From zero to hero, a terrain journey
Frostgrave Mausoleum
I’m half-heartedly interested in Frostgrave, mostly I like that it specifies some interesting terrain features to build.
To start with I’m attempting the Mausoleum, which is represented as a four-sided building with one doorway in each face. The terrain piece should be in a 6″ square area.
My actual mausoleum building is smaller than that, but I’m basing it to the 6″.
Overall the terrain piece will have a ‘reclaimed by the forest’ theme and include a set of overgrown gravestones and some sickly-looking trees to go with it!
The actual shape of the building was pretty simple, I wanted a square with a four-way gabled roof so I just needed four of the same shape to build upon.
I mitred the inside edges then glued, pinned and held together with elastic bands to get my square shape, it’s come out pretty nicely.
After that I did the substructure for the roof. Bit of cereal box cardboard and a lot of measuring and swearing later, I think it’s going to look pretty good!
Cereal box roof. You, sir, are a hobby hero!
It’s great because the recycling bags are in the corner of the garage behind me so when I think “oh I need something for this” I just have a look in there!
It’s a bit gappy but will be covered up when I start getting shingles down 🙂
I see a set square in that picture, thats cheating that is!
great work so far, guess its time to start shingling next?
Impatiently, I’ve stuck it on the 6″ base (this will turn out to be a mistake) and added a stone steps where the doors are going to go.
I’m going to do a bit of detailing work on the actual building then take on the shingles I think.
I don’t really envision a large number of details on the building itself, I’m mostly going to try and build up a bit of shape to the stone finish with strips of foam and bits of card to do corner brickwork to hide those seams.
We’ll see!