Nurgle Blood Bowl Team and 1:1 Scale Terrain Project

I took a break from working on the 1:1 scale Dungeon Terrain Project to roll out to the Warhammer Store and pick up some stuff I ordered for a blood bowl team last week... 

New Nurgle Blood Bowl Team 

The little black box is an Age of Sigmar Maggotking of Nurgle character named Gutrot Spume. I thought it would be fun to replace the axe he's holding with a football and call him my teams captain! 

Gutrot Spume from the Warhammer Website 

( © Copyright Games Workshop, used here entirely without their permission...)

Now... imagine that guy holding a football instead of an axe... tentacles kind of look like he's pointing and shouting "GO DEEP!" or... something that people throwing balls might say...? 

The 1:1 Scale Dungeon Terrain Project chugs along.. this (and the bathroom) are the main reasons I haven't been getting much hobby stuff done lately... I was up way too late last night to try and get as much of it done before the carpet installer came today to finish up this stairwell... 

I'm not sure CARPET is the flooring that's really going to sell the "descending into a dungeon"vibe I was going for here... but it wasn't a hill (or... staircase?) I was about to die on... 

me, painting 1:1 Scale Dungeon Terrain Project...

top of the stairs... 

down the main flight of stairs... 

This project is about a decade in the making... in that I've been talking/thinking about it for that long... even bought the first cans of paint and had done one coat of great about that long ago... now suddenly became a PANIC TO COMPLETE before Amanda had new carpet installed on the stairs going down into the basement... I'll have more pics in a few days when it is full complete... 

I don't know... I was going to do one more shade lighter of grey - a tiny edge highlight... Do you think it needs it...? I should experiment on a few to see what it looks like, and know that I have lots of paint that I could just cover it up and leave them as is, if I needed... 

Dungeon Building – Part 1

Yesterday afternoon I decided to embark on a new project with the kids: Dungeon Building!

I thought it would be fun to make some 3-D Dungeon Tiles and so I made some plans for a few different options, cut up some bits of MDF and enlisted the kids to help make a few prototypes to see which we like best…

The basic options were with permanent walls attached or without permanent walls attached. The “With” version has walls attached to the base – and has some aesthetic appeal to them, but will take up far more storage space and be less versatile – also I wasn’t sure whether to make ~2” (5cm) or ~1.5” (38mm) walls. The “Without” version is basically 2-D floor plan tiles with the option of adding painted wood block walls to make it more 3-D…

The Boy fancied he’d like the 3-D permanently attached walls, The Girl wished for the ones without – whether it was because she saw the versatility in them or just wanted to be different from her brother is hard to tell… either way, I figured we’d try making a few rooms and hallways to see how they look and make some further decisions from there.

This was partly spurred on because I thought it might be fun to try out Song of Gold And Darkness and ultimately play a Song of Blades and Heroes campaign with Song of Deeds and Glory…

(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)

My apprentice dungeon builders and our cut up bits of MDF.

Painting the base coat of clack.

I was a bit quicker, so I started experimenting with some ideas for painting the stone work.

Again with the experiments with stonework.

In the end I stayed up way to late – long after the kids went to bed – and finished up a corner bit for the “With Walls” 3-D version.

It still needs a bit of touching up, but overall I am happy with the results.

The corridor is 5cm wide. And everything is based on a 5cm grid and basically tiles that will fill a 25cm x 25cm area. I'll try to remember to take a picture or scan the sketches of the plans for Part 2. 

What’s up around that corner? DANGER! That’s what!

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Probably more Dungeon tiles… though I have been working on some elves and some more of the A Fistful of Kung Fu miniatures.