Building a battlefield

Starting to get a proper battlefield built here are a couple of images. The first is a simple hill. It is built from foamboard insulation, 5 cm thick. It is not nice stuff to work with; use in a well-ventilated area away from children. The rocks are bits of expanded polystyrene glues on. The slope and rocks are covered in plaster, the whole thing painted with primer paint.

The rocks wre painted with dilute black poster paint, which runs into the cracks to highlight the shadows. The rest was painted with green poster paint. I then spread sawdust, dyed with the same poster paint, over the top, glued with PVA.

The feature on the left is removable, and is the muck sponges mentioned in an earlier post.

This second board was made pretty much the same way, but with some bridge supports added (more foamboard with the sides covered in plaster). The stairs are just formed into the plaster, and the road is just black paint. The empty circle front right is where a scenery feature can be places.

More miniatures

Here are some more-or-less finished miniatures. This is the Serapon bastilodon:

 Lord Celestant of the Stormcast, and three of his soldiers. These were painted by my daughter, who has gone for green rather than blue, and they look pretty good.

My oldest got given some figures some years ago for D&D but not previously got around to making them. Here are three Irongut Ogres, just needing a paint wash.

This is my one and only figure, a Skink Starpriest.

And a prosecutor I painted:

More scenics

Completed this weekend, junk pile, made from a carbon cone covered in plaster, with bits of sprue, cocktail sticks and coffee stirrers stuck in it.

A second tor, this one leaning alarmingly (foal covered in plaster):

The head of a fallen statue (made of air-drying clay):

First finished scenics

Three hours in Games Workshop at the weekend, with daughter and friend.

They played a battle, or two rounds of a battle anyway, before abandoning the game. I think both felt they were losing, as one has lost his two big miniatures, the other was quickly losing all her foot soldiers. It did help resolve some rules issues though, with help from the guy in the shop. They spent some time painting too. I do not begrudge the prices GW charges so much when they offer this as well. I even purchased a figure for myself.

Some of my scenery pieces are now complete. The structures are made of clay, then glued to the base (a CD), with ready-mixed plaster over the top. The whole lot is painted with primer, and then the stone painted with very dilute black poster paint. The grass is painted green with poster paint, then covered in sawdust dyed green with more poster paint, stuck with PVA glue. Bushes are lichen from Woodland Scenics.

The brown in these Morrowind style much sponges was acylic.

The statue was a toy, the base a lid and the steps disks of card,

Foam insulation is the basis of this one.

The tower was a bit different, constructed of card, and painted with enamels. The base was the same as above.