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I always fanciend having some modular terrain,
ever since that ill fated september day when my Grandmother gave
me a copy of 'How to make wargames terrain' There is, of course,
a very good reasoin behidn this desire. Modular terrain looks damn
good. So a while ago I was turning the idea over in my head again,
and i got inspired. And thus was created Slime Pit Harbor.I decided
to take advantage of one of Modular terrains best features: Depth.
Because each tile is a 3cm thick slab of Polystyrene, i can cut
into it. Unlike the dinign room table, whihc Mum is rather protective
of... So right from the start, i knew i was goign to have a slime
canal, and a harbor.How could i possibly represent the bustling
slime sea port of SLime Pit Harbor (incidentaly, named after Syndey
Harbor, to which it bears a strking resemblance) with out a Canal
and a harbor?I also decided to have craters modeled into the ground,
and some pits to access subteranean pipes.Then of course i had to
build a hill. A 7cm tall block of polystyrene doen uyp as concrete,
and coving most of one board would suit nicly.Having got a rough
idea of what i wanted, i used Lightwave to draw up some rough concepts.
Then i got carried away and drew up anothert four boards, which
i will porbably make eventually.The construction process started
with the traditional mamoth buy-up which porceeds all large projects.
I went to BUnning's and bought up a lot of odd plumbing parts and
other interesting greeblies. Then i went to Pen Haluriacks to buy
the MDF. Here I had a pleasant suprise. You can actually buy MDF
in 2ft by 4ft sheets! This saves a lot of cutting.(Unfortunatly,
there are no 2ft by 2ft sheets available) I bought up almsot all
the 30mm polystyrene at the Handworks craft shop in Chaple street,
and set to.Each tile is 2ft sqaure, 6mm thick, and has 30mm polystyrene
sheet mounted to it. All edges have been taped up with Gaffer tape,
which hepls protect exposed styrene. Since each tile is a terrain
item in itself, i have decided to give each tile it's own individual
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