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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: warrenpeace on 04 June 2008, 03:52:44 AM

Title: King Botuve's Crown
Post by: warrenpeace on 04 June 2008, 03:52:44 AM
Some pics here of a game that Steve Winter put on at the Enfilade Game Convention in Olympia, Washington, on Saturday, May 24 using The Sword and the Flame Rules.  This was the second of two games that he ran.  Both played out extremely well.  His terrain was simple but elegant, much of it scratchbuilt, including the huts and kraal.

http://max.velocity.home.comcast.net/~max.velocity/enfilade08/
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Post by: postal on 04 June 2008, 04:05:30 AM
very cool looking game.
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Post by: odd duck on 04 June 2008, 06:19:02 AM
Great looking table,Love the village!!Wish I'd been able to see it in person had to back of going down to enfilade this year. gotta make it next year!!
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Post by: Malamute on 04 June 2008, 08:25:14 AM
Excellent :)
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Post by: Poiter50 on 04 June 2008, 09:20:49 AM
Does he have any info on how he made the hut roofs? I can do the walls but the roofs are perplexing me.
Some pics here of a game that Steve Winter put on at the Enfilade Game Convention in Olympia, Washington, on Saturday, May 24 using The Sword and the Flame Rules.  This was the second of two games that he ran.  Both played out extremely well.  His terrain was simple but elegant, much of it scratchbuilt, including the huts and kraal.

http://max.velocity.home.comcast.net/~max.velocity/enfilade08/
Title: Re: King Botuve's Crown
Post by: warrenpeace on 04 June 2008, 09:47:47 PM
If I recall correctly, Steve told me that he shreaded twine or some thick string out into component fibers and then used white glue (PVA) to form the fiber into hut roofs.  He said he teased out the fibers by scraping along the twine or string with a knife.  Hope Steve will chime in and correct any details of the process that I got wrong.  His huts would be a good mini topic for the Workbench forum, since they looked simple to make and yet were well painted and made a good impression on the table.
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Post by: Geudens on 04 June 2008, 09:52:38 PM
very attractive!

Rudi
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Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on 04 June 2008, 10:02:08 PM
really like it, actually easy but looks as much more realistic. Well done!

(http://max.velocity.home.comcast.net/~max.velocity/enfilade08/MVC-280F.jpg)
Title: Re: King Botuve's Crown
Post by: warrenpeace on 05 June 2008, 02:00:45 AM
It really was simple.  Steve used what looked like a tan blanket, scattered brownish green moss around, put out a few wood sticks mostly in piles near the clusters of huts, put out bits he had picked up from the craft store such as beads that looked like African jars, put out bits of plastic grass mat from the craft store, and added his scratchbuilt huts and kraal. The overall effect was striking.  It really looked like arid parts of Africa.
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Post by: The Angle on 05 June 2008, 07:13:45 AM
Back when I made those huts, I put a detailed how-to article here --

http://home.comcast.net/~tsrstevew/WorkBench/workbench.htm

Steve
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Post by: Paul E on 05 June 2008, 10:16:01 AM
That really is an excellent looking game.

I originally thought that the table was covered in sand  :?
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Post by: Gluteus Maximus on 05 June 2008, 11:33:28 AM
Back when I made those huts, I put a detailed how-to article here --

http://home.comcast.net/~tsrstevew/WorkBench/workbench.htm

Steve

That's why those huts look familiar  :)