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I've gotten a couple of PMs asking me how I made the pieces for this. The Hoth base was made from scraps of Styrofoam I had been saving and the rest of the supplies were pretty cheap.

$25 for the foam board
$15 for the 3 cans of insulation foam for the outside mountain part
$20 for the Styrofoam circles for the power generator
and about $10 for spray paint.

I tried to keep it around $50 and under $100. I also had some building supplies like white glue, hot glue & gun, sculpty, floral wire and pieces left over from models that I didn't have to purchase for this project. I built the Falcon model years ago and had the Action Fleet stuff already.

I worked on it pretty diligently every night, for 3 to 4 hours a night after my wife and kid went to bed for about a month or so. Ran into a couple of mishaps that slowed some things down and took a couple of nights off in there as well.

I learned a couple of key things as well. NEVER use super glue on Styrofoam. It melts it like acid and the vapor is extremely toxic. Too heavy of spray paint or certain types of spray paint will melt the Styrofoam as well.

I played a lot of BattleFront and watched the Hoth scenes in ESB many, many times to try to get a solid grasp of the layout of Echo Base and the battlefield. Then I made several scketches of different layouts until I had one I liked.

The base was buit in two sections so it could fit out the door and could be transported. Scruffy helped me get the main walls in place. Did a lot of experiementing with the different pieces fo Styrofoam to see how they would best work before I glued any down.

When the main walls were up I used the insulation foam on the outside, let it dry, carved it to shape and then filled the large gaps created by air bubbles. If I were to do it again I would probaly make the mountain side from plaster or paper mache instead. It took six cans of spary paint to prime the yellow foam to a reasonable white color. I used a cheese grater to make the snow from chunks of Styrofoam that I then glued to the mountainside.

Pumpkin carving tools, kitchen knives and exacto knives were used to shape the Styrofoam for the snow drifts and Wampo Cave. The wampa cave was made from several different pieces of Styrofoam.

I used as much "found" stuff as possible. About a year ago I had built a several of the Death Star counsels that Magic Eli designed and ended up using them for the Command Center. The turrets were made from the little plastic bottles from my baby son's juice. I added a straw and some elements made from sculpty and then gave it a couple of coats of spray paint.

The Medical Bay was the bottom half of a tray that held baby wipes and the two beds are baby food containers (seeing a pattern here?). The Bacta Tank again is from Magic Eli's stuff.The battle field was three tables covered with plastic white table covers that I picked up for a dollar at a party supply store.

None of it is gridded. I made paper rulers to measure movement and none of the players had any trouble adjusting to that change. I printed out the rules for everyone and put all the stats on pages by faction so there were no stat cards used.