Graveyards

[Gunbird]

I'm planning to do a graveyard later this year, but I'm wondering how to proceed. It will be used from medieval times right up to the 40th milennium

I've built lots of single item stuff for other projects, and while very nice, does take longer to place on the table. I have no experience with multi bases, but do spot them in reports sometimes...

What do you prefer and why?

You can vote for items single, sets or more, AND type of line. Max of 3 votes per member.

Thx!

[DLIinVSF]

For earth (UK/Northern Europe medieval to 20th century)churchyards I've tended to do them rather conventionally straightish rows with different stones. Sometimes with a central path leading to a church.

My 19th century human graveyards on Mars tend to aim towards the same style but smaller in numbers , Martian terrain features and more wooden crosses (Western style) and the odd Martian style head stone for those who wanted something "native". These tend to still have raised mounds of earth as the they are all pretty new and the ground hasn't shifted or settled. This differs from the earth graveyards above as they tend just to be flat grassed areas with headstones.

At the moment these Martian bases have red sand but I'm currently going through a terrain crisis and may give into the dark side and go for sometime lighter for all my terrain in future i.e. repaint the old ones two. I mainly use mdf heads stones to cut down the costs for max numbers.

[Bullshott]

For earth (UK/Northern Europe medieval to 20th century)churchyards I've tended to do them rather conventionally straightish rows with different stones.

Same for me. For convenience in setting up games I used old CDs as bases fro multiple gravestones.Also remember to include mausoleums and statuary as graveyard monuments (Crooked Dice do a nice set of (not Dr Who) scary angels). for the most part I used Renedra plastic gravestones, some larger resin graves and monuments (try Ainsty for a start) and GW's graveyard set.

[Gunbird]

Ooh, lovely that, highly inspirational ! 

[Hat Guy]

I'm working on a necropolis table for EOTD and I'm treating my graves like forests; having an irregular shaped base with a scattering of tombstones on it. All WIP at the moment, will try and get a shot up to show.

[Teld]

I will be making one up sometime soon (I hope) and am planning on going down the single graves route due to:
  1. them having a smaller footprint so easier to store
2.  ease of use, single bases allow me to use them in all manner of configurations and setups from wild west, old English churchyard, city necropolis, or post apocalyptic relic's

[Richard]

Same for me. For convenience in setting up games I used old CDs as bases fro multiple gravestones.Also remember to include mausoleums and statuary as graveyard monuments (Crooked Dice do a nice set of (not Dr Who) scary angels). for the most part I used Renedra plastic gravestones, some larger resin graves and monuments (try Ainsty for a start) and GW's graveyard set.

Amazing modelling really inspiring.