I’ve been on an extended fantasy binge for a while now so it’s nice to stumble across a quality WH40k site: Parasitic Studios. The Terragenesis forum also contains a long thread detailing construction of that great Refinery gaming table with photos.
The creator mentions using the ‘Platform’ and ‘Hexagon’ products from The War Store which also look intriguing. In fact, here’s an online review from Terrainosaur.
I’ve finished assembling the Fieldstone bridge tile and have started working up the balsa wood structure for a simple lift bridge. I’m trying to think of a way to create some simple bas-relief detail pieces without RTV since I’m out. I’m thinking maybe a green stuff original press molded in klean klay with a resin pour? Either that or get myself out to TopMark again and pick up some more RTV. I hope to complete the balsa structure tonight.
Ahhhh, it’s terrain like this that just makes me want to dash my pathetic efforts against the wall.
The most humbling thing about that table is I have all the ingredients in my garage…but no table like that. Perhaps I should really focus on some WHFB terrain eh Griff?
The rest of that thread gives some interesting tips about how the terrain was made too. I particularly like the way the creator blended cut foam and real stones in the cliff faces – a simple but effective technique.
Here’s some interesting online anatomy ‘ecorche‘ references from Rey Busto’s site. Could be handy if I ever get around to trying my hand at sculpting.
A couple of weeks ago I built myself this simple jig for bending balsa wood, based on an earlier post. I’ve been soaking and attempting to bend 3mm balsa wood strips ever since without any luck. It takes days for water to completely soak through the balsa wood and even then I can’t bend a 3mm thick strip without breaking it. So yesterday I picked up a bunch of wafer thin 1mm balsa wood which is so thin it almost bends to the curve I want now. I’m sure after a day or two of soaking I’ll be able to form it without difficulty.
Making slow progress on the Mordheim Canal. The ‘water’ stairway tiles are both assembled and primed. I’ve finally settled on a scheme for the central Bridge tile which you can see here. The stonework is dry-fitted at this point and I intend to assemble a balsa wood ‘drawbridge’ middle section that may or may not actually work. I also plan to fix the pontoons in place, but make the bridge replaceable with a ruined copy for more variety in scenarios. I’d also like to construct a solid wall to ‘seal off’ one end of the canal so the tile can be backed up against a normal raised floor tile – hopefully I’ve got enough cast pieces left for that.
The Rackham Dirz Biopist arrived last week as well, I just hadn’t got around to having a good look at the figure. In terms of the GW figures he’s in pretty good scale, although his proportions are a little closer to reality than GW’s figure lines. Here’s the bare figure compared to a standard GW Mordheim Necromancer. My apologies for the terrible photo quality. In terms of detail the figure is lovely work with nice flowing lines. Rackham definitely have a distinct style that involves a kind of ‘fluid organic’ feel to their figures…if that makes any sense!
Here’s an excellent PDF sculpting tutorial from a professional French sculptor that shows the step-by-step creation of this figure. The rest of his site is interesting too, particularly the gallery that contains his commissioned work.
I’ve spent my entire weekend preparing and painting the hallway of our house so there has been almost zero progress on the Mordheim canal. I have figured out how I’m going to bridge the central tile however. I hope to make some more progress this week.
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