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Warmaster => [WM] Warmaster Fantasy Discussion => Topic started by: Stormwind on February 06, 2012, 12:56:38 PM
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I'm eyeing up a bitz order of loads of Eldar Dark Eldar and High Elf fiddly bits for use basing my Epic Eldar - to suggest fallen and broken statues on an old Crone World...
Then I started thinking - I've noticed that people have used lizardmen banner poles as fallen Lustrian ruins in Warmaster - and I wondered if that kind of thing could be done for other races.
I'm considering buying an Undead army on ebay - and I thought that these:
http://www.modelbits.co.uk/Warhammer+Fantasy/Tomb+Kings/Tomb+Guard/Tomb+Guard+Accessory+-+Shield+E.html
Might look good chopped down to size and drybrushed up as partial Khemrian ruins.
Do any of you have any tips and ideas along similar lines?
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head over to the nearest petshop, and look in the aquarium section
find a dollar/euro/pound store (whichever is applicable) and browse their ware
there are perfectly usable things to be found in a modelrailroad shop......
etcetc
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Yeah I think that very small scale railway shops might have some good wooden fencing - plastic fences or stone walls would be great to have to add some flavour to Empire or Bretonnian forces.
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Yeah I think that very small scale railway shops might have some good wooden fencing - plastic fences or stone walls would be great to have to add some flavour to Empire or Bretonnian forces.
OK, more wacky ideas (but they do work !)
I have green panscrapers and sponge scourers that are pressganged into becomming scenery
the panscrapers are app 3°4mm thick and 10x20cm in size. The material is cutable using scissors and when cunt into slightly irregular strips and fitted to a "stand" works nice as hedges. Smaller garden variety (using trips that are almost square) as well as those found in labyrinths, and when "worked on" a bit to fluff out the strands it makes a very nice boccage style bit too. Ideally suited to create those linear obstacles one would find in the rural areas of empire and bretonia.
The same material is the non foam part of pan scourges, these can be worked the same way, and the spongy material, when suitably cut up and shredded works as foliage for the odd tree.
btw... if you can find access to a wholesaler, check for cake decorations !! not only will it sometimes yield odds and ends, but they usually have plastic palm-trees in large quantities which would work equally well for the odd desert palm as to provide you the basics for a load of jungle terrain
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I feel like I'm being inducted into a secret order of terrain knowledge! =-P
"Thou shalt take the sponges and nay - do not use them for their intended purpose - but shred them into fluffy bocage hedges..."
I was hoping to use some Warhammer Fantasy Dryad branches to represent tiny trees for more temperate bases - I got some for my Space marine scouts but they didn't really fit what I wanted.
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Like Lex i have utilised allsorts of non wargaming stuff for warmaster including the aforementioned pan scourers, an wedding cake decorations(stone pillars for 28mm gaming) and its always worth looking at cheap kids toys in Poundland/Home Bargains for stuff that can be used.
I have also bought a few of the Pendraken range purely to add details to character stands and scenary:
http://www.pendraken.co.uk/Fantasy-c21/Dungeon-Furniture-sc175/
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Oh good find! I must have missed that when I was looking through the P. model range! Would be good to have wells and campfires in the middle of some small ruins / encampment!
My main struggle I see is finding good buildings - N gauge scale model railways seems the best stop - to find some half tudor cottages from the English countryside and use them as Empire villages!
I've been toying with the idea of using these:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LORD-RINGS-BATTLE-FIVE-ARMIES-RUINS-CR-/250987089040?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item3a6fff0c90
Buying them then using instant mold to make copies that can be snipped down into nice walls and ruined towns!
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I have those ruins and there not brilliant IMO, and model railway stuff can be expensive, you could always try these for free:
http://www.brumbaer.de/Wm/Build/index.html
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Go to Brumbaer´s site and use the paperbuildings supplied ! actualy ANY paperbuilding will do when scales properly. Search the forum there is one or two posts on the subject.
Note... Paperbuildings of "sound" houses can be placed "over" the ruined remains, so you can even demolish them during your games !
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Wow - thanks guys! I will have to kick my printer into shape and see if it wants to co operate!
Do you guys print it onto normal paper - then glue it over thin cardstock? I wonder if I glued it onto flocked foamboard whether I could make it look even better.
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Those Papercraft buildings are great. In the same vein I got the 10mm roads from Toschach Miniatures.
(http://i977.photobucket.com/albums/ae260/Spectrar_Ghost/Warmaster%20Terrain/DSCN0403.jpg)
(http://i977.photobucket.com/albums/ae260/Spectrar_Ghost/Warmaster%20Terrain/DSCN0406.jpg)
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@stormwind, yeah i simply print on good quality paper and glue it to a cereal box, makes it nice and sturdy
PS did you get the PM i sent you?
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@stormwind, yeah i simply print on good quality paper and glue it to a cereal box, makes it nice and sturdy
PS did you get the PM i sent you?
Oh - yes I did - thank you! Do you mean things that were in White Dwarf?
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no these are typical British village buildings on cardstock for N gauge model railways, most are usable for the late medieval period(stone built and thatched roofs etc)
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That sounds very kind of you, yes - the more building variety the better!
Although I'm going to have to have an army to play with first before I make any Empire villages. ^.^
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I got a pack of 90lb (162.7gsm) cardstock and printed it straight on. I've done paper over card before, and the corners look crappy, IMO. You can see the card and it ruined the appearance.
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here's a really good free 10mm paper castle:
http://www.toshachminiatures.com/Free.htm
and the guy that makes the castle has some other free stuff:
http://www.davesgames.net/catalog-free-models.htm
which if you print at 34% is 10mm or 40% is 12mm
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I used two 28mm dwarf models as ancestor statutes; painted them up like stone.