Jevenkah and Teshub with more topless, er, roofless buildings

[Garanhir]

What a great set of shots.  I always look forward to seeing what you've been up to with your collection.

[DeafNala]

The photos & the minis/terrain are SPLENDID introductions to the unfolding tale. GREAT STUFF!

[dijit]

Cracking stuff there!

[Jevenkah]

Thanks a bunch folks! I find it amusing that even though this grand scene has been on display in the house and getting lots of love, posting the pictures here has made me say, "Isn't it time I finished painting those hilltop foundations on the painting tray?"

I also find it amusing that we have no good place to store the fire-god idol, yet we went and built it a shrine that dwarfs it.

Jevenkah

[Brummie Thug]

That temple is superb! 

[Jevenkah]

Thank you all for the love of the orc temple! There will be a how-to on that coming soon as well.

Last week we put finishing touches on the previously alluded to Great Northern Orc foundations to go underneath our sod huts. (Yes, these are shown with humans in them. Everybody fights over them and we were in human lands last adventure.) We built the huts around 1994 or so, always wanting something better for them. A great gift of building supplies from Bleddyn has let us go wild with projects this summer/autumn.



The sod houses now sit on 3 layers of 3/4 inch pink foam insulation, with the top two layers cut out for interior scenes:



The stone paint jobs are heavily inspired by/ tried to mimic fellow LAFers' projects.



There is a how-to up in the website with more juicy pix:
http://swordandsorceryrpg.com/workshop/great-northern-foundations/

Jevenkah

[DeafNala]

The Sod Huts look TERRIFIC. The interiors bring them to another level...BEAUTIFULLY modeled & painted! VERY WELL DONE!

[aggro84]

Those are really cool!
Very evocative!
 

[Dr Mathias]

Great buildings, I really like all the green. Cool ideas!

[jdeleonardis]

OMG - I LOVE those sod huts.  Nicely done!

[northtroll]

Once again I am totally blown away by the scope and design of your games and terrain projects!

[Jevenkah]

Thanks everybody! We really love green too 

northtroll- we use the philosophy "think big, play small" which means to us having a large political (and physical!  ) stage to give personal context to our characters' stories.  Also, since my husband and I both have so much fun hobbying, we tend to build first and worry about storage later. Most of the pieces are modular, with at least one flat-ish or regular dimension which allows them to fit well in large plastic storage tubs, which in turn fit well under our game table. And on our shelves. And in the storage room.

Speaking of storage room, we found one unfinished sod hut from way-back-when (I guess I ran out of turf) so here's a LAF exclusive bare-bones look:





Then I glued on clump foliage.

Underneath (from the website):


Jevenkah

[Nedo]

I love the vintage look of all your work proposed.
Beautiful tabletop level!!!
Awesome trees!!!

[Jevenkah]

Thanks Nedo!

The trees are model railroading kit trees on cardboard bases with real rocks for weight.

We have to take the foundations off the table for a BIG WARGAMING EVENT we're hosting this weekend so I took a few more pics. This shot features a Foundry Viking woman I did for the Medieval Painting Order, and a huge Foundry Viking with a huge beard that Teshub did a while back.



Our BIG WARGAMING EVENT is scheduled to be several small skirmishes between the humans and the orcs in the North, culminating in a larger-scale battle after dinner.  We need to know what's going on between these forces and thought it would be fun to extend an invite to our players to determine the outcome, even though there are no main characters involved. So folks will be stopping in during the day, I'll make bread and stew, and we'll roll dice, Fantasy Warriors style!

Jevenkah

[DeafNala]

It sounds like you have a SPLENDID weekend planned. HAVE FUN!