Showing posts with label recycling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recycling. Show all posts

Saturday, May 1, 2021

Gaming table finally looking playable


 Using existing kits and the DIY builds I've thrown myself at in recent months it turns out that I finally have enough terrain for a varied table. I definitely need more scatter terrain however.
There's some obvious scaling issues between various bits of scenery here, but the "Garden of Morr" stuff looks ok if you restrict it to a graveyard type corner.
A Northumbrian Tin Soldier "Goblington" takes the first treasure in this game - and keeps it from what I recall.

I call this terrain building phase of hobbying over for now. I have some Antares stuff that's been waiting forever, and an elf army....





Friday, April 30, 2021

Still not enough

 So I still don't have enough terrain to populate a large table for a game of Frostgrave. Having built a few pieces now I feel a little more confident about sculpting something more complex out of foam.


Carved from foam blocks and glued onto foamboard. Pinned by cocktail sticks and drowned in PVA.
Lots of these ruined sections made in the same way. Improve the look and playability of them with detail and wood sections, ramparts, stairs and ladders.
Once everything is as good as I need it to be, slap the primer out and get the first coats of paint on.
I broke my cup in the making of this photo.
Copius drybrushing and a shredded drybrush for foliage....
Now, with my existing Garden of Morr scenery from GW I should be getting to the point of enough scenery for a big table...















Thursday, March 18, 2021

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.

Tower of Power


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.

Seb Games - Battle Havoc - Dwarves and Orcs - Games Workshop - Black Tree Designs - Northumbrian Tin Soldier

 A game that caught my attention on 4chan's /TG board was Battle Havoc from Seb Games. It's a very light miniature agnostic fantasy ...