Chris's Frostgrave & Ghost Archipelago Terrain Efforts

[Chris Palmer]

I finished up some quick treasure marking stones for our GA game next Saturday, where we will be doing the "X Marks the Spot" scenario from the rulebook. 

They were cut from a scrap of pink insulation board, glued to some 1.25" washers, then painted and flocked.

 

[malefactus]

SPLENDID! It is little touches like your BEAUTIFUL Treasure Tokens that make a game visually interesting.

AND it isn't really treasure unless an X marks the spot. VERY NICELY DONE!

[Chris Palmer]

Thanks, Malefactus!  

 

This past week I whipped up a couple treasure Ghost Archipelago Treasure Tokens using some leftover GW Lizardman Cavalry and Skeleton bits. 

 

 

 

[Glitterwolf]

Treasure!

 

AAARRROOOO!!!!

[Chaoswolf]

Very cool looking spell effects and treasure markers!

[Chris Palmer]

Today I am assembling a quick ruined watchtower for our upcoming “The Abandon Watchtower” Ghost Archipelago scenario next month. 

 

[Chaoswolf]

Looks good!

[Glitterwolf]

I agree! And the building ain't bad either!

[Chris Palmer]

Thanks, guys!

 

I didn’t get much more done today as I had to let all the glue dry. I was able to add some gravel and other debris to the base and floors. 

Its hard to see, but I used the Green Stuff World “Aztec” roller on the walls, as kind of a messing around experiment.   So it will be interesting to see how that ends up looking.  The Woodland Scenics foam sheet I used had kind of a pebbely texture to begin with, so I may not have gotten a good transfer. 

Edited April 21, 2018 by Chris Palmer

[Rat13]

If only I had waited to build my watchtower, you're definitely going to give me ideas for my next one.

[Chris Palmer]

Got it painted black today. 

 

[Crowley]

How's the space in the ground level for hands? Looks like out might be tight?

 

Also, the foam sheet isn't just Styrofoam?

[Halberkill]

The woodlands scenic sheet appears to be expanded polystyrene foam, the green stuff world rollers work better on extruded polystyrene foam, such as you would get in sheets at home depot for a lot less than woodland scenic.

 

Halber

[Chris Palmer]

8 hours ago, Crowley said:

How's the space in the ground level for hands? Looks like out might be tight?

 

Also, the foam sheet isn't just Styrofoam?

 

7 hours ago, Halberkill said:

The woodlands scenic sheet appears to be expanded polystyrene foam, the green stuff world rollers work better on extruded polystyrene foam, such as you would get in sheets at home depot for a lot less than woodland scenic.

 

Halber

 

 

        There should be enough room to move your hand around in the ground floor.  I think it may just be the perspective of the photo, making it look tight.  And, yes, it's just regular old styrofoam, but with a rougher surface texture.   

 

    So, I knew it wasn't ideal, but as with all things, there were reasons.   A while back a local hobby store was going out of business, and I went to look around on the last day they were open, and everything was 75%-90% off.  They had these two  large Woodland Scenics  styrofoam sheets laying in the train department, and since they only ended up costing me about .30 cents each, I thought they had an interesting enough texture to get and put aside to use for something.   So a couple weeks later, a friend lends me his Green Stuff roller to play with, and shortly after that, I realize I'm going to need three or four 12" towers for the next Ghost Archipelago scenario we are doing (The Abandoned Watchtower).  My first thought was that the cheap Woodland Scenics styrofoam sheets would be fun to play with for that, since they already had a cool surface texture and I already had them laying around, and they were so cheap as to be basically disposable.   And then I thought, hmmm, maybe this is an opportunity to play around with the Aztec roller on one of them too.  The rest is history...

      It's was just a quick build to get a tower made over the weekend.  I still plan to do more serious work with the Roller later. 

[Chris Palmer]

First layer of drybrushing done today.