Summer Bo(a)redom 3: The Reckoning - Part 1

Due to a recent bout of vertigo accompanied by nausea and migraines, this update will be short on text but still include some nice images as an update to where the table's "at". Part 1 will cover the main painting of the board while Part 2 will cover detailing and the final touches.

If you remember the last table update, we stopped when the table was entirely covered in a black basecoat so, on we go.

First we start off with making the board look either like a current-gen FPS (sans the chest high walls for now..) or a WH40k table. Not really what I had in mind so... Bring on some colour.

This one really screams SPACE MARINES, ATTACK

A couple of colours got blocked out and laying the base for the colourscheme, and the greens some highlights.

After a couple of additional layers and a wash or two (depending on what was needed) by a "secret wash", also known as a mix of PVA-glue, water, black acrylic paint and a drop of two of washing-up liquid, the table got brought indoors.

Time to show that the square isn't just a plain greyish blob as it looks like on the above picture, I took a separate one on it alone (after washing and some highlights though).

More details might get added when finalizing the table

Below, the table before water effects and further detailing. The mud, grass and the path is more or less done by this stage, save for some additional details that's needed on the path itself.

Following two images are basically the same from a different angle. Colours are a bit off due to lighting when they were taken, but hopefully the swamp-bit and the stream looks a better. The time it takes for water effects to dry is really lovely.

Next time, a bridge will have been added, some details sorted and water effects hopefully all dried.

And hopefully it won't take seven or so hours to do a blogpost due to vertigo!

And now for something completely different..

..Despite the title of this blogpost I must admit that you, dear reader, suffer no higher than average risk of in this very moment of being slapped with a fish. This blogpost will deal with the beginning of another project, still connected to the terrain side of the hobby. It will be a waystation/repair/construction post for my Protectorate of Menoth army for Warmachine. Not sure if it will ever see tabletime since it will turn out fairly on the large side, but as a custom scenario objective or just to look good are also aspects to take into considerations. Sadly I got working before I decided to take any pictures for a blog, I did start a while back before my first post even got posted. But as they say, there's no time like the present and show people you've started something might even get me to finish it in decent enough time.

Inspiration for a larger house of this kind came from me once obtaining a plastic stand for pliers and with no real space, nor any larger amount of pliers these days I thought..Hey, nifty base for a house. A scavenging hunt around the apartment netted me a wooden board 25x25 cm shaped like a square to act as a base. It might be a bit on the thick side if you look at the images, but there's a reason it will work out in the end, but that'll be in a future post.

I had to cut away part of the rods to make the house fit on the board, approximately 6cm got removed. After that they were stuck together with tape just to see if everything matched up before work continued.

Phone grade picture quality, yum!

 Now, since I forgot to take a great deal of pictures at the beginning of this project...I now present you, a jump in time until one of the walls has been (with the help of cocktail/toothpicks) dryfitted to the building. Ah the versatility of foamboard.

 A birds-eye view of the board at an early stage. Layout of work is drawn and written in Swedish since... I never thought to make this project a blogpost.

Glue gun, you lovely thing. The opposite side of the one we've already covered got sorted, a larger, industrial-sized door got installed and..glue applied. Disregard the dirty dishes in the background, building a house takes precedent over chores!

 Question: What do one use empty plastic salt containers for? Throw them away? NO! Tank for storing Menoth's Fury of course! Minor work has been done to the sides of the building itself, surface roughed up before masking tape and glue got applied to make a surface better suited for wood paneling (more on this in a future post!).

More groundwork complete (hehe funny since...no not even a funny pun). Blisterfoam and cardboard as the base for the platform for the tank. The cobbles on the ground are double sided adhesive foam I..appropriated.

I did say I lacked quite a bit when it came to taking photographs, did I not? Well here's a jump for you all. Detailing for the sides of the house. A door and a window! The window is the result of a saw-skill assignment for when I studied to become a silversmith once (school didn't take but it gave me some nifty stuff and skills). The glass for the window is made up of regular blister plastic. Door is McDonald's coffee stirrers mounted on a cardboard backing and with a cardboard frame. Obviously all cups of coffee comes with 30 coffee stirrers.

Will most probably get time to paint Ruins of Eversael, my Retribution of Scyrah gameboard this weekend, so.. Stay tuned.

Summer Bo(a)redom 2: The Inconclusive Sequel - Director's Cut

So, this post is more or less just to flesh out the previous one, and give a new ending to it keeping with the movie-theme. Having a "Director's Cut" is basically my way of cheating the self imposed 3 post limit on the gaming board and the last post left a lot to be shown. 

 First up is a picture I posted on a forum as a teaser. It is just showing off some detailing on the board, the bridge across the stream and the start of the pathway/road.

And yes, that IS a broken belt-buckle that forms the bridge.

Following will be two images of the textured board, quite similar from different angles. The area in the upper left quadrant where the green foam is showing through is recieving a marshy look and the chaulky white look upon the sand is a layer of sealant* to keep the sand on the board.

*sealant is just a glorified way of saying PVA glue and water...

On to the next. A covering layer of black basecoat has been applied. Watered down paint to increase flow requiring more than one layer, but it is an even coat now, ready to recieve paint in the near future.

The square has had some detailing done to it as well. Some cobbles has started to sink into the ground and the wild will slowly, ever so slowly, reclaim civilisation.

Stay tuned, tickets for the Exhilarating Conclusion will go on sale in the near future!