocks (1" and 2" thick), spheres, and a cone.

Used a bread knife to cut the spheres into domes, and divide the blocks and cones into pieces.

Sloped the edges of the blocks and beveled or rounded the edges with the knife and finger pressure to smooth the edges.

Glued the buildings together with a white glue made for glueing stryofoam (from the same craft store).

Here are some basic ideas for buildings:

- 3 inch dome on a 4 inch square with attached entrance

- cut the cone to match the diameter of a sphere for a tall domed building

- two or three domes on a 12" by 6" block for large building

- stack a 1" block on a 2" block and vice versus.

To finish I cut out simple doors from sheet styrene and recessed them into the sides of the buildings. I stuck some old plastic bits on top for finishing touches.

Once put together, I slathered with wall compound and used a wet towel to texture the surface.

I painted these with a base color of FOLKART Sunflower and drybrushed with DELCOAT Light Ivory for a creamy yellowish stucco.

I mounted these to card bases and flocked to match my game board (mostly sand with some yellow grass for accent).

When you are planning your buildings bear in mind that a figure can run 6 inches and attack or run 12 inches. I made the buildings small enough so that figures can usually run across the short end in one round. A building longer than 12 inches will take two runs to transit. I also arrange the domes and blocks on top with 1.5 or 3 inch separations to accomodate these folks and the "clicks".

Viola - for about $35 I have a dozen buildings that look straight out of Mos Eisley. The new SW figs love them!

Would love to see pics. If you are able send them to josephfurtak [at] sbcglobal.net

Joe

the paper terrain from stones edge looks great
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Where can one buy this game and figures no - ideally online if not a direct UK re-seller.

Thanks

Alien

alien did you try.... Spirit Games... nuff said or?

I've been working on some since the D&D minis game came out. Basically, I've been getting wood blocks and pasting cardboard patterns on them to give them structure...little rectangles to simulate brick, wood, etc. Spraypaint black and paint up however you like. I've done several in an evening.

It wasn't much of a stretch to make sci-fi terrain the same way. I just changed the shapes & patterns I pasted to the blocks. I also added some beads and buttons here and there. They fit the d20 grids perfectly, or they can be used independently as regular terrain pieces for other games.

check out Herb Gundts' site H.G.Walls,

www.hgwall.com/index0.htm

he has some fantastic pieces. all scratch built.

I will take some pictures and put them on the Miniatures Page website. I'll let you know when they are up.

Jimmy

The H.G. Walls site url doesn't work.

Try hgwalls.com/index0.htm

This site is cool!

Here is a site with Cardboard/Paper buildings for use with Star Wars – They have walls, Bunkers, Turbo Laser Batteries, Land Speeders, even a Han Solo in carbinite…

link

Here is a site for Cardboard Starwars models of the Tie Fighters, the Falcon, AT-AT ect

link

And Price you cannot beat, free it is, is it not? – As Yoda would say.

For some inspiration or purchase, here is a link to some beautiful commercial terrain that your SW minis will love. link

The buildings I made look very similar to these.

Jimmy

Hirst Arts also sells some molds that make good future looking stuff

Regrettably Hirst didnt have what I was looking for. Ainsty seems to have some stuff that would work, at least for building starship corridors, etc.

I am looking more for scratch built pieces. terragenesis doesnt have what I am looking for (why does everyone have to rebuild Tatooine? I mean come on, millions of inhabited planets and you have to pick the end of space?) and hasnt been updated in awhile.

Joe

Dose anyone know were i can find paper star wars minatures?

Try this link for some great looking Star Wars paper minis:
momirfarooq.com

I'm using the WOTC mins but old WEG rules - so terrain has a little more variety than gridded maps will allow.

Some easy projects: Using foamcore, you can pretty easily make adobe-style building. Use a raquetball cut in half to make the ubiquitous dome/water reservoir you see on all the Tatooine buildings.

Moisture vaporators are very easily built from various sized spark plugs, plastruct rods, and a little creativity.

Industrial terrain is easily scratchbuilt if you want a hiveworld or even a Mustafar style industril complex. Imex Platformers work great for building those or for adding detail pieces to scratch-built stuff.

I found a bunch of Zoids on clearance at ToysRUs, and use them for bitz. One little dome shaped crab thing workd perfect as a base for a bib vaporator unit...

To answer another question, "why Tatooine?", well it is easy to make the terrain look right - add the dome to an adobe building, throw out a few Action Flet Landspeeders, add a vaporator or two, and anyone will know what planet you are modding.

I admit most of my focus has been on Tatooine since I am running a big WEG Rule WOTC Scale game at Origins... YMMV

Cloud City would be a fun challenge - lots of rounded buildings (like the terrain in the original Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader rulebook), art deco look, and all glossy white.

Endor is fairly easy as well - lots of big mailing tubes for trees, and you can use cocktail toothpicks and balsa to make platforms, etc. It would work well for Kashyyk as well.

Mike W

I played in LostPict's SW game yesterday. His buildings look awesome! Game was fun enough that I went out and bought the Revenge of the Sith starter set. :-)

I built about a dozen Tatooine buildings using LostPict's suggestions and used them for my Star Wars Showdown! games at Kublacon last month. You can check out pictures here:
naxera.com/starwars

Hey, LostPict. How about some pictures of your buildings?

- Ted

Hirst Arts has a new set out that looks just like Star Wars based on a one inch tile system. I'll have pre-made sets for sale at castlekits.com in a little while.

Aku

You can also try Eric's fine paper terrain site (which has the attraction of being free):

swminiatures.com/index.php

I don't know how helpful this is, but I have been invisioning a campaign for a while now, (galactic civli war era) that takes place on the planet (made-up) of Montrossa. Montrossa is mostly rolling hills with scattered woods and farmlands, except for 2 points. A mountainous area with the climate and flora/fauna of a tundra at the south pole, and the capitol city (huge, 100's of sq miles) covering most of the north pole. The campaign goes somewhat like this:

1. Rebel Alliance Strike team crash lands and starts gathering followers near the south pole. (the scenario for this could be the strike force making its way across the tundra, avoiding Imp patrols.)

2. The rebels conduct a raid on an Imp supply depot.

3. Imp expedition to crush the insurgency.

4. Reb's attempt a jail break.

5. The Insurgency grows, and starts reaching the vast agri-plantations. The poor workers take up w/ the rebels.

6. The rebs try to take over an Imp military base.

7. W/ the captured base as their HQ, the Insurgency grows to the point where it can field multiple large armies.

8. With the planet now in full rebellion, a viscious civil war erupts, w/planetary militia and police forces joining both sides.

9.(SPACE) An Imp battlegroup arrives, strengthening the Imp PDF ships stationed there.

10.(SPACE) A rebel strike fleet attacks the enemy fleet, and a naval battle ensues.

11. With the Rebels' victorious fleet in orbit, the final push to Montrossa City begins.

12. The Rebels brake through the outer defenses of the city, and viscious street-fighting erupts in the suburbs.

13. The Industrial district is reached, and the causualties on both sides are enormous.

14. The Industrial district is taken, and the Inner City defenses are breached.

15. Urban warfare takes a heavy toll on the armour of both sides in the city's slums.

16. The Center of the city is reached.

17. The Imperial Governor's Palace falls.

18. The Planetary spaceport is taken before the Imp governor can reach it.

19. The governor is captured.

20. The Imp forces officialy capitulate.

There you have it! You could create snowy, urban, rural, forested, and rocky/mountainous terrain, with an explanation for it.
NOTE: As i was writing this I decided to make it more of a narrative, rather than supplying a bunch of general scnarios. You can decide on the scenario(s) to use for each "event."
Hope this was enspiring!
Jim

Just updated my Star Wars Showdown! website with over a dozen new pics of terrain created by Mike Fernie:
naxera.com/starwars