Bereft of miniatures I have turned my hand to modelling.
I found the excellent BlackMagic Craft Youtube videos and was inspired. I actually had no idea that I would build the Dark Age chapel at first. I saw BlackMagic's excellent idea for cut and texturing blocks using a tin and rocks and gave that a go last Sunday. As days went by - and no order of miniatures arrived - my project grew in intensity.
To this ... created only with insulation foam, a cardboard packet, two strips of round balsa, a small sheet of paper and a balsa block (sanded into door shape) - on the obligatory MDF board (cut and sanded - NOT ordered.) In all ways, a real home-spun project.
And what I had thought was a fairly average piece of modelling at the beginning ...
Has turned out quite well ... and I'll be using this on the tabletop ... perhaps in my intended Lion Rampant Arthurian Campaign???
Most of the paint used were tubes of $2 paint from the 'Hot Dollar' store.
I would highly encourage everyone to visit the BlackMagicCraft videos. Wonderful!
(Plus the guy looks exactly like my mate, Bill.)
I don't know if I'm completely done .. I am yet to decide whether to apply some moss to the roof or add a couple more highlighted streaks to the roof here and there ... but there is no rush in deciding that. I was also going to add some cobwebs but I'm not sure about that either ... I will just fulminate on those issues for a moment.
There are quite a few tiny patches of white showing from the foam core skeleton of the building that I've tried to fill so many times ... but to no effect. Oh well, they are only visible from some angles (as you can see in these photos.) We'll see long term if they are enough to spoil my immersion and drive me to have another try.
Throughout the project my wife remarked that it looked really good. I didn't believe her. I should have. One basic rule of wargames that I have found over the years came true again.
And that is ... show your terrain to a non-wargamer. If they can identify exactly what it is straight away = then you're golden. If they can't get it = try again.
