Quote Originally Posted by eaglesmvp11 View Post
I'd be more than willing to be a part of a terrain day. It would need to have a clear goal though and a build up. I think if its a vague 'we're gonna build stuff and/or make stuff look like nicer stuff.' thats when you lose people's enthusiasm to be a part of it. Making a few odd pieces or anything that isn't unified like that will mean terrain days without something as impressive or immediately evident to show off.

There's a really cool ice themed realm of battle board. maybe a day of making ice themed terrain, or painting some of DL's grey terrain to fit an ice theme. There's also a lot of the red rock pieces. Maybe another day to do a wasteland/mars/manufactorum theme. By the end of anyone of those days, there will be a really cool themed table that can go up here or on the dlair site, and obviously will be used in the store, which will motivate people to show up for future terrain days. It would be cool if it got to the point where there was an ice table, and a mars table, a ruins table, a grasslands table, etc.
Quote Originally Posted by Geist View Post
I have always felt that stage one for terrain day is FIX all the broken stuff. I am sick and tired of the one building that fits a medieval fantasy genere is half a house!!
What I would like to see is one day a week set aside to fix terrain.
Fix all the broken terrain.
Get that done first then grand projects.
Also yes the matts are a sore subject.
Lastly, I am not going to name names, but everyone who took trees for units fillers or took home hills or any other terrain pieces. Stop doing that.
We had 30 of those plastic trees (sets), now I can barely find 4 of the bases let alone the trees.
Both of these are good points. As someone who is slowly basing his entire army winter themed I'd love to see more ice-terrain.

But as Chris points out, we do need to fix what's there. I think the first stage should be fixing and painting what's there. There are a lot of terrain pieces that would look great with some painting, touch ups or a little TLC and some glue.

I don't know how feasible this is, but if Dragon's Lair is willing to provide some paints and glue, I'd be willing to provide some time. What if one of the tables was left set up just for building stuff? You could check out the paints, glues and stuff (I don't know how they feel about checking out hobby knives...) and one of the tables would be more or less permanently set up to work on terrain. If it's already set up, I think people would chip in more. Would be cool for people waiting for a game to be able to do 15-20 minutes instead of it being a big all day event. Plus that would be a way to get foot traffic a taste of the hobby side of table top games