I have been working on a table top redesign. The entrance to a river town called Old Haven. The name comes from a old D&D joke about how all towns are named something Haven. I have been giving a new coat of paint to some old Heroes Quest figures. I have an inn house under construction. I plan to build the whole of the town of Old Haven soon.
Dwarves and Goblins
A gaming blog, all about Warhammer, Mordheim, D&D, Pathfinder and more. Tips on painting, and terrain building from a film maker with a gaming obsession.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
I have been working on a table top redesign. The entrance to a river town called Old Haven. The name comes from a old D&D joke about how all towns are named something Haven. I have been giving a new coat of paint to some old Heroes Quest figures. I have an inn house under construction. I plan to build the whole of the town of Old Haven soon.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
The Pig farm, I have some finishing touches some fences and a veg table garden and a coat of paint on the shed and house. made out of foam core, 1"blue Styrofoam, recycled pasta boxes, moss, and wire for the tree.
Friday, September 23, 2011
New terrain
I
am in Franklin Indiana this week, I am working on a studio out here,
and working the B-movie celebration. Well I still try to find time to
play with these little figurines I am so addicted to. I set up a table
in my office, while watching a show about the golden age of Egypt,
sipping scotch, carved some foam while before I passed out last night.
A small bridge and some ruins. I haven't gotten around to painting them yet.
It all starts out as a sheet of Styrofoam from Lowes or the Home Depot. I don't sketch or anything I just let the foam show me what is hidden inside of it. I carve it with a hot knife, and these pieces didn't take much longer then an hour to do.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Mordheim.
I am playing a game called Mordheim. While Wahammer is played with armies, Mordheim is played as a skirmish game. I have been collecting both Dwarves and Orcs and attempting to create good Mordheim battle units. I have the dwarf adventures which are eight very comical dwarves, and I picked up the set of four drunken dwarves, which makes the warband of twelve max figures in a dwarven warband. I have to give Lenny credit for the idea for this warband. I have also been thinking of creating rules for the Long Drong Slayer Pirates in Mordheim. Because there just needs to be rules for that. Now the Dwarves are far out classed in power then the Orcs so I start them out with 150 more gold crowns, to even every thing up a touch.
I have been building up my Orc army and as Lenny pointed out I have enough to pit Orc against Orc which would be really quite fun.
Dwarf Adventurers |
Long Drong |
Black Orc I am useing for a Big Boss |
Long Drong Pirates |
The map reader for the adventurers |
Long Drongs and Orcs. |
a drunken dwarf |
Unpainted Adventurers |
Slayers fighting a troll. |
My table.
the start of the dwarven cliffs carved out of foam. |
Foam rocks in the foreground and foam ruins in the background |
Jons tree made out of wire and moss. |
The damn game, and that rat bastard Lenny.
Let me start you out with a little background, I produce, direct, and
design films. So when I got a picture in Cleveland, I just had to visit
Lenny the boom operator at the Friends of Joe Cassano, Grip and Crew
Hostile, When I arrive I find my way into the basement said hello to Bob the beagle, and see for the
first time the game. There were thousands of miniatures,book cases full of terrain and buildings. a 4'x8' table. ready to go covered in felt. along the ceiling is a row of tanks and every white dwarf mag ever printed. My mind was blown. The next day or two I set up figures and terrain, and took pictures of them.
I was hooked. the first day home I built a table of my own, out of recycled materials from the film set. I have been Collecting Orcs and Dwarves, building and painting non stop. and it is all because of that rat bastard Lenny and his amazing table.
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Bob the Beagle |
Lennys table was bad ass. |
I was hooked. the first day home I built a table of my own, out of recycled materials from the film set. I have been Collecting Orcs and Dwarves, building and painting non stop. and it is all because of that rat bastard Lenny and his amazing table.
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