Soldado’s Burrows and Badgers terrain – Part the second! The Mansion of Marneous Blackwick!
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About the Project
This project started out as me building some terrain for use at home to get my wife and daughter into gaming, now its become a bit of a monster part one (the village of Nutting Hill) went to Salute '19 and because people liked it, it has spawned part 2 "The Mansion of Marneous Blackwick!" Im hoping that I will again be able to take this to Salute for 2020.
Related Game: Burrows & Badgers
Related Company: Oathsworn Miniatures
Related Genre: Fantasy
This Project is Active
A Bridge to far..?
After being away for a few days, I got around to making a start building a bridge last night, here the near completed span, once this has dried I’ll build the base then it will need a river to go with it
I’ll update this entry as I go along…
A little how to on how I create the river sections
Allow the “goop” to dry slowly, any attempt to speed the process up either by putting the piece in the sun or in an airing cupboard just means the piece warps more 🙁
I hope this helps..
Making the papier Mache goop
Here is a little guide on how I go about making the papier mache goop, this stuff has made this project possible for me especially as its really cheap to make.
Hopefully this is helpful to others with their projects.
Imagine an image here if you will….
No image of this bit, after you blend it, pour it out into a sieve/ colander/ cheese cloth, whatever you’ve got.
Squeeze out as much water as you can until you end up with fairly solid brickettes.
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So there you have it. That is how I make the goop, apart from soaking the process takes less than an hour all in to make enough to roof about 3 – 4 houses.
Im getting a real "buzz" out if this piece...
The fence was made by drilling holes in coffee stirrers and supergluing cocktail sticks in, once the four sections were glued into place on a base, I wove brown garden string inbetween. Painting the string in PVA once it was in place.
The tables are simply coffee stirrers (what else 🙂 ) assembled with hotglue. Same with the little cart.
The hives are the usual brown cardboard goop.
A couple of days for the hives to dry and then I can start painting it all.
A couple of shots showing the scale
And some figures to actually play with...
Some figures some painted a couple of years ago for a frostgrave campaign with snowy bases
And some more recent efforts
An idea begins to form - TREEHOUSES!
So on the drive to work this morning, my brain started turning over a couple of things, a really nice project on creating giant trees:
And the forest hideout from Robin Hood – Prince of thieves
so instead of actually working I started drawing out the initial ideas…
I have created my tree form from strips of foamcore hot glued so that they form a cross in profile. then stuck this at a suitably rakish angle to an old CD. I’ve added a heavy washer at the rear of the tree to provide a counter balance.
then at a random height I have skewered the form with 3 planks, these will form the supports for the platform, I have then added more coffee stirrer support to act as forms for branches.
More supports were added after the picture was taken…
Here we begin added the brown goop to the roots and branches, I’m gonna let these dry before adding more for 2 reasons:
1: Its heavy at this point and I dont want to break the form while manhandling it.
2: I’ve run out of goop 🙁 silly boy.
Project going on hold...
Dnag nabit and thundering tarnations…!
Real life has kind of got in the way and Im having to move house and other annoyances, so this project goes on hold while that happens.
But One last painted mini before everything starts getting boxed up and lost tidied up.
So on hold we go, back soonish I hope.
Hedging my bets...
So back to it I think..
Time to revisit the hedges, Im not overly fond of what I was doing before so I sat back decided that I’d try a different way.
Tongue depressors and scouring pads to the rescue….
And the results are in.....
What follows is a little how to, its not exhaustive, if youd like more detail on something, drop me a comment and I’ll get back to you.
A bird in the bush .....
Well, well, well...
On one of Oathsworn’s KS they offered an “arcane circle”, a lovely piece that had 3 inserts, one had runes, another was bubbling liquid and the third was an altar. very nice, but not a lot of use to me (except in pulp games). Now I want to use the circle as the village center piece (think of it as a roundabout outside the inn) but with the above inserts still not a lot of use so I decided to make a well…
Long way up, short way down....
Well heres news, my terrain and painted minis will be making an appearance at Salute 2019! yikes….
“The Nutting Hill Job”: The Kings guard are transporting a paychest, they’ve got it, you want it! 3 players must compete to get the paychest off the table, The guard will fight to keep you off!
Hammer time, duh duh duh do do....
So plans for the salute board continue and Im thinking to field one warband as the villagers from the latest KS. 2 of which are a baker and blacksmith, I have neither a bakery nor a smithy so why not make both? or indeed combine them into one piece? so I have (or am as its not finished 🙂 )
Forging on...
And beating about the bush….
So while I prevaricate on how to do the terrain board itself heres some bushes
Buildin on up...
Progress continuemmms
Its going up in smoke!
Hmmm, chocolate...
well not really..
Its been a while....
5 weeks give or take…
between xmas and another project taking over this needed to be sidelined, but here we go again.
Sorry, This entry has been edited for typos and putting the correct description below the fotos, really should proof read what I write when Im half asleep 😀
Were baking now!
So the forge/ bakery is all done…
Another day and another step closer to..
..sort of completion.
Whats left? well trimming the board edges so they sit neatly, tidying up the edges around the terrain elements so they sit nicely. Then start on the greenery.
Oh yeah and paint the river section!
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Its done!
eh, how’d that happen? so after faffing around for so long, the table came together in such a rush that I didnt realise it was so close until I sat back and thought “what next? Oh, thats it then!”
Nutting Hill is ready for Salute 19, now theres a scary thought 😀
Whats left? well I need a few more minis from the latest kickstarter that Oathsworn ran and the main objective cart. but other than that im good, I can sit back and read the rule book and even get some games in so that I dont look like a real pleb in front of everyone on the day.
Where next?
After salute I may well start expanding the terrain types, theres also the treehouses to finish, ideas of what to build next are always welcome.