How high?

Hi, this is my first post to the forum, I have looked around to see if this question has been asked before but I keep getting distracted by all the lovely stuff that's been posted!

So I had my first game of Mordheim in about 10yrs last week, I love it, I'd forgotten how much. I've spent to much money on styrofoam, balsa, foam board and figures, since the game.

I am ready to build some leaning ruins, just wondering what do people think is the perfect height for each storey? I was thinking of 5cm?

Thanks.

Yeah, 5cm looks pretty good. I vary up and down from that a little for variety, but as long as it will look good with a mini, it will look good.

I do the floor to ceiling at 60 to 70 mm; re, it still looks good, larger minis (Ogres & such) fit, & it allows access for the clods who play the game.  

Yeah, take larger models into account. Some doorways etc need to be bigger, but it could also be interesting to have an alleyway here or there that's only 25-30mm wide. Make sure an Ogre or something could move around the board and at least some of the ruins properly.

Theo

5cm would be the good height in a world of minisized people...
But minis walk around with a damn 2X2 base glued on their feet.
This reason is THE reason why realism in heights isn't possible.

The original paper/plastic buildings for Mordheim are 5 cm as well

I never got a ruler out to see if it was 5cm or not. I always grabbed a mini placed it in the building to see how high the ceiling would go. As long as I could fit up to at least 5 minis in the building and still fit my hand in ther to move the minis, I was happy.

In my ruins mostly I have 7,5 cm/3" difference between the floors. This gives you the freedom and space to move all models - even this with upturned weapons.

Good luck with this project!

Mabye you could vary the heigts in different buildings? I think 5-6 cm as a standard is nice, because then you get the feeling of cramped medieval housing, and also a way to escape bigger creatures like ogres and trolls. But in larger buildings like a tavern or a big mansion I would go for 7-8cm maybe. Atleast on the first floor:)

Hi, thanks for the input I managed to finish building my first ruin today. Having built something now I think I will be varying the height, just to mix it up a bit.

LOOKIN' GOOD! That is a SPLENDID ruin, even more so considering it's your first. All the debris in the lower floor really adds to the effect WONDERFULLY. GREAT WORK!  

Thats a nice big house:) looking really good! One thing I thought about, a big house like that (before it became a ruin) would maybe have had some supporting pillars/beams (or inner walls) supporting the weight of the roof. But offcourse it works without it also:) oh, and the height looks nice also:)

5cm is about what our floor height is and looks nice but many models with upraised weapons have problems standing in them. We make do and I don't want to change dimensions of all buildings, it would look odd I think.

Thanks for the feedback especially Christian, I took your advice. Tried to make it look less boxy and added a bit more detail.









Thanks for looking, constructive criticism is really welcome I think I might leave this one alone ( not sure if I should add some bolts to the timbers?) and move on to the next one.

I really want to try and make the best buildings I can, so any tips are welcome.

Not sure why the pics aren't working here's a link to my imgur gallery: http://m.imgur.com/PXpkee2,ympvXUO,ZA0eeMx,sFl6HKb

There you go...just copied the URL & used the insert image thingy. That is quite a change. The new version looks even better than the original...the interior walls & roughed up floor boards look WONDERFUL. GREAT WORK!  

Wow! That looks awesome! The inner wall really lifts it up.  Maybe you could use something to push in some of the bricks/stones in the styrofaom, to get some level variation on the stonefoundation of the building:) You could also use a stone and press against the styrofaom, it gives it a natural feeling:)