Ishoo Twenty-Fiv: 15mm Medieval Village

If you're a Medieval gamer, there are really only two terrain items which are essential - a castle and a village. Since we've already shown you how to build a castle, it's time for the village! Our village consists of three pieces - a manor and stables, a church and grave yard, and a set of hovels. You can easily expand on your village by adding more hovels, or possibly some fields, store houses, barns or an inn.
Anyway, it's a fairly long ishoo this time because there are really three things being built, but it's not hard. Hell, a hippo could do it.
Take it away, Grot!





































Note: The pig and goat were both purchased from Eureka Miniatures in Chadstone (the suburb, not the blight on the landscape)


Regretably, I discoverd I was out of clump folliage mere minutes before I intended to glue it on. I've got some on order now, and pics will go up when it's been added - it's the last step anyway.
All of which brings us to January 1st, and the begining of SF MONTH! Next Ishoo we'll be looking at how to build your first set of Necromunda terrain, and there are more SF terrain porjects and madness in store after that!
See ya, Space Hippo.

ERRATA: When I posted this Ishoo, I was sure I'd already explained the towel as thatch method. It's been brought to my attention that I have not, so I thought I'd better go into more detail down here in the bit no one really reads...

First you make a false roof from cardboard, and use hot glue to attach strips of old towel. Then, mix some very thin PVA glue with a drop of detergent in it. Use an old brush to paint this mixture onto the towel. If you use a downward motion, the paintbrush will sculpt the towel somewhat. Leave this to dry for quite some time, preferably in a nice sunny spot because that speeds things up A LOT, and then paint it.

Don't forget to vote on the Ishoo Twenty-Ate reader's choice poll at the top of the page!

Ishoo Twenty-For-Point_Fiv: More Swamps

As promised here are the pics of the other swamps I made at the same time. I figured a primative orcy swamp settlement would look pretty cool, so I've made some swamp huts, partially inspired by the voodoo woman's skull shaped hut in Monkey Island 2. The huts are made from strips of balsa wood glued to a cardboard or foamcore basic shape.

Anyway, here's Grot to take you ona tour!

Well, that's all for now folks, but keep an eye out for Ishoo Twenty-Fiv: 15mm Medieval Village!

Ishoo Twenty-For: Swamps.

Just the other day El Presidente Gregor (the guy who runs my games club) mentioned his dream of having a whole table worth of swamp for his orcs to merrily splosh around in. So I put it on the People's Choice Poll, and it won.

Swamps are very dramatic and useful pieces of terrain, the kind of handy feature every gamer needs at least one of. Fortunately, they are both easy and quick to make. Okay, they can take a few days, but that's only because you have to wait for the PVA glue to dry - you don't spend that long working on them.

Anyway, here's Grot to show you how!

There you go hippo fans! It might take a while to dry, but you can use that time to build more swamps! Which is just what I did. Keep a weather eye out for Ishoo Twenty-For Point Fiv where I'll show them all off.

Meanwhile, here are a few notes on some of the materials involved:
Plaster Bandage: You can get this from most craft shops and some pharmacies.
Coarse Turf: This is available at model shops, especially model railways shops.
Sisal Twine: You can buy this from a garden shop or the garden section of the hardware shop.

See you next time, hippo fans!