Building terrain of Doom

The last few years I have been working on some rules for a solo vietnam game based on the mobile strike forces in the vietnam war putting you in control of the indigenous forces helping rescue downed pilots in enemy territory and carrying out ambushes on enemy supply lines as well as patrolling around and protecting their compound.

This required a selection of different scenery including village buildings and sections of jungle to help fill out the scenarios. As well as needing a suitable bord or mat with squares on it for movement of miniatures and line of sight.

This is not the first of the boards I have built as the project started in 28mm but is awkward to get out and play the game because of the space needed, so I tried it in 15mm which was super fiddly so now have settled on 20 mm.

Walking around IKEA I found a box frame in the sale section which gave me the idea of a board that I can hang on the wall. So with that in hand I started collecting bits of card and cocktail sticks together.

The bord is made of a fake grass matt from aldi that I squished cheap brown green and red acrylic paint from the works into with a sponge, the muddy track is a mix of filler and sand mixed with plastic and again squished in with a sponge.

Once the paint was fully dry the lines were added with a shape then a selection of grass tufts were stuck down with pva glue for some variety.

• The fields are cut from carpet tiles from poundand stuck to Cork squares. The edges were built up with Millput then coated I sand and plastic before painting in muddy colours, tufts were then added

To make the buildings I made the basic shape from card from cereal packets, then glued cut up cocktail sticks as wooden beams. To give the walls some texture I used a thin coat of filler. The thatch roofs were made from hessian soaked in pva stick to card.

The board all set up for an afternoons gaming

Having a load of terrain on the table definitely helps with the immersion of the game.