War of the Flamin’ Roses (Terrainfest 2025)

Here is the first of the buildings.

I have decided to not keep notes as I paint each building, to help encourage me to play around with the colours a bit, add a little natural variety.

Good lord, but I underestimated how tedious painting all the wooden trim on these Tudor houses would be. They are just three dimensional enough that you have to paint all the sides of each beam, but so thin that it is a real chore trying to get it done neatly.

I have included a photo to show you the massive (ahem) effect this one building has on the terrain!

Right!

Last year, I had a big old entry where I built a huge amount of terrain to play Gangs of Rome. It was awesome. It took awhile. So long in fact, that I left it to very close to midnight on the last day to enter…

… and then after I finished putting everything in, it all fell apart, because of some digital nonsense. At that point I had work the next day, so I just told myself “I won’t leave it so late next time!” and went to bed. So, here I am , a whole ONE DAY EARLIER than last time, putting this years Christmas project in. That, my freinds, is measurable, quantifiable progress.

Anyway, as my project description states I have just painted a warband for Here’s the Ruckus, but have no terrain to play it on, just the 4×4 mat and the three tree bases in the picture. Should probably do something about that, so here we are. I figure that a lot of what I make will be useful for other games (such as the looming shadow of Silver Bayonet), and even bigger scal games like Kings of War. So really, by doing lots now, I am saving time later … right?

I have begged a very kind friend to print me a bunch of houses and so forth, which I bought from Keycapas on MyMiniFactory, and have mebarked to build the rest myself from scratch. Which I have nere done before, so please be kind! This year there is a 7 month old child in the mix, so my progress was not as fast as last year!