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Very cool, may have to copy that.
Are the bases commercial, they look quite neat.
I guess these would have been useful for you.
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Well, my Baueda castle arrived!
It’s very nice, though it will need a bit of work to get ‘square’, which is fine.
My idea is that I’ll glue the walls facing ‘out’ on the edge of one board, with another board (the one with the road that I’m sculpting on) slotting underneath. This means I’ll have a flat board with a road on (to place the town or ruins around), a board that I can populate for the ‘inside’ of the walls (i.e. the other board) then slot the two together and play outside the walls (if that makes sense to anyone except me!!).
Basically, there’ll only be glue on the left hand board connection in this image:
When I texture my board I’ll need to be careful not to make the texture that will go underneath the wall overlap on the removeable board too thick.
I’m worried this is a mad idea!
When I texture my board I’ll need to be careful not to make the texture that will go underneath the wall overlap on the removeable board too thick.
Masking tape?
When the texture is dry, peel up and cut as you go?How do the figures size up to the walls?
ah no, cos when the castle is not there….
hmmmm
Yeah exactly – I think my solution will be OK if I’m careful.
Basically:
I want a board with a road running down the middle
I want to be able to game outside some castle walls (the castle walls being ‘incidental’ really, just to set the scene)
I hate seeing the join between boards.The other option is not to glue the caste down and assemble it for play (obviously I’ll assemble the wall sections), but I’m worried that might look a touch shonky.
Scales, lovely – to my eye, doors are scaled to 17mm minis (which is great, because 15mm doors plus based minis always looks off). Here’s an instagram pic I took earlier
So… what about have the walls on a mini board that is only the size of the walls footprint with a slight overhang on each side.
You can have it overhang just a bit to conceal the join from the two boards?
It will give more flexibility for positioning as it wont have a massive board behind the walls taking up space?Very bad picture:
If you then later decide you want to play inside the walls, just slide the inside board under the rear of the walls.
Still playing around with the castle (I haven’t been able to face making more of those cobblestones yet!) but I did manage to box these chaps off (sorry, bad picture):
Fun minis to paint, I was tempted to go to town on the shields (old school style) but I want these to be generic guards for patrolling generic streets. The nice thing about the Forged in Battle packs is that you get loads, so I can always iterate on this idea. I’ve basecoated my smashed columns too, so those’ll appear shortly…
They are indeed, they’re called Lykian infantry
http://www.forgedinbattle.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=612
Not their most varied pack, and I didn’t like how different the leader looked so didn’t use him, but I’ll paint up another batch at some point in different colours to represent another group.
Looking back, I sort of wish I’d ordered the Persian Apple Bearers
because there’s some archers and skirmishers that tie in with them, but I’m pleased with these chaps…
Hiya folks,
Long time, no update – works absolutely swamped me.
I did get a chance today to take a bit of time back, so sat down and played a few rounds of the new Five Parsec from Home rules. I know that’s got nowt to do with fantasy, but I did use some smashed Crom’s Anvil anvils as terrain that I’d intended for fantasy gaming – quick pic ripped from Instagram:
They’v’e come out pretty well – very tough to smash! – though I regret making the bases such a ‘neat’ shape. All in all though, they probably only took an hour of work, so easy to do again if I really start hating the bases.
Hopefully I can up my output again soon…
That is a nice rich colour you have there, better I think than my pale boards.
I am not sure about the bases, I mostly do straight edges, but then I line the straight edges of the terrain item with the straight edges of the boards so it seems ok?
Let me dig out a link in a bit. I use some stuff that is half card/foam and half plasticard. Nice stuff to work with.
2mm expanded pvc sheets. I used to buy them from Evil Mushroom Games. But their site has been down for a while now…
Actually I’m being a bit of a martyr – If I cut the plasticard more irregularly (I wonder if a hot foam cutter would work) then took a rouded bastard file to the edges I bet I could make short work of them.
Nice columns – very useful scatter terrain.
I’ve not been able to get a hot wire cutter to cut plasticard. If you’re using the plasticard for stability you could always add a much thinner sheet to the bottom and cut that in an irregular way with a scalpel, then all you’d need do is fill in the ‘step’ at the edge of the thicker sheet to blend the two. That way you’d get the stability of the thicker sheets with the irregularity of the edges plus the benefit that the edge wouldn’t be as noticeable as it would be thinner. That’s effectively how I did this hill, 6mm mdf core with a larger card base then blend the base texture down to the edges.
Very quick post – not had much time recently but did squeeze in some hours to basecoat my Croms Anvil town
When they’re finished they’ll be much closer to white, this is just the base colour.
Bieng hands on with them I’ve had loads of good ideas for converting some for sci-fi, so expect another order soon AB!
oooooh and oooooh boards over the well.
Oh and my two new mini building are out next week…
Having those 2 buildings on that 1 base is really cool, you can hang stuff across the rooftops!
Not 100% sure.
Those 2 small ones, the brick and plastered version.
I want to make a 2 storey dwelling.
I also have a plan for a desert oasis/tower type thing.
Plus a Shamans hut/cave/summat for Ekwensu.
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