More dead tree tests and a idea for a castle in a swamp.

 Free STL picked up online of 4 different dead tree stumps, and painted up the first 2.

Can I just mention it is very frustrating that every time you take a pic close up of FDM printed stuff the lines show up, but when I or my mates look at these up close no one can discern the lines with our naked (and me with my augmented) eyes? Only when you zoom out a bit and release the focus you get to see what I see. Anyway.....

And one for the general mood of things.

Also, when discussing swamps on the LAF the mention of a castle in a swamp turned up, so I grabbed a free stl, tilted it in 2 directions with the slicer and based it up. Now primed for tomorrows hobby night.

Verrotwood table layout test

 Same as with my Zona Alfa table, going over what I need to add, and this case.....a bit more diversity in trees so it isn't a episode of Pines-R-Us would be nice, and some farm buildings, burned down or not, and walls. But otherwise, not bad at all as it is. 

Spider eggs, spider eggs......so many....spider eggs!

 

For the spiders I made for Verrotwood/Silver Bayonet a while back, I thought it would be nice to have some eggsacks lying around, as one does. But I didn't want to spend a lot or use the 3D printer for it, so went with the wooden beads route. A bag of these is cheap at the arts & crafts section, or you can find bags of the stuff at the local Goodwill for even more variety. Add some Milliput to seal the hole, glue in place, cover the areas in between with some cheap wall filler, et voila, eggs. Or alien mushrooms. Or spawnpoints. Or anomalies. Or.....anything you can think of.

Grey primer, black wash, and just dotted all of them with a AK light grey marker pen and then again with a AK white marker pen, and satin varnish on top. No flock as these are so generic that they will fit in with my 28mm as well as my 15mm collection (see pics for ideas).

Hope you like!

The Last War - The Old Artillery - Finished

 Good enough for me. Not 100% like I had intended it to be, but it looks the part :)

 

 

The Sarkarians (Verrotwood Cult)

 

Sarkar the Divine


Before the death of the Gods, the small village tended to the docile orb weaving Sarkarian spiders living in the nearby Forest around the shrine of Sarkar, and harvesting the strong fibers of their webs for a light and very expensive cloth. It was a hard life, but they managed.

And then the Darkness came.

Suddenly the spiders weren’t so docile anymore. Several workers are attacked and killed, their poisend bodies used as nurseries. Even worse, the spiders started growing, and growing, from small hand sized spiders to the size of a Bull. When they started entering the village in search of food, a local harvester donned a suit made of the special cloth and approached the largest spider carrying an offering of fresh meat wrapped in strands of web, wafting in a cloud of incense, weaving it left to right, stomping his feet and mumbling rhymes praising Sarkar to himself.

The spider stopped as if hallucinated, bowed down, and took the offering placed in front of his monsterous jaws, and backed off back into the forest. Sarkar would be pleased, if only we appeased His children more His favour would surely return.

But now the animals have all been slaughtered and fresh meat must be aquired, so the villagers are flooding the Forest in search of more fresh meat. Animal or Human, Sarkar cares not. And with enough offerings, Sarkar will decend from the heavens to give plentyful bounty to her followers.

Well, they hope anyway. 

Verrotwood: Vicious Terrain - Sacraficial Altar

 "Something awful happend here and now the ground itself is tainted with hatred"

If you do a melee attack within 3 inches of this terrain piece, you gain 1D10 attack dice.

Examples: Sacraficial rock, pile of bodies, etc.

 

I found this free STL ....somewhere?* I can't for the life find who made it, even when using the file name. I'm sure someone will someday tell me. Printed it off, used a saw to remove the badly printed goat skull that was there as sacrifice, sanded it smooth, coverd the gaping hole with some flatterend crumped paper and glued 4 Games Workshop skulls on top. To represent another team of 4 Cultists that had met a untimely end. Or timely, depending on your view.

*Edit: Apparently it is a Forest Shrine from this range Temple or Arba ....but I picked it up as a free STL, I think? It's not in my online receipts at any of the STL places. So I'm now showing off a pirated STL.....FML. I'll send a message to the creator. 

This was a experiment on how to paint printed stuff, as it is very different from the MDF I'm used to. Lot's of sponging too on this one to subdue the printlines a bit. Didn't quite work the way I wanted to, but done is done. Size wise it fits in nicely with some of my other shrines. 

So...the altar for He Who Ascends, The Allseeing Eye, or the Giant Spikey Boob*? Who knows, but it is done. 

*You may thank Modhail for this: "All hail the malignant mammary of magnificent magnitude!"

 

 

They are multiplying!

 It's not that I need that many, but I was making a few anyway so just finishing before I move on to something else was the smarter move.

 

So....more spidies.  2 Big ones, 3 small ones, same scheme, roughly same basing style. 

 

A Grave Matter - testbase

 Had it in the box, primed and ready to go, so it was about time to finish these. 4cm square base, 2 gravestones from Green Stuff World IIRC. I've been looking at many a peoples (28mm) graves to get an idea how I would like to see mine based up. Tufts from various sources.  28mm scaled.