The Great Mordheim Board Build!!

[Nathan :)]

Hi folks,

I'm in the depths of a project to put together a full 4ft x 4ft Mordheim board for my group and am gonna start uploading my progress reports on here. Feedback, tips, long speech's espousing the virtues of hot glue are all welcome! If you have your own board, please share as well! A little inspiration goes a long way

Here's where I'm at currently anyways. Most of the construction of the first board is done, going back over and filling out areas before I really commit to texturing and then painting everything. I have them mounted on the wall on hooks when I'm not working on them. It's the only way I can think to store the boards!

Next big step will be slathering plaster all across the floor to simulate dirt, hopefully that will really start to pull everything together. Then comes gap filling, priming and finally painting. I have a game day sometime in the middle of November so I'm hoping I can get this part of the board primed at the least for then.

Please excuse the wispy spiderwebs of hot glue left over in places, nothing a lighter can't burn away!

 

[Geroak II]

Looks really good so far! Suitably high density and variation of buildings and verticality allowing lots of places to climb to (and fall from!).
Are you going to make some scatter terrain to add on the streets to take cover from shooters?

 

[KingOfTheLeadPile]

For inspiration I recommend this thread.
Good work so far.
A Mordheim board is on my bucket list for years...

 

[Fimm McCool]

Whoopee! I love a good Mordheim board build. Along with Necromunda they're my favourite terrain setups. I've had a go a couple of times but they take up sooooooooooooo much more space than a regular flat table with hills that I haven't been able to keep going. So thank you for allowing me to live vicariously off this build!

 

[Nathan :)]

Looks really good so far! Suitably high density and variation of buildings and verticality allowing lots of places to climb to (and fall from!).
Are you going to make some scatter terrain to add on the streets to take cover from shooters?

Scatter terrain is in the grand plan but maybe a ways down the road. Hard to get motivated to make the small stuff. Takes almost the same time to make a whole building but it's less immediately rewarding I think

 

[Nathan :)]

For inspiration I recommend this thread.
Good work so far.
A Mordheim board is on my bucket list for years...

Lots to sink my teeth into here, your basing method seems particularly applicable...

 

[KingOfTheLeadPile]

Lots to sink my teeth into here, your basing method seems particularly applicable...

Unfortunately, this is not my build

 

[Geroak II]

Scatter terrain is in the grand plan but maybe a ways down the road. Hard to get motivated to make the small stuff. Takes almost the same time to make a whole building but it's less immediately rewarding I think

Agreed. They tend to feel more rewarding in game, especially if playing against warbands that are heavily leaning to missile weapons.

 

[Nathan :)]

Not a thrilling update but a major step forward for this board. The ground is textured and gap filled with plaster and wall filler, all areas that needed to be bricked are bricked and shingles have been added to the roofs.
To treat myself I made an overly elaborate tower in the least populated corner of the board

Next up is gonna be really rewarding - priming! The step where everything comes together. I'm gonna do a mixture of PVA glue, grey poster paint mixture and sand pillaged from the beach to give everything a gritty texture. Hopefully this really locks down the plaster as it's still a bit delicate in places.

 

[Nathan :)]

We are now officially primed!!

 

[Eric]

I always love how just a coat of paint starts to pull all the pieces together.

 

[Nathan :)]

I always love how just a coat of paint starts to pull all the pieces together.

It's such a relief, it's the first moment you can see it all actually make sense in person as opposed to just in your head

 

[twisted moon]

coming along nicely.