Village Building Models in 10 mm

I have been working on these 10 mm buildings for some while now, they are built along the same lines as the 10 mm ruined buildings I made a few months back.

I was quite pleased with how the ruins had come out so decided to create enough complete buildings so that I may be able to represent hamlets, villages and towns.

I decided that they would have two uses also. Firstly to go along with my 10 mm Frostgrave campaign, some of which I have shown previously. Secondly to be used in D&D to allow me to represent the above in a controllable scale.

I already had 3 buildings that I had made many years ago for Warmaster, but never got to use as all my friends that played, either stopped playing or sold their models.

With these 16 buildings I should be able to create all sorts of villages etc and they will be dead easy to store, being so small.

In development is another larger set of buildings, still in 10 mm, that I can use to create cities, I might create an interim post when the construction is complete.

Next  post will be concentrating on reinforcements for High Elves in 3 mm.

Thanks for visiting.

Modular Castle for 3mm sieges

It felt right that I should make some more 3 mm terrain and so set about building a simple castle.

I built it from the card packaging Amazon use to send books or flat ish items.

Its not bad quality I often use it for bases on 3 mm or 10 mm miniatures. It s good because it holds glue well, especially PVA and is good to cut with a knife.

The company of Dwarf warriors is for comparison, not because I see this as a Dwarf castle, in fact I intend creating some flags so it can be used by all the armies. 

I can also see myself making perhaps one extra building for each nation to make the structure more "their's".

Had fun making this over the last few days and will be getting down to paint it shortly.

One thing I had to do today was to slide some 1p pieces into the interior of the wall sections, to give them a little more weight. Helped towards making the sections more stable on the tabletop.

From above....obviously. (forgive my stupidity, its beyond my control).

All separated out into it constituent parts, wont be hard to store as its so small.

The next 3 mm project I'll be posting on will be the Free Men 3 mm army for Fantastic Battles that I am in the middle of making. Well at least the preliminary companies for the army anyway.

 

Woodland Fey Settlement in 10 mm

I started making this Fey settlement a while back for two reasons. Firstly because I'm in the midst of playing a Daggerheart Rpg game with some friends and we decided to play it GM less for a bit of fun. The idea being that all the PCs came from the same settlement and this way we could visualise what that looked like. Also I thought it would be fun to use in my 10 mm games of Frostgrave if I felt that a Fey village or something might appear in the narrative.

I built 7 "tree" blocks, a smaller central hub, which became a pub in our game and a load of forest walkways to join the  blocks together.

The little pond and the trees I had already made ages ago.

All the blocks were made from, cling film tubes, cereal box card, wooden tapers, cat food box card, sand and glue.

Obviously various shades of paint as well.

I really enjoyed making these and the other players in the group enjoyed using them as reference, although we only used about 4 of the blocks as we decided we lived in a small village.

I had bought a couple of pairs of specialist scissors that really came in handy for this project, they were dead cheap at Morrisons 99p a pair.

Look forward to using them in Frostgrave also, should be fun.

 

Frostgrave Camp and Wagons in 10 mm

In the last two weeks I have been working on some small pieces of scatter terrain for my 10 mm Frostgrave game. You know what I'm doing, I'd rather make something else to enhance the game than actually get on and play. It is stupid...

I started by creating a camp for the gang to sleep in while travelling, something I intend doing, see last posts maps. I thought it might lead to some interesting night time situations/encounters. 

The idea they might get attacked by wild beasts or ambushed by Gnolls or cultists really appeals to me.

Three tents, some barrels, crates and a fire makes a camp to my mind...

Of course a wagon to haul the tent and for future booty is essential. I do intend making a couple of horses to pull the thing sometime soon.

I didn't just make a single small wagon I went for it big style, in case a travelling caravan needs protecting or robbing in the future.

Also I few barrels had to be created to make the effect work. You can see how I get drawn into the whole process....can't help myself!

Just to turn things on their head, the caravan in this instance is owned by some orcs on the way too or from a brewery by the looks of things. The first wagon pulled by boars and the second by keen beer drinkers.

Looking to keep warm by our heroes fire. Hope it goes well for them all

The wagons not used in the exciting scenario above....the tension

Thank you for visiting my blog, it seems many of you do. Sometimes as many as 60,000 in a month which is astounding. 

See you again soon.

Daxio 

Dead Trees for 10 mm Play

 

It recently occurred to me that some dead looking trees would go very nicely with all the ruins I had built. Since I had none I set about rectifying the situation.

My first attempts made form a basic card shape and smothered in PVAcrete looked absolutely awful and even after several tries at saving them I could see no future for them other than the bin, which is where they ended their days.

I had seen a couple of You Tube videos using gardening string to create bushes so decided to give it a try. Luckily Mrs Daxio has plenty of course string just right for the purpose, so I set too. 

I immediately preferred where these skinny, gaunt trees were taking me and so persisted.

They look suitably cobwebby and the original colour of the string meant I had little painting to do to get them to a playable state.

Disaster had been avoided and there would be dead trees in the city tonight....I was happy.