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Making Moudular Terrain
Here is my own way of making modular terrain in easy to follow steps. I like my terrain boards to be 2' by 4', so this will be how to make one 2' by 4' board with a river, cliff, woods, and a ruined shrine. To make this board you will need a 2' by 4' MDF board, lots of 1" thick polystyrene, some model trees, some bark, some lychen, a hot wire cutter, some PVA glue, some old citadel minatures, some stones, and some flock. Here's how I went about building the board.
Step 1: Using a hot wire cutter, cut out a sheet of polystyrene 2' by 4'. Mark a river down it in pen, then cut that out too. Stick this down onto your MDF board. The river should look like a gulley at the moment.
Step 2: Cut out some step hill shapes as shown in the "Wargames Terrain" book by Nigel Stillman, and stick them together with PVA. Have one side of the hill verticle. This will be your clif face. Stick the hill down onto the edge of the board with PVA.
Step 3: Stick bark to the cliff face, and onto the dteep sides of the river. Add on another one step hill, and add boulders and stones all over this. Make some steps out of cardboard leading up to the top, and put a few toppled pillars and citadel minatures painted stone colours for statues. This will be your ruined shrine.
Step 4: Paint the whole thing green, except the bark, stonework, and boulders which you paint black. When this is dry, drybrush all the black in dark grey, then in light grey, and flock all the green areas.
Step 5: Add boulders and gravel to the riverbed, and using moddeling putty, mould some water cascading around the boulders and lots of foam. Paint the river blue, then give it a coat of gloss varnish. To finish the effect, paint the foam white.
Step 6: To finish off, stick some trees into the board for an area of woodland, maybe on the sloping side of the cliff. You now have your first terrain board!

Painting High Elves
Here is how I went about painting a plastic High Elf spearman in easy to follow steps.
Step 1: Undercoat the model white. Paint the shield seperate and glue it on later.
Step 2: Paint all the robes in elf grey, and the armour in chainmail.
Step 3: When that is dry, highlight the robes in skull white, and drybrush the armour mithril silver.
Step 4: Paint the cuffs, the star on the helmet, the trim on the armour, the spearhaft, and the breastplate in ice blue. Paint all gem stones, the shoulder plates and the scabbard enchanted blue.
Step 5: Paint the metal parts of the scabbard, the bit between the spearblade and spearhaft, and the hair golden yellow. Paint the skin elf flesh and the boots, gloves, and pouch snakebite leather or bestial brown.
Step 6: Give the face a wash of flesh ink, then highlight the it in an equal mixture of skull white, bleached bone, and elf flesh.
Step 7: Paint the eyes white, then put a little bit of blue or black in the middle, and paint the lips red.
Step 8: Paint the shield design in enchanyed blue, blood red, skull white, and ice blue, and stick it on. Your High Elf spearman is now complete!