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I designed this piece of scenery for a great Wargame Weekend. We needed a hilly piece of terrain that could be used as
“Hobbiton”. A great battle on 10 tables and a fellowship that starts their quest on this hill. This piece of terrain is
exactly the same size as the broad side of a table tennis table. So it can be placed at the end or side of such a table,
leave the larges part of the table open as some kind of plain.
The idea is to make at least one other hill like this so I can make a longer or wider hill.
The slopes are kept modest so the miniatures won’t fall. To make steeper hills ask for working more in a leveled way.
One of my gaming friends hate water so I always add water to my scenery.
Overall the hill looks a bit fresh like right out of the washing machine.
This is not a problem because when we use it we add loose colorful sawdust and shrubs and trees.
Since this piece will be used as “Hobbiton” I’m still working on the removable hills with little doors and windows in them,
that you can put on this hill.
I used a multiplex piece of wood as the base of the structure. Two sides (one at the back and one at the side) of wood were
added and modeled in a slope kind of way. I used thin triplex to saw out the roads and river. Simple pieces of wood were
glued and screwed down on the base on which the roads and river was placed. After this I modeled some pieces of wood to
use as level pieces of ground, forming all the plateaus on the hill. The next phase was to add chicken wire over the
structure using nails to keep it all in place. With modeling the wire I tried to slope the form as much as possible.
The small river ends up in a crack or under ground river. I choose to do this so the water will not continue on the rest
of the table. A nice asset although would be a river that starts like it is coming from underground and follows it’s route
above ground.
The whole structure was covered in 3 layers of large newspaper ribbons glued on with wallpaper glue. Using static grass
(already glued on paper) was the next stage. I glued all the areas with this grass leaving the steepest sides on the hill,
the road and the waterway open. These parts were glued with wood glue on which I sprinkled sand and gravel. The river/water
parts were sprinkled with more large stones. Painting the water dark blue (a mixture of dark blue paint and ink) and the
rocks raw umber. The rock formation was brushed with terra and gray colors. The river was brushed with lighter shades of
blue and even white. The pebbles and small rocks in the river were painted art random in different earth like colors.
The little waterfall was made using cotton wool, spray painted blue and brushed white. I used dark green acrylic paint
out of a spraying can to accent the slopes of the hill.
Again the hill looks a bit clean but it’s just a matter of dirtying it up for battle.
Since these hills must represent “Hobbiton” in the upcoming annual war game weekend I made some removable hills that can
be used as hobbit hills. The hills were formed with chicken and paper was glued on in the same way I did the basic hills.
Over the paper I glued static grass and on one part of a hill I made a rocky formation using the gravel. Got it from a
garden shop in a bag of 20 kilograms. Just dried some and use it straight over the glue. Once the hills are covered with
the static grass I used dark green spray paint to add some variety. Remains the painting of the stone structure and maybe
I will add some round doors to finish it.
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I designed this piece of scenery for a great Wargame Weekend. We needed a hilly piece of terrain that could be used as
“Hobbiton”. A great battle on 10 tables and a fellowship that starts their quest on this hill. This piece of terrain is
exactly the same size as the broad side of a table tennis table. So it can be placed at the end or side of such a table,
leave the larges part of the table open as some kind of plain.
The idea is to make at least one other hill like this so I can make a longer or wider hill.
The slopes are kept modest so the miniatures won’t fall. To make steeper hills ask for working more in a leveled way.
One of my gaming friends hate water so I always add water to my scenery.
Overall the hill looks a bit fresh like right out of the washing machine.
This is not a problem because when we use it we add loose colorful sawdust and shrubs and trees.
Since this piece will be used as “Hobbiton” I’m still working on the removable hills with little doors and windows in them,
that you can put on this hill.
