Woods and woodies..... and hills

 hi all,

A quick post before I pack up some things for the Kent Championships - a 2 day Blood Bowl tournament held in Canterbury. I've started building some terrain for Old World among other systems. I realised that I while I have trees (quite a few, actually), I don't have them in a clearly defined area as per the rules in TOW. So I set about correcting that, using my band saw to cut some 3mm MDF into an 8x12" piece. 

Which I then sprayed with black primer and then a brown colour. I then used a pre maid dark mud (sorry can't remember the brand) to give it some texture and define the places for the trees

I could then add some mixed grass  and some trees from my existing collection and viola! All told, without drying time it took around an hour to produce a nice piece.

I also decided that my terrain was way to flat. So I went a bit old school and made a couple of modular hill pieces. They can either be stacked or stand alone. Starting with some 3mm MDF, I cut some purple insulation foam to the same shape, angling the blade to get a gradient.

I then cut a smaller shape for the second level

After sealing the foam with PVA, I sprayed them black/brown, and then covered it in sand (i'd run out of mud) and painted the sand a burnt umber colour. After that it was just a case of turfing the hills with my grass mix and again, we have some cheap and cheerful terrain in less than an hour.

On the hill is my Wood Elf team, that I will be using over the weekend at the BB tourney. The minis are from Willy's Miniatures and the treeman is from Black Scorpion (I think)

hope you enjoy

dGG

Carnevale - the full board

hi all, my apologies for the gap in the blogging and the whole skimming over xmas etc. Unfortunately winter pressures in the NHS is no small thing and the sheer amount of norovirus and flu has meant i've been super busy in the real world. Worse one of my last patients before xmas decided to give me an early present - norovirus! The subsequent fays afterward are best not discussed...

Sooooooo, anyway. I prepared this post before xmas and never published it, so here it is. I will post up soon about some of the goodies that have since made their way into da Grotto.

As promised here are the rest of the buildings I made specifically for Carnevale, but I think will be pretty useful for anything else, like Malifaux or Mordheim.

The first building I made was fully interactive and included an interior that I scratch built. Shout out to my buddy Dan who 3D printed all the windows and doors for all of the buildings.

However, when I read the free online rules I realised that the characters don't go inside buildings during the game, as the citizens of Venice lock up at night very tightly indeed...

looking at these pictures though, i felt the board looked very flat. Oh I don't mean the buildings, but the tiles themselves were a wee bit 2 dimensional. So I set about creating some terraces for the buildings to sit on to give the tiles more of a 3D feel.

Most games don't encourage the use of as many buildings and blocking terrain, but Carnevale is a small skirmish game and encourages Parkour type movements. In fact the game rewards players who perform the most daring of move sequences including leaping from building to building and running along roof tops - hence the packed streets and waterways of Venice.

hope you enjoy

dGG