Diving into 10mm head first: project log

[BeardedHammer]

Hello! I'm Chris and I am getting started into 10mm wargaming after 6+ years of playing warhammer 40k. I will be using this thread to document all of my projects with 10mm including terrain building/painting and army building/painting. I plan on having two armies at the moment; ww2 american and fantasy humans. I am currently awaiting my first batch of ww2 models but have already started on terrain.

Today's project is a 2x4 board for either fantasy or ww2.


I have decided that spackle is by far my favorite terrain tool ever. This picture is the board waiting for it to dry, and hopefully by the end of the day I'll have it painted, flocked, and ready for water effects.

And here is the little terrain pieced I've completed so far.


I'm going to get some thicker glue to do all the tree foliage because white glue doesn't hold well til its dry.

That's all I have for now. Feel free to comment/criticize , ask questions, or just start conversation. I'm looking forward to being an active member on the forum and getting to know some of you!
-Bearded Hammer

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good work thus far.

[getagrip]

Look forward to following this: always nice to have some new fantasy players aboard 

[fsn]

Welcome Mr Hammer. WW2 Americans vs Fantasy Humans.

I've seen "Fury" - I think you'll find they're the same thing.

Nice work on the terrain.

[petercooman]

Welcome!

Looking good!

[Fenton]

Welcome

Looks like a great start

[Last Hussar]

ww2 american and fantasy humans?

Bit of a mismatch.  Unless you mean the Totty thread.

[BeardedHammer]

Thanks guys, glad to hear the good feedback!
And ya, The two army choices are a bit weird lol. I have one group of friends wanting to play ww2 games and another who wants to to play fantasy, so I just said screw it and will have one of each. For a while I thought sci fi was going to be added to the list and then they joined the fantasy band wagon.

[Subedai]

When I looked at the first picture I thought winter terrain, that's good...then I read the caption. Try using a glue gun to hold the foliage on, it's got an almost instant 'grip' as my fingers can testify.

There's the straight line, knock yourselves out.

On said pieces, if it were me I would add some different coloured flock material for a bit of a contrast and tone down the starkness of the rocks a little with a brown wash or similar. Apart from that they are great.

Welcome and good luck here. Like the zoo posters say 'mostly harmless', but nonetheless very knowledgeable (some of us disguise it well so as not to upset the rest).

[Leman]

Welcome Chris. Looks like a good start.

[BeardedHammer]

Fun story on the flock. I have two other shades and can't find them. I just moved recently and some of my stuff has disappeared, but The Wife is going to Hobby Lobby for me tomorrow so I'm restocking on everything.

[Subedai]

Fun story on the flock. I have two other shades and can't find them. I just moved recently and some of my stuff has disappeared, but The Wife is going to Hobby Lobby for me tomorrow so I'm restocking on everything.

That is known as Sods Law.

[BeardedHammer]

Do any of you have a good idea for water effects? I want a static look and something I can just poor and let dry but not a fan of using a 20usd bottle of water effects in one go.

[Womble67]

Welcome and you've made a great start

Take care

Andy

[Maenoferren]

looking good so far