Cathayan Borderlands scenery (WIP+Completed)

VERY COOL STUFF, cianty! Even in its WIP state this is the BEST "Dungeon" terrain I've seen. It's VERY evocative AND there's something rather chilling in a primeal sortt of way about underground exploration. I wait in anticipation for your progress [remember I'm OLD & don't have much time left for "waiting" ].

So simple, yet so much more effective than mine! curse you Cianty!! now I have to redo mine!... grrrrrr...

Can't wait to see them painted!

Tunnel tiles completed

Here are a first few impressions of the completed dungeon/mine/tunnel tiles I made for the great Horrors of the Underground scenario. I'll post more pics of the entire set-up later.


Somewhere in the Cathayan borderlands is the entrance to the forbidden mines of Shang-Yang...




Lead by sinister visions of the tribe's shaman a chieftain and his retinue enter the caverns in search for one of the four fabled Chaos artefacts...




In the meantime a group of battle monks is already exploring the dark tunnels, encountering one of the countless horrors of the underground...

Cool! That mine looks like loads of fun to play on, as well as being a work of art.

i love you like only a man can love another man through his terrain cianty.. hold me

sweet, lookin good mate!

Impressive! Your ability in all the aspects of this hobby astound me!

Awesome mine Cianty!
I just love those gaming tiles. Particularily remarkable for me: the eveness of the stoney-grey drybrushing. 100% professional.

How many tiles are you planning to make?

Thank you, guys! Thanks a lot!

Admin Tom wrote:

How many tiles are you planning to make?

Well, I bought ten wooden tiles at the DIY store. Six are finished and four are WIP. Considering the initial set-up which requires four tiles (entrance, tunnel, junction and crossroads) this leaves me six "normal" tiles during the game. This is less than what you should have at hand but it might be enough for some games. I might resort to the paper templates when I run out of them. However, I'm really enjoying making these now (after I had to kick myself in the butt for quite some time before I finally started to seriously work on them). So I think I might make some more because they are rather easy to make yet very rewarding when you build up the huge tunnels.. Plus I am thinking about extending this scenario into an entire mini game...

Oh, one more thing: I forgot to thank you, Tom, in my initial post. Your work on the giant spider riding goblin was an invaluable help when painting the spiders as otherwise I would have had no clue how to paint them. Your paint job was a great inspiration for me!
I also need to thank the sculptor of the models for modelling these ridiculously unrealistic skulls on their bodies as otherwise I might have freaked out during painting (cuz I hate spiders!).


Now to make this post worthwhile, here some more eye candy:

A tunnel crash hinders further exploration of the mines.






A rather simple piece that I made yesterday but I think it's very effective. This marker denotes a crashed tunnel where the warbands have to remove the boulders before they can go on.

Not ONLY is this an EXCELLENT piece of work, but it opens up SO MANY gaming possibilities. When first I checked out your latest bit of modeling marvel, visions of the tunnels entering natural caverns, underground cities, storehouse of arcania, whirling melees between Goblins & Dwarves flashed through my crazed old mind. It's REALLY COOL making things that provide inspiration of THAT magnitude. WELL DONE, mein Freund!

cianty wrote:

I forgot to thank you, Tom [...] Your work on the giant spider riding goblin was an invaluable help when painting the spiders

Haha, you're welcome my man.

cianty wrote:

Now to make this post worthwhile, here some more eye candy

Thaaat's the spirit. Very cool rubble again, Cianty.

Amazing mine Cianty!

I really like the idea and whenever I can I´ll copy your idea!

Great work!

i'm at a loss of words.... it's soo cool

Want!
Actually I think I could do with some sewers for my rats...

I finished enough tunnel pieces just in time for inclusion in the Border Town Burning supplement's gallery section (coming this saturday!).

VERY COOL! All the ideas for various & sundry projects that you have inspired ARE going to require AT LEAST another lifetime to complete. I'll have to have a word with THE MAN [& the folks at Social Security ] about an extension.
VERY WELL DONE, AND OH THE POSSIBILITIES!

love the mines cianty, you could make more tiles and spec them to suit space hulk or si-fi. or sewers of mordheim... oh i smell a plot coming

Stunning Cianty! Absolutely stunning.

Cianty, your scenery is probably more inspiring (for BTB of course) than any minis showed on this forum...
I wish I could do it like you do

Duce wrote:

love the mines cianty, you could make more tiles and spec them to suit space hulk or si-fi. or sewers of mordheim... oh i smell a plot coming

If it's the Sewers of Mordheim, what you smell IS more than a plot!

FANTASTIC!!!!

I admire everything about it!
Consider this idea stolen
Can't wait to build some BTB terrain for my new gaming room!

KRUG_666 wrote:

FANTASTIC!!!!

I admire everything about it!
Consider this idea stolen
Can't wait to build some BTB terrain for my new gaming room!

YOU'VE GOT A NEW GAMING ROOM! OH BABY! Congratulations, Amigo. May the walls resound with the sounds of Battle!

Thank you all! Your comments are very encouraging.

KRUG_666 wrote:

Can't wait to build some BTB terrain for my new gaming room!

And I can't wait to see some photos of that!

In due time

I have no idea how I miss some of these posts but the tunnels are awesome.

This is the proper way to do a tunnel.

I am guessing you used insulation foam (blue or pink color)?

How did you carve out the sides?

Sorry, I missed your explanation but scrolling through I didn't catch it.