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Mongrel's Wargame Terrain (and figures)
Mongrel:
I MAKE SOME STUFF. PUT LITTLE PLASTIC GUYS AROUND. PEW PEW PEW. WELL MORE LIKE CLANG BLANGG.
Apologies for the totally shit nature of the pictures. My camera is 7 years old and is complete garbage for taking macro shots. Or any other kind of picture for that matter.
First, we have a haystack (actually, I made this most recently). A painted dome of spackle, suitably dressed with hay (cheap gesso brush bristles, mildly trimmed to fit). Simple stuff.
A little cart, filled with chopped trees. Hey, let's actually add a quarter so people have some idea of scale - now there's a wild idea! Pretty much just wood and glue, with a little cheap acrylic used for weatherstaining.
How aboutsome friggin' buildings, dammit? Here, have a farmer's thatched cot.
This fancier cot has a gabled door and a stone foundation. Stone texture obtained from a railroad hobby store and worth EVERY DAMNED PENNY IT'S AWESOME. Also, note the chicken coop. Bawk-bawk-bukakke!
Shit, you think they got indoor plumbing in those cottages?
I stuck all the crap so far on a table and called it a village. YEAH.
Lumber is handcut, from coffee stirsticks and the occasional traditional popsicle stick. Interior framework is foamcore quickly painted black, with recesses to make doors/windows look better. Thatch is scouring pad carefully wash-dyed several times (that shit takes forever to dry out). Bases are masonite covered with spackling, then painted.
Yes, I will eventually add a little grass flock and shrubbery here and there.
SCD:
I like. That's pretty nifty detail.
I would go as far to call it art for the tourists. Might even fetch a cool dime on the Kingston, or Ottawa's open markets.
Royal☭:
That's pretty cool. You should consider some How-To tutorials. I don't play much wargame stuff, but I've always found the creation of the terrain fun. Also I have a secret love for miniature villages.
Mongrel:
I got a band of 25mm Amish guys to help me raise a barn.
This time I got all SOOPER-fancy, so that units can fight inside!
There's a tiny hay trough, pitchfork and rope coil inside the barn as ornaments (that pitchfork was a fuckin' bitch to make, but so satisfying to pull off). And yes, those hinges are fully functional. The hinges were a bitch too - all those little nails had to be pressed in by hand, after drilling all the nail holes (to prevent the wood from splitting), then when that didn't hold strong enough, I had to take everything off and epoxy it all.
The backdoor is stuck in that half-open position though [/innuendo].
Mongrel:
Time for an update I suppose?
Some fences and fields I made to vary the terrain for game purposes (building are nice, but they're effectively big bricks unless you makes them interactive or whatever), so here are some fences (low walls) and farmer's fields (hindering terrain).
The fields were a colossal bitch. I essentially took corrugated cardboard and did wash after wash of watered-down plaster/spackle, 'imbuing' it with plaster until it was stiff and strong enough to stand up to heavy use. The cardboard kept warping and faling apart. I had to carefully balance my attempts to refine previous coats with the spackle's tendency to warp the piece. FUN!
Next was a pair of watchtowers. They're dead sexy, but oh god, I'm not making anything of such loose construction again (these finished forms are as about as strong as could be reasonably expected).
Finally, here's particularly awesome idea Starr had: an Asterix-style round "gaulish" hut. This one happens to be the home of a beekeeper. The round brick base is actually lots of very carefully joined short segments of the flat stone texture sheets I have (turned out really nice).
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