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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Elbows on 21 March 2017, 07:24:03 PM
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So, someone mentioned Mordheim and a week later I had a table built...(a lot more "fluff" to come but the basic elements are done).
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QsDbIIeXnfU/WNF8zMoLx7I/AAAAAAAADOI/d3zK7Tdct-IhM0iL5usub6iSe9r8fUJJwCLcB/s1600/MordheimTerrain%2B%25284%2529.JPG)
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All hand built (with the use of some plastic sheet rocks, etc.). Intended for modularity, playability and delivering the Mordheim aesthetic. Will be adding a bunch to the table, but it's playable as-is. Now if only I had some warbands painted.
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Holy moly, that's awesome!! :o :o
It looks really cool, I wanna own something like that!
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Amazing work!
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OUTSTANDING! Your gaming set up is BEAUTIFULLY crafted & painted. There is nothing quite like swashbuckling at dizzying heights. VERY WELL DONE!
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Beautiful!!!
Would you be willing to list what supplies you used in building it??
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Nice work. That'd serve nicely for all sorts of small skirmish gaming and roleplaying uses beyond Mordheim, too.
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cor! I like that.
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Thanks, fellas.
The materials used:
1.5 sheets of foam-core (foam-board?)
25-30' of wood dowels (the squared ones you can find at hobby shops)
600-700 coffee stirrers
1x sheet of roof tiled plasticard
2x sheet of random rock pattern plasticard (just stuff I had laying around)
1x bottle of Elmer's Wood Glue Max (the best stuff)
A bit of brass wire (for the rotating bridge and the draw bridge bit)
Package of metal washers (inside most of the structures - drowned in wood glue to provide a weighted base)
A few craft paints
2x cans of dark brown primer (Krylon)
Some hobby bricks (not sure what brand - but scaled for 28mm)
Some army painter grass tufts
The little arched roofs come off for accessibility and every ledge/plank/area was carefully designed to accommodate 25-30mm bases or up to 40mm in some cases. Heights are 3" for the first level and 6" for the second (minor variations but trying to keep it minimal). Also tried to keep all the ladders one level or 2.5-3" so most characters can get up them in one turn.
I plan on doing a full blog post sometime soon, and I'll add it when I do!
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Ah! Love it!
Modular Mordheim!
Brilliant idea and execution. The paint jobs are quite eye catching as well.
Looks like a wonderful gaming set.
Jevenkah
...you so have my wheels turning now...
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(spins Jevenkah's wheels like a merry-go-round) lol
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Very nice! Hopefully your players will move off of the ground floor. The steps should certainly encourage them.
Mordheim remains my favorite miniatures game to date.
-Michael
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Excellent stuff. I'd love to play that beast.
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Very nice! Hopefully your players will move off of the ground floor. The steps should certainly encourage them.
Mordheim remains my favorite miniatures game to date.
-Michael
Just put some of the wyrdstone up there...like doggie treats. lol (that and I've planned to have a water-based map where these pieces are suspended over water, meaning you have to use certain walkways).
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Amazing work! :o
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Goodness me, those look absolutely wonderful! :-*
I also like that there are plenty of solid areas, and that the elevated spaces are big enough to encourage some action up there.
Although I'm certainly preaching to the choir here, I would highly suggest making generous handful of loose free-standing ladders and maybe a small number of staircases too - the more access to/from the elevated areas, the less of a "trap" they'll feel to players.
Can't wait to see these on a suitable baseboard with models fighting over them. :D
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Great job Elbows! You knocked all of that out so quickly. I look forward to reaping the benefits of your hard work and playing some games on it :). We should set up a Mordamunda weekend with the gang and play both games.
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That sounds good. At some point I'll be doing some more sci-fi walkways (and the peaked roofs of these pieces are removable, so I'll add some alternate roofs) and with a bunch of sci-fi goodies it'll become quasi-Necromunda stuff as well. I suppose I should actually paint up some figures first though... lol
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Superb buildings. Looks like it will be lots of fun to play on.
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Very impressive.
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That's pretty much the ideal for Morders.
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Brilliant!
So quick and extremely effective.
You will get the most out of Mordy with that set-up, that is for sure.
:-* 8) :-*
I like the idea of the 'watery' setting, which is something that I have always fancied doing but wish I had thought of it BEFORE I had built my current set-up*. I look forward to it.
8) 8)
*Not that that has been used for Mordheim for an age.....
::)
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So, someone mentioned Mordheim and a week later I had a table built...
"Infinity" ... like to see a table from You about that one, as well. :D
That is amazing work, looking really great! Any plans for the floor? GamingMat? Structured styrofoam or something like that?
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That layout just screams for a swamp-based table to set it up on top of...with wyrdstone eating gators!
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Two likely settings at the moment.
1) A lovely neoprene mat with cobblestones and/or roadways etc. There is one called "destroyed roads" I'm looking at from somewhere in the EU.
2) A "bridges over trouble waters" approach. I have some cork tiles and I'm debating trying to cut them up and mount them over top walled Dwarven Forge dungeon bits...to create platforms of various size. Take the platforms and place them over a wretched green bit of suede I have laying around and voila...suspended platforms over a river/lake/crap. I have some painted up row boats and I like the idea of additional larger bridges (and draw bridges). Also my buddy and I had discussed adding magnetized ziplines to the board at some point (just a couple...hope you pass that initiative test!)
Will definitely be doing the first...probably the second and will switch back and forth as needed. The "table" will be supported by a few purchased MDF buildings, a bunch of sheds (already have them) and I'll be doing up a bunch of scatter terrain when I have time. Maybe some dead trees and a set of spare walls I have laying around. Add to that some additional carts/wagons and it should be plenty.
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2) A "bridges over trouble waters" approach. I have some cork tiles and I'm debating trying to cut them up and mount them over top walled Dwarven Forge dungeon bits...to create platforms of various size. Take the platforms and place them over a wretched green bit of suede I have laying around and voila...suspended platforms over a river/lake/crap.
This sounds good - we have done a similar game before, and it really changes things up when you can't just go running forwards to things. Make sure to have some platforms that can only be reached in complex ways!
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This sounds good - we have done a similar game before, and it really changes things up when you can't just go running forwards to things. Make sure to have some platforms that can only be reached in complex ways!
That's actually the entire point of several of the pieces I put together. It's not really visible but one of the small pieces has a drawbridge (so it can be raised/lowered by models in game) and the larger bridge piece pivots and has winding cranks at the bottom. Add to that some rather high 6" stuff and there will definitely be massive bottlenecks and some tricky-to-get-to locations.
I like the idea of a player looking at a piece of Wyrdstone and thinking "how the hell do I get to that?"...even better if I can come up with 2-3 ways to get there.
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Two likely settings at the moment.
1) A lovely neoprene mat with cobblestones and/or roadways etc. There is one called "destroyed roads" I'm looking at from somewhere in the EU.
2) A "bridges over trouble waters" approach. I have some cork tiles and I'm debating trying to cut them up and mount them over top walled Dwarven Forge dungeon bits...to create platforms of various size. Take the platforms and place them over a wretched green bit of suede I have laying around and voila...suspended platforms over a river/lake/crap. I have some painted up row boats and I like the idea of additional larger bridges (and draw bridges). Also my buddy and I had discussed adding magnetized ziplines to the board at some point (just a couple...hope you pass that initiative test!)
Will definitely be doing the first...probably the second and will switch back and forth as needed. The "table" will be supported by a few purchased MDF buildings, a bunch of sheds (already have them) and I'll be doing up a bunch of scatter terrain when I have time. Maybe some dead trees and a set of spare walls I have laying around. Add to that some additional carts/wagons and it should be plenty.
With the more vertical look of the pieces, you could also go with a more canyon type thing where it fits between the cliffs and goes up and down from there