Terrain Workshop: The Evolution of Star Command Base

The idea for this, once again, started with something mentioned by Occam's Spork.  Although it was a conversation totally unrelated to MFZ.  That led to me looking at an old toy called the "Star Bird Command Base".  Which led to me building another table setting.  Tom's also to blame for this due to an interesting discussion about Elevation and Highly Durable Terrain after a game almost a year ago.

Start.  Here we lay out the parts I have on hand to get an idea of what I need to fill in the space on the battlefield.  I originally thought about putting this in a water setting but I had bought trees from the PaB Wall for a different project.  I may put together a set of Blue baseplates to represent water in the future but I'll need to build some other terrain to replace the trees.

Phase two.  All the supports for the "deck" are in place.  I'm figuring them at 1 Hit each.  I now have eight trees per baseplate.  They're 1 Hit each and, as you can see in the picture, they can be arranged into walls and patterns to block out space.  I also have a section of LURPS that, with the addition of some small plates, will be 1 Hit each.

Phase three.  Now I start work on the building.  It came together in roughly six sections.

One.  Ground floor.  9 Hits.

Two.  Second floor/Landing

Deck.  5 Hits.

Three and four.  Landing Deck walls.  11 Hits each.

Five.  Third floor/Observation deck.  6 Hits.

Six.  Fourth floor.  8 Hits.

This build went together pretty quickly.  Having some of the parts on the local PaB Wall and being able to "raid" my local Dollar Trees for other parts in bulk made for fast assembly of the base terrain.  The building took a little longer but it's an example of why you buy sets and store the unused parts for later.

Here's the Battle Report so people can see how it all came together and how it played.

I have a Drone's Eye video of the whole thing assembled but it's twice the size limit of Gmail attachments so I'm not sure how I can share it.

I hope that this gives people ideas or techniques to use in their terrain builds for future games.