Sunday 17 May 2015

Terrain is Everything - photo frame underhive

I'm just throwing this out ther, my wife got this picture frame about five or six years ago [it could even be more] and I've never put the pictures in that she wanted. To say she's miffed about it is an understatment so I finally stripped off the packaging and started to sort it out but as soon as i put it down on the table I just saw the perfect piece of terrain to base an Underhive or City Fight table on. There's definitely scope to put all sorts of creating and mesh layers as walkways. Fill some of the openings with industrial waste or rubble then build up some of the other frames with GW building walls. Now the chance of getting this again is practically non-existent, but I'm sure there are similar examples. This was about £13 from Dunelm Mill [or the Range] it's geat because you have three layers thanks to the stacked plastic framework. It's also two identical rectangula pieces joined together to make the square, so there's additional scope to look for something similar that may be rectangular.


Sadly I'll not be able to create the vision that popped into my head as soon as I placed it flat on the table, but I had to share the concept in case anyone else would similarly inspired. I just found the whole epiphany of an item that has been loitering in my house for ages suddenly took on a whole new perspective.


6 comments:

  1. That's actually a great idea. I think I would probably raise areas up with stilts and connect them with bridges or walk ways to get a proper under give theme going

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  2. It always amazes me how we seem to see hobby thing in every day stuff.

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    1. Agreed Frank, I do that a lot around the house and out shopping ;)

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    2. Same here, my wife has even started doing it ;-) I don't know if I would grim/dark one of her picture frames though... you don't mess with the administratum.

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  3. I just saw a kickstarter that might help with this.
    https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/iron-battlefield

    Otherwise I'd go along with Nafnaf and just raise them up :)

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  4. Spiffy idea.

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