Draconis Does….. TerrainFest 2024

24th November 2024

For the ruined chapel I had some corner pieces of GW ruined gothic terrain that I planned to repurpose. I sketched up a rough layout, bearing in mind that the suggested size was 6” x 6”.

Additionally I found some images of medieval tiles online, duplicated them enough times so that they would cover the floor area and printed them out.

Before spraying I also cut some sections off one of the pieces, so that I could fill in the gaps in the walls a bit more.

Then it was onto spraying. I sprayed them black, then grey from above… and they ended up looking similar to bare plastic 😊

I followed this up with a drybrush of Deneb stone, which did help. On the inside I drybrushed it heavily with Praxeti White. I wasn’t happy with this though, so painted over with Vallejo Pale sand, which gives a better look.

Next up it was some weathering, and gluing the pieces down.

However, the wall lines still looked too sparse, so I started to try to scratch build some wall pieces to fill the spaces. First up it was the bases of the corner pillars.

24th November 2024

In order to fill in the bare sections of foundation area I did debate just putting some sand and gravel down. Then I opted to make low sections of walls, trying to match the existing pieces. I did also have two plastic rubble type sections to use.

For the scratch building I used foamcard, coffee stirrers and cardboard. I measured the existing wall features and tried to replicate them as best I could with what I had available. My intention being to cover any areas that didn’t match well with foliage, rubble etc to mask it.

Didn’t take enough pics, but some of them came out pretty well 😊

After shaping the new wall sections to make them look ruined I sprayed these up in the same way as the plastic wall pieces, then glued them into place.

I think that once I add the weathering to match the plastic walls then they should blend in well.

30th November 2024

I first weathered up the scratch build wall sections, so they would better match the other pieces.

Then it was down to laying down the basic flock, followed by the two other flocks (a brighter green, and a green/brown).

This was followed by adding clump foliage ( three types) to match other basing.

I also found that the ruined areas were a touch too ‘clean’. So I cut up some mdf to make some fallen blocks. These were weathered to blend as well.

Then finally I added some sprinkles of the dried parsley as general detritus.

Next up will be some furniture for the inside.

30th November 2024

Quick one – One of the things that I worked on was an altar for the chapel.

It is from Reaper Bones first KS.

I painted it grey, washed it with Agrax.

Then I painted the top as white marble. This was white, and then three different shades of quite light grey painted in vein like pattern across the top and down the sides. Then I gave it a gloss varnish, and picked out the skulls with black followed by runelord brass.

As you can see though, even after treating with hot water followed by cold, the warp to the material has partly come back ☹

30th November 2024

Having finished off the chapel basing and altar through the week today I worked on the pews.

I had previously made a test piece from some offcuts of firm balsa wood for the sides and back, coffee stirrer for seat and matchstick for the support on the back.

So, for the rest I took the measurements of the test piece and measured out what I needed from some more balsa.

In order to keep things relatively straight while the contact adhesive set I used the test piece to make a temporary ‘jig’ from blu tac, that I could use to align the new ones.

With them all set I then used my sanding bit on my rotary tool to carve in the curves on the side pieces.

Then I sprayed them all black, followed by a misting of brown (in part due to the spray playing up 😊 ). They then had a drybrushing of pale sand to weather them a touch.

Just some pics of the chapel with the altar and pews inside.

I will keep these all separate so that I can move them around, have more or less in etc. I will likely set them up ‘strewn about’ rather than orderly, but have taken pics of both set ups.

I may still add a few other things in the future, but not sure yet.

Gravestones duplicate due to system error, please ignore

Haven’t had one for a while, now two at once………duplicate due to system error, please ignore