[WM] Grimstonefire terrain blog

[jchaos79]

Looking really good!

[Stormwind]

I hope difficulties with this one won't discourage you from doing more - it would be wonderful to have a variety of buildings for scenario play.

[Grimstonefire]

Well, I would say I certainly have the motivation for the following:

Terrace (3 houses)
Small house
Barracks
Blacksmiths or wizard tower
Church (Sigmar)

After this, it being mordheim, I would like to take a trip downtown to the daemon infested slums and really make something crazy, but it would depend on my motivation by then.

Hell, I could make an a ruined brothel or something!  Lol.

I might also make some large quick complete ruins, like the old Epic plastics.

Real world time commitments and wanting to paint/collect other stuff means I'm aiming for one building a month (or thereabouts).

[Stormwind]

Ha ha, wish I hadn't bought the Total Battle ones, now!

I shall be waiting, and later this year I'll be putting an order in I think.

If you wanted a smaller item as a break, please consider doing some kind of graveyard style mausoleum or statue pillar/plinth.

[Grimstonefire]

Well, not a whole lot of progress on this house, but it's because I've had a cunning plan...

I'm going to assemble all the buildings first out of mount board (very thick card).

So I've made the barracks (pic soon, when I get my camera back).  I'm currently building the wizards tower which is very empire looking (with observatory) but it's going to have a waterfall out of a skull and be floating!

[Stormwind]

Ooh, be careful there, don't want it looking like Warhammer terrain from the past 3 years...

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j107/DanielBrouwer/SkullhouseAwesome.jpg

=-P

[Draccan]

lol Stormwind 

Really looking fwd. to the house Grim..

[Grimstonefire]

As I mentioned before I have the card version of the buildings complete.  To finish these I need to coat the models in plasticard and start the detailing.

First up is the Barracks. 

I haven't decided on whether to create a ruined section of this or not?  What are your thoughts?



Second is the wizards tower.

My initial plan here was to have it as shown, but I then thought it would be fun to have a waterfall coming out of the skull mouth that was  then 'suspending' the whole thing above a base underneath.  But that doesn't really work as well because of it having a staircase in mid air...  So I'm going to stick with it as shown (but with a waterfall).  It's going to be a hefty piece of resin though as it's entirely solid.  Not easy at all to hollow it out.

[Geep]

I prefer the barracks without ruins- it shows it as a more stable structure.

I really like your Wizard's Tower. I had plans to build one in Fantasy scale (based off Warhammer Online artwork), but never got around to it. Sadly I never even managed to pick up the official GW model that was clearly based on the artwork.
I may steal your idea later and make this in Warmaster scale 

[Grimstonefire]

The tower is warmaster scale?

It's more or less lifesize to that photo.

If anyone is wondering, the half oval shape on the back is going to be done as bars.  The idea being it's a pen for a griffon or something like that built into the cliff.

[Geep]

Sorry, I wasn't clear- I know your tower is Warmaster scale. It's very similar to the Warhammer scale Wizard Tower (I don't remember its silly name), and both are clearly based on a design from Warhammer Online. I would like to copy your idea and make this in Warmaster scale.

[Grimstonefire]

Sorry, yes I see the confusion here.  I was wondering why you would need to copy it when I do hope eventually to get this cast and sell a few. 

But building it yourself would be very fun, as I'm finding out.

If anyone is curious the rock is a material called Hydrocal.

[jchaos79]

Are you thinking in casting? what material?

Great work!

[Grimstonefire]

I'll need to get some quotes and see, but I imagine resin.

Mulling over my options for what's next.

I'm thinking I might have a go at a bridge or a brothel!?

[Bel]

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