Author Topic: Captain Blood's very titchy (15mm) barbarians. A primeval menagerie! (P18) (Read 37923 times)

Silent Invader · « **Reply #150 on:** November 04, 2019, 01:09:19 PM »

Interesting and informative

As an aside, I have previously had an issue with hot glue softening in high summer heat then cooling and hardening with a freshly introduced warp. I can’t see that happening with your boards as the component parts are either substantive or layered.

Cubs · « **Reply #151 on:** November 04, 2019, 01:45:18 PM »

I like this, I like this a lot.

Battle Brush Sigur · « **Reply #152 on:** November 04, 2019, 02:09:51 PM »

A great project. Yeah, 15mm allows for terrain goodness like that. Imagine all that on a 28mm table. It just wouldn't work as convincingly. Very nice job, and thanks for sharing the process with us!

Elk101 · « **Reply #153 on:** November 04, 2019, 08:18:37 PM »

Very impressive terrain work. The use of the theatre off casts is quite inspired.

tomrommel1 · « **Reply #154 on:** November 05, 2019, 08:14:20 AM »

Very nice terrain you are building!

Mason · « **Reply #155 on:** November 05, 2019, 09:41:31 AM »

'Tis shaping up nicely, sir.

Captain Blood · « **Reply #156 on:** November 05, 2019, 09:45:26 AM »

Thanks lads

Hope to get some more done today...

gamer Mac · « **Reply #157 on:** November 05, 2019, 10:06:58 AM »

Looking great

The stone circle is a lovely touch just need to make sure no sexy English woman travel through it

BaronVonJ · « **Reply #158 on:** November 05, 2019, 02:12:03 PM »

Good work, sir. Good work.

Captain Blood · « **Reply #159 on:** November 05, 2019, 02:58:51 PM »

Thanks Jaye

Quote from: gamer Mac on November 05, 2019, 10:06:58 AM

Looking great
The stone circle is a lovely touch just need to make sure no sexy English woman travel through it

Thanks Colin.
She's amazing isn't she? Considering she's actually Irish, her English accent is so lovely...
Mind you, I couldn't get on with the second and subsequent seasons.

gamer Mac · « **Reply #160 on:** November 05, 2019, 03:09:38 PM »

She is still cracking in all the other series as well, is it season 4 now?

Oldben1 · « **Reply #161 on:** November 05, 2019, 03:53:35 PM »

Cool stuff!

Matakakea · « **Reply #162 on:** November 05, 2019, 04:30:27 PM »

That stone circle is one of the few terrain pieces I've actually finished. I look forward to seeing your take on it.

Captain Blood · « **Reply #163 on:** November 07, 2019, 05:05:27 PM »

Thank you

I've now completed the build of my 15mm Cimmerian village.

This has ended up being a bit of a compromise between form (I wanted a Chysauster-style enclosed settlement) and function / playability (where you need to allow some ways in and out!) Hopefully the end result achieves the look of the former whilst also facilitating the latter...

Having started with the turf-roofed, stone beehive huts from Forged in Battle (mounted at various levels, per the preceding post) thus...

I then infilled between some of the huts with outbuildings and walls made from small pieces of styrofoam, to create the kind of clusters that are characteristic of Iron Age (and earlier) settlements. I inscribed stone patterning with a sharp point, and roofed the new parts with turf made from Green Stuff. These were then given a good slap of PVA to seal them - because spray primer melts styrofoam!

I'll be honest, this was a tricky job because of the small scale. It's hard to cut such small pieces of foam to the shape you want using a hot wire cutter, especially when aiming for rough, organic forms. It's also hard to inscribe such small marks on the porous surface of the foam and keep them looking right.

Having decided not to surround the whole thing (as originally planned) with stone walls and enclosures, I thought it looked a bit under-defended, so I then started adding palisades and gates cut from cocktail sticks and bamboo barbecue skewers (to give different girth stakes for a less uniform look - these are barbarians after all, not civil engineers... )

Then onto the detailing... Quite a lot of this is focused on the chieftain's hut, because hey - every scene needs a focal point.
First up, I sculpted a trophy bear pelt out of Green Stuff to adorn his roof.
I also added a couple of metal shields and a reindeer skull standard, cut from duplicates of various of the 15mm Copplestone figures.

I was going to carry on and add all sorts of other detailing... Dung heap! Pots and jars! Spear rack! Drying animal skins on stretching frames! I've seen Conan The Barbarian. I know what they have in Cimmerian villages...
Then I decided that in this titchy scale, there's going to be precious little room left for figures if I chuck in so much set dressing, so decided to quit while I was ahead instead.

I think it'll do...

Of course it looks decidedly messy when you can see all the different materials used to bodge the thing together.