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Miniatures Adventure => Gothic Horror => Topic started by: JMGraham on January 06, 2012, 03:09:48 AM
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Thanks to tons of inspiration from LAF, I wrapped up a graveyard board for Malifaux that I had been working on for a while. It uses a Garden of Morr (wall, crypts, and statue), a Citadel Wood (love those creepy and cartoony trees!), and a bunch of Renedra gravestones. The ruins were designed by a friend of mine in a 3d modeling program. Then he had masters printed and made a mold from them. I cast these in resin from his molds with some resin left over from another project.
In practice, it's a fun, thematic board for Malifaux. The oodles of cover make for a very dynamic cover - lots of movement while keeping protected.
(http://www.ordofanaticus.com/gallery/d/9972-1/IMG_5823.JPG)
(http://www.ordofanaticus.com/gallery/d/9975-1/IMG_5818.JPG)
(http://www.ordofanaticus.com/gallery/d/9978-1/IMG_5817.JPG)
(http://www.ordofanaticus.com/gallery/d/9981-1/IMG_5816.JPG)
(http://www.ordofanaticus.com/gallery/d/9984-1/IMG_5815.JPG)
(http://www.ordofanaticus.com/gallery/d/9987-1/IMG_5814.JPG)
(http://www.ordofanaticus.com/gallery/d/9990-1/IMG_5813.JPG)
(http://www.ordofanaticus.com/gallery/d/9993-1/IMG_5812.JPG)
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Very nice!
Can we see some pictures with Malifaux models on it s we can see how they scale up against the GW & Renedra pieces?
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This is an older picture when it was still a work in progress, but here's a Reaper mini and some Mantic zombies lined up. Size-wize the GW pieces are perfect, The Renedra gravestones are a bot on the largish size, but they work out well as a whole, I think.
FWIW, the set-up was a homage to my Pathfinder character, who is working through the Carrion Crown adventure path. I was convinced he would die the next session, so wanted to immortalize him clearing out the graveyard surrounding the old haunted Harrowstone prison. Thankfully, he survived! Carrion Crown is a wonderful set of horror-themed adventures for Pathfinder. Good stuff!
(http://www.wyrd-games.net/photopost/data/649/Duel2.jpg)
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What a great-looking table! I've seen a lot of graveyard terrain pieces, but never an entire graveyard table before. Looks sweet. And very playable too, with all that cover. Excellent.
I love the way you use the Garden of Morr fence pieces as one continuous line bisecting the entire table, rather than as an enclosure. I might definitely be lifting that idea some time soon...
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Very nice, the night shots look particularly good. :)
Perhaps some foliage, lichens maybe to give it that overgrown feel in places?
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The whole table has a great style to it, it looks like a panel from a comic book or perhaps a computer game setting, very graphical in the art sense. I think it's great.
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Lovely work :-*
Figures look rather tasty too :P
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I like it! Thanks for posting. Richard
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really cool scenery! love the look of it, fantastic ! :-*
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Superb, very stylish.
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Great looking board and the miniatures are cool too.How many set's of Rendra Graves did you use?
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Love the board.
Well painted, many ideas we can all steal. lol
I really like how everything blends so well together.
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Thanks for the kind words, all!
I think I bought 3 of the Renedra gravestone sets, and ended up using nearly every one of them for the board. It is such a fantastic sprue, I really hope they produce more like it. I think the gravestones go a long way to help dilute the skull-to-terrain ration that would otherwise be sky-high due to the Garden of Morr.
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Very nice. Looks like a very playable table. Plenty of room to move as well as plenty of terrain for cover.
Cheers (http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg91/ikhemm/psmiley204hf.gif)
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Both playable and beautiful; very nice work.
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Lovely board, and very pratical! Just please tell me about the 3d modelled ruins... i didn't get how you made them!
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The ruins: A friend of mine designed the ruins in a 3d computer modeling program, and then had the resulting "master" pieces produced using a 3d-printer. Then he made a RTV mold of them, and cast a bunch of pieces in dental plaster, for use in Warhammer 40k.
Fast forward to last year, I was doing some resin casting, and had oodles of resin left over, with no planned casting projects in the future. I didn't want the resin to go bad, so I cast a slew of the ruins using my friend's molds. The result is on the graveyard board!
The 3d-modeling stuff is neat, and 3d printing is getting cheaper and cheaper every day. With that said, my friend tends to over-engineer most hobby projects (unsurprisingly, he's an engineer), and tends to go with high-tech solutions to problems first. Often, though, the results are spectacular!