Recycled Wizard's Lair

Who doesn't need a bottle of Arran single malt whisky? A top drawer whisky for the money. Not only that, but for once the superfluous packaging struck me as the ideal basis for a Wizard's Tower.  I just wish it would magically produce the whisky too.

I suppose my thinking is obvious from the first image. I made a mold of some brickwork, and shaped the brickwork of the tower in milliput using that and sculpting tools.

 Carve away at the tower to leave a ruined superstructure and carve a 28mm friendly staircase leading up to a door.

Because the height of the door is tall, it would be nice to leave that playable - most games require a complete move if climbing.

Adding lolly stick and hardwood deta
ils, all sculpted to some extent. Make two floors, prime and slap first coat of paint on.

I also had enough Polystyrene brick strips carved to build extra ruined wall sections.

Trash Scenery

 


The Manner In which these were built was almost identical to the previous bit of scenery. I used a lot of carved up lolly sticks and styrene bricks for this wall. 

The scale of the bricks is pretty huge against 28mm or lower, so a serious construction!

A more naturalistic tor.

Then undercoated grey, with some generic acrylic emulsion.

And finally painted to look like the ruins they're meant to be.

Northumbrian Tin Soldier gobbos populate them in the scenic shot. 

Scenery for my first Frostgrave game

While the intention was to build enough pieces for characters to play around in Frostgrave, one soon learns that terrain is King in this game. After building these first three, rather too large, elements I realised that if you're trying to stop ranged characters having a free run of the game you need a very populated table.

Primarily I wanted to experiment with a lot of building techniques as I'd only ever created small scatter terrain pieces.

I started by sketching out very roughly in packing polystyrene a playable shape of a ruined gate. 

Next, comes the filling in of details  with plaster, grout and milliput. It is mainly polystyrene foam sculpted to fit.

milliput "exposed brickwork" patches.

All followed up with layers of painting and inking.

The end result is pretty robust after being drowned in PVA.