Weekender: Hot Wire Terrain Crafting & 4Ground’s Urban Buildings
December 5, 2015 by lloyd
Join us for an awesome Weekender where we talk about our Boot Camp experience and fun with hot wires! Honestly, it's not as dangerous as it sounds!
Team Yankee Boot Camp
We catch you guys up on everything that happened at the Team Yankee Boot Camp last weekend and what kind of things we got up to.
If you'd like to go and explore through our content from the three days then we have three Live Blog posts which you can check out.
- Team Yankee Boot Camp: Friday
- Team Yankee Boot Camp: Saturday
- Team Yankee Boot Camp: Sunday
- Lloydoslavia Team Yankee Downloads (Backstage Pass Required)
We had a lot of fun and it was fantastic engaging with the community both at the Boot Camp and on the internet throughout.
There are three winners of those awesome Two Player Starter Bundles so listen out for your names!
4Ground 15mm Urbanzone Buildings
4Ground have upscaled their work on Sci-Fi and Modern style buildings with the Urbanzone which would be great for all manner of different theatres of war.
We show them off under the camera and talk about how we'd use them in game. I think you could create a wonderful cityscape with these where the press of the buildings makes for a claustrophobic environment.
We have prize winners for this too who won an Iapygian Starter Set so keep an ear to the ground.
Hot Wire Foam Factory
If you caught the VLOG this week then you'll have seen us testing out the Hot Wire Cutters from Foam Factory. Well, we now bring you our little demonstration on them to Frontstage where we talk about how we might use them.
Plans are to make a big Age Of Sigmar table in the new year which has some awesome floating islands!
We'd love to know what you think of this technique for shaping terrain and if you have any examples of what you've done with the medium post them in the forums.
Prize Claims
If you were one of the lucky ones and grabbed yourself one of the prizes we mentioned then go here to Claim Your Prize.
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We hope you have a wonderful weekend of hobbying and gaming!
See you on Sunday!
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Great show guys.. big week ! Absolutely loved the coverage of the Boot Camp..
Happy weekend -glad to see all have recovered from the bootcamp
I want my own Lloydislav-One chopper now!
Happy Weekend!
Good morning.
Justin you shaved it again!
No references to Noodle’s island in Feel Good, Inc? http://pre12.deviantart.net/18d7/th/pre/f/2013/010/0/4/gorillaz___feel_good_inc__noodle__s_island_by_skj13-d5r2akk.jpg
Big shout!
Nice!
Its not so much the mouthful of beard i hate when i need to trim mine, but the pain of yanking on your top lip is hell.
Is this a new law of BoW, if Justin says beard will stay till at least far off date in calendar, it will be gone in a few days after uttering it?
Of course he could join in Decembeared now….
That there flying rock needs some FLLAAAGGGGSSSS!!!!
@Warzan @Lloyd @Dignity @BoW let me know if you need flags designed and I am happy to help out with them
If you build NY, surely the 7tv paranormal investigators would be ideal candidates for some fun?
Eureka miniatures make German riding Dinosaurs at 28mm!
Ah – a proper weekend complete with WeekEnder!
Regarding your ‘floating islands’ project, for inspiration refer also to English artist, Roger Dean, probably best known for his album cover art for rock bands Yes and Asia, during the 60’s and 70’s. (Controversial legal claim made by him against James Cameron in 2013, thrown out of court in 2014, regarding plagiarism of his work)! Secondly, I didn’t see any advisory regarding the hot wire cutting of expanded polystyrene foam and the dangers of the fumes given off by! If I missed it, then apologies, but felt it should be emphasized. (Probably covered by a COSHH regulation or some such… Read more »
Yes, I was going to mention the Roger Dean case too.
It’s so obvious when you look at his art and Avatar together, the rainbow dragons and everything…
At first glance I thought they were holding up a pair of warrens underpants!
My sympathies, Justin. I get exactly the same. Every time I wake up with a tache full of beer or soup, I trim it. I stick with a Little Beard these days.
The still puts me in mind of the Art work of Roger Dean
How bad were the fumes off the hotwire set-up?
The 4ground stuff looks amazing.
The build photo was Mick aka @buggeroff and Andrew aka @brucelea, but don’t worry @dignity there was an awful lot of new faces to remember and you (like Samson) have just lost your power!!!
Those buildings would be perfect for All Quiet on the Martian Front. Have you guys considered a War of the Worlds invasion of New York?
I would totally play that, @davebpg . Did you make your flight? I remember you were rushed. We missed our connection in Newark, but got the next flight back to Florida. 🙂
I had the same idea. It would be great for AQMF.
Justin, I am from germany, believe the guys, The Hoff is a national hero over here… ;P
plus his german concerts paid for most of the Baywatch programs.
Guys, with all these ideas for the 4ground terrain, I think you now have your short list for what to do at Salute. Can’t wait to see what comes 😉
For the floating island board @warzan I’d be tempted to use portals to get between them, maybe throw in a random element where each time you enter a portal it randomly pops you out on one of the islands.
Nice to see that my floating islands ideas have come up 😉 I think I sent through some sketches @warzan with some ideas for portals and other terrain pieces.
BoW Ben
@dignity what happened? Oh wait, its the bi-annual beard shave… looking smooth Justin, just what the Hoff ordered. 😀 Another great weekender lads! Missed having a weekender last week despite the excellent Team Yankee Bootcamp coverage which was chock-block with regular updates on the action. Enjoyed Giana’s discussions with the players, gameplay demo’s with Anders, period equipment info with Lewis, and the excellent interview with Battlefront’s CEO Mr John Paul Brisigotti. Foreground’s latest buildings just look plain amazing! The quality of gaming terrain that is becoming available and affordable for many gamers is incredible these days. The hot wire cutters… Read more »
@warzan If you want dinosaur cavalry and zombies, why not build Chicago and then you can have a 15mm Harry Dresden on Sue 🙂
Nice weekener again! Between this on and the last one, I’ve been wondering – is there a video og the entire Beasts of War stadio? Would sure like some kind of “virtual tour video”.