Figured id post my progress of this project here, as ill probably get plenty of helpful tips on where i can improve stuff.

This is my first time making terrain.....ever....so itll be interesting to see how i go....and ill hopefully learn a lot in the process!

It came to my attention recently that I now have enough room to set up a table in the back of my house, so...why not!
I want something different yet functional, so ill be making an ork themed board.

Ill be making enough buildings to be used for cities of death, as well as enough other stuff to be used as a generic 40k board.

Some ideas so far are:
-mushroom forests
-referencing dawn of war buildings
-beer keg objective markers
-an ork pub
-a 'mek shop'
-a squiggoth paddock 

To start things off....

I bought three mdf board from Bunnings for $12 each. Put together theyre exactly 47" by 71"(close enough!). I chose to have three separate boards for easy storage.

Garrat(usually plays necrons at the club) has and will be helping me a lot to set up this board. 

We the boards covered in sand in two layers, then undercoated them(which used up like 5 fricken cans of undercoat!....lucky it was cheap bunnings crap). Then we just drybrushed it up, added some whiter areas to make it more uneven with white spray, and inked the shit out of it. Then we added static grass and few bits of plasticard 'scrap metal' here and there. 

(I also marked out the centre of each edge of each board with a white line so finding the centre of the board in table quarter missions is easy)

 

Last night i made these basic rubble structures to start off the terrain making. Theyre just boring, generic stuff, conferring a 5 or 6+ cover save. These will be detailed further with bits and putty, and finally sand, ready to paint.

And heres the 3 MDF structures Garrat and I built today. Theyre about 70% done, as we still need to add lots more gubbins and armour to them, but you can essentially see what theyll be like. These are just generic ork buildings, the more elaborate ones like the 'mek shop' will follow once im better at making terrain :)

 

And heres the stuff assembled on 2 of the boards