…I’m alive honest! Finally go back to do some modelling after a long hiatus due to family illness, baby daughter & my bathroom trying to drop into my kitchen (note: hidden cisterns are a recipe for disaster!).
Anyhoo so my local gaming cafe (Tabletop Cafe – www.tabletopcafe-edinburgh.com) decided to run a Blood Bowl league now that GW have released the new edition (5th Ed apparently). So desperate to do some terrain making, and having the excuse that i don’t need to make up a team (Go Ponies:) I decided to make a 3D Pitch for them.
So i went with 35mm squares (5th Ed pitch has 34mm squares but i’m neither mm accurate, or can multiply by 34 in my head) as this seemed like the best compromise, and tried designing the pitch to be as small as possible. It took me about a month to build around life requirements (Work, Baby, PS4 Skyrim you know important stuff) but i’m pleased with how it came out, anyway in progress pictures here:
It all starts as a doodle, at least for me.
20x45mm Pine Frame
6mm ply added (i had three small sheets hence the extra framing in the pitch section
25mm pine strip edging
Marking out
Frame to pitch square position and height
Started inserting the styrofoam
Making out the pine for dremelling
Kept the pitch depth down by dremelling squares into the pine
Layout roughed out
Roughed out square depths
Squares all carved out of the styrofoam
Detailing the ‘river’ edges
Detailing the dugouts
Broken tiles made from thick card
Subtle pitch markings added with coffee stirrers (note: I did but don’t bother buying these)
Broken tiles coseup
BROWN blobs!
Couple of gravel test pieces to make sure i could still see the square edges after painting
Mostly textured pitch
Completly textured pitched, did the turn tracks in just sand so it would be smoother for adding numbers later
Brown!!!
I love how simple drybrushing makes terrain look
Detailing added to pitch
Dugouts with 3D printed coffins (as miniature coffins don’t exist)
Bloody docterin tables in the knockout section
Drawing in the numbers with a stencil & white pencil
Painted & washed broken tiles
Started the flocking
Painted in the numbers red as a base colour, then went over them again later in bone/white
And the finished article:
Finished pitch
Water effect on the broken tiles
Dugout 1
Dugout 2
Prancing Ponies setting up for a drive
And the team ‘staff’ looking on
Square heights down to the river
And from the front
The side line heights from the from
Dugout 2
Dugout 1 with the coach working out tactics for next drive
Cheers
Nick
