The Terrain Tutor's Book arrived today
For those of you not familiar with Mel Bose, he's a chap out of the UK who creates awesome scenery boards and tables for miniature table-top wargaming. He's learned the craft by spending hours a week watching both gamer and model railroad hobbyists videos, chatting with the MRR gents and ladies at the clubs etc. The two hobbies have long overlapped in this area, and Mel is great at the craft.
The two hobbies, MRR and Miniature Wargaming, overlap in our love of realistic detailed scenery.
Mel has built a comprehensive how-to tome that covers almost everything either type of hobbyist could want to learn. The book is MOSTLY geared to the gamer - BUT the principles are the same for the scenery. It's only when Mel is chatting about how to base your rock formations to be sturdy enough to store between gaming sessions that the MRR hobbyist might tune out...
Here's a sample of some of the pages:
This was a kickstarter project, and the gamers ate it up! They blew the KS out and then some.
It will be available via retail soon.
Here's the latests from the KS organizer:
I have spoken with our distributors in the US and we have set a "street date" of January 29th, 2021, for Terrain Essentials. This is the date it will be available in your local game stores here in the US, and most likely for the UK, Europe, and possibly other areas of the world (fingers crossed, Canada). We wanted to make sure that we had the time to make sure the book could first get into the hands of all the Terrainiacs that have supported us in this project so far. So, if you have friends who are now interested in getting a copy of Terrain Essentials, please ask them to pre-order it through their local store, who can order it from Alliance Game Distribtuors or Bridge Distribution in the US and Warlord Games everywhere else.
The Terrain Essentials PDF and the Basing Guide PDF will be available from Ironheart Artisans (ironheartartisans.com) on the same date.
