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Post by jonathan e on Jul 14, 2019 9:57:16 GMT
So the People's Panting is dragging his arse up here at the end of the month to play some games, enjoy some Adult Beverages, and then play some more games once we're both reliably ratarsed and have even less grasp of the rules than normal. Which means I need to be a good host and provide some terrain. Which in turn means slapping some paint on the Sigmarite Mausoleum two Gardens of Morr I bought shortly after moving in here. So those are primed and sitting out the back waiting to dry. I know that traditionally speaking, Middlehammer terrain is lovingly hand-made in accordance with the principles of Old Man Stillman and his holy work "How To Make Wargames Terrain" and, back in the day, all of mine was. But I am not a man who can say no to a bargain, and when these suitably spooky plastic buildings and the matching neoprene mat to put them on were available at knock down prices I said yes and damned the consequences. I generally gravitate to playing undead armies anyway, so I have very few issues with my battlefield being a snowed-in wasteland dotted by crypts, tombs, graves and long, easily-defended fences. It makes a nice change from the generic green fields with generic green hills and generic green trees, or the famous battle of Whatever Was On The Store Table When We Arrived. Sadly, neither of my Middlehammer armies are based to match this terrain (although all my newer figures have been), so it's going to look a little weird, but only a little. I take solace in the knowledge that I've sat down and thought about appropriate scenarios to play over this battlefield, and have whipped up a cheerful little mini-campaign that we should be able to play through in the course of an afternoon...
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Post by jonathan e on Jul 14, 2019 17:54:21 GMT
Good lord, this "simple drybrush job" takes longer than I thought. Still, that's a lot of brickwork basecoated. Not terribly fond of the newfangled Dry paints; the Termninatus Stone or whatever it's called is very inconsistent and likes to clump weirdly. There are a few bits I'm gonna need to cover up with moss or something later on... The plan here is to go for a sort of Venetian Gothic look that's a little bit more colourful than my usual drabs. White brickwork, dark iron fixtures, and maybe layers of peeling coloured paint on the buildings themselves, along with streaks of rot and rust. If I could reliably model cypress trees I absolutely would. But first, I have to paint the other bloomin' half of the building collection...
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Post by GenSteiner on Jul 15, 2019 16:27:53 GMT
Ooh very nice. I do like a lot of the GW plastic terrain, but most of my WFB battles are fought over cardstock buildings from the 4th/5th era... I love what you're doing with the Garden of Morr set though.
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Post by jonathan e on Jul 15, 2019 18:02:33 GMT
Ooh very nice. I do like a lot of the GW plastic terrain, but most of my WFB battles are fought over cardstock buildings from the 4th/5th era... I love what you're doing with the Garden of Morr set though. If I still had my Mordheim buildings I wouldn't be mucking around with all this. But between you and me, I'm growing to like the idea of a gloomy, decadent, swampy graveyard table, dotted with that new Warcry terrain... I might even consider changing the mat out for one that matches the tops of my old bases.
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Post by fiendil on Jul 16, 2019 13:37:02 GMT
Image no worky, dude. Which mat have you got?
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Post by fiendil on Jul 16, 2019 13:38:24 GMT
If I still had my Mordheim buildings I wouldn't be mucking around with all this. But between you and me, I'm growing to like the idea of a gloomy, decadent, swampy graveyard table, dotted with that new Warcry terrain... I might even consider changing the mat out for one that matches the tops of my old bases. I was going to suggest, what about doing some rebasing. But, that's probably the 'lot more work' option, compared to picking up a different mat, isn't it?
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Post by Llamafish on Jul 16, 2019 13:55:08 GMT
Good lord, this "simple drybrush job" takes longer than I thought. Still, that's a lot of brickwork basecoated. Not terribly fond of the newfangled Dry paints; the Termninatus Stone or whatever it's called is very inconsistent and likes to clump weirdly. There are a few bits I'm gonna need to cover up with moss or something later on... [snip] The plan here is to go for a sort of Venetian Gothic look that's a little bit more colourful than my usual drabs. White brickwork, dark iron fixtures, and maybe layers of peeling coloured paint on the buildings themselves, along with streaks of rot and rust. If I could reliably model cypress trees I absolutely would. But first, I have to paint the other bloomin' half of the building collection... Did you not get some tester pots from Wilko etc and a decorators bush and dry brush it? I personally would never use GW paint on terrain (again - learnt the hard way)
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Post by jonathan e on Jul 16, 2019 16:40:38 GMT
fiendil Weird, image worky on my machine, not sure what to tell you there. The mat is a Sigmarite Necropolis one, and you are correct, it would be a LOT more work to break my ancient, fragile kitbashed Skeletons off their existing bases, probably losing a lot of limbs in the process... LlamafishThese are plastic kits with actual detailing on them, so I'm approaching them as such. Would you use emulsion on a tank kit? (I bloody hope not...)
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Post by fiendil on Jul 16, 2019 18:39:47 GMT
fiendil Weird, image worky on my machine, not sure what to tell you there. Your image is hosted on googleusercontent.com. If I view it using the URL, it tries to make me log into a google account. Once I'm logged into a google account, all I get is a No Entry sign. So, I'd guess that it's serving up the image only to people who have permission to view that image, e.g. yourself. If you take an image hosted on FB, and drill down to the bare image (direct link to the jpg file), it seems to work linking to an image to that, but I don't trust that to work longer term. I set up an imgur.com account for hosting images for here on. I've done no research as to whether that's a good idea, or if they're an evil empire that'll suck my soul out for daring to use their platform, but until I can be bothered to sort something else out, it'll do me for now.
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Post by jonathan e on Jul 16, 2019 18:58:25 GMT
Ah, that'll be it; the original image was hosted on Wordpress but the cropped one isn't in the library there yet. I can fix that.
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Post by fiendil on Jul 16, 2019 20:01:04 GMT
Bingo.
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Post by fiendil on Jul 16, 2019 21:41:42 GMT
The mat is a Sigmarite Necropolis one, and you are correct, That's a nice mat. I missed that one. Some time ago, I saw a really nice snow mat, with trails and other bits, for a winter WWII game, but I can't find it no more. Been keeping an eye out for a potential alternative. (Possibly not this one though.) I would look at adding snow scatter to existing bases. Or would that no work? Mate. If I had a suitable model, I'd take that as a challenge, to try and get a good result out of that bad idea. :-D[/quote]
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Post by GenSteiner on Jul 17, 2019 0:37:19 GMT
Wall emulsion is the new floor polish dip, clearly.
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Post by jonathan e on Jul 17, 2019 7:02:30 GMT
I've been thinking about snow scatter as a possibility, especially as the old static grass wears away. We'll see. It's not as if all the bases match anyway...
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Post by Llamafish on Jul 17, 2019 7:33:59 GMT
Wall emulsion is the new floor polish dip, clearly. it used a lot on terrain projects. Chaps like Terrain Tutor or Luke APS always using it on they projects I have used it on a few things myself. My old mighty fortresses will be painted with it.
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