This motley collection comprised of scavenged 'prop painted' plastic GW hills from Ebay, some polystyrene GW hills and a cliff slope that I built when I was a student at Nottingham Trent uni. The cliff slope was built from mainly cardboard, masking tape and cork bark that was built circa 2000 when as a student I invested most of my loan into Wargames Foundry's factory shop outlet in Nottingham! With limited funds, salvaging waste to build terrain was an inexpensive way cover a battlefield. Some of the inspiration came from GW's amazing book; Wargames Terrain. The cork was bought from the now defunct PoP Enterprises of Nottingham and their now sadly departed wily owner, Fraser.
All the hills had their rock formations undercoated in raw umber and were dry brushed up in GW snakebite leather, light browns and finished with GW bleached bone to give the rock a limestone outcrop appearance to match my castle stonework and basing.
The plastic hills were flocked in Javis static grass. All the hills were detailed with static grass and Woodland Scenics clump foliage.
Whilst updating these hills, I was reminded of Army navigation lessons where we would learn the shape of a re-entrant, saddle, spur, convex and concave slope. Not that I ever heard a soldier describe a hill in real life in those terms!
GW Plastic Hill
GW Plastic Hill
Hand lovingly hand bodged cardboard and cork slope and cliff. 28mm Perry Prussian Mounted Officer for scale.
GW plastic hill
What was a rather dreary rock outcrop until painted up. GW Polystyrene Hill set.
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