Flame On's Mordheim Scenery - Sartosa!

Oooh! Very cool! Very inspiring piece.

You do need to make a second one though to make it come "full circle"..

The full view of the arena is quite SPECTACULAR. Having the front portion cut away makes for an easily accessible area for gaming, AND a puppet stage effect for photos...a FINE idea.

The arena is quite cool.

Oh! Oh! You can photoshop an audience! Celebrities could be seen in the crowd. Elvis at the Pit Fights!

hey hey hey, what a superb piece of scenery, fantastic job! Love the walls, awesome paintjob!

The Jungles of Sartosa

Now we have our awesome "out of town" board provided by the generosity of Blessed Knight (he bought a Realm of Battle board and donated his home-made board to The Mill!) Zelophahad and I have plans to make a load of jungle trees and plants on scatter bases (CDs probably) from plastic aquarium plants and artificial green bits from HobbyCraft, etc. (flower arranging stuff and that sort of thing). We also thought about adding a few to the sides of the rocks and hills, just to tie them into the theme without reducing the usable flat tops. I have a load of various plastic plants that I’ll collected over the last couple of years (probably about a carrier bag full!) dazza has donated some GW forest trees and Zelophahad has a hot glue gun – put them all together…



We are already looking forward to playing more games set on Sartosa, outside of Vercuso!

The new board looked TERRIFIC in your Battle Report...looks pretty good here too .
The plans & sketches bode well for some exciting new scenery, scenarios, &, of course, photos. GOOD LUCK with The Project!

Thanks Alan - we are quite excited about it too!

Other suggestions from Blessed Knight... (all the sketches are by him too!)

A burst football with grass hair and a bloody hand print face.
Lookout tower built into a tree
Pig pen.
Burnt out signal fire.
Broken ball shaped bone cages.
A large waterwheel that has broken loose from the main building.
Swampy areas
A large pit on a hill with buried treasure

What you really need is a Carnivorous Tree Stump Person...

I got a request for a wide-shot of the the new board and Dazza and Zelophahad played a game on it last night, so I nicked a photo from his report:

VERY COOL LOOKING!
Is that the new Mega-Spider on the flank of Dazza's Goblin Guys?

It is!

More here and here

Thanks for the full board shots WbK! And the links.

This thread has been a true inspiration. I never made any scenery before in my life, but after seeing the brilliant stuff you did I decided to give it a go.

Now let's be honest my attempts aren't great, but I've now got some playable scenery at a fraction of the cost of buying it

Is there any chance you could do a step by step tutorial on how you paint your building. I'm always amazed by the effects you're able to achieve and would love to understand how you do it. thanks

We've spent about three months (on and off... mostly off!) working on The Jungles of Sartosa. It's not finished yet but here's our progress do far:



















And, by request from Von Kurst, here's some shots of the "mountain" (which will be getting some jungle foliage soon)

Now go make the other half of that fighting pit!

Theo

More jungle!
Looks like a good start mate, ought to be grown out in a couple of years. Thanks for the photos of the mountain piece. I like the way that the smaller pieces can be fit up to it.

Hehehe - That's just luck!

There are actually two mountains - the one with a doorway is a "180 degree" piece for the board edge (with a flat back), one is a "360 degree". Both were made by Mark (AKA Nippy Longskar) using, I think, papier mache over a chickenwire and MDF frame.

There is a lot more jungle planned. Most of these just count as hills but we've "jungled them up" to make the table feel like it's much denser in foliage!

Ya I figured there were 2, but I didn't want to be too demanding on the photographer.

The construction--wow, looks like carved foam to me. Good job making it fit with the other pieces.

Von Kurst wrote:

Ya I figured there were 2, but I didn't want to be too demanding on the photographer.

The construction--wow, looks like carved foam to me. Good job making it fit with the other pieces.

It's possible there is some carved foam under there as well... I've really no idea!

PRETTY COOL! I like the way the river turned out in particular....have FUN with all the Jungle Thingies.

i love the towers especially the lighthouse which at first i thought it was too big but now everything is on it looks great, i like the way you used GW scenery incorperated with your own scratchbuilt stuff, something i do but not on this scale look forward to updates

Thanks chaps!

Another small update... jungle plants added to mountain:

Here's something I've been working on between other projects: Vercuso Street Clutter:

COOL STUFF! Making the little accessory pieces not only makes for a more appealing gaming board, but is one of the GREAT delights of modeling. VERY NICELY DONE!