Monday, 30 March 2026

Catachan jungle board wips

"A few WIPs from the jungle board build. For this board, I wanted to get dense foliage but have the board be playable. I also wanted scatter as opposed to one huge diorama board. So the compromise was multiple small, medium, to large individual pieces. That way I could concentrate on each narrative diorama piece one at a time so as to not get overwhelmed by it all. I initially wanted to cover a 4x4 area, but this increased to 4x6 due to the amount of scatter I had at hand. I had decided to make each scatter piece navigable as opposed to just line of sight blocking, which many jungle boards seem to do. Therefore, each scatter piece had multiple entrances and exits, although these were mostly obscured with the foliage by the end of the process. I really wanted to get the overgrown, disorienting feeling of a mass of jungle but still be able to move miniatures around. With that in mind, I tried to make the foliage overhang each board edge so when two boards were pushed close, they would make a natural path in between. This increased the amount of possible variations.