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Offline olle

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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #25 on: April 10, 2008, 04:04:00 PM »
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Anyway, as I was saying, I think I have settled for converting it to a springtime board, due to the river looking like it has been snowing in it.

Or you could smash your empire army, get a chaos one and make the board tainted  :icon_biggrin:
More seriously speaking I think It's a good idea and it would be nice to play on the board :-)
unless it smells  :icon_surprised:

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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #26 on: April 11, 2008, 07:59:01 AM »
I live in Europe. Of what I know, there's no deadly diseases carried by mice here...

Thanks for the advice, though :)

The latest tips I've got about snow (not from this rodent fixated community, though  :dry: ) is wood glue mixed with bicarbonate, sprinkling more bicarbonate over it, sealing with matte varnish. Anyone tried this?

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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #27 on: April 11, 2008, 08:15:43 AM »
I'd just invest in snow scatter, You get huge tubs of it relativly cheap from Model Railway stockists.

Here's the stuff my mate uses:
http://www.ecscenics.co.uk/index.html?lmd=39525.403623

Also if ever looking for Static Grass, always go to Railway stockists as the stuff from GW is so over priced for exactly the same product.

Hope this helps.

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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #28 on: April 11, 2008, 10:30:23 AM »
Looks great! Thanks!

I visited my local railway store, they go Woodland scenics, but they are as overpriced as GW unfortunately.  :dry:

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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #29 on: April 11, 2008, 12:51:38 PM »
Hmm, interesting idea...
By spraying it I could get cakes of white snow to glue to the board instead. But I'm afraid it would blow in all directions by the force of the spray...

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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #30 on: April 13, 2008, 12:00:21 PM »
I have split the topic as best I can to keep this one on topic, and all discussions about dead rodents in the Back Table.

Keep this one related to the repair of the terrain piece ...........
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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #31 on: April 13, 2008, 06:04:18 PM »
Good initiative :-)

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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #32 on: April 13, 2008, 06:11:37 PM »
Forgive me if this has already been asked, but do you have any pictures of the table prior to it's damage that you can post? If so, that could help get you some contructive criticism and advice.

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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #33 on: April 14, 2008, 10:15:10 AM »
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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #34 on: April 15, 2008, 03:52:29 AM »
Wow, I can see why you were proud of it. I hadn't realized it was modular (I thirst do a board like this myself). Have you done any work on it since you discovered the damage?

I know you seriously want to salvage this, but where to start is tricky. You're going to just have to be brutal with it I think. I would suggest, in an effort to avoid illness from the urine, while handling this with a dust mask and latex gloves, serious taking off the top layer with some sort of sanding tool . All that flock and basing materials probably sponged up the nastiness and needs to go. I'd then relayer it heavily perhaps even making the top soil level a few millimeters higher than it was origionally. That way if the foul mouse liquids have seeped in to the core it'll be buried and sealed over. I have no idea how you'll go about saving the river sections, you may have to suck it up and totally redo those sections.

I realize this isn't much advise, but I'm actually attempting to be helpful and it's better than my first post on this matter! Good luck!

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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #35 on: April 15, 2008, 07:51:06 AM »
The paint seals the board pretty well, and I could only find a few fresh patches of pee when I found the board. So I might redo a few square decimeters of the paint because of discoloring, but other than that, the main layer stays. I will be keeping the river as it is, but the rest of the landscape is going to receive a light snowing. I'm working on a formula of wood glue and bicarbonate right now, trying to get it right. It turns out too porous right now. I might get to seal it with some kind of matte varnish or equal.

But my biggest worry right now is having opening night for the Chalmers' students' farce this week!  :::cheers::: So there's not gonna be so much work done on it yet. I've had quite a lot to do :-)

Thanks for the tips!

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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #36 on: April 15, 2008, 01:34:03 PM »
I caught one for you!!!





Maybe you can keep the turds on the board and spread out some dead Skaven on it...  hmmm on second thought that would be a horrible idea as you'd still have mouse crap all over the place.





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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #37 on: April 15, 2008, 02:37:11 PM »
Yes, that would be a horrible idea.
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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #38 on: April 15, 2008, 04:53:36 PM »
Ahahahahaha!  :biggriin:

You'za da best, orcyboy!

Is this something you made yourself?  :eusa_clap: Why the roman uniform? Looks hilarious!  :::cheers:::


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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #39 on: April 16, 2008, 12:54:32 AM »
Is this something you made yourself?  :eusa_clap: Why the roman uniform? Looks hilarious!  :::cheers:::

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Nope its not a conversion or anything its just a whacky old Grenadier model I dug up.

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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #40 on: April 16, 2008, 10:01:50 PM »
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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #41 on: April 17, 2008, 05:53:25 PM »
I use Woodland Scenics snow flock for my Ogres.  I mix it with White glue and water, then spread it around.  It looks great.  I'll try to post some pics this weekend of it.
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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #42 on: May 11, 2008, 07:56:29 PM »
A miracle has occured!  :ph34r: Blessed be Sigmar, but when I last stuck my head down the basement to once again inspect the damage on the board, I noticied the RIVER IS NO LONGER WHITE!!  :Ohmy:  :Ohmy: :Ohmy:

I can't explain it. I just thnk whataver God of Nerds finally heeded my prayers. I am religious and will start the church of the dice.

Or maybe not.... I would have so little time for warhammer then. I've heard religion stuff is time consuming.

Anyway, just wanted to say this.  :mellow: Words can't describe my happiness! 

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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #43 on: May 11, 2008, 07:59:04 PM »
Great news !

Glad to hear it. I imagine you are happy as a kid on x-mas.
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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #44 on: May 11, 2008, 08:01:21 PM »
Awesome dude! I'm really happy for you!
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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #45 on: May 11, 2008, 09:17:16 PM »
That is weird!!! I wonder if it was a temperature issue? How cold was your basement a few months ago vs. now?


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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #46 on: May 11, 2008, 09:31:47 PM »
Good news indeed. I'm beginning to see quite how much work goes into making one of these things  :wink:
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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #47 on: May 11, 2008, 09:31:51 PM »
Humidity is what does it... steveb

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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #48 on: May 12, 2008, 10:19:27 AM »
That is weird!!! I wonder if it was a temperature issue? How cold was your basement a few months ago vs. now?

I'd guess it's the temperature... Water has a tendency of going white when temperature drops below zero...
But the river remained white for a while after I moved it indoors again and then, over a night, it changed back!  :Ohmy:

Great news !

Glad to hear it. I imagine you are happy as a kid on x-mas.
You wouldn't know!

Thanks for all the support I received during the hard times  :wink: You guys really are the best!

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Re: My Poor Poor Terrain Board
« Reply #49 on: May 13, 2008, 10:03:24 AM »
Humidity is what does it... steveb

Seconded.

It happens with some glues as well.
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