After the merchant’s mosaic floor it was time to paint ordinary stone and wood floors. However I tried to make the floors stand up a bit by using not so common colors
Over the Scorched brown base coat I heavily dry-brushed Bestial brown. Over this I dry-brushed Vomit brown. I also noticed that I had missed few white spots between the planks but this wasn’t a problem because I washed the whole floor with Devlan mud which covered those spots. That was quick and easy!
It takes time to build houses. It takes more time to build interior parts on those houses. It takes ages to completely paint the outside and the inside of the houses. But hey, it´s all worth it!
I had some problems figuring out what colors I should use on the interior walls. It´s good to remember that it´s quite easy to actually try some different paints on to the project than just wonder what to use. If it goes wrong, repaint it! Here is my first experiments:
The houses got the first layers of paint on them and the progress continues with the painting of the outer walls and the roofs.
It´s finally the time to paint my three harbor houses. Those who have followed my journey from the start may have noticed that I didn´t write about everything that I constructed for the houses. All the big things yes, but I just didn´t remember to take pictures of all the little things that I have done. That´s the reason why I jump on to the painting.
Although I describe my color choices through GW`s paintline I didn´t actually use those paints. It would have been too expensive with the three houses. Instead I painted the chosen colors on a white paper and walked to the nearest DIY-store. These kind of stores have a wide selection of wall paints in numerous colors. There I just handed the paper to the “paint dealer” and made sure that I would get paints which could be thinned with water. It cost me 7 euros/jar and most of these would last a long time with proper care.
So now I have the paints, my houses are ready and the working area is secured for all the splatter.Here we go!
In the previous article I managed to mix the plaster and pour it into the mold. Now let´s see what I cooked up!
It´s good to have same mixed plaster somewhere where you can check how dry the plaster is without messing around with the mold. I “intentionally” splashed plaster all over my work desk so it was easy for me to monitor the drying process.
For those who read my article describing how to build a grass top for my folding Warmachine table, you’ll recall I recommended saving the scrap of grass mat that was left over. Today we’ll make use of it to build a hill that matches our table.
For a long time I have thought that I would betray my innovation and my own terrain making “style” if I would chose to join and follow the hundreds of people who preach about the bliss of Bruce Hirst molds. It somehow goes against my principles not to construct something with my own hands but to just pour some plaster in to some plastic tile and ABRACADABRA, you have detailed terrain masterpiece in your hands. Well, principles are meant to be broken. I bow to you Bruce Hirst and at the same time curse your name because you make such versatile and fantastic molds!
It should be noted that I bought this mold for my own use, they were not given to me for review purposes. But if somebody out there wants to send me another mold for review purpose, god yes, do it! =)
I’m detailing my houses at the moment and I needed some barrels. I planned to make those myself but then it hit me. I’m going to build a harbor gaming board and there will be tons of barrels over there. I really can´t make all of them by myself so I turned my gaze to the wonders of internet.
There are dozens of shops which sell barrels but the amount that I’m going to need would soon swallow my wallet. This was the main reason why I decided to order mold number 85, cavern accessory mold.
There are two eternal questions in terrain making which every builder has to confront at some point on their glorious terrain career. A) Will you make stairs which are scale accurate OR make them so that minis base will fit them and B) Will you make doors and windows which can be opened. This article address the latter one. Of course if there is no interior on the structure there is no point of making a working door but usually if there is a chance to move inside, many wont make a door at all. I belong to that order who always make the stairs so that minis can actually use them and yes, if I build a door or window it can be opened and closed. It has a HUGE influence i ngame when you can slam the door close when some bad ass meanie is chasing you.
There are many ways to make hinges and here is one of them, a bit time consuming one. First I measured and cut the windows from 1 mm thick balsa.
Due to editor planning mistakes these articles were released in the wrong order this week. Installment XI was released earlier this week. Sorry for any confusion
This is the tenth article about my houses and I promise to you that I change the topic to something not-so-worn-out when I finish the painting and start to build the actual gaming board. But before that let´s look how I made my doors.
This was my first door so I kept things quite simple. I cut small foamcore square and covered it with balsa. Then i checked that the door was ok for the doorway
The doors for the Inn were very basic stuff so I had to step up my game so you wouldn’t think that I am just a ordinary terrain guy who makes ordinary terrain stuff!!
The focal point of the Mercs house is undoubtedly the big glass window. Because it looks cool I decided to continue the glass effect. I needed to construct frames for the glass so I measured the door way and built two door frames from plastic.
