Jungle Temple/BB Scoreboard

[Wirelizard]

Back in December I did up a fairly basic set of pitch-side terrain for Blood Bowl, to track the score, turns, and rerolls. The turn/reroll tracks and dugouts are fine but I've never been totally happy with the scoreboard, so this long weekend (Victoria Day here in Canada, thanks Vicky!) I broke out a few scrap pieces of styrofoam and started a new, much more elaborate setup.

The old one used a pair of rare earth magnets to hold the score numbers in place; this one has alcoves for cubes that will, d6-style, have 0-5 on them to indicate the score for each side. The alcove in the centre will hold a third cube that will have weather icons on it, as in-game weather can be important in BB and it's useful to have an indicator for it. There's five types of weather in BB (Sweltering Heat/Very Sunny/Nice/Downpour/Blizzard) so the sixth side will just have a second icon for Nice Weather on it, which is by far the most common sort anyway.



The base is 5.5" wide and about 4.5" deep. The areas either side of the staircase is going to be a pair of small ceremonial pools eventually, mostly because water will be more interesting to look at than yet more stone!

The stonework technique was borrowed from a very nice video by The Terrain Wench over on YouTube, and it works nicely.

More over on the blog, as usual.

[Mason]

 

That is a wonderful design, Wirelizard.
Executed to perfection thus far.
A great bit of foam carving too.
    

Looking forward to your progress on this.
 

[dampfpanzerwagon]

Ingenious design.

Tony

[Wirelizard]

Thanks, folks. This is one of those projects (so far, at least) where what I've got on my workbench pretty much exactly matches what I was visualizing before I started hacking up styrofoam, and it's always nice when a plan comes together, as the saying goes!

I've broken out the Milliput and done a first pass on both some structural (patching tears in the foam, mostly) and detail putty work.



Numbers for the main scatter diagram are in place, as well as part of the throw-in diagram on the bottom stairs. I'll go back and add some extra bits and details around the numbers after this batch has cured, finish the basic throw-in diagram, and some more structural putty.

I've also started three of the weather icons, on the right on a bit of scrap styrene so I can pop them off later. Left to right they're going to be Nice Weather (a partial sun), Torrential Downpour (rain with lightning next to it) and Blazing Sun (an oversized sun). Still need to do Blizzard (a snowflake, probably), the second Nice Weather and figure out an icon for Sweltering Heat - fire, probably, as I've lots of sun-based icons already.

[Argonor]

The alcove in the centre will hold a third cube that will have weather icons on it,

I thought it was a throne for a Slann

[Wirelizard]

I thought it was a throne for a Slann

 

Nah, there's a roof for that area that I haven't glued down yet because I want to clean up the back wall of the alcove with a bit more putty yet, it tore like crazy when I was cutting it.

[Argonor]

I admire the dedication you put into making themed stadions!

How big are the cubes, compared to the alcoves? Have you considered a contraption to push them out when you need to turn them (after scoring)?

[Steve F]

Both ingenious and well-crafted.

[OSHIROmodels]

That's a great idea 

cheers

James

[Mason]

...Have you considered a contraption to push them out when you need to turn them (after scoring)?

Leave a hole in the back and poke it with a pencil...?
 

[Argonor]

Leave a hole in the back and poke it with a pencil...?
 

Something like that. Or a built-in poking device. 

[SBRPearce]

More terrain builds should include a built-in poking device, in my opinion.

"Dude, it's your turn. No, seriously, at least blink or something..."

[War In 15MM]

That's a great looking piece.  Richard

[Wirelizard]

I admire the dedication you put into making themed stadions!

How big are the cubes, compared to the alcoves? Have you considered a contraption to push them out when you need to turn them (after scoring)?

The alcoves are slightly shallower than the cubes that will go in them, so enough of the cubes stick out to make it fairly easy to change their facing as needed.

There's a second article over on the blog, with the photo I posted last night and some more verbiage.

I'll be breaking out the putty again this evening - finishing the throw-in diagram on the lowest step, more structural putty around the three alcoves and more work on the three cubes.

[Wirelizard]

Replying to my own post, but finished pushing putty for the evening and thought I'd post a quick photo.

Throw-in diagram numbers all done on the lowest step. Three stone blocks all have all six sides puttied up, and the weather indicator has the three previously made icons attached - just pushed into the fresh putty.

On the scrap styrene in front are the null-five numbers for the two score cubes, and the remaining three weather icons: Blazing Heat (fire), Snow (snowflake thing) and another Nice Weather icon (quarter sun).



Tomorrow night I'll get the temple basecoated, hopefully, and start cleaning up and gluing the three markers.