Ladders are boring
Here is a small and not overly demanding project to get fully into making terrain (editor's note: the text was written in 2010, he still hasn’t gotten fully into it :D ).
Since the integral part of Mordheim is climbing / descending from various buildings / obstacles etc. ladders are a vital part of the game. In order to get little diversity of the terrain, I started making rope & hook terrains that will mark in the game where models can climb without penalties in the same way as ladders do.
1. I took an old CD and cut out irregularly shaped bases from it. The bases are slightly smaller than small round GW bases to fit more easily on balconies, narrow aisles, and generally crowded Mordheim. I glued lead to the bases to gain weight and then put it DAS modeling clay all over it.
2. In order not to make eight piles of earth with a hook and rope, each base has its own theme or detail that makes it more interesting.
A dead skaven made from the body of a gnoblar, a skaven's head, tail and shield. This was a relatively easy conversion because I could cover all the joints with sand and not waste time on green stuff and converting in the true sense of the word.
One base that looks like a bunch of rubbles due to a bad image, but it is not. The picture shows a bad depression that I will fill with valleyo still water resin after painting and thus make a puddle / hole filled with water.
The base, which was originally conceived only as a bunch of rubble, but in the process of making it, I had the idea to insert one gruesome detail that will have to wait to paint the base first. About that later. (11 years later, still waiting… editor’s note)
A piece of broken beam with a blade stuck into it. Nuff said (by the way, the rings on all the woodworks are carved with an engraving tool).
Classic warhammer motif - battered shield & sword. I added straps to the shield to attach it to an arm.
Wooden loom / shaloporka. Made of FIMO mass with carved slats and rings. Metalwork made of cardboard, handle and hinge wire, green stuff rivets. Whoever finds out that I f**up ... gets ... a finger in the eye.
Again a broken beam with a bell still attached (inspiration from a local pub). Bell and chain from a zombie sprue, carved beams, metalwork from cardboard, rivets and wooden pegs - GS. A little wire and plastic and that's it.
This base is somehow my favorite and I spent the most time on it. The chest. From a piece of slat I cut off the base for the coffin, carved the rings. From cardboard I made shackles along the edges, and from wire hinged lids. From an ancient night goblin quiver, I carefully cut out the skull (approx. 1.5 x 2.5 mm), glued it to the front of the chest to act as a keyhole, drilled a keyhole, and inserted a small key made of wire (0.5 square mm of wire - in cross section it is almost half the size of the paper clip). With fine sandpaper, I aligned the GS and added to the sides of the chest from the same wire from which I made the key of the handle made of intertwined wires (to emphasize even more that it is not an ordinary box - but something, yes, a little finer, no).
Bases on a pile with added triangle hooks (bought in a fish shop for about 2kn / piece - probably not worth fishing for, but they are great for this). On the hooks, I removed the pointy bits myself so that the players would not catch themselves when moving the pieces.
That's it. This is followed by adding a chain on the hooks (approx. 3-4 links per piece), undercoating and painting.
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