TILE 1: RIVER SECTION

If i was to make a necromunda moudlar table, then I had to have a river of effluent slime. To this end, i constructed the river section. The river itself is 20cm wide, and runs straight across the board (i will make a curve at a later date). It's surface is applied directly to the MDF base board, so It's 'banks' are 30mm high.It is crossed by a 10cm wide bridge, decorated with an astonising 120 rivets, made from slices of plastic rod. The bridge also features some Skeleton warrior shiled bosses, and a textured paint job. The banks of the river are lined with sheets of ancient metal (it is a canal after all), held in place with plastruct C-Channel.

Like all the boards (except the hill, which has neough concrete anyway) there are pacthes of concrete paving peaking through the layer of HIve ash and dirt. Paved paths run down each bank, andt there are patches of paving stones. These are just 2cm sqaures of thin card painted with texture paint before the sand was applied to the ground. There is also a small platform jutting out above the river. It's basically just a lot of carboard and Plastruct with some bendy straws. I added a couple of old fuel drums to the river, and a skelton. I also aplied some sand to the river bed to form sand banks.

The river itself was the most time consuming aspect of the project, although most of that time was drying time. First i painted the entire bed with Snot green. I then painted the edges with Bilious green, and the middle with Dark angles green to create shading.I added some bubles, made buy drilling holes in the base board, and sticking small glass beads in. Ontop of this went three coats of diluted PVA glue mixed with green ink or Snot green (after i ran out of ink) These coats serve to add murk to the river, the paint in them gradually coverting up the paint on the river bed. After this, i aplied two thick coats of diluted PVA to add depth. As a result, there is about 2mm of PVA glue on the river bed! Some of the sand baanks have been completely covered! Like the rest of the tiles, the sand was painted balck, and dry brushed with brown, and bone paint.