Terrainfest - MCP in Southeast Asia
Getting started
So, it was time to make some terrain. Inspired by the Maeklong railway market, I was going to build up a board for a generic southeast Asia for MCP. I broke out the rule book to refresh my memory as even though I have collected and painted a good number of the miniatures for the game, I had never actually played. First off, the game is played on a 3×3 foot gaming surface, which would work out great since I had a left over 4×4 foot gaming table left over from a Flames of War demo game I had set up years ago. This would give me a 6-inch boarder to place cards, tokens and miniatures on, freeing up the gaming surface. For the 3×3 gaming surface I went with one inch foam, cut and then glued together.
I drew out a basic idea of what I wanted to make for the board. Buildings, a market and I wanted to make a banyan tree.
Once I had the foam glued together and dry, I painted the surface a general brown with craft paint. I spread out full strength PVA glue and even brushed it into the paint. I had picked up a 50-pound bag of play sand for texturing an evenly layered it on. Even after additional coverage in layers with watered down and sprayed PVA glue it took very little of the sand to give complete coverage and making the seams disappear. Once fully dry it was rock solid.
And with that the project had been started. Printers were running in the background, but this project isn’t going to be all ones and zeros…..
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