Melt28 Terrain

After playtesting my Melt28 rules using the crappy terrain you find in bags of army men, I knew I had to do something with all the plastic I had accumulated. The figures themselves have a ‘Grimdark’ style now, or ‘Grimcandy’ as I coined it a while back.

Dingy, but with vibrant colours.

The terrain needed to match. I set about hot gluing random bits to some MDF bases I had (presumably for some long dead project), and after the usual texturing with my goop mix, putting sand and gravel on the bases, priming black and over brushing I had some decent looking pieces.

This was always going to work. However, as you may now be wondering, what about the hollow bits? A lot of this terrain is one sided after all.

I’ve seen folks carefully construct the back sides with card, various putties and fillers. However my mantra was: ‘whatever is quickest.’ I started jamming filler in those gaps… then things quickly spiralled out of control… for example the front of this piece:

And the back:

I’m not sure if the wall here is digesting these poor men, or growing them as fresh recruits. I’m a fan of using this sickly sweet pink for blood though.