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Miniatures Adventure => Gothic Horror => Topic started by: jet on 29 October 2010, 12:40:44 PM

Title: Scratch-built Altar and Font
Post by: jet on 29 October 2010, 12:40:44 PM
I need some furniture to populate the buildings of Dertflinghan and I started with the church. The altar is made from cardboard and thin card. The vase on the top is an old shell casing. I'll add flowers later.

(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq189/JasonFromNF/wb_134.jpg)

The font was made from a small wooden flower pot with the rim sawed off and a plastic wall anchor. The intrepid hunters need access to holy water.

(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq189/JasonFromNF/wb_135.jpg)
Title: Re: Scratch-built Altar and Font
Post by: Malamute on 29 October 2010, 01:21:22 PM
Excellent stuff Jet. An inspred choice of materials. I can almost hear the choirs singing in the background :)
Title: Re: Scratch-built Altar and Font
Post by: The_Beast on 29 October 2010, 07:21:08 PM
Excellent, indeed!

I'd have never thought of the wall anchor, but, in the image, looks like alabaster.

Stunning!

Doug
Title: Re: Scratch-built Altar and Font
Post by: jet on 30 October 2010, 01:13:45 AM
Thanks guys.

I've come up with the following beta rules for the church in our Chaos in Carpathia games:



Title: Re: Scratch-built Altar and Font
Post by: Aaron on 03 November 2010, 06:10:21 PM
Nice work on both the scratch building and the extra rules!
Title: Re: Scratch-built Altar and Font
Post by: kidterminal on 04 November 2010, 06:47:21 AM
That looks great.
Title: Re: Scratch-built Altar and Font
Post by: Argonor on 04 November 2010, 06:58:57 AM
Shell casing, huh... according to Danish law, I can not even posses one of those, as they fall under the weapons law.

Nice little project. I wish that I'll soon find my CiCar rulebook that seems to have gone missing during our move...
Title: Re: Scratch-built Altar and Font
Post by: jet on 05 November 2010, 02:10:58 AM
As it turns out I removed the "vase" from the altar. It was a little too tall and, more importantly, I want to use the altar in family mausoleums that have sealed for a couple of centuries. Fresh flowers just wouldn't fly.

Here are some photos of the altar and font painted.

(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq189/JasonFromNF/altar.jpg)

(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq189/JasonFromNF/font.jpg)

Title: Re: Scratch-built Altar and Font
Post by: Hombre on 05 November 2010, 10:31:44 AM
Looks fantastic!! :o

These little scratchbuild Details are the "eyecatcher" on the Gametable!
After lurking between your different Battlereports many times, i could not resist
and ordered the CiC Rules and some Minis!
Now, i try to make Buildings for a little Village,still using some of your wonderful ideas for scenery.
Thank's for sharing your fantastic work!

Hombre
Title: Re: Scratch-built Altar and Font
Post by: Argonor on 05 November 2010, 11:06:59 AM
I want to use the altar in family mausoleums that have sealed for a couple of centuries. Fresh flowers just wouldn't fly.

Dry, withered ones would  :) But the altar looks very nice as is, anyway.

My rulebook just surfaced, and so did my printout of the alternative warband rules. It might be time for dusting off my long overdue CiCar project and get a Treasure Hunter and a Werewolf band ready.... If I can find the minis I selected for them...  ::)

Will mean I have to pause the KoW project (that has been forced into a long pause by real life events, anyway), hmmm... fewer minis to paint for CiCar, before a game can be run.
Title: Re: Scratch-built Altar and Font
Post by: jet on 07 November 2010, 12:40:37 PM
Glad to see you ordered the rules Hombre. I'm sure you won't regret it. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

And Argonor, you should definitely put everything else on hold in favour of CinCar