Capt'n Bernhardt's Mordheim Table

I've been gone from this site for a long time but now I'm back! and with an update!
and I'm also very pleased to be able to inform you all that another update will follow soon!

Finaly finished "the Shoppe"





meet Grlug, the Friendliest shopkeeper around


and without furniture:


waddaya think?

That is awesome. I just browsed through your blog and drooled over the pretty pictures, and The Shoppe looks freakin' sweet! I love the little storefront extension, it makes me want to make a shop or three...and I probably will.

Theo

WELCOME BACK! It looks like you've been productive in your absence...VERY WELL DONE SHOP! Having it as a "still-in-business" establishment is a real plus with moi.

how about that! two updates in one week! marvellous

now if I could just take some decent pictures then it would be worth something

those of you with a good memory mights remember I was building a modular game board with playable sewers under the streets. I now finished the first of the modules. And I can add that it's immediatly the last one I've build in this manner. Hirst arts bricks on a wooden base are far to heavy. Next moules will be entirely from foam and foamcard.

here it is in all of it's blurry glory:



the crate and the chair are used as hidden handles to lift the streets off



and now the painted part of Mordheim so far:




Glruk and some friends defend the shoppe from beastmen attack





hope you like
Any suggestions to improve on my painting?

I'm a big fan of multilevel gameboards and so I like your first module naturally. We have similar ones but smaller and made of foamcard only. Your sewers are nice, but I think you can achive the effect easier by just leaving space between different modules if you should happen to build some more.
Your painting is just fine imo. After all it is terrain, not "special character terrain"

You have a great looking board there!

As for feedback on your painting, its all very neat. much more neat than i would bother with for terrain. However, i do think that your choices of colors are a bit too bright and "happy". It doesnt quite feel like a destroyed city full of death and strange horrors that lurk in the alleys just out of sight. it could be much more dark, and blackened with sot to give that "scary" feeling.

anyway, good luck with future projects

@ Moffe, thanks for the feedback. I deliberatly chose to use more colours. I don't want my city to look all greyish. but I do believe the pictures kinda overexaggerate the bright colours.


anyway I made some progress during the summer: made these gallows:







I still need to make a staircase that will come in the corner


I also present a WIP of my trees: what do you think? does the tree need more brown?

Funny the Gallows looks just as cool here as in your other thread. The additional angle shots show it off, however, to a greater advantage.
I LOVE what you're doing with the G.W. tree...the surrounding masonry is an EXCELLENT urban touch. They look much better without the flat foliage.

Wow, that gallows is very cool. Is that made from the Hirst Arts ruined fieldstone tower mold? It really came out nicely. Trees look great, too.

thanks Nala. As always you are much to kind! The trees are not nearly finished, wait until they're done

luckyjoe the gallows is made from this stuf

I'm thinking of darkening the rope with devlan mud. Anyone ever tried this or something other before? My test piece came much to dark out so perhaps I can water down my devlan mud?

The elivated area is awesome! I am inspired to make one of my own... now just need the skills

every thing else is great too. love the merchents house.

sorry guys, not a real update but not long now before I share some good stuff

here's a teaser:

Update time: I almost finished the build work on my garden of morr, still some details left.
warning this is a pic heavy update!

some scenic shots:

















some wip shots coming up!
what do you think of it so far?


ps: Could someone show me how to resize these picturs?

So atmospheric! Awesome job!

Joao

Looks VERY PROMISING Captain!
The resizing is beyond me, but, when you next take a photo of the project, an overall view would be nice.

All I have to say is I am in love with this, other then that I am speachless. Very Nice!

thanks for the praises guys! I'm looking forward to get it painted.

here's some unmodified pics:





there's more HERE

As you may or may not have seen, the gates are hinged so they can open and close. There are two main gates and two smaller ones, which unfortunatly couldn't be hinged so there's an entrance on each side.

This is just fase 1 of my build. Next up is a base to slide to graveyard in so it makes a smooth transition with my warhammer fantasy board. I'm also going to make a raised board as part of my modular mordheim board. The mausolea and statue can be raised from this to reveal the underground catacombs which will be completly playable


now perhaps next week I can get started on the paintjob

That is an impressive piece. It has just the right spooky atmosphere & enough room for a FINE Zombie/Ghoul game. Have FUN with the painting!

wow man! you have some 'grandiose' terrain! I love what you've done with the tv box!! when ar eyou going to paint that dueling school???

for broken televisions! there's never anything good on 'em anyway

and your tiles are awsome, you highlight them inividually???

yes I really should do some more work on the duelling school! but it's kinda on hold now untill I finish my garden of morr and some other projects. But the main building is done, I'll try to rememeber to take some pics this weekend.

I don't highlight individually, just take one big flat brush and drybrush all over (just remember to drybrush in downward strokes, following the direction that light would travel)

Your Garden of Morr is really good, i love the way your have extended it.

Is it two complete kits?

Btw, which set(s) is that. I know I have seen it before

Edit: also where are you (and others I have seen here) getting those trees, been looking for some of those in that style.

it's made of two sets of GW garden of Morr minus one statue and fence, and a set of renedra tombstones

the trees are from the GW tree set

cheers!

Captain Bernhardt wrote:

it's made of two sets of GW garden of Morr minus one statue and fence, and a set of renedra tombstones

the trees are from the GW tree set

cheers!

Ah that explains where I seen them then. I was thinking that was a another line and was trying to track it down. After I get my base board to I was going to do a theme board off of one of the areas on the Mordheim map and my first though that either a Garden of Morr or the Arena. The GW set might be a bit pricey for me if I go the garden route, only other comperable lines is the set I can't track down and the Armorcast stuff which is pretty nice. Regardless of it your stuff looks amazing.

when GW does something good they really make 'em good. those trees are perfect ...