In the last few months I spent my entire spare time in building a gaming table for Eureka Miniature's 40mm Musketeer range and to play their excellent '...and One for All!' game on it. I loved these films from 1973 by Richard Lester with Michael York, Richard Chamberlain, Oliver Reed and Frank Finlay very much. Little did I know of what was to come since NO ONE seems to produce any kind of scenery for 40mm miniatures...
Pictures of all the miniatures have been posted on this forum earlier.
The whole thing was presented last weekend at Driscoles brilliant 'Do or Dice' Con up here in Kiel. We had a blast gaming on it and I must say that I enjoyed moderating these games very much because of the great gamers that turned up there. Thanx guys!
If anyone has made any pictures of us gaming, please pm me and let me have them!
This post will be rather lengthy and have quite a few pics, please enjoy them!
The bare gaming table.
It measures 63x63 cm of gaming area, the frame is about 7 cm wide. Threads are let in at certain points in order to allow pillars and a well to be screwed into the surface. The floor was created using vynil flooring, cut to pieces roughly the same size.
Actually, the frame was a cheap mirror frame, which had to be modified to slope towards the outer edge; mirror frames usually slope towards the inner edge, so the mitre had to be changed to the opposite side(I love online dictionaries!!).
Unfortunately, I am not too able to use instruments that are too large to be hidden in one hand, so the cuts I had to make have been, well, not very precise. Large gaps were showing on the edges and to hide them, I decided to sculpt four different faces over them. They were laid on with sheet metal to blend in with the rest of the mirror. One of the pictures of them (The laughing face) was not photographed very well, so the picture ist lost...
Sad Face
Skull
Sun Face
The first scenario in 'the capture of Constance', the mini-campaign by Greg Hallam called for the Bonancieux Lodgings, a two-storey(!!) interior scene with a lounging area on ground floor and rooms on the upper floor. Most of the building parts used are from Pardulon.com, the furniture in the lounging area are from Eureka Miniatures. 40mm beds had to be sculpted by me and cast from Pardulon. The cupboard actually is a christmas ornament which I moulded and cast in plaster. Since the building parts were 28mm scale, they had to be mounted on a 5mm balsa strip.
Overview
Bonancieux Bedroom
Mon Dieu! L'escalier!!
Bonancieux Ground Floor
D'Artagnan and Planchet on the Balcony
The second scenaro called for a tavern, the bar and the oven had to be converted from Pardulon parts, the rest has been a straightforward build-up-and-paint-it job. I am quite fond of the chicken on the oven as I have sculpted them...
Overview
Tavern Outside
Tavern Inside
The final scenario called for a convent with washing lines from which clothes are hung. As I loved these scenes from the films, I had to have a try to recerate them!!
A Pillar was constructed by me, moulded and cast by Pardulon(This man is a genius when it come to casting!! Thanx, man!!!) and a screw has been glued under the base. These could then be screwed to the gaming table and a thread could then be hung between them and the well which was also screwed to the table.
The bedsheets are made of real silk cut to shape and then ironed by my Mom. She offered to iron 50 tiny pieces of silk, so I really have to thank her!
Overview
The well, as produced by Eureka Miniatures:
Detail shots
Hope You enjoyed the pics!
Cheers!
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