"Mountains for Afghanistan?" Topic
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| Cold Warrior | 18 Jun 2016 9:33 a.m. PST |
Soon will be needing to build/buy some mountainous terrain for Afghanistan. Figure a lot of foam and cutting/painting is in order. Would like some advice as to what others have done for Afghan mountainous terrain. Am gaming in 15mm if that matters. |
| timurilank | 18 Jun 2016 10:01 a.m. PST |
I found useful tutorials for building my mountain terrain at YouTube: YouTube link |
| foxweasel | 18 Jun 2016 10:20 a.m. PST |
I'm about to build some terrain for 19th cent North West Frontier, I went to the garden centre a while ago and saw some upside down pre-formed fishponds, the hard plastic sort. Look just like mountains but with ledges to put troops on, 2 of the small ones with a gap in the middle would make a great Khyber pass etc. |
| Cold Warrior | 18 Jun 2016 11:56 a.m. PST |
Nice Youtube link! foxweasel, Interesting idea on the fishponds! Will have to take a look at my local garden stores. |
chuck05  | 18 Jun 2016 3:10 p.m. PST |
Here are some rocky hills I made: [URL=http://s438.photobucket.com/user/chuck1372/media/terrain%20projects/001-2.jpg.html]
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[/URL] I made them in half sections so I could put them along a table edge if need be. Theyre just pink foam, bark nuggets and a whole lot of house paint. |
| foxweasel | 19 Jun 2016 12:31 p.m. PST |
This is the sort of thing I was on about, found this on Amazon.
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| ScoutJock | 19 Jun 2016 8:54 p.m. PST |
Allen Rockwell of Gamecraft has a nice pictorial on his blog: link |
| Mad Guru | 21 Jun 2016 2:07 a.m. PST |
Here's a link to a tutorial I posted on my blog a few years back showing how I built my NWF/Afghan rocky hills using styrofoam and bark wood-chips: link …and some teaser pics of the finished products:
NOTE: Above pics all show 28mm figures in use, but I have used these same mountains with my 15mm Mike's Models colonial British & Afghans from back-in-the-day (the Afghans are actually mostly repurposed Mike's Models Renaissance Ottoman Azabs), and if anything they work even better, as the mountains appear taller in relation to the figures. |
| alan L | 11 May 2017 4:02 a.m. PST |
Just noticing this discussion. For really steep hills, you could go for facades, one behind the other, giving height without much depth. Of course, you can do no better than to follow the advice of Mad Guru! |
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