Here Be Damnation!

Another weekend has come and gone, and a little more progress has been made on this Mordheim board.  My focus has been on the dock area itself and that means building jetties.  Very straight forward - balsa for the posts and supports, and coffee stir sticks for the planking.  I wanted two separate jetties running perpendicular to the dock - one at a lower level so that it would be more suitable for smaller vessels to dock, and the other at the regular height for the bigger ship.  I think I'm going to have to add some little ladders to the smaller one regardless. I've also smashed out a heap of paving on the top surface.  Deeply regretting cutting the dock in at a slight angle as it means cutting a lot of custom tiles to fit, but it is looking pretty good and almost finished!! The remaining steps will be to add sand and grout between the pavers, and random rubble and skeletons to the board, and also to prep the boats.  I want to kit-bash a figurehead on to t...

Slow but steady progress continues on the Mordheim docks board.  I have a long weekend and I am making the most of it!!  I've completed all the required vertical bricking and buttresses on the landside and riverside and am looking forward to working on the jetties and ships. The lower tier is complete (subject to some additional sand/grout/rubble) including the stonework on the walls.  I used the same technique as I did for the roads - 1 x 2 cm pieces of cork and card stuck with wood glue.  I then come back in and create buttresses out of the thicker 6mm cork tiles.  I used the distance between buttresses on the right for the rest of the board so it looked consistent (~5.5cm gaps). I find it helps to flip the board onto its side to lay the vertical bricks.  It also stops them from sliding down the wall if there is a lot of glue underneath.  Here is the board from the other side.  You can see the dock area with some the 3d printed boats I'm going t...

I have been really happy with how the ruined temple of Myrmidia is coming together.  I think it has a distinct style for the stonework and I also really like how well it combines with plastic/resin kits and the fact I can use super glue (which is not so easy with foam).  All of that has inspired me to create a new 3 foot by 3 foot Mordheim docks board in the same style.  I wanted to share my plan, my process and some progress photos.  I expect that there will be many more updates to come as this will take a while!! Plan: The objective with the table is to have a single 3x3 foot table with: - multiple levels to eliminate firing lanes - a large resin pour dock with jetties and moored ships - a terminating road and small square - a consistent style that will tie into my temple board and some of my other projects Materials: - The board itself is a 3 foot by 3 foot framed canvas.  I read somewhere that these can be used for gaming tables and I'm keen to try it out....