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
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Whats in a name?
I tried, I really did but lets face it, my freehand will never be good enough to do sign writing (heck my hand writing is like a drunken spider wandered through and inkwell and onto the page!)
So I did what I should have done first off, found something on the web and printed it out…
E. Stoatbart & Sons
After undercoating the watch house, I though I'd see how it sat in the village? Apparently like an iceberg over a rowing boat is the answer....Somebodies watchin me!
The build of the Watch house/ Armoury is complete, just need to base it.
Stairs for uncooperative suspects to fall down
Rear stairs.
details of the roof.Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'!
The cart is done, not in the way I’d like but my freehand sucks so hard I had to redo the whole thing <sad face>
Time to play some practice games…..
Will you be stopping by at salute? Im at the far end of the hall from the main entrance by Hasslefree’s stall on table GM16 which Im sharing with a friend and his game Carnage city chronicles.
E. Stoatbart and Sons with formidible escort
The villagers think they can take 'em!
Rowley Hood and his rowdies think "they" can take em..
And the pirates think they will take em all and then sack to inn afterwards....The final piece..
A little chunky parcel was waiting for me when I got home tonight, the wonderful people at Oathsworn have sent me the Stoatbart and sons set to use as the objective for The Nutting hill job.
3 Stoats, 3 cargo pieces and the Cart itself from Sarissa
Time to get painting….
oooooh shinies!To Salute! and beyond...
So while the salute table is complete, this terrain wasnt ever really meant for this which is why the buildings were such a faff to get to sit in the boards properly. So moving on Im thinking what other building will be of use and so Im doing an Armoury/ Watch house from which Billy the stout, valiant town watchmouse can sally forth and crack some heads when they need cracking…
armoury, cut and carved, and the main bulk of the doors are in place.
Jump to its sort of assembled and the watch tower is built and a lot of woodwork is in place
rear shot showing the stairs to the watch point at the top of the tower.
The Kingfisher Darby Finbiter from the latest KS is now done as well.The chosen have arrived!
So after sitting down and looking at what minis I had in the collection (and tbh what actually could pass muster for a participation game!) I have chosen the 4 warbands.
So these bands add upto around 350 pennies each except the kings guard who come in closer to 400 but they’ll be the target of 3 other warbands so I felt they might need the extra oomph, we’ll have to see.
6 local villagers, for a very local village
Piratical beasts who haunt the rivers, shiver me whiskers!
Outlaws living in the woods, they smell like it too!
Kings guard. Without a King to guard, have they lost their way?Saying it with flowers....
So I was making some more tufts as im running out, and I was thinking about how to make taller flower stems.
The idea I came up with was nylon thread or fishing line if you have it.
Trim to length, coat in pva and wave over the magic box, all there is to it really. once its dried dab with glue and add coloured flock.
Once ready, add a spot of super glue to the end and jab it into an existing tuft to hide the base.
first stage waiting to dry.
and flocked and added to the sign post. these are too large to add to a minis base but a cm long one would look fine.The Village People
These Citizens of the World…
So the Villagers warband is complete, all of these comes from the latest Kickstarter including the little scenery pieces.
This is a local village, for local beasts!So just need to finish the minis for the Pirates, then gather the other warbands together and photograph them.
what do you reckon?
