Walls take 2

After making the first part of a wall last week, I had a rather tragic accident. I tried to create a rubber mold so I could work on the other side of the brickwork.. which didn't go too well.

I'm not entirely sure what went wrong, but the rubber just didn't set properly and the air dry clay got damp in the prolonged exposure to the rubber and started to dissolve. I suspect leaving it overnight in the cold garage to set didn't help.

Still. It gave me pause for thought and I've made a new wall that looks better than the first one. This will be getting a coat of varnish to seal the clay before I attempt to create a mold for this one to avoid the same mistake again.

Design wise the pieces will (hopefully) interlock, meaning that I won't need as much footing as the GW walls. The brickwork should be about the same size as the Garden of Morr, so they shouldn't look out of place except the builder hasn't been using skulls in these walls.

Once I've actually got a decent mold for this, the next job will be to try and get the brickwork to line up neatly on the other side. For some reason the GW walls don't match up in any way, shape or form as you can see from one of my bits below

Raising the walls

One of the joys of Salute is the raised levels of inspiration afterwards. I've been meaning to carry on with the remaining walls from the Garden of Morr kit, but there are so many skulls embedded in them that it's frustrating and offputting.

It turns out that it's far easier to create a new wall from scratch instead.

I rolled out a piece of air dry clay so that it was about the same thickness of the GW walls and once dry, carved in some bricks about the same height on one side. This is currently sitting in some mold rubber so I can make a plaster version and continue with the opposite side. The clay was good for starting with, but was becoming too fragile to even attempt the other side. for now I've not made it a specific length so I have the ability to pick the neatest section to place between pillars and then top it.

So far I'm feeling rather pleased.
 

More graveyard

This is the last piece of graveyard for a while, so you can breathe a bit more easily. There are other pieces left to paint, but I think it's time to expand the Threshold and Mythos forces a little so I can actually try Strange Aeons, rather than just thinking about it.

The graveyard shift

After the smaller terrain updates, today we've got two more pieces complete with a third just waiting for the roof to be tarnished. This has to be the most prolific I've ever been as far as painting goes... maybe I should move house more often! The small wall section had a fair number of skulls to remove, thankfully the ones actually embedded between the brickwork were easy to trim down into stones. The little arch was, as always, trickier to do, but a flat, chisel bladed scalpel seemed to do the trick nicely.

Second wall

Thanks to a bout of insomnia, I managed to get the other wall finished this morning... so I've now got the corner to a little garden, or a graveyard, for Ned the Necromancer to play in..

First piece of terrain finished

Tonight sees a remarkable breakthrough... the completion of the first ever piece of terrain.

Ok, so it's not home made, but a lot of work went into getting all those annoying gw skulls of it... so much so that it probably would have been quicker to carve all the blocks out of foam and build the wall from scratch! Still; I'm pleased and the other wall that has been de-skullified shouldn't take long to paint now I've worked out the colours to use.

 

This also starts to give me something to take photos against to make them a little bit more interesting too.