Blood & Plunder: MOAB 2017

So MOAB is now over and was a great success. I couldn't blog any further progress on the build because I was really pressed for time.
In the end I had a week to make around 14 MDF buildings from The Rook and Raven, which I hope to revisit soon and show a detailed tutorial on. These buildings will be available publicly soon, but feel free to contact Adam who will be able to give you some further details.
Here is the finished table:

Blood & Plunder: Spanish Warehouse

I have finished my first purpose built structure for Blood & Plunder, a Spanish style warehouse. The building features a removable roof and doors. The pan tile roof is made from a non-slip mat, which I will do a tutorial on shortly.

EDIT: Someone suggested I put shutters on the warehouse, which I had always intended to do, but actually forgot and got carried away painting. I have now added some shutters from Warbases. which I think improves the aesthetics a lot.

Blood & Plunder: Port Wall Continued

Continuing with the terrain for Blood & Plunder, I have completed another long section of port wall with a set of stairs. More of the same techniques used here and here, but I thought I'd show how simple the stairs were to make.

The port wall and stairs

Scribe the blue foam as described under the gun battery tutorial

Use the bricks as a guide and cut out the steps

You should end up with something like this

I created a small landing by inscribing a block of blue foam and also completed a length of wall

I fixed the stairs and block of foam together with PVA and the aid of some toothpicks

The three parts all glued together

The length of wall has some wooden pylons dispersed along it

I also made some "iron" rings to set into the wall, which were made by bending some small gauge wire

Painted, along with a waterline stain...

...and the "iron" ring set in place

The finished length of wall and stairs

The new section in position

 

Blood & Plunder: Sloop

This is the first Blood & Plunder ship I have completed, the Sloop. All in all I am very happy with the quality of this piece and equally pleased with the finish I've managed to achieve. Everything pictured here comes as part of the kit, except the sails, which are made from calico. The rigging was a bit fiddly, but not overly hard and in my opinion adds a lot to the finished model.

You can buy a sloop of your own from Firelock Games.

Blood & Plunder: Port Wall & Gibbet

For my Blood & Plunder table I plan to utilise an existing pair of 2" high terrain boards that will sit on top of a "water" cloth. The problem is of course the 2" high difference between the land and the sea. So I require a harbor or port wall to separate the two and to integrate with the gun battery.
The wall is constructed using exactly the same techniques used in making the gun battery, albeit much simpler as there is next to no cutting and NO angles. To break up the monotony of a plain wall I decided to insert a wooden pylon mid way. This led to the idea of hanging a gibbet from the pylon, as a "welcoming" to any newcomers to the port. A short tutorial follows of how I made the gibbet and it's post.

Port wall & gibbet

Cut out a section of "Granny Grating" (if you can wrestle it from your Nan)

Find an appropriately sized cylinder and bind the grating with strands of copper wire. Carefully fix with super glue.

When dry remove it from the cylinder and cut out some of the sections of grating to make larger openings

Cut out two round sections of grating to fit in each end. Carefully fix with super glue

Make a loop of wire to hang the gibbet and fix with super glue

Spray the gibbet by holding onto the copper wire strands, then clip them off.

The post is made from different sized craft sticks, some toothpicks and wire. Drilling small holes to accommodate the different sized sticks is recommended

Painted and put in place, with some crochet thread as rope attached

Without the hanging gibbet the post could be a hoist or other port-side thingy

The completed piece, with a rusty gibbet

The two existing pieces married together

A picture of the battery and wall in place - some more port walls to go

If you have any questions don't hesitate to comment below.