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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: Vagabond on July 11, 2020, 10:17:32 PM

Title: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: Vagabond on July 11, 2020, 10:17:32 PM: Years ago, 3 or 4 I guess, I built a Viking village and chronicled my efforts in the Workbench section, I was fortunate to get lots of good advice there and finished the project. I then played a game and posted it on here http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=97032.0 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=97032.0) and yesterday I made a new board 2' sq from some material I had bought and then laid out part of the village and got some of the Vikings out of their storage and took some pictures.
This is the first time these chaps have been in daylight since 2017, they must really hate me, so to cheer them up I'm posting a few pictures here. If you look at the old post I would be interested to see if you think the new board base is an improvement on the previous one.

Cheers

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/7162-100720225839-47164353.jpeg)
Raiders taunting the homesteader.

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/7162-100720225839-47165576.jpeg)
Dressed in their finery the local Lord and his men defy the raiders.

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/7162-100720225839-471661171.jpeg)
The two forces shout insults at each other.

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/7162-100720225840-47167513.jpeg)
Not as picturesque as the rest of it but the heart of the village, the midden and cabbage patch.

Well maybe not.

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/47/7162-100720225840-471681934.jpeg)
Just before they charged to contact.

I shall go and see how they are going on, there's a hell of a din in the gaming room at the moment.
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: OSHIROmodels on July 12, 2020, 12:51:22 AM: Looks grand :)
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on July 12, 2020, 09:07:58 AM: Loving it! Great work!
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: bluewillow on July 12, 2020, 11:48:55 AM: Looks good, like the muck heap!
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: Atheling on July 12, 2020, 12:59:25 PM: Marvellous stuff- a very good looking game :-*
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: Michi on July 12, 2020, 03:47:01 PM: My Vikings would raid that village even for the cabbage! lol

Very nicely built, well introduced and perfectly photographed. Thank you!
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: Mason on July 12, 2020, 05:01:12 PM: Lovely set-up, mate.
:-* :-*
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: Vagabond on July 12, 2020, 10:48:33 PM: Thanks guys, I much appreciate your encouragement.

Michi your Vikings must be very bold indeed if they will risk their lives for a few cabbages. ;)
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: Ragnar on July 12, 2020, 11:53:12 PM: Nice thread, some nice ideas here.

Tell me, what is this structure?
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: gamer Mac on July 13, 2020, 12:19:46 AM: Nice village :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: Vagabond on July 13, 2020, 08:16:55 AM: Ragnar, you've got me there, I don't know, I got it in a box of lead, it's some sort of wooden frame, I imagine it's a bit like the village stocks, somewhere to fasten miscreants for public humiliation, but I could be totally wrong. It didnt have a figure with it, so it could be a drying frame for animal skins or anything else your imagination comes up with.

For me it's just a bit of scatter terrain to make the village look lived in..
Cheers
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: Vagabond on July 13, 2020, 08:24:22 AM: Jim, Michi, Mason and Gamer Mac, having seen the quality of your work in the past I'm chuffed you like this. Same to everyone else.
Cheers
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: Mad Lord Snapcase on July 13, 2020, 09:33:35 AM: Lovely looking board. Will Argonor, fortified by his mead go on a raid to get revenge in Uppsala?
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: Captain Blood on July 13, 2020, 09:54:24 AM: Looks very good. Sets off the buildings and figures perfectly.
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: Vagabond on July 16, 2020, 04:56:58 PM: Quote from: Mad Lord Snapcase on July 13, 2020, 09:33:35 AM
Lovely looking board. Will Argonor, fortified by his mead go on a raid to get revenge in Uppsala?

Sorry not had internet for a few days, Argonor will raid Uppsala as soon as I've built the church for him to burn down, 3 and a half years and counting, but one day it will happen, he will get his revenge. >:D
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: Vagabond on July 16, 2020, 04:59:22 PM: Quote from: Captain Blood on July 13, 2020, 09:54:24 AM
Looks very good. Sets off the buildings and figures perfectly.

I was pleased with the heath and moor look and easy to do. I have quite a few 1' sq tiles that I would like to do in the same manner, if only I could remember where I got the material from :?
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: mikedemana on July 17, 2020, 03:00:43 AM: Love it! I really like how it all looks. How do you store your boards?

Mike Demana
Title: Re: Vagabonds Viking Village - New Base board
Post by: Vagabond on July 19, 2020, 09:47:51 AM: Quote from: mikedemana on July 17, 2020, 03:00:43 AM
Love it! I really like how it all looks. How do you store your boards?

Mike Demana

Mike they are just stored upright on their edges in an old box, this one because of its size will be on it's edge under the table .I've found if they are near vertical they don't warp.
They are rough and ready boards and I don't have grasses and shrubs built into the board that is added on table so I don'tneed to be too careful with storage.
Cheers.