Collins does a Frostgrave board

In this update I have targeted the half and quarter sized boards.

These are getting put in-between all the others and used to pad out or represent the roads etc.

The easy way to achieve this is to go to the old school methods of DAS modelling clay and the greenstuff world rollers.

I have two types on hand, the cobblestone one and the wooden plank one. in the end I elected to only use the cobblestone.

with long and thin boards that have no reinforcement (remember back to entry 1) you need to be careful with the drying not to warp the boards. when adding heat to the boards to help evaporate the moisture they do indeed warp. but so far I have observed that if you get a simple fan and point it at the boards the product dries out but doesn’t warp. granted I’ve only tested this on layers of paint and some sculptamold so we shall see what happens with the DAS clay which is prone to shrinkage

Snow is a pain to do… white is the best colour to become tainted by literally anything else

sometimes that’s a good thing, but often with snow, its a pain in the arse.

As an experiment I’ve tried to add a bit of diversity to the underlying snow structure. muddy paths or murky areas where there would be a lot of footfall fading out to pure snow.

the edges I’ve decided must be pure snow to help blend each tile to the next but in-between can have all sorts going on.

this was achieved using two basic colours from the same manufacturer, a warm brown and a white. I went with a burnt umber (red/orange brown) rather than a raw umber (brown) in an attempt to add a little warmth to the areas for the next stage of them.

that’ll be to add frozen ice snow mulch mix.

sidebar: I also added a bit of sculptamold into the big grave to give it a small elevation for further interest. that’ll need whiting and the match sticks will need more grey and a tad of green but it’ll be fine

as you can see from the test layout I had one wall extra that I didn’t use up in the end. reason being I felt that with the slightly raised grave bed for the largest headstone it would lead to interesting enough ground difference without the need to have a blocking wall. I think it increases the playability of the big square block whilst keeping it visually interesting.

lets talk ruins

I’ve had a 3d printer for about 8 years how, a prusa mk3 i3 and it is a little trooper, I can’t seem to kill it (not that im trying, because im not) it is simply a very good machine that has stood the test of time, both in terms of age, and use.

as this game requires lots of LOS blocking stuff that’s multiple levels and ruin shaped I set the little prusa to work.

ive read through a few scenarios in the book and im glad to say there is some plan for this

there is a fountain of youth/knowledge. there are 3 tall(ish) towers/buildings. there is a crypt and a graveyard for one of the necromantic missions and there is also a sprinkling of woods with even a notice board for when the party want to take up a random hire job.

the smaller sheets will likely get turned into ruined roads or paths for just general filler that’ll be sort of easy to do.

When planning this out I knew I wanted it to be modular. having played a grand total of ONE game of frostgrave and loved it it was clear that the table was the key to the scenario an the added fun of the game.

I already have some exp with a modular system as seen in my project here involving anomalia games tiles. Sadly, like all passion projects it got spoiled by events (detailed in project) and similarly for the people running that company the seem to have wound up business and even been chased by the tax man a bit (according to companies house) #awkward

that meant I needed to find a new solution to this problem.

I picked this up at Penkridge Wargames jumble sale for not a lot of money. the terrain tile system by sarissa precision.

it has enough to make a 3×3 in it, it is modular, it is cheap (£33 normally, I paid £17) and more importantly, it is available.

lets see how this works out for me as the bit that attracted me to the anomalia stuff was that it resisted warping. this TTS has zero reinforcement so it might all bend like cardboard if im not careful