Watcher in the Water - board completed

[jscottbowman]

More pics on blog...
http://scottswargaming.blogspot.co.nz/2014/06/the-watcher-in-water-custom-scenario.html

Thanks for looking

[joe5mc]

Booyah! Really nice!

[Momotaro]

Bloody lovely - it would be a pleasure to play on that board!

[DeafNala]

BEAUTIFULLY DONE! I love the water effect & the stream. The line of tress on either side of the road is an inspired idea. SPLENDID WORK!

[chirine ba kal]

Really, really nice! I like the dead trees on the pond side - great effect, and very evocative!

- chirine

[Vermis]

That is something else! Don't like to think about the work it must've taken.

[cuchulain23]

Superb looking piece of work.

[mweaver]

Woohoo! Very impressive!

-Michael

[Hubminator]

Awesome work Scott, nice one

[jscottbowman]

Many thanks all for your kind words :-)

Scott

[GevatterTod]

Wow! Very Nice! Brilliant use of colours and skill. I really love the water, here.
But to also give some criticism: everything is SO DAMN straight! Why? Even the trees are lined up like in a plantatian? Is that for a certain reason? It doesn't look natural this way, which is really a great pity, 'cause it's done so well afterall.

[jscottbowman]

Wow! Very Nice! Brilliant use of colours and skill. I really love the water, here.
But to also give some criticism: everything is SO DAMN straight! Why? Even the trees are lined up like in a plantatian? Is that for a certain reason? It doesn't look natural this way, which is really a great pity, 'cause it's done so well afterall.

Thank you, and yes you are right, the criticism is fairly placed...
In my defence the board started out as a very simple idea, going off the very basic idea and layout in the GW LOTR FOTR Journeybook. These were done many years ago and perhaps aimed at the beginner in the hobby... Of course once I started making it, I ended up doing a bit more and more...
The layout was a little constrained by the size and shape of the board, but I liked the idea of a straight tree lined path that I had assumed the elves would have made and planted the trees along it ages ago... maybe there had been a little man-made (or elf/dwarf made) earthworks cutting back the pathside cliffs to make room for the path?

In some ways the board became a practice piece for various terrain techniques I had recently discovered and I can implement in future projects...

Thanks for your feedback.

regards
Scott