Commission Display Board 2014

Bretonnian Display Board

 

This display board is built for a large bretonnian army locally in central Illinois.  The board itself is made of 4'' of polystyrene and a 1/4'' plywood base.  The outside edges are pine board with nails, screws, and glue holding them in so that it can take a beating.  The Backdrop tower is made from casted train brick, GW tower pieces, polystyrene core, and wood liner.  Step by step construction is below. 

 

 

Wood glue is used in each step of construction, overnight drying and weights are used at every step.

Mounted on a 24''x24''x4'' sized display board the display is designed to house up to 5 larger knight units for 3,000 points.  The center recessed corner will house the castle section.  Made up of 3.5'' deep 5'' tall castle segments.  The back corner will be home to a GW tower overlooking the castle sections.  A moat is then cut into the castle section.  As of now the Castle sections are being glued onto a removable wood sheet for easier transportation.

The cobblestone is cut from Zuzzy.com

Water is melted from hobbylobby to a little under boiling and then poored in over the river.  Remember that polystyrene melts so have layers of plaster over the polystyrene.

This is my typical grey stone and wooden paint scheme

The edging is from hobbylobby, tacked together, and predrilled screws along with glue.

two small huts are added on the castle innerwall

The water is painted dark blue and then clear water is heated and added.

The water is then painted with a little white on top where it rushes past rocks

Hever Castle, England: Henry VIII Summer Retreat

Hever Castle

Henry the VIII's summer retreat

The castle from across a second mote

The castle from up on a hill, about 1/4 mile away

The gatehouse inside the courtyard

Inside the courtyard

Looking inside the gate

Blood in the Sun IV 2014

 

Best Painted Blood in The Sun IV (4)

 

www.bloodinthesun.com

 

Blood in the Sun is a 2-Day, 5 Round Warhammer Fantasy Battles tournament, located in Lake County, IL just south of the Illinois-Wisconsin border. It's our hope that the Blood in the Sun tournament will draw WHF players—new and veteran—from the surrounding midwest area and beyond!

 

Johnny Hastings MinOgres! Won Best Appearance!  Congrats.

Some MournFang Chariots!

The Snorri Award(ODT Gaming) - Best Theme!  Go Chicken Halflings!

Our Cocked Dice Banner for The Club Tournament.

Chaos Dwarfs! In the Top 10 ARmies at BITS

Holy Hammer Herner his Skaven in the Top 10 Armies at BITS IV!

Big Conversions!

Another Large Conversion!

Half-Humans: The Halfling Archers

Half Humans: The Halfling Archers

The models as described before have been taken from the Dogs of War set The Fighting Cocks from the early to late 1990s.  They are a mix of GW models that tie in a common archer theme.  The Ogre in the middle ranks acts as a unit filler painted to match in the same way and is the Ogre BodyGuard from the mid 1990s game Mordheim.  A custom banner must still be added to the Standard Bearer and more Archer bits will be added once a few more units have been completed.

My Fighting Cocks painted up Green!



Mordheim bodyogre Added to the Center!

Angled view of my 31 Fighting cock Archers with BullyOgre

The custom banner is added here next to the ogre. some eggs added to it with some bretonnian shields matching the colors of the unit.  Next some shields with checkered patterns that will be added to the unit.

AdeptiCon 2014 Warhammer Fantasy TT: Bad Dice Coverage

I get to be on Bad Dice! 5:42 minutes in we got kicked out of the runnings in the first round of the Team Tournament at adepticon! Had a lot of fun though and kicked it the next 2 games!

Half-Humans: The Halfling Army Sword and Board

Half-Human: Sword and Board Battle Forge Halflings

 

This is a unit of 24 sword and board halflings with a hand painted banner.  All details are finished up with eyes, custom banner, and countless layers on all leather, blue, and steel.  My usual raised bases as well.  Going to be adding some details to the bases if I can like skulls and weapons strewn about.



This is my unit of 24 battleforge Sword and Board halflings

Angled view

Hand crafted nest egg on the front of the banner!

Back view has a hand painted chicken

Back view close up.

Getting these bad boys together was tough all bases had to be altered since they weren't slotta bases, ended up tooling them, then pinning them.  Lots of washing and layering.  More to come with the Halflings I just have to organize some colors, be prepared to see them at Blood in the Sun 2014.