Space Hulk Tactics Hobby Challenge: One step beyond. (now inc. Space Hulk: The Movie....)

I’ve long harboured a desire for a 3d Space Hulk board and have often found myself perusing the wares of internet mdf purveyors for corridor kits and zone mortalis type set ups.

I’m in awe of some of the hobby projects I’ve seen, including John’s BoW build of a full network of corridors. Amazing stuff – but where the heck do you store it when you already have other terrain and junk stored and don’t have BoW’s facilities or an American basement?

I was tempted by trying the idea of building some terrain that could double-up as both “external” battlefield terrain as well an interior for space hulk or space dungeon crawls but wasn’t sure how to go about it. But then when looking at some airbrush stencils I realised that the positive and negative principles of stencils can be utilised for terrain i.e. creating the image of a corridor rather than just the corridor itself (see the following link for some great use of stencils techniques in war gaming http://www.theartistofwar.com/2014/07/tutorial-stencils.html ).

So I set out using some mantic battlezones terrain to create the effects.

First some pictures of the terrain as it could be used to represent external buildings on a 40k battlefield:

Then I moved on to breaking down the terrain and spreading it out but being sure to leave only small gaps between it.

In this way you are creating the corridors and, as a bonus, you could also add a second level of terrain by connecting the buildings with bridges

Lastly when I tried to create the buildings with walls on only three sides with the idea that the inverse of the outside of a building can then actually function as a corridor of a type

So that is three ways to use the same terrain – what do you think?

Video showing the whole process below.