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

[Pattus Magnus]

That’s looking very promising with the buildings in place! It seems like it will be very adaptable and open to future expansions, too, as you add modules.

[Burgundavia]

That’s looking very promising with the buildings in place! It seems like it will be very adaptable and open to future expansions, too, as you add modules.

It is. My scifi table and my hellscape table are essentially the same, so lots of experience with using the tiles. And the tiles in the bottom right of that photo are start of my generic outdoors table, just lacking some static grass

[Burgundavia]

Spent the day creating a ruined building, mostly for a game of Mordheim tomorrow. The construction is largely done, but lots of finishing work to do. I did up a test piece of using coloured spackle/wall compound over the foam.whwre I'd carved bricks or stone, quite liked it. So that'll come next - first a coat of black paint, then paint the rocks/bricks, then the spackle (mixed with paint), then weathering. Note the walls currently aren't glued to the floor to make it easier to spackle/paint the inside.

[mikedemana]

Do you talk somewhere about how you do the roofbeams? They look like they actually have a groove and tongue (or whatever it is called) holding them together. Looks great! 

Mike Demana

[Burgundavia]

Do you talk somewhere about how you do the roofbeams? They look like they actually have a groove and tongue (or whatever it is called) holding them together. Looks great! 

Mike Demana

Nope but happy to here. Just did this yesterday. Those are 3/16 basswood sections, cut roughly to the length I wanted. I then spaced the beams at 3/4" apart. So after I cut them to length, I marked them at appropriate intervals and then 3/32 on each side of centre, and then used my chopper to cut roughly half way through. And then used a blade to cut the bottom of the notch, where given basswood is a bit tougher than balsa, it popped out. And the I fitted them together, cleaning up any errors.

[snitcythedog]

Very effective build and kudos on you for notching the wood to make the floors.  Lots of work that has paid off! 

[Burgundavia]

Got the table out today for a Mordheim game. A few quick shots

[mikedemana]

Thanks for the description of how you did it. Sounds like a miniature carpenter at work...! It looks great now, and I'm sure will be even better when painted up!!

Mike Demana

[snitcythedog]

Really nice work!!

[Codsticker]

You got a game of Mordheim in? You lucky dog! Your building and table look great.

[Burgundavia]

You got a game of Mordheim in? You lucky dog! Your building and table look great.

Thanks. Come south, likely next game will be Oct 13th or 20th, will confirm.

[Burgundavia]

I was shamed by another long term member of our local gaming club, so bad to get some primer down on my tiles at least. Amazing what a coat of paint will do for cohesiveness

[zrunelord]

A work of love. Kudos. Cutting foam bricks is much better than a fidget toy.
Some suggestions if I may.
If you decide to make moulds make sure that the individual bricks are glued well to base otherwise rubber will seep under the individual bricks which might tear the mould when removed.
If you decide to use grout choose a material that shrinks when dry like plaster of paris so that all that detail can remain visible not become shallow.
You mentioned a scifi board, do you have links for it please?
Thanks for sharing.
Keep it up
Z

[Burgundavia]

A work of love. Kudos. Cutting foam bricks is much better than a fidget toy.
Some suggestions if I may.
If you decide to make moulds make sure that the individual bricks are glued well to base otherwise rubber will seep under the individual bricks which might tear the mould when removed.
If you decide to use grout choose a material that shrinks when dry like plaster of paris so that all that detail can remain visible not become shallow.
You mentioned a scifi board, do you have links for it please?
Thanks for sharing.
Keep it up
Z

Thanks, it has been a long process.

Not planning on moulding these - am going to keep plugging away at individual bricks, but good advice for if I wanted to.

For grout, was going to follow what RP Archive does - mixture of unsanded tile grout & dirt.

As for my scifi board, I've documented parts of it here: Modular 28mm scifi board. I really should post some of my recent work there. I've been bouncing between my scifi, my hellscape and this board.

[snitcythedog]

Looking good. 

Amazing what a coat of paint will do for cohesiveness

It is always the point where you finally see where the finished product is going to end up.   Very satisfying.