Ok, so here´s some more!
First a picture from above, with my legs as a bonus. The board is about 47" wide.
Without the buildings. The first one is with the two halfs drawn apart. It all fits together with strong magnets, so once it´s in the right place it stays there. The buildings have "footprints" where they fit exactly, also secured with magnets. What I lose in modularity (is that a word...?) i gain in appearance.
Bird´s eye view, with the workroom mess in the background We´ve all seen that before...
Model´s eye view from the inn´s cortyard toards the main street.
From the bridge down the main street.
The bridge and the stream. The watermill is just outside the photo, somhow I missed to tak a picture of that...
The graveyard, with lots and lots and LOTS of gravestones. It´s loosely based on the jewish semetary in Prague.
Random wiew of some of the houses.
And one of the two squares with a well. There is a third well on the inn´s coartyard as well.
Everything is scratchbuilt except the fences, barrels, crates and urns. The lowest frloors of the buildings are carved "frigolit" as we say in Sweden. Foamed PVC, maybe? Blue isolation material, anyway. The upper storeys are cardboard, the chinmeys are friglit as well. The upper floors are covered with filler, and then I added frames of balsa. The roofs are strips of thin cardboard. The board itself is med of left over materials from work mostly: Hardboard base covered wit different layers of foma core sheets. Then fillerand a plaster like thing called husfix, used to fix small damages to housees in real life. Afte painting it al in a dark brown i covered it all with watered down glue and sprinkled a lot of leaves all over to get a feeling of cold, moisty fall. Sort of... The stream was a pain to make. I had plans of using some sort of clear resin, but couldn´t get my hands on it before I had to get it done. It´s simply panited with blue and white and covered wtih a couple of layers of glossy varnish and water effect. Works for me.
The buildings are airbrushed and then I picked out the details like the frames and windows with a brush. Everythin is then lightly drybrushed with an off-white paint to make it duller and more tied togeteher.
It still needs a lot of junk scattered around. More barrels, more crates, more pumpkins (yes, there is a pumpkinpatch behind the tall square house!), wagons and animals. And of course it needs people. And more shop signs. But the basics are there, anyway.
The plan is to play som sort of reveres monster hunt on the board, with the players acting as the monsters and the towns folks are dinner! The monster that eats/kills/scares the most people win. Still very much a work in progress, though. We have played a game we call Hooligans on it as well, based on Blood Bowl but instead of playing the temas on the pitch every player plays some hooligans wreaking havoc downtown after a game. Great fun! I also have plans playing Malifaux on it. Over all, it´s not very tightly bound to one system and I like thet.
25 September 2009, 12:25:37 PM
