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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Wirelizard on May 20, 2014, 07:15:07 AM
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Back in December I did up a fairly basic set of pitch-side terrain for Blood Bowl, to track the score, turns, and rerolls. The turn/reroll tracks and dugouts are fine but I've never been totally happy with the scoreboard, so this long weekend (Victoria Day here in Canada, thanks Vicky!) I broke out a few scrap pieces of styrofoam and started a new, much more elaborate setup.
The old one used a pair of rare earth magnets to hold the score numbers in place; this one has alcoves for cubes that will, d6-style, have 0-5 on them to indicate the score for each side. The alcove in the centre will hold a third cube that will have weather icons on it, as in-game weather can be important in BB and it's useful to have an indicator for it. There's five types of weather in BB (Sweltering Heat/Very Sunny/Nice/Downpour/Blizzard) so the sixth side will just have a second icon for Nice Weather on it, which is by far the most common sort anyway.
(http://i.imgur.com/Vc5NbNQ.jpg)
The base is 5.5" wide and about 4.5" deep. The areas either side of the staircase is going to be a pair of small ceremonial pools eventually, mostly because water will be more interesting to look at than yet more stone!
The stonework technique was borrowed from a very nice video by The Terrain Wench over on YouTube, and it works nicely.
More over on the blog, as usual (http://www.warbard.ca/2014/05/19/stonework-a-new-bb-scoreboard/).
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That is a wonderful design, Wirelizard.
Executed to perfection thus far.
A great bit of foam carving too.
8) :-* 8)
Looking forward to your progress on this.
:D
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Ingenious design.
Tony
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Thanks, folks. This is one of those projects (so far, at least) where what I've got on my workbench pretty much exactly matches what I was visualizing before I started hacking up styrofoam, and it's always nice when a plan comes together, as the saying goes!
I've broken out the Milliput and done a first pass on both some structural (patching tears in the foam, mostly) and detail putty work.
(http://i.imgur.com/adxoDSi.jpg)
Numbers for the main scatter diagram are in place, as well as part of the throw-in diagram on the bottom stairs. I'll go back and add some extra bits and details around the numbers after this batch has cured, finish the basic throw-in diagram, and some more structural putty.
I've also started three of the weather icons, on the right on a bit of scrap styrene so I can pop them off later. Left to right they're going to be Nice Weather (a partial sun), Torrential Downpour (rain with lightning next to it) and Blazing Sun (an oversized sun). Still need to do Blizzard (a snowflake, probably), the second Nice Weather and figure out an icon for Sweltering Heat - fire, probably, as I've lots of sun-based icons already.
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The alcove in the centre will hold a third cube that will have weather icons on it,
I thought it was a throne for a Slann lol
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I thought it was a throne for a Slann lol
:D
Nah, there's a roof for that area that I haven't glued down yet because I want to clean up the back wall of the alcove with a bit more putty yet, it tore like crazy when I was cutting it.
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I admire the dedication you put into making themed stadions!
How big are the cubes, compared to the alcoves? Have you considered a contraption to push them out when you need to turn them (after scoring)?
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Both ingenious and well-crafted.
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That's a great idea :D
cheers
James
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...Have you considered a contraption to push them out when you need to turn them (after scoring)?
Leave a hole in the back and poke it with a pencil...?
;)
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Leave a hole in the back and poke it with a pencil...?
;)
Something like that. Or a built-in poking device. :)
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More terrain builds should include a built-in poking device, in my opinion.
"Dude, it's your turn. No, seriously, at least blink or something..."
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That's a great looking piece. Richard
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I admire the dedication you put into making themed stadions!
How big are the cubes, compared to the alcoves? Have you considered a contraption to push them out when you need to turn them (after scoring)?
The alcoves are slightly shallower than the cubes that will go in them, so enough of the cubes stick out to make it fairly easy to change their facing as needed.
There's a second article over on the blog (http://www.warbard.ca/2014/05/20/new-bloodbowl-scoreboard-part-two/), with the photo I posted last night and some more verbiage.
I'll be breaking out the putty again this evening - finishing the throw-in diagram on the lowest step, more structural putty around the three alcoves and more work on the three cubes.
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Replying to my own post, but finished pushing putty for the evening and thought I'd post a quick photo.
Throw-in diagram numbers all done on the lowest step. Three stone blocks all have all six sides puttied up, and the weather indicator has the three previously made icons attached - just pushed into the fresh putty.
On the scrap styrene in front are the null-five numbers for the two score cubes, and the remaining three weather icons: Blazing Heat (fire), Snow (snowflake thing) and another Nice Weather icon (quarter sun).
(http://i.imgur.com/45WcZdh.jpg)
Tomorrow night I'll get the temple basecoated, hopefully, and start cleaning up and gluing the three markers.
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Everything is falling into place nicely.
8) 8)
Looking forward to the colouring-in.
:D
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Colouring-in largely complete!
Only thing left to do is gloss varnish over the pools and then some flock around the base.
(http://i.imgur.com/rwSM3E5.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/twTpD7m.jpg)
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Very nice!
:-* :-*
I like what you did with the pools.
Clever.
8) 8)
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I can see a small golden idol sitting in the centre alcove, and a certain hat-wearing archeologist trying to figure out the riddle of those numbers ;) lol
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awesome i totally love it.
question though on the back side what are the cause of the what looks like groups of gouges???
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awesome i totally love it.
question though on the back side what are the cause of the what looks like groups of gouges???
Angry Kroxigors taking out their frustrations on the temple stonework. :D
Actually, it's tearing of the foam from cutting it, and I didn't bother re-cutting that surface more carefully to get rid of the tears.
When I'm back in July from my European bike trip I'll be building dugouts and trackers (turn & reroll) to match this temple, and I'll probably also do a series of semi-modular non-Bloodbowl temple pieces for pulp gaming, mostly because this sort of stonework on styrofoam is so much fun to do and so easy.
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Wow, that looks fantastic. Im getting Crash Bandicoot vibe from it.
Great work!
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C'est fini!
Gloss varnish in the pools (three coats, might do a fourth tomorrow if I get around to it), all three indicator cubes finished.
(https://i.imgur.com/EQjJcfZ.jpg)
It's currently 2-1 in the Very Sunny weather for whoever's playing blue side today; proceedings are being watched by a Baby Croc on top of the temple's central section and a Saltwater Croc & Leviathan Croc down on the ground in front.
I might at some future date re-do or add to the indicator cubes, as I'm not entirely happy with their current design. That said, they're perfectly functional now and will probably serve for years in their current state!
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Brilliant finish.
Love it!
:-* :-*
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(http://i.imgur.com/rAKecB4.jpg)
Resurrecting my own thread to show off the very, very early stages of a new dugout temple.
Like the dugout cards that come with the Bloodbowl box, this one has the three dugout spaces across the front, and the roof tiles will be marked for Turn, Half & Reroll tracks.
I'll be doing a second dugout after this one is finished, which will be roughly similar (and the same footprint) but not identical.
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(http://i.imgur.com/BZHh3ey.jpg)
Major construction complete, lots of detailing yet to do. That wide front face is going to be broken up with some extra columns and such, and there's lots of stone carving coming!
The dino skull marker is on a 25mm slottabase, for some idea of scale. The whole thing is 7.5" wide, 6" deep, and about 3.5" high. I sized each of the three dugout spaces (Reserves, KO'd, Casualties) to hold at least six bulky figures on 25mm bases, which should be enough for most Blood Bowl games! The two platforms will have a steep flight of stairs up to them, and the central area will have two small decorated stub walls coming out from the sides of the platforms to screen it off a bit.
The two central "keystone" pieces of the roof will be First Half/Second Half, the eight squares on the left will be Turns 1-8, and the squares down the right will be for Re-Rolls. The roofline and general layout were roughly inspired by Aztec and especially Mayan temple complexes, obviously adapted to be functional in BB as well!
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Built a dice tower over the last couple of evenings, mostly because I didn't have enough mattboard in the stockpile to start on the second dugout temple.
(http://i.imgur.com/ZHWEwjv.jpg)
The dugout is 7.5" wide, 6" deep and about 4" tall; the main part of the dice tower is 6" wide, 3" deep and 3.5" tall, with the catch area another 5" x 3" or so and a separate piece from the tower so that it all fits in the big shoebox the dugout is resting on in the photo.
Much carving and putty work left to do on both pieces, and then of course there's the second dugout to start.
Blog post with a bit more detail (http://www.warbard.ca/2014/08/01/dugouts-dice-towers-for-bloodbowl/).
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Great stuff 8)
cheers
James
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Very nice. Can't wait to see the end of this
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A great project to follow.
8) 8)
I used to be mad into Blood Bowl with six finished teams, re-roll and turn counters for each, the works.
I sold all bar one now as we, as a group, had stopped playing for too long.
I always fancied doing stuff like dug-outs etc.
It is good to watch yours develop instead.
:D
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This is great! Makes me want to play Bloodbowl! :-*
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Quick update and link to a blog post I wrote earlier today.
I've added some decorations to the walls of the dugout temple. My lizardman team logo on the front:
(http://i.imgur.com/5MikxUV.jpg)
...and on the back, an image inspired by a joke our BB League Commissioner made about "crocodiles on golf shirts" inspired this:
(http://i.imgur.com/BQJPoJR.jpg)
Still some cleanup and extra work to do on them, then painting. Trying to get at least the first dugout ready for a Saturday afternoon game this coming weekend.
Blog post with more detail here: http://www.warbard.ca/2014/08/06/bloodbowl-dugout-temple-decoration/
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Mighty fine work! Love the 'Izod Lizord', that's wacky. lol
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Oh! I'm liking that!! Is that the Lacoste Croc? Those Bloodbowl people are stylish! ;) 8) 8)
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Oh! I'm liking that!! Is that the Lacoste Croc? Those Bloodbowl people are stylish! ;) 8) 8)
Lacoste croc with bigger teeth and a slightly angular look to fit some of the other decorative elements, yup. Very stylish.
Got the dice tower primed black tonight, finally, and started assembling the basic structure of the second dugout.
The full set of sideline temple buildings will, eventually, be the scoreboard/scatter diagram temple I did first, the dice tower temple (the smallest by a fair margin), and the two big dugout/tracking temples.
This weekend I should (finally!) have a chance to do green and brown spraypaint over my felt pitch to make it look more like a field and less like a piece of felt, then break out the tape and white spraypaint to mask off the various field lines, which will all serve to both make the pitch look a lot better and easier to use.
Eventually I want to do a big version of the croc's head logo that's on the front of the dugout structure above right in the middle of the field, and (if I get really ambitious) possibly some colour in the end zones like some of the real-world NFL fields have.
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Coming along nicely 8)
The croc logo is a great touch lol
cheers
James
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Looking great so far!
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The croc logo is a great touch lol
Indeed!
8)
At this rate I can see you eventually building the whole stadium.
:D
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At this rate I can see you eventually building the whole stadium.
:D
The plan is to keep the entire thing portable in the boot-sized shoebox seen in one of the earlier photos, so I'm limiting it to two dugouts, the scoreboard, and the dice tower, plus a felt pitch.
Speaking of the felt pitch, I want to do a team logo (the crocodile head seen on the first dugout above) in the middle of the pitch, as well as some other graphic work right on the pitch, so last night I printed out a test piece of stencil onto full-sheet sticky label paper and tried it out on a scrap piece of felt.
(http://i.imgur.com/dJFRbWs.jpg)
The top lettering (WATE from "Saltwater") is done using red spraypaint; the partial croc logo below is done using a brush and red craft paint. The colour is better in the craft paint one, but the spraypaint is faster once you get the masking all in place.
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Lots of things still to finish, but here's the current state of the entire Blood Bowl setup!
(http://i.imgur.com/FtbMnKQ.jpg)
Dugouts on either end, dice tower and scoreboard in the middle. The felt pitch has most of the field lines done, with endzones still to be marked and possibly decorated. The crocodile head logo in the centre is still drying, but it was too tempting not to lay everything out just to look at it. :D
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That's really coming along nicely 8) 8) 8)
The pitch logo is a great touch (I seem to be repeating myself lol ).
cheers
James
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That needs a stadium! ;) :D
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That needs a stadium! ;) :D
Get thee behind me, etc! ;)
Work is proceeding on this project, despite the lack of updates for the last ten days or so.
The actual pitch itself is basically done, with a full set of field lines and a croc's head team logo in the centre.
I've written up how I did the two different stencil jobs on the field over at the blog: http://www.warbard.ca/2014/08/21/lines-logos-on-a-blood-bowl-pitch/ (http://www.warbard.ca/2014/08/21/lines-logos-on-a-blood-bowl-pitch/)
(http://i.imgur.com/jXxsNfV.jpg)
The field lines were tape and spraypaint; the logo was full-sheet label paper, brush and craft paint. The brush painting was much easier and less of a headache - masking off the field lines so I didn't wreck the rest of the field or the surroundings with overspray took way too much work!
The various buildings are proceeding, all the stonework is carved and I'm finishing up the putty on the two big dugouts.
I still need to do the magnets that will keep the dice tower temple and it's ceremonial pool/dice catch basic clipped together; I need to figure out a joint design to keep everything aligned.
No building photos recently as they're all primed solid black and don't photograph particularly well!
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Right, the various temples have some paint on them and look like something other than black blobs in photos, so here you go!
(http://i.imgur.com/XweborI.jpg)
This is actually the full set of buildings; on the left the finished scoreboard/scatter table temple, then the two dugouts and lower left the dice tower and it's dice basic/ceremonial pool.
Still a good bit to do - black washes here and there to tone the colours down and weather some of the stone back down where the drybrushing has gotten too bright, then a paler, lighter drybrush to pop the edges of the stonework and some of the texture.
The righthand dugout has two small simple statues in progress for the corners of the centre dugout area, obviously not attached yet.
The dice tower & pool will have magnets installed to keep them together while in use.
I also need to come up with symbols for the large circles in the centre of most of the dugout areas - BB dugouts are Reserve/Knocked Out/Casualty per team, and I'm not actually sure what symbols I want to use on each of the circles at this point...
Nevertheless, visible progress has resumed, and after several passes with paint I finally have a stone colour on all three new buildings that I'm happy with!