I knew from the very first moment that I didn't want to play on cardboard. Fortunately I learned about these:
So, with some DAS and a textured rolling pin from Green Stuff World I begun to build this:
I didn't even try to match the official boards aesthetics, I went my own way. I wanted to depict a ruined, abandoned city (kind of Osgiliath during the War of the Ring). So all the cobblestone would be deformed up and down, there would be ruins, puddles and whatever.
I faced the problem of marking the start tiles. I used these as warpstone (maybe more Mordheim that Shadespire, but hey, it works for me)
So this is the first board:
Unfinished, we'll come back later to this matter.
The second one has three blocked tiles:
I pursued some minimal urban sense, a hint of a street or whatever. If you look closer, only the L-shaped building blocks the tiles, the other ruins are placed on the corners of the tiles, trying not to be an obstacle. The blocked tiles being the exception, not the rule, I hope I can make it visually clear, adding rubble to those and making them obviously impassable.
Let's move on, for the moment. I tried a new thing on the third board:
Unfinished as the others, but enough for now. The last one also has three blocked tiles (a single one and other two on a row):
So OK, we have the basics. Let's add some details, like rubble...
...leaves...
...and lots of foliage:
So in the end I came to this (two pics per board, one from each side):
Some minis on the board...
Of course I needed a few objective markers. I have these for now:
Here you have a couple of boards combined:
This is just because I thought it looked cool
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Here you have the four of them:
You can find some more explanations and pics here:
https://oldschoolworkshop.blogspot.com/2018/10/3dspire.htmlNext thing will be Khorne, but still have to find the proper inspiration