Hello all.
I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do with terrain for smaller scales, lately. I've built up a really nice collection of Warmaster terrain, which I bought with an eye for using in Epic games. I got a temperate Mat o' War and a desert one, thinking I'd prefer the green one for Warmaster and the desert one for Epic wastelands. I have hills in both colours, rocky outcrops, trees, terrain templates etc.
I do not yet have any Epic buildings.
I am planning on getting a bunch of the Wasteland ones - but I still come up against problems with how I think tables look. I don't like the way most road systems look and I rather like the idea of buildings looking abandoned rather than sill in the prime of life.
I was thinking about that and it struck me that if I painted them in desert colours, I could abandon the idea idea of roads, and make it look as though the desert is reclaiming them. A bit like how Dubai looks in "Spec Ops: The Line", the buildings could be in grid like patterns but I wouldn't have to worry about setting out a road grid with them.
Another desert option I was thinking of was the Leven Middle East buildings:
http://www.levenminiatures.co.uk/middle_east.htm#MID14...With plastic ork glyphs bought from bitz shops stuck on them to make them look a bit like the old cardboard buildings.
Any thoughts, chaps? What are the "essential" terrain bits for you?
