legions imperialis board

My first attempt at some weathering was to use a grey weathering powder and then seal it with some matt varnish. I tried to go heavy with the powder but unless it was in the cracks it seem to largely disappear when varnished.

The next effort was to give the tiles a drybrush using grey paint. I am not sure it make a lot of difference as the side by side below shows but it does tone down the blue roads a bit.

I assembled a section to see what it looks like and now it time for a lot of magnets, 2 per side although it could take 4 per side.

These were all applied with a sponge again, dabbed on.

For this I’m using tubes of acrylic paint and dabbing it on with a sponge

These tiles are from Terraforma Epicminium on Dragon’s Rest
https://dragons.rest/products/terraforma-epicminium

There are 28 different tile designs and there are also half tiles cut on the diagonal so you can change the orientation of the roads. I wanted a 5×4 board out of these so as the tiles are 6 inches square I was going to need at least 80. I have printed 3 of each design and enough half tiles to edge the board, I may need some more of different designs to make the board make sense but for now that is it.

Once the printing was done that was the easy bit now I need to paint them. After putting this off for quite a while I have finally settled on a colour scheme for the tiles.

The painted tiles in the above are from an earlier attempt at this when I printed half a dozen tiles and painted them using GW’s paints. It quickly become apparent that once I had printed off all the tiles it was going to take a lot of paint to cover them.

So I have settled on a sandstone type finish for the foundations and dark blue for the road.