Hobby Lab Open Challenge – Show Us Your Scatter Terrain!
July 13, 2016 by dignity
We've got quite the neat challenge for you to get stuck into over the Summer and a great chance for you to share and learn together as a community. We want YOU to...
Create Your Own Scatter Terrain
...and then share it with us here on Beasts of War so we can all find out more about the art of terrain making.
What Is Scatter Terrain?
Scatter Terrain is a core and flexible part of any gaming environment. Effectively it gives you loose terrain pieces which can be used to break up open areas of the table and provide cover from oncoming fire or maybe a place to set-up your defences during a melee.
If you want some ideas then you could think along the lines of Garbage, Police Blockades, Ruin Scree, Barrels, Boxes, Weapon Racks and more. The list of ideas is endless and these kind of terrain pieces can appear in all manner of genres.
How Does The Competition Work?
The competition will run from NOW (yes right now) until August 31st at 1:00pm (BST). We will begin our first reports on what people have been up to during the first week of August and announce winners on the Weekender after the competition closes in September.
To share your terrain we're going to be opening up the Hobby Forums for you to create Projects which we will delve into and keep an eye on throughout the competition. Some tips for you...
- Pick a good Descriptive Name for your Forum Topic (or Project Log - Our Team will also be keeping the names tidy etc to make them easy to find)
- Post plenty of pics of sketches, materials etc
- Enjoy posting and answering questions - everyone loves terrain!
Who is going to be the team behind this I hear you ask...
Judges
...well, we have a great bunch of folks helping out in that regard.
- Members of the BoW Team
- Members of 4Ground
- Mel TheTerrainTutor
- Bill From Terrainaholic
Quite an esteemed list of judges I think you'll agree!
Prizes
At the end of it all we'll also be awarding prizes, which include £50 gift vouchers redeemable at 4Ground so you can win based on...
- Best Scatter Terrain Idea (Best use of items, versatility of the terrain etc)
- Best Project Log in the Forums (Best and most instructive project log in the forums)
- Best Executed Entry (Technical and Execution Excellence - it must look amazing)
- Best Entry From a Junior Beast! (Open to those under the age of 16)
Remember it's all for fun, sharing of ideas and learning together - prizes are just the sprinkle on top!
What are you waiting for? Get involved!
@theterraintutor You are one laid back dude 😉 I need a bit of what your taking mate 🙂
@warzan Where did you find that photo lmao! That’s camping bud, that’s my zen space!
Very cool!
Massive thanks to Bill @terrainaholic as well for getting involved! 🙂
Ah, geez. This is one I would love to enter, but not having made terrain in over a decade, my skill set isn’t rusty, it is the dust left over after you put a spade in the shed in 1982 only to look for it yesterday when you kinda remember that you may have a spade somewhere so you don’t want to buy another one.
I know what you are talking about. 😉 But that’s where the real challenge kicks in, right?
Look, those categories aren’t there just for sweet words. They do have good cause for existence.
Go On give it a go, this is not really about winning, but rather challenging yourself to have some fun making something 🙂
Could be something really simple too, remember you have 6 weeks to have a few goes 🙂
And that is all the more reason to participate and get the rusty gears grinding again…
Oooh, how nice is this?!
I very much like the whole approach. The community support aspect is great. And that you changed stuff, too, which is often a good thing for staying nimble and fit. If you did at all – I wouldn’t know.
Also, I applaud your focus on terrain and DIY building being very important parts of the whole hobby.
I will likely have a go at this myself too, I’ve just been looking around the house for little bits that could… ‘become something awesome’ 😉
Cool idea. A nice push to pump out some scenery.
The creative juices are already flowing, any limit to number of entries?
@Warzan that was bad.. You should feel bad…. Naughty Warzan
lol
WT… did I just watch? Is that… feline (?) entity doing this voluntarily? Way too weid.
Guess I’ll be using those cereal packets sooner then…
I’m off camping with Andrea and the kids for the next two weeks, and I will make a point of visiting every toy, eurostore and hardware shop in the South of Ireland in my search for some weird little piece of junk to turn into something lol
Sorry about being pedantic, but these are competition rules… “British Standard Time”?
… surely you mean “British Summer Time” (I know summer is hard to spot in the UK at the moment),
… which for our international Beasts is GMT+1 (or UTC+1)
On another of my current pedantic topics I wondered whether my Northern Irish colleagues are annoyed with the constant reference in the news to “Britain” rather than the UK?
Well spotted @lance @dignity take note lol
Maybe we should just change everything to Universal Time (or Unix Time Formats lol)
While you are a common grounds spree – how about switching to Esperanto? That might bring everybody on the same page at understanding or not understanding.
… *sigh*
Ĉu vi pensas iu volas kompreni nin? 😉
Nice one.
Well, I do hope so. At least there is one I know of. 😉
…or is this an evil trick question? Possibly clouding very, very dark depths that noone in their right states of minds would like to catch a peak at…?
They don’t work with me. ’cause even a little open hint at stuff like that already gets my curiosity going happily inviting in doom and destruction. Oh, my…
using 64bit variables preferably – although 32bit has another 20 years left in it… 😉
Can it be any scale
Since they didn’t specify that I strongly believe so. And why would they restrict it to a certain scale only? There seems to be a distinct emphasis on creativity, out of the box stuff and so on. Then again considering the theme of scatter terrain there seems to be a logical span of scale as they drift too far away from each other to be reasonably compareable. In 10mm that tends to become somewhat difficult to discern, while 75mm boxes might rather resemble houses for smaller scales… However, as there is a focus on ideas, presentation, accessability and the likes… Read more »
Yup any scale
This is for fun, we are not going to Rules Lawyer on this, just get stuck in and make stuff 🙂
for the entry for this challenge, does it have to be one specific item that you enter, for example, a single weapon rack, or could it possibly be a themed collection of items that can be scattered around, for example, maybe a “street furniture collection” which could maybe include items such as bins, benches, parking meters and similar things that you might scatter around a city board?
The first option didn’t even occur to me. The term itself seems to indicate a plurality.
Although, if they are items of very varying natures they might be better suited for different project logs, don’t you think so? Then again, having a shiny set of different kinds of terrain pieces all belonging to one specific table – especially when documented how they were done – is a very intriguing thing.
Actually, what I wanted to say is: good question!
😉
A Collection is fine 🙂
We’re keeping this flexible as all we want to do is join you in building some cool terrain 🙂
Looking forward to putting my entry into this. 😀
Just as I was thinking of my second terrain build project … yeah count me in!
What a great idea, Deffo going to put together a few pieces….the question is what…time to get the old noggin working