Jun 302012
As I’ve been playing a bit of Dystopian Wars recently, I thought it was probably time to throw together some terrain. As my first force is the Covenant of Antarctica, the terrain had to be icebergs. Fortunately I had a bunch of scraps from the DOW Blue foam I picked up way back in 2005.
Five minutes of hot wiring and a little light sanding gave me plenty of basic ‘iceberg’ shapes. I painted them with white house-paint before ink washing back to the basic DOW blue colour! They were then dry-brushed with the same white housepaint and matt varnished. I probably could have just dry-brushed the basic DOW Blue foam with white for much the same effect.
At any rate now I have enough icebergs to dump down on a Dystopian Wars table at the next game.
To make sheets of ice, paint a miniatures base white, paint with crackle paint, then wash with very thinned blue paint. Martha Stewart crackle paint has the least cracking, but looks fine as ice. Distress crackle paint is best for real cracking, including ice bases for miniatures.
Thanks for the orc dipping tutorials!!!