The Gangs of Ankh-Morpork

I had a bit of a brainwave for a Traitors Toll scenario. Uncomplimentary posters have been appearing on buildings and require ripping down. Potentially there could be NPC’s re-posting them to be apprehend as well.

I printed some posters out and then attached two magnets to the back, keeping track of polarities . Sprayed them white, drew designs on them. Hit them with a matt varnish, then speedpaint over the top.

Then I took one of the magnets off of the top and glued it to a building, painted it dull grey. Hit it with matt varnish to take the shine off the glue

I decided to add a table spanning district wall, the city has so much terrain that it won’t all fit on one table. So, over time I will be adding different districts.I thought it might be fun to have scenarios spanning different districts with a wall and gate house spanning them.

I sourced a new centerpiece building and after a week or so of printing I am pleased to present the new Big House

The inside of this building has lots of space for playability, you could probably run a whole game in it. I am planning to add a little bit of furniture .

With the advent of The Guards of Traitors’ Toll, I realised everything I was making for this game would pretty much fit into Traitors Toll as well. Then I saw the preview of the buildings they were releasing, lovely, but ‘ow much!

For the princely sum of £11 I picked up some slightly whimsical medieval town house STL files

As I was painting a bunch of these buildings I had a rummage through my unpainted terrain boxes and found some medieval fantasy bits and bobs, stuff I could experiment with colour schemes on. Even found a windmill. Not really city appropriate, but while I am painting…why not?

I decided to move the ‘big house’ ,as I call it, out of this project and into my drowned earth project instead.  Instead I plan to build a couple of other centre piece buildings . I am also looking at a couple of shops potentially

Made a little more progress on the town houses. I also found a range of slum houses that fit perfectly between the town houses and the ‘Shades Shacks’.

Finally completed the first townhouse, just nine more to go!

I’m not convinced my miniature painting skills are worth showcasing like this as I am more of an army painter really. But here goes …

Still some work to do on basing. I definitely need to give the ruffian something to lean on! Very tempted to strip the paint off of the thief and use a colour card for a paint scheme to work to. It’s a really nice mini and I don’t think I have done it justice.

The makers of the slum set added a new building to the range. A bit of a town hall of sorts , it’s only after I printed the first piece that I realised how big this thing was going to be.

I had two Bambu labs P1Ps going flat out for just over a week.Still have no idea where I am going to store it.

Started slapping some contrast paints on the assorted miniatures, painting them with a view to looking like denizens of Ankh-Morpork. Lobbed in some half painted Frostgrave minis too.

Given this name generator clocks in at 33 pages I decided a pdf would be better than showing all the details in project.

The first table creates a list of which name tables to roll on . It can give titles, nicknames, first names and surnames.

There are 199 male and female first names, 100 title and 100 nicknames and 800 surnames to go at , so there’s not much risk of two of your gangers having the same name.

Having avoided printing any miniatures for the time being. I set about priming and drybrushing the metal miniatures I have accumulated.

Just a quick update I picked up couple of sets of metal miniatures that I thought would work.

Another building for the slums has been released and it looks awesome, I may be printing another building for this project.

Not heard of zenith miniatures before but they look a good fit as a bunch of street urchins. You can’t really see it in the box art but there’s a ton of character in the sculpts. You could easily integrate them into The Woods or Verrotwood.

Time to do some research on the various groups that might get into a scrap so off to the wikis I went and came back with the following:

Cockbill Street Roaring Lads (Sam Vimes old gang)

Shamlegger Street Rude Boys

Pigsty Hill Dead Marmosets

Cable Street Particulars (some rather corrupt and brutal Watch members)

DeBris Gang -trolls obv

Breccia -the troll mafia

Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night -fools who summon dragons

Grisham Fford Close Harmony Singers – A quartet of assassins

Jolly Good Pals -A pair of enforcers for the Fools Guild

Mohoks and Skats -rival urchin gangs

Tenth Egg Street Gang -troll gang , one of it’s members being a brick onna string

Looking at the gangs I am probably going to double down on the first three, street gangs with the others more aligned to hired specialists within the game rules.

As for miniatures I am looking at Knucklebones as they have some characterful models. Also I picked up some Wargames Atlantic Roman citizens as I see potential there.

I am also going to work on a name generator

I printed and primed the remaining buildings from the slum set. I decided to make the buildings as one piece, there wasn’t really enough room to make them playable. They also had plenty of ledges and verandas to give a few height options to a table

Next step is adding various different colours to some of the bricks then give everything a dirty wash.

Finally I need to add a little moss. I also need to decide if I am going to lightly dry brush the wood or not

My 2×2 mats arrived so I popped one down and plac the not quite finished buildings on it just to see if I was on the right track.

Ankh-Morpork the greatest fantasy city of all time… hadn’t even crossed my mind when I started printing some of these Stls-that-looked-cool.

Before I got my Bambu I could only stare wistfully at fdm prints in the knowledge that I might get two pieces off before the flux capacitor died or the printer gods started demanding sacrifices.

But no more, the Bambu PS1 truly is the chocolate hobnob of the 3d printing world. I point, it prints and prints quickly.

I had at the back of my mind an Osprey book called Kobolds and Cobblestones, where fantasy gangs duke it out. I investigated further and got some distinct Pratchett vibes. And so the idea of making a section of the shades came to life.