The other details were made from styrene card and strips. The turrets were made from round bases and plastic cups, cut down and melted to look as though the tops were blasted off. The generators and tech bits were made from vaporator pieces I had left over from the Sullust and Lothol boards I made last year. In the trenches, I used thick copper wire with a grey plastic coating for the cables. A few spots were textured and painted like rock face, and the rest of the area was covered with foam and gesso "snow." The hangar and mountainside were built up with layers of foam. I used textured plastic card for the walkway planks in the trench, and adhered them to the bottom of the trench with the foam and gesso mix. The cured foam and gesso developed some cracks and air bubble spots, but these were easily filled and smoothed over with wall spackling compound. I used a sponge to "stipple" it out at the edges, and as it cured, the foam puffed up just a enough to create a perfect blend of fluffy and lumpy snow. I mixed the two, which created a spreadable consistency that resembled marshmallow Fluff. I sprayed a line of the Great Stuff foam, then immediately poured some gesso over it while the foam was still wet. The solution was a mix of Great Stuff expanding foam and gesso for the body, and generous coatings of Modge Podge and latex paint. I needed something that would have an appropriately fluffy texture, and would be solid enough to resist chipping and denting. More on that later.įantasy Flight was kind enough to send some speeders and figures that I could use to scale everything and create wrecks for the tabletop. I planned to use an image from the movie as a backdrop for the hangar, so it would look like it extended much deeper, with the Millennium Falcon in the background. There wasn't room to build a whole hangar, so I made the opening and first row of speeder bays. One is mostly open plains with some modular snow formations, and the other is the rebel base with a trench line and hangar opening. The table is made up of two 3' x 3' boards. I shaped the foam and smoothed it over with wood filler putty to create areas of gradually sloping hills and rough rocky cliffs. I used two layers of one inch foam– Trenches could be cut into the first layer, and the second layer is used to build up hills. I used a blue-green colored foam rather than pink to ensure that the color wouldn't show through the paint. Like most of my boards, it started out with a wooden table frame and insulation foam for the top. Now that it's debuted at the show, I can show off some photos of the completed board and talk about the process I used to build everything. If you were at Adepticon this year, you may have seen it in person. Fantasy Flight Games had commissioned be to build a Hoth-themed game board for the Star Wars: Legion miniatures game.
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