Scratch building the FANTASY! The continuing story...

[Fighelm]

So carrying on me introducing some recycling wot I've been doing. ♻️

These were made to be tabletop terrain pieces. Challenge to myself really, but also cause I bought some balsa wood a few years back, too much in fact. My brain whirred away to think of stuff I could build at 25/28mm scale for fantasy (not really doing anything since), so: a). Age of 10, making balsa airplanes with tissue paper and dope varnish; b). Some 1/72 scale modelling- buildings, ruins, barns, sheds, walls, hedges etc for WW2 modelling. Seen plenty of Old WD articles. Try for myself, freestyle... So, again used all sorts mostly balsa, wood, fibreboard, cork, stones, lichen and scenic scatter.

First up altars and shrine scatter for RPGs, wargaming etc. Incense burner stones, pebbles, old found marbles, glass tiles, seaglass found at on a Southshields beach, toy barrels, milliput made into amorphous blobs and painted with metallic, stuff...

The tower is balsa sheets and stones and cut cork wine tops. Primed & dry brushed.

 

[Fighelm]

Second up is a weird stilted townhouse. Some might say proper 'warhammer' fantasy stylee and totally impractical. I mean, first floor via ladder or magic?! I'd like say it was a tribute to John Blanche illustrations of WFRP building style (less wonky though!), but actually I was going to do an elf watch tower...And just got distracted. Made with cereal box card roof, balsa frame, polyfillared (bad, cowboy 🤠 tradesman) plaster render, aluminium mesh windows, all primed, painted/dry brushed and inked. Signage copied from one of the old supplements or scenarios.

Lurking modern plastic monopose for scale. They turned up and could not even be bothered to be painted properly or to string their bows. Lazy arsed wood-dandies

 

[Fighelm]

... Finally (you can all go back to watching the circus of World Cup, thanks for the attention) it's the Castle, ramparted ruin or whatever Warhammer fantasy Beau Geste-like fort structure you can imagine it to be.

I built it into four roughly equal 'corners', to be used together or parts standalone, or linear like a defensive wall for sieges.If put together as a square fort there is a main door that can be slotted in. It's all made from balsa so wouldn't survive the first trebuchet stone, or kick by a power armoured foot.

It's been used as an Ork stronghold for many a 40K battle. Usually ends badly for the defenders though, the forts main protagonist/leader is one of my son's mates one and only decently painted Ork big fella.

Unfortunately it lost its head a while back during game play (crap glue). Probably rolled under the table and then got hoovered later in week. We found the noggin was missing next time we played. He was forever called 'Headless Chorcken' afterwards, never stopped him stompin' & smashin' humies though. Bless.

The Barbarian for scale...

 

[Eric]

Liking the marbles in the scatter terrain and the house is great.