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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Marine0846 on 15 August 2011, 03:57:12 AM
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Some pictures of a game I ran about a year ago. A six players plus natives. The players would form alliances with each other only to break them to achieve their goals.
(http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m514/randymiles32853/photos%206/100_0972.jpg)
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A few more pictures.
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Hope you like them.
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Yup. :)
Is the ground some kind of carpet, or felt?
Some of the pieces aquarium deco, right? Fantastic souce of terrain pieces, I have quite a bunch of Egyptian stuff myself.
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Argonor,
Thanks for the comments. The matt is a 20 year old Geo-Hex matt. KR of Geo-Hex and I were great friends for many years. The large terrain piece in the middle is a aquarium piece. The "doors" into the mountains are unpainted resin from England, painted by me. Don't remember the name, but will dig the name up in a few days. Also will post some photos of the underground parts of the temple. But I have to take some pictures first.
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Ah, Geo-Hex, I have several large cardboard boxes stuffed with the hexagonal modular terrain.
When I get my garage attic fixed (needs new floor planks) for gaming parlour, I'm going to put them back into use more frequently.
The huts are priceless! Are they dice-cups or just some other kinds of cups, or are they built like that?
And I especially like the temple-front with Anubis and Sobek.
Must...revive...Pulp...project.... o_o
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Excellent table, the terrain is superb.
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Nice board mate! I don't suppose you remember where, and how much, you got that aquarium piece? I'm looking for something like that for 'The Battle of the Aquanauts' game for BLAM.
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Thanks for the nice replies about the pictures.
Argonor,
The huts are small potting soil cups I purchased at the Dollar Store. Ten for a dollar. Cut the door out, then used Green Stuff for the door frame. The top had holes in it, so cut a piece of cardboard, and glued on top.Then I sprayed them with flex-stone. Drybrushed and painted some trim and was done. Pretty fast to do.
Andym,
The aquarium piece was purchased at Petco here in the US. It cost about $30.00. I put it on the table as is. I may go back and paint it but it does look pretty good. I forgot to put on the table a large sphinx again purchased at Petco.
This game was to be a play test game that I was going to run at a convention in 2011. But I ended up not going. There are still terrain pieces to add. May I can play another like game and call it "Return to the Lost Tombs" or "Son of Lost Tombs." lol
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Very nice collection you have there.
I really like the use of colour on the gateways as my Egyptian ruins are usually just plain sandstone.
The "doors" into the mountains are unpainted resin from England, painted by me. Don't remember the name, but will dig the name up in a few days.
Marine - I think the temple bits are by Scotia Grendel - I think they're on this or the next page!
http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_40&sort=20a&page=2
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Thank you Colonel Tubby for the ID of the resin pieces. I was going to dig into the box of stuff I have left to paint, to find the name. I did purchase the pieces on E bay a few years ago, at least I remembered that. :) Also plan to photo all six pieces to give a better look.
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Went outside to take the photos. Had the perfect set up, then had to look for the stuff for the photographs. By the time I found everything the sun moved too much, (that is why you see the car in the background.) :o Oh well, live and learn. Mountains made of styrofoam, cut with a hot knife. Painted a dark brown, then sprayed with flex-stone. Then I dried brushed with a couple of lighter colors.
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More pic
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valley of the kings indeed. all the tombs are sweeet!! :) and what is the center piece it's lovely,
very nice. :) :)
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And all those are Grendel... I must go shopping....
Also that 'flex-stone' sounds interesting - do you have a brand/company name for that? I could REALLY use some cans....
Really great scenery, only small thing that could have been improved slightly was sanding down the joins between the layers of foam - but they can be quite difficult because of the glue.
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Really nice scenery pieces 8)
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Those new pics are great! What a simple but effective idea!
I feel some intellectual copyright theft coming on! lol
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I am glad everyone have enjoyed the pictures. Thanks for the comments.
Gun Bunny, the big piece in the middle of the table is an aquarium piece I purchased at Petco for about $30.00. I like it a lot. I may add some stairs around the base.
The game was a play test to see how the scenario played out. So did not quite have everything done and on the table.
Argonor, the flex-stone is made by 2 companies. Valspar Stone is the name, purchased at Michael's craft store, but they seem to have stopped carrying it. But they have replaced it with Krylon Make It Stone. As for the seams, I was trying to make it look they were larger man-made structures that had eroded in time. Does it look like it? What do you think?
Colonel Tubby, please, steal away. That is one of the things I love about this Forum, everyone's ideas out there inspire others in their gaming. Can't wait to see what you come up with.
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Argonor, the flex-stone is made by 2 companies. Valspar Stone is the name, purchased at Michael's craft store, but they seem to have stopped carrying it. But they have replaced it with Krylon Make It Stone. As for the seams, I was trying to make it look they were larger man-made structures that had eroded in time. Does it look like it? What do you think?
Thanks - I'll see if I can find something like it 'round here. :)
As for the corroded look: It could pass as such, especially the smaller ones - I would probably add a little stonework and stonework rubble to accentuate it, because, as they are, they some how give the impression of 'natural' sandstone - but as said, the terrain is really nice, and most rocks/hills made by layered foam usually sport some of these joins, as they are REALLY hard to get rid of.
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Here are some pics of the underground parts of the tombs. A total of 8 general walled ones, plus the burial room. Each "room" is one foot square.
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Two of the eight "rooms."
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Four "rooms" put together.
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Picture to show height of the walls.
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A couple of photos of the burial room.
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Hope you enjoy the photos. It has been a learning experience.
My daugther showed me how reduce the picture resolution on my camera, so hopefully will post more photos per page.
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Man what a lot of work. What a lot of great work.
That's fantastic.
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Cool use of the good old 'tiles with doors/roads/waterways that match up' principle. I actually may have to make some catacombs like this... somewhen... ::)
If it's a burial chamber, shouldn't the Pharaoh be IN his sarcophagus? o_o ;)
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efredbar, Glad you like what you saw. It was a lot of work. About 2 to 3 months on the terrain. Funny thing is I have purchased a number of other pieces. Now I don't know if I will ever finish them all. I tend to be one of those gamers who's motto is "That good enough, lets play."
argonor, How could I miss the sarcophagus. :'( I have 2, one opened and another not. Both by PMC games. Maybe I need to post more photos. But I am sure that everyone is tired of them. :o
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Maybe I need to post more photos. But I am sure that everyone is tired of them. :o
We never tire of gawking at nice minis and terrain - that's what this forum is all about, really :D
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Love the tombs!
Can you remember where the wall art came from?
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Hi Colonel Tubby,
The wall art is from a book called "Make This Egyptian Temple"
USBORNE CUT-OUT MODELS
ISBN 0-7460-0461-3
I purchased it from Amazon.com for about $10.00.
Glad you enjoyed the photos.
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Also try googling for pics of egyptian wall art; I remember having found several useful pictures some years ago - although that book sounds like a bargain. :)
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Hi Colonel Tubby,
The wall art is from a book called "Make This Egyptian Temple"
USBORNE CUT-OUT MODELS
ISBN 0-7460-0461-3
I purchased it from Amazon.com for about $10.00.
Glad you enjoyed the photos.
Also try googling for pics of egyptian wall art; I remember having found several useful pictures some years ago - although that book sounds like a bargain. :)
Thanks guys!
I'll probably have to search the internet as the Osbourne book seems to be out of print and hideously expensive on Amazon marketplace!