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Well me and my mad, bad egocentric friend have been casually building our own Urban Snow Board (Emperorgrad) all year. All of our previous boards, which include jungle, trench and desert, have been a flat terrain surface with add on terrain pieces - so this time we fancied something different.

The board is split into 12 Squares which can be randomly shuffled around at will. Terrain pieces are attached to their own square, and of course squares can be rotated. We've personally found this is great for keeping up variety.

However we are stuck for ideas for creating mass amounts of snow to blanket the board, we've got tester splodges all around the board, but if anyone has any ideas then we would be most grateful.

Our current below Squares are (from top left to right): Dispersal Area IV, Craters I, The Librarium, Crashed Valkyrie XXVI, Brother Linkin Memorial Statue, Ruined Servitor Manufactorum, Ruins I, Shelled Arbites Precint, Craters II, Ruined Administratum Block, Destroyed Chapel of the Emperor, and Ruins II (off-screen).












This is the Brother Linkin Memorial Statue (In honour of a long dead Space Wolf M38), which when combined with the clear areas of the board can make Linkin Park... Unfortunately a tank shell has desecrated the statue and the head is lying in the snow nearby... This was a fully painted model memorabilia which we bought and well, disfigured.













Apologies for blurry camera shots. Its machine spirit is old and unsettled...

Oh by the way in case you are wondering this is inside the Waaaaaargh Shed in the garden, (complete with giant 40k sign and strewn models everywhere.... xD The Guard is my friends Gryphonne IV regiment.

So any comments or suggestions are welcome, like I said the snow is proving frustrating (we want it snowed in against the buildings and lightly dusting the rest of the board), but apart from that we quite like the grey, drab, theme. Current running costs are £242 I think...

Excellent Stuff !

The snow is striking

May I suggest some larger area where there is only a deep snow, you could count as Difficult terrain ?

Thanks! Yep we absolutely want more snow.

However we are struggling to find a method which allows a deep basin of snow to stick to the board, without it looking gluey, pasty or curdling. Ideally we want lightly dusted all over the board (with the board remaining flat and stable), with deeper drifts piled up against building edges.

Also the Emperors Blessing be upon anyone who could tell me the secret of creating realistic Icicles to hang from window frames?

Try hobbycraft for icicles im pretty sure they sell them in amongst the railway stuff, possibly by the brand woodland scenics.

Another suggestion that i just thought up.... pools of ice (could also count as tough terrain). I mean, war is hot, some snow would melt, collect somewhere, like along side the road, and refreeze as ice. of course, this ice cant be clean (and neither should the snow on the roads) as itd be collecting grime from men/vehicles as it moved to its icing spot.

ooo pools of ice could be interesting... Will have to look into that Thanks for the hobbycraft suggestions as well guys!

Sadly I only have space for one board at a time, (I sold, recycled or scrapped the others, hey its a small shed). I do have some cheesy photoshop images of a previous trench/shelled out bunker board (see below), featuring my old Dark Angels force. (Gotta be 4 years or more back now ) (It used to be a desert board until I got rid of the dunes, kept the board itself and added bunkers and shell holes)

Oh wait I still have my Battle Fleet Gothic Space board - its slowly being crushed beneath the new one and is being used as a stanley knife cutting surface...








Yeah this bad boy has been recycled for the new board


Another tuesday morning for the Veterans... the table had barricades, shell holes, a plasma generator and 4 bunkers.


General Steiners briefing - (Inside one of the four bunkers)


I will have a dig around in some photo albums... I'm sure I've got pics of the other ones hidden away with my spotty teenage face in them...

wow. fantastic work. great pics.

[ I do have some cheesy photoshop images of a previous trench/shelled out bunker board

Their not cheesy in fact i've gone blind from sheer awesome!

I feel a flush of pride Im not worthy lol. perhaps when my paint my new ravens I will phoshop some of them xD

i love the briefing inside the bunker, pure awesome work, and the boards themselves,

how i envy you

No need to blush. Both of those board look to me like fun!