Dashworth
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Welcome to the build thread for my Mordheim board!
Here’s a pathetic doodle of what I am going to try and build!
Anyway…. couple of weeks a go, me and some friends decided that we were going to try and meet up and play a few games of something.
We finally decided on Mordheim as it wasn’t a bank breaking experience buying the models. (Most of us have everything anyway) and along with all knowing how to play it, We all have fond memories of playing it years ago.
After lots of smack talk on Whatsapp, I volunteered to make some scenery for the game.
Friends of mine who will be playing are also currently playing frost grave at their local club and as a result have made some fantasy scenery themselves.
The idea being that we would have enough scenery to completely saturate two 4x4 boards and play multiple games simultaneously probably once a month. Maybe twice if we’re lucky!
And so on to the build!
This was my first piece. It was quite basic but I just kind of sat down and started cutting out bits of foam core until I had built this.
Everything I’m building is basing on coffee mats and place mats as they are brilliant for stability. They don’t break and don’t require any cutting. The cork underneath also does quite a good job of protecting anything that might be underneath.
The floor boards and wooden cladding is from coffee stirrers my wife bought back from work. She works in hospitality and I asked if she could get me some. That evening when I picked her up, I had a bazillion coffee stirrers to model with!
After building my first piece, I wasn’t really very happy. It looked too ‘Insta-ruins’. The sort you buy at Games Workshop when you know no better.
As a result of my initial disappointment, I decided to build something a bit more GrimDark and set about building the gallows.
Gallows
They worked out pretty well considering its held together with absolutely tons of Glue from my trusty glue gun!
I have literally built everything in this thread with a glue gun and think it’s the best stuff in the world!
My next piece of scenery I wanted to build something that was still fairly modular as it would need to fit onto a place mat. I wanted to build something really playable as I had attempted to the first time but without looking so ‘Insta’ruin’. This was the result.
The majority of it is just more foam core and coffee stirrers but as you can see from the pictures, I’ve used some balsa wood I bought from HobbyCraft to add bits to it.
The roof is just cereal box cardboard with I cut into strips and then cut vertically almost all the way through so I could lay it in strips.
All held together by vast amounts of glue which has made it very robust and insure it doesn’t fall to pieces after the first game.
The coffee stirrer floorboards are supported underneath by mounting card which you cannot see unless you turn the model upside down. It gave it a lot more structure and it meant that we could put large heavy models on every floor without fear of it all collapsing.
After building my second piece, I decided to build another smaller piece of scatter terrain as I had quite a lot of off cuts of Balsa wood due to not really measuring anything properly.
The result was a rather amusing outhouse
For some reason, I remember when my local GW was demoing Mordheim when it was first released and they had built something similar on their board. It always made me chuckle and I thought that this was a nice homage to their original board.
The next piece I built was rather more ambitious. I liked how the previous building had turned out side I decided to do something very similar.
However I decided that I didn’t want to make tow identical buildings. My reasoning behind that being that I thought that A) it didn’t look very in keeping with the Mordheim artwork I had been looking at for inspiration. B) I didn’t want to just make generic L shaped ruined buildings.
So I built this:
The tower was a bitch! I started by cutting out a very large piece of foamcore and then simply scoring it every two cm until I could wrap it around itself.
Unfortunately because I really didn’t pay attention in maths at school I had to google how to figure out various measurements inside and still messed it up to the point its just stuffed with crap inside to hold the bottom floor up!
The rest was fairly straight forwards and the roof tiles were curled up on every additional layer so made it look brilliant, even if I do say so myself.
The rest of the building was done exactly the same at the previous building with oodles of glue, coffee stirrers and balsa wood.
Once I had finished the main part of the building, I decided the tower looked a bit boring and limited the use of it in game terms.
To combat this I initially thought of building some form of walkway or spiral staircase but after trying to build something that looked half decent I got very angry and smashed/ripped it all off.
A few beers later and several cigarettes and I had calmed down. I then decided to build a balcony and It seemed to work out really well and suited the Mordheim GrimDark look of the GW artwork.
After building the tower, I continued with another house/parade of shops and made another balcony for it.
I ended up cutting/ripping a hole in the middle of it though to keep the whole piece as dynamic as possible so all the models could enter the building at multiple points.
Once I had built the previous large pieces of scenery, I had a chat with a friend who would be playing in the campaign and was told that maybe I should make some more small pieces.
Whilst he was right, I didn’t want to loose the height aspect of the what I was building so decided to build two smaller houses
I was really happy with the result on these as the base is heavy enough to allow me to build multiple overhangs whilst remaining very very sturdy.
The single houses looked so good that I decided to build something of the same style but in a much bigger scale
You can see from the ruler that these things are huge! They stand almost two foot tall and have loads and loads of playability.
They also fit the theme of Mordeim really well and Im hoping they paint up a treat
When I was done with all of the building, I decided to crack out my board to see if I had built enough to cover at least one.
As you can see, It’s pretty much there save a few additional pieces of scatter terrain. As I was building all of this though we collectively decided that others would be building/bringing some scatter terrain to fill out any empty spaces on the board!
Anyway.... I hope you like everything so far. Please feel free to leave some feedback as comments and Critisism are welcome
Dash.
Here’s a pathetic doodle of what I am going to try and build!
Anyway…. couple of weeks a go, me and some friends decided that we were going to try and meet up and play a few games of something.
We finally decided on Mordheim as it wasn’t a bank breaking experience buying the models. (Most of us have everything anyway) and along with all knowing how to play it, We all have fond memories of playing it years ago.
After lots of smack talk on Whatsapp, I volunteered to make some scenery for the game.
Friends of mine who will be playing are also currently playing frost grave at their local club and as a result have made some fantasy scenery themselves.
The idea being that we would have enough scenery to completely saturate two 4x4 boards and play multiple games simultaneously probably once a month. Maybe twice if we’re lucky!
And so on to the build!
This was my first piece. It was quite basic but I just kind of sat down and started cutting out bits of foam core until I had built this.
Everything I’m building is basing on coffee mats and place mats as they are brilliant for stability. They don’t break and don’t require any cutting. The cork underneath also does quite a good job of protecting anything that might be underneath.
The floor boards and wooden cladding is from coffee stirrers my wife bought back from work. She works in hospitality and I asked if she could get me some. That evening when I picked her up, I had a bazillion coffee stirrers to model with!
After building my first piece, I wasn’t really very happy. It looked too ‘Insta-ruins’. The sort you buy at Games Workshop when you know no better.
As a result of my initial disappointment, I decided to build something a bit more GrimDark and set about building the gallows.
Gallows
They worked out pretty well considering its held together with absolutely tons of Glue from my trusty glue gun!
I have literally built everything in this thread with a glue gun and think it’s the best stuff in the world!
My next piece of scenery I wanted to build something that was still fairly modular as it would need to fit onto a place mat. I wanted to build something really playable as I had attempted to the first time but without looking so ‘Insta’ruin’. This was the result.
The majority of it is just more foam core and coffee stirrers but as you can see from the pictures, I’ve used some balsa wood I bought from HobbyCraft to add bits to it.
The roof is just cereal box cardboard with I cut into strips and then cut vertically almost all the way through so I could lay it in strips.
All held together by vast amounts of glue which has made it very robust and insure it doesn’t fall to pieces after the first game.
The coffee stirrer floorboards are supported underneath by mounting card which you cannot see unless you turn the model upside down. It gave it a lot more structure and it meant that we could put large heavy models on every floor without fear of it all collapsing.
After building my second piece, I decided to build another smaller piece of scatter terrain as I had quite a lot of off cuts of Balsa wood due to not really measuring anything properly.
The result was a rather amusing outhouse
For some reason, I remember when my local GW was demoing Mordheim when it was first released and they had built something similar on their board. It always made me chuckle and I thought that this was a nice homage to their original board.
The next piece I built was rather more ambitious. I liked how the previous building had turned out side I decided to do something very similar.
However I decided that I didn’t want to make tow identical buildings. My reasoning behind that being that I thought that A) it didn’t look very in keeping with the Mordheim artwork I had been looking at for inspiration. B) I didn’t want to just make generic L shaped ruined buildings.
So I built this:
The tower was a bitch! I started by cutting out a very large piece of foamcore and then simply scoring it every two cm until I could wrap it around itself.
Unfortunately because I really didn’t pay attention in maths at school I had to google how to figure out various measurements inside and still messed it up to the point its just stuffed with crap inside to hold the bottom floor up!
The rest was fairly straight forwards and the roof tiles were curled up on every additional layer so made it look brilliant, even if I do say so myself.
The rest of the building was done exactly the same at the previous building with oodles of glue, coffee stirrers and balsa wood.
Once I had finished the main part of the building, I decided the tower looked a bit boring and limited the use of it in game terms.
To combat this I initially thought of building some form of walkway or spiral staircase but after trying to build something that looked half decent I got very angry and smashed/ripped it all off.
A few beers later and several cigarettes and I had calmed down. I then decided to build a balcony and It seemed to work out really well and suited the Mordheim GrimDark look of the GW artwork.
After building the tower, I continued with another house/parade of shops and made another balcony for it.
I ended up cutting/ripping a hole in the middle of it though to keep the whole piece as dynamic as possible so all the models could enter the building at multiple points.
Once I had built the previous large pieces of scenery, I had a chat with a friend who would be playing in the campaign and was told that maybe I should make some more small pieces.
Whilst he was right, I didn’t want to loose the height aspect of the what I was building so decided to build two smaller houses
I was really happy with the result on these as the base is heavy enough to allow me to build multiple overhangs whilst remaining very very sturdy.
The single houses looked so good that I decided to build something of the same style but in a much bigger scale
You can see from the ruler that these things are huge! They stand almost two foot tall and have loads and loads of playability.
They also fit the theme of Mordeim really well and Im hoping they paint up a treat
When I was done with all of the building, I decided to crack out my board to see if I had built enough to cover at least one.
As you can see, It’s pretty much there save a few additional pieces of scatter terrain. As I was building all of this though we collectively decided that others would be building/bringing some scatter terrain to fill out any empty spaces on the board!
Anyway.... I hope you like everything so far. Please feel free to leave some feedback as comments and Critisism are welcome
Dash.