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Smaller Mordheim Projects

This is the culmination of a few weeks working on a number of smaller builds. I am trying to develop a set of terrain that will allow me to play a game of Mordheim with the density that I see others using. Turns out, you need a lot of terrain compared to an Age of Sigmar game. Sitting on the top is the ruined archway that I covered in a previous post, but it is the project that really kicked off this idea.


All of these builds were made from some combination of hard insulation foam, cardboard, stir-sticks, and craft foam. I think the craft foam that I use is a great tool that I don't see very often in hobby builds. It comes in sheets, about the size of a piece of paper, its flat, coloured, and sticky on one side. All of the red bits you see below are craft foam, as are the shingles on the tall house. I also put this foam as the floor for all of my bases. I take a piece of cereal box cardboard, stick a sheet of foam on top, and then I cut it out to the shape I want. This makes a sturdier base that is less likely to curl up with water (though it's not perfect). The foam is also permeable, so paint soaks into it very well, though sometimes this means you will be doing a number of coats.




I also wanted to develop a riser that I could use for a town square, and to give my games another level of verticality. It was a pretty simple build, but very tedious. I just took a rough piece of foam that I had, that wasn't even squared off, and carved stairs into it. The bit there the stairs are was actually just a rough nub, that's why the wall doesn't line up on either side of the stairs. After carving them out, i took a scalpel and made tiny little lines for bricks over the entire surface of the rise, and went over them with a pen nib to create an indentation. I applied a bit of sand/pva glue/water for texture, and then basecoated, drybrushed, and added flock.


We end up with a few pieces of scatter/ruins for a Mordheim board, but not quite enough to fill the table. So, there are a few more builds coming soon. But, here is the finished product.





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