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Giant: Spiders, Scorpions, Snakes, Rats, Beetles, Lizards, Insect Swarms…
Panthers, Big Cats, Crocs, Jackals,
Mummies, Ghouls, Vampire types, Cat Headed People,
errrrrm run out of steam now…
Blimey, did you have that list pre-typed?!
Sorry, I should have said that I was talking about available minis more than just ideas, though thanks – there’s some good stuff there. I’ve been looking at the Magister Militum Meerkat’s too – I don’t generally like anthropomoric animals, but I feel like I might be able to make these work.
I was pretty inspired by these firebugs Richard did on Somewhere on the Border
Blimey, did you have that list pre-typed?!
Ha, no, just things I had been thinking about for my own games.
Is it you that is doing the ruined giant city board or is that Stroezie?
Ooh yeah? What thoughts? I was thinking of picking up the Fougou terrain ruins to dip my toe in the water.
Well it would need to be something significant to drive out the original inhabitants.
The next thing is, are they still here?
I was thinking maybe something that dwells under the sand, worms are the obvious answer, but it could be something else.
If it was nasty poisonous worms that struck, like some sort of plague/unnatural swarm, maybe they are now dormant.
Maybe the new folks will start to awaken them.Maybe the settlers will start getting picked off.
Maybe a few will suss this out and live up high and make shelter on tops of ruined columns with rope bridges between one hut and the next.Maybe Black Lotus is spread all over the place and it causes men to go mad, the resulting hallucinations could make anyone look like anything.
That man with a horned helmet may seem like a minotaur, so why not use a minotaur model?Just random musings really.
Fougou terrain ruins
OOh
I’d not heard of them before – thanks! That ruin set looks like it’ll be great for one of (many 
) shelved projectsFougou terrain ruins to dip my toe in the water. @cmnash – thanks, whilst I’m looking more for ‘critters’ a giant Scorpion person might be quite fun actually – has a distinct Harryhausen edge.
It would, wouldn’t it? I hadn’t even thought of that … facepalm!
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Well if you’re looking for creepy crawlies how about:
Crawling grubs from Mick Yarrow Miniatures
Or terror mites from Rebel Minis
If you want smaller swarm type bugs GZG’s 6mm Mini-bugs work great as dog sized beetles in 15mm
Man I really should put some paint on those magnets I added to these little critters.
Well that’s all I’ve got for you today, I may have some more for you tomorrow but I’ll have to track them down in my “list of links to interesting critters that might prove usefull someday”.
Cheers,
Stroezie.
Hiay all,
Decided to take a few pics of everything I’ve painted in the past year…here’s what i wrote on the blog:
I’m starting to get my brain into gear for this season of Lead Painters’ League on LAF (assuming it’s on this year), and that got me thinking about everything I’ve produced since the start of the last one.
One of the things I enjoyed about LPL was that the ‘pressure’ of keeping up a consistent flow of minis at a high standard (debatable) forced me to learn a few things – it’s where I started pushing my highlights further, using less washes and more layering (because of the drying time) and got my desert basing formula down to a tee. It’s really where my consistent 15mm Sci-Fi project ‘started’.
Admittedly it’s not the most minis in the world, and I’m sure there’s painters out there who could produce this in a month (though, in all fairness, it’s not the only stuff I’ve painted) but it’s a nice and consistent cast of minis, which is all I wanted it to be. So this year, there’ll be plenty more 15mm sci-fi groups, plus a lot more 15mm Fantasy.Here’s the fantasy batch (not the easiest thing to take pics of):
and I’ll be posting my sci-fi batch on my other thread: http://www.thewargameswebsite.com/forums/topic/jagannaths-15mm-sci-fi/
Stoooooooooooked!
My very lovely Crom’s Anvil order arrived – actually wish I’d ordered a touch more!
I want to make a board with a central cobbled(ish) road, something like the road on this:
or the cobbled bits from Matakishi’s excellent Agon board here:
My thinking being that if I scatter a few ruined columns around, we’ve suddenly got an ancient temple site, where as if I place my buildings around, it’s the road through town.
The tricky bit that that I’d like it to run corner to corner – I always think that terrain set up on the diagonal looks better… BUT that makes part 3 of my current terrain plan tricky…
I want the big mycenean gateway from Baueda
For fights outside the gates of ancient city states – it might be harder to get that to sit if I model the road on at a diagonal. TO be honest these flat art panel boards are so cheap and easy to store, maybe I’ll just make a seperate one for the city gates (with the wall and gates permanently stuck on). Decisions!
First though, I need to build my town!
By the way, I bought a lovely cart from Donnington New Era, which I was going to link to, but the site is down :/
My thinking being that if I scatter a few ruined columns around, we’ve suddenly got an ancient temple site, where as if I place my buildings around, it’s the road through town.
Good plan.
Acccck temptation and distractions, a curse on you sir!
Hahaha well this plan will only last until you reveal your next Cromfunder terrain piece!
D’you know what it is – I hate stuck down roads, but I feel like an ambiguous road/track down the middle of a board is very useful.
I’d also like to make a small board that represents the top of a wide bridge (so not actually elevated above anything), something like this
I could use your walls AB along the edge actually, though that would mean making a cobbled or bricked floor for the bridge.
Hmmmm so what you need are some commercially available resin sections of raised ground that contain some hap hazard old worn and broken stones?
Say maybe two sorts so you can alternate pieces and swap ends thus giving you four different looking sections?
@cmnash – They’re from jackson’s art supplies and are 20mm deep:
https://www.jacksonsart.com/jackson-s-wooden-panel-12x12in-approx-30x30cm-20mm-deep
I love them. My small cave board
Is a plain 30×30 (I usually use skirmish rules for 28mm, converting inches to CM so a 30×30 is the equivalent of over a 2×2 board).
I’ve got 3 more of those 30×30 (they’re only £6!), the town board up there is a 45×45, I’ve got a 60×60 to do something impressive with one day and a 90×90, that I use on trestle legs as my ‘table’ (usually with a smaller board or mat on top). Great products. The 90×90 is braced at the back too to prevent warping.
I use these, not as cheap?
But they are dead light and do not warp, not sure if those wooden ones do or will?
You could always mount the road on some very thin card like matting and remove it when you’re not using it.
Maybe get some cotton and glue on the tiles and then use caulk or something flexible to build it up.
That way it will be thin and maybe even a touch bendy if you have hills or what not?
Cobbled road is interesting and might be what I need to make towns look more like towns instead of big villages.
The tough part is to make the terrain blend into the board and fit size wise and not look awkward. My solution for tough problems that worked well so far is – CHEAT.
Going to try sculpt some cobbled road sections as a proof of concept. They’ll be similar to jigsaws so they can be placed inline for convincing road or further apart for more worn down ruins. IT could come out looking like a pile of rubble.
Edit;
Here’s the result. There’s some warping but not much. Shot and wide seems to work best, long and thin looks weird.
15mm, 6mm and 3mm for scale. Painting these the same color as your board would probably make them blend in very well.
AB kindly let me buy some pillars (from the temple set) so, like the ungrateful man I am, I took a hammer to them earlier!
I need to make a few paving slabs on the base later, and a couple of rocks, but this is a good start to my ruin scatter terrain.
I also cut up 2 pillars into individual slabs, so I need to base a up a few more columns with just the odd slab on the base.
I’ve got a lot of terrain painting in my near future!
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