"Making New Hills" Topic

I am about to make a 'batch' of hills for my table. I have decided on technique design etc. They will be the stepped type so now I am wondering whether to do them as a series of 'contours' which I can pile up to gain the height I require or as discrete sets; some with one contour permanently, some with two contours permanently stuck together etc. Which would anyone out there recommend from experience?

If you transport your terrain to many different places then do them as single levels. If you mostly keep it at your house then do single piece multi-step hills.

I have gotten years of use out of my contour step hills. They are all single steps, which I then stack.

I did build a very impressive piece to span across a table end that was about four feet wide and over a foot tall. Single unit, topped with part of a city wall to represent Troy.

I am now building some hills for 3mm gaming and will be making them as multi-step hills instead of single contours.

Dave, please do let us see the 3mm hills when they're finished

Go check out how they do them at War-Zone. war-zone.com I like the series of single level hills. I can rearrange them in multiple ways which, for me, gives much greater gaming value.

Cork?

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They were made using with $20 USD USD worth (8 tiles) of dark crumbly cork.

All I've done is glue a stack of them together and let the glue dry completely. Then I started "chipping" away bits, with the reverse (unsharpened edge) of an Xacto blade, using short downward strokes. Used a large brush to shake off any loose bits. Then I added two generous coats of straight PVA.

No painting yet. And I may still add 1/4 inch mdf as bases, to minimize the chance of any future warping. Then I'll paint them.

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Thanks for the ideas. I think separate contours seems to be the way ahead.