A little piece of scatter

Nothing really fancy, just been sitting waiting for painting far too long... GW stump and ace, matchsticks for logs... and getting a decent clean cut wood colour took far too much effort.

Phantasmagoria

Like many I’m sure, I got the first two issues of Mortal Realms part work from Games Workshop, the shitty Sigmarines aside, I was definitely going in on the spooky stuff offered by the Nightgaunts. These were the banshees from issue 2, but I didn’t go full grim dark and just wanted floaty sheet types, so the bodies and the overly done bases went in the bits tray...

The observant amongst you will notice they are only two of the set of four that comes with the set (of course I got two issues at that price)... I had tried converting some to get some variety, but that wasn’t very successful and mistakes were made. In fact the one travelling through the gravestone was the only successful bit of fiddling I did, wish I’d done that with the others rather than having the ground contact thing on the others. The tail end of the sheet through the stone is from one of the bodies, that one was quite badly cut up by the conversion efforts, but quite pleased that I managed to Frankenstein him back together with some greenstuff. 

Church finished...

Well, I’ve noticed a couple of irksome things now it’s done, but I’m probably being over perfect and will just mess it up trying to correct a couple of things. So, done...

Trying the camera on my phone and it seems to be an improvement, as with most buildings it’s too big for the light box and I probably need a flat paper background again at some point...

The wallpaper has worked really well for the flint effect. Very grateful for the donation from Paul at the Wargames Terrain Tips & Talk Facebook group.

Doors made from scratch, following my usual design of pop in and pop out as open or closed. 

 

The altar is removable, the grave isn’t... might do a font, but for now that’s the interior. The altar was redone completely from my original one, just foampvc and plasticard on a blue insulation foam block. Quite pleased with that.

Church WIP Part 4

Quick pics with the majority of the painting done. Just the doors/hatch and the dirt to paint. The altar  is about as good it will get for some off cuts of pvcfoam, XPS foam and some tissue paper. The cross is from the Renedra graveyard sprue. It’s not permanent so can be removed/replaced as needed, but does for now.

Phone pics again, which really don’t capture the colours well at all.

Church WIP Adjunct

As the main build nears completion, I thought I’d look at the lich gate I got from Petite Properties (a dolls house manufacturer that is highly recommended - the 1/4 furniture and trappings work well with 28mm), which as you can see is a little too tall compared to the porch so that will need some alterations (1/4 scale dolls house buildings tend to be a little tall compared to the chubbier 28mm stuff which is of course not a true ‘scale’).

Church WIP Part 3

OK, pimping almost finished... 

So, onto the basic mdf walls I added 1mm foampvc to the outer walls and added the aforementioned wallpaper. The window frames sit just above the wallpaper layer which I like, plasticard window sills and Slaters quoin for the corners. Some cutting of the corners we needed to allow the quoins to sit flush, which was miscalculated at some points, so quite a bit of green stuff needed there. 

For the inside, I ordered a spare window set from the same company and used those to give extra detail inside. I also used 2mm foampvc to thicken the walls again. These are slightly above the window frames, which works better for the inside (for me anyway).

Stone pattern plasticard for the floor, plastic trim in the tower. Scratch built double doors. Quite pleased with it all so far. Just need to finish the top of the tower and then texture the interior walls. And then the roof...