Floating Summoning Stone

Here is a piece of terrain that I made recently for a competition over at TG. The competition was to represent rocks. I was inspired a bit by the recent movie Avatar. Initially I wanted to create a piece with a herd stone for my beastman warbad, but as I got to working it took on a life of its own. I intended for this to be a playable piece of terrain for our Mordheim Empire in Flames table.

The idea is that off in some clearing there is this circle of power. The details are left somewhat to imagination (or fluff as needed), but needeless to say something went wrong or the power couldn't contain the magic etc..

The aftermath is what you see here, the magic used at the circle ripped the ground apart. The circle of power now cracked in two floats above its original location the residual magic keeping the resulting rock islands floating.









You can see all the WIP pictures on my Pbase site.

Let me know what you think.

Tried to add these in the original post, but couldn't for some reason.

That looks fantastic mate, really great effect.

Very impressive! That's a fantastic piece. Very well thought out and executed.

holy $£*µ! that's one cool piece! I'd love to play over such a cool centre piece model

That's a very cool piece! The effect is great.

Awesome!

wow... it's great!

That is FANTASTIC, VERY CREATIVE, & HIGHLY IMAGINATIVE...I'm mildly impressed . Thanks for posting it...VERY WELL DONE...an INSPIRATIONAL PIECE!

this looks really good!
how much weight do you think it can hold? would you be able to use metal models on it?

I agree with the posters above - an very interesting piece of terrain!

HornedRat wrote:

Here is a piece of terrain that I made recently for a competition over at TG. The competition was to represent rocks. I was inspired a bit by the recent movie Avatar. Initially I wanted to create a piece with a herd stone for my beastman warbad, but as I got to working it took on a life of its own. I intended for this to be a playable piece of terrain for our Mordheim Empire in Flames table.

Show us the table and a few in progress shots with miniatures!

Turquoise Dwarf wrote:

this looks really good!
how much weight do you think it can hold? would you be able to use metal models on it?

The piece is actually very strong, while doing the engineering on the piece I did a stress test. The piece as it is finished normally sits about 3 1/2 inches above the the base.



Loaded with figures it drops to about 2 - 2 1/2 inches but even with a good deal of figures it doesn't seem to go lower than that. The test with figure was metal, including an older Ogre, but 2 are plastic.

I thought it's Photoshop... or magic...
Fantastic.

Skavenblight wrote:

I thought it's Photoshop... or magic...
Fantastic.

Duhhh....

OBVIOUSLY magic.

fantastic, it reminds me of the tv serie " Dragon Hunters ", theres also a movie called that, and in this world consists only of those floating rocks/ islands.
Perfect executed, thumbs up! Floedebolle

Whooly crap! that is brilliantly executed! I'm contemplating floating rocks for a long time, but this is just a brilliant piece! very well executed!

And I too second the request for the table! show it show it alll!

Thanks guys.

I was waiting for the table WIP shots till I had a little bit more to show, right now I only have a few WIP shots and some 1/2 painted details. I will make a post for it soon.

My wife is due with our 2nd child any day now so I haven't done much work lately.

HornedRat wrote:

My wife is due with our 2nd child any day now so I haven't done much work lately.

My best wishes for your lovely wife & the future addition to your family...be sure to post a photo or two of the new kid.

Is it just the bridge part that is holding this up? That is very impressive! and a very cool idea.

I do believe it is just that wire. Brilliant made! And gives the impression that it really floats!

Best wishes to the Mrs. and good luck when the kid decides to come out.