Tree Stumps, we all want them...

Over a year ago now, possibly even 2 years ago I sculpted myself some stumps which I found very useful. However I gave half of them to my little lad for his games as part of a box of terrain for his D&D games. 

So I had a load missing and needed to create some more. This time I decided not to use old pencils as the base, mainly because I wanted them to be thicker, more substantial.

So I used some cat food box card (cfbc) to create some tubes, glued them to a base with a hot glue gun and got ready to apply Das and PVA. 

I applied a thin coat, then went back and added another but this time worked the details into it.

Wood grain! who would have thought it?

So a while later with several waits for stuff to dry this is where we are.

Next post I will be returning to the shop/cottage/townhouse facades.

Take care everybody.

Jungle Tree Terrain

Quite a large dump of pictures of all the different small pieces of terrain I have been either building from scratch or re-working to give more value on the table.

All the trees have been recently added to my collection, bought very cheaply some time ago. During lockdown and a bit before I have managed to base them all so they can be used in clumps of 2 or 3 trees.

The jungle bases I made some time ago but have been adding Tufts from Geek Gaming to really enhance them. There is still work to do to the bases of the low jungle pieces and the palm trees.

Finally there are some very small pieces, either small clumps of vegetation or small circular pieces like wood piles or watery swamp areas and to these I have been adding more grass tufts to enhance they're use. 

Next post will be a quick review of how the palm tree bases were made.

D&D: Cottage/Shop Fronts

I have a series of games for D&D coming up which are set in the confines of a city. For the most part with the maps I have should be fine to run, but I have a player who can find visualising scenes a bit difficult so I thought lets help that situation. 

And to be honest when a combat occurs in a city it would look interesting to have buildings or an approximation to help run said combat.And I have quite a while before our next game.

So I watched DM Scotty's video about building shop fronts, which helped and set about organising myself to create a total of 10 buildings.

Mainly built from some foamboard I was given by another player, also card, hardboard, tapers and matchsticks. In the end I didn't have to buy anything.

This is as far as I have got with the build so far.

I use one of my old "full" cottages to help with the general design and layout.

Also I have made them so they work alongside the building floorplans I made some time ago.

To present I have 5 ready for further development, will post more when I have got on with them.