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Frozen Outpost

Once more a delve into builds of the past.

It seemed to me that just about every infinity table out there seems to consist of either shipping containers or full-on urban settings. Not that there is anything wrong with that and I too have a full-on city set up, which I will post pictures of too.  However, I wanted to do something a little different and include more natural elements.

So, after watching ‘The Thing’ and looking forward to its board game release I opted for a snow covered outpost.  Not Full-on arctic conditions but more like how I imagine places like Canada would look.  Apologises to any Canadians as I have never been to your country, I just have this image of large trees and white snow in my mind.

I ordered a bunch of terrain from sarissa precicion to build my proposed outpost / research facility.

I really like the sarissa stuff and have used it as a basic shell for other terrain builds and will continue to do so in the future.  It goes together really well, and the delivery time is excellent.

I knocked up a quick test piece to see if I was happy with my snow and ice theme.  Of course, I had to add ‘Unit 57′ somewhere.

For the snow I used a mixture of PVA and plaster.

The red stripe was to add a bit of colour and I rather like the contrast between red and green (the green will come from the trees).

Next, I marked out a quick 4′ x 4’ area on my work table to see if I had enough bits to make it look busy enough.   I added some simple snow drifts to add variety.  It became apparent very quickly that I needed more trees.  A lot more.

I was happy with the height of the trees as it helped break up fire corridors from the highest points on the table.

I used a simple white cloth to lay out the elements I had finished on.

Overall, I was pretty happy with the layout and love the contrast between the snow and the trees.  It’s a fun layout to play on but does has one minor drawback.  The white plaster powder does come off slightly if you rub the terrain so I probably should have put a bit more thought into how I was going to tackle that.  Also, I am not sure that I want to base figures up on snow textured bases, so it does really limit its use somewhat.  However, it was fun to do.