A million foam pieces: fantasy city modular board (Apr 24 - Ruined Inn)

[Burgundavia]

Because finishing is for suckered, I decided to start on two ruined towers last night (in time for a game Saturday hopefully). Both are 4"x4" square and roughly 12" tall. I've based them roughly on towers in San Gimignano, although my towers will be plastered instead of rough stone. I still need to add floors on the 2nd tower and a few windows in each.

[Codsticker]

Nice - what are you going to plaster the walls with? Spackle?

[Burgundavia]

Nice - what are you going to plaster the walls with? Spackle?

That's the plan. Need to carve the exposed stones and brickwork into the foam and then I'll plaster over it

[mikedemana]

Off to a great start! I love the way towers, ruined or otherwise, break up the vertical space of a table. These are going to be awesome... 

Mike Demana

[Burgundavia]

Got a bunch of work done today - stone texture and glued together. Also added some old bolts to the base for stability.

[HerbertTarkel]

Wow, that is very impressive work for foam as a base! Seriously impressed!

[Burgundavia]

Got the basics of the 2nd tower roughed in today. Realized I messed up my measurements for the holes for the floor joists, so will have to pivot in my plan, base it on a 5x5 instead of 4x4 and add some thicker columns on the front corners to fill holes & add interest

[Burgundavia]

Finished the last bits of the first full 2x2 square, including the curved road and 2 statues - one ganesha and one little garden fairy thing that definitely won't have blood coming from its eyes.

[nozza_uk]

This is fantastic work. You make it look so easy.

[Burgundavia]

This is fantastic work. You make it look so easy.

Switching from generic white glue/PVA to Aleene's Tacky was a key part of it - it  holds much faster, so you can do rows of the smaller stones almost right away without them moving
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[boneio]

definitely won't have blood coming from its eyes

[white knight]

one little garden fairy thing that definitely won't have blood coming from its eyes.

Did you think of that after seeing yourself in the mirror after laying those little cobblestones?

[Burgundavia]

Did you think of that after seeing yourself in the mirror after laying those little cobblestones?

Lol, nope. I thought of it the instant on saw these lying on the street in a free pile (I have 1 more like this and another fairy in another style)

[Burgundavia]

Finally got all the base colours on these pieces, seem to have misplaced a piece however. Oops

[Pattus Magnus]

Notwithstanding the missing piece (at least it’s a small one!), it looks amazing with the base colours on! That’s going to be a great surface for gaming. I know games can still be fun on a super basic playing surface, but there’s something about detailed terrain that steps up the immersion…