A bit of Warmth in the Frozen City... (terrain conversion)

[Annie]

Having got to use my new Cigar Box Battle Mat yesterday for the first time...


I decided it was about time I build some terrain, all of it pictured belongs to Firestorm Games. While it looks lovely, I want lots of snowy goodness, and I haven't had an excuse to be really creative with terrain for ages.

So I raided my shop and made this


Renedra plastic ruins, I temporarily ditched the extra scatter bits but not forever - I'm going to use them later on. Candles (Ristul's Market) carefully sliced off the sprue and added pre-spray too. On areas that ideally have some rock next to it to bounce the light off. And trying not to "take away" a section where a model could stand. Undercoat black.

I tried to not just paint "grey", though my home lighting at night is poor so not sure it was as ace as I thought! So highlighting up from black with less and less grey, ending with pure white on the edges, and drybrush dusting the "top" of bricks, so they aren't all exactly the same shades, and light catches different areas.

Candles painted medium grey (vallejo) with higlights to white, flame some sort of golden yellow (I didn't write any of this down!) shaded with some careful flesh wash.

For the glow I was a complete novice, looked at some candle photos online, and pretty much just patted around a super light drybrush of orange (a GW base one) mixed with golden yellow (not a pale yellow or it'll end up more peachy) Building up. Then a super super tiny bit of white drybrush amongst it to lessen the flatness. I pretty much just figured out where the light would be, then exaggerated it, so the effect is nice and strong among all the other terrain.

Dab some Gamer's Grass around the place (winter wild I used), then splodge pva around, sprinkle 4ground snow scatter, wait to dry, blow off, add another layer.

Voila!

I'll dullcoat it later on too to hold the flock in place better.

It turned out well, I'm going to put candles on more of my terrain as it just adds a lovely contrast among all the grey. Quite excited to build up a board now, maybe this will be a project I will actually finish!

And of course, everything mentioned and pictured (other than paint and glue!) is in the Frostgrave Accessories Shop http://thedicebaglady.net/frostgrave-accessories-terrain/, and the minis there are Frostgrave plastic soldiers with Statuesque heads, also available from myself! Quite the convenient one stop shop.

Right it's Monday morning, back to work. Hope that rough tutorial was any good! I want to build loads more now!

Cheers
Annie Norman
The Dice Bag Lady - Bad Squiddo Games

[frogimus]

Nice touch with adding the candles and the OSL.

[Fencing Frog]

I like the candles... they seem a little out of place to me in ruins but I suppose magic candles could still be burning

[rufus sparkfire]

Lovely terrain!

[Annie]

The adventurers put them there so they can see better, like turning the light on in different rooms in a building Leaving candles like a trail, it's dark and cold....

[Mahwell skel]

Or they just found them there flickering away. Who lit them and where are they now? Spooky! 

[Fencing Frog]

The adventurers put them there so they can see better, like turning the light on in different rooms in a building Leaving candles like a trail, it's dark and cold....

That's a lot of candles

[Annie]

Or they just found them there flickering away. Who lit them and where are they now? Spooky! 

Cultists!

[Annie]

That's a lot of candles

Why else have a mule with the next installment