Underworld/sewer/Skaven pitch WIP & Slann pitch WIP

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This sewer pitch is a thing of beauty. Excellent work.

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Working on the re-roll counters for the sewer pitch

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Still waiting for other materials to arrive so I can continue work on the rest of the board. Also, after casting 3 layers of resin I think I'll leave things as they are. Everyting went fine so far, but the resin has a sligtly brownish cast to it and I don't want it to go too dark. Will show pictures as soon as the 3rd layer dried up some more and is at least stable enough to keep it's shape

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After a month and a half I can finally start breathing again. The sewer pitch did not turn out to be a total disaster.

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The sewer pitch, as it stands now, is almost finished. Well, not quite. I still need to add chain fences and some signs, and I need to dullcoat a lot of surface area, but other then that things look better then I had them in mind. After the last coat of resin I let the pitch sit for weeks because of low temps in my storage room and no heating. The last layer was kind of bad. I added a further layer and that seems to have fixed things a bit.

Work continues, but I'm slowly getting to a point where I can call this project a finished one.

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The sewer pitch project is slowly coming to an end. Most of the construction work is done. I need to finish the enclosing, then paint that and put some clearcoat on it.

I also still have some re-roll markers to build, but when that's done I'm pretty much finished here.

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How come I see no Skaven playing... :o

Awesome pitch!

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Because the Skaven need more paint. :(

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sorry that I revive this old thread, but many of the images as missing :( and I think it's a really beautifully done playing field - that's why I'd like to hear / know how the tiles are made?

I am considering similar to the 2016 edition of BB - and having problems on how I should make the 34 mm tiles. I had considered casting tiles, but can not find any mold that fits in size - and it also requires maaaaaaaaaaaany tiles ... :-?

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Many of the pictures went missing because I cleaned up my Flickr account a bit and accidentally deleted some of the pictures in the bloodbowl folder :(

Making these tiles is quite easy and doesn't involve casting. The finished product is quite durable however.

I'll see if I can find enough pictures to do a little writeup here.

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the solitaire wrote:Many of the pictures went missing because I cleaned up my Flickr account a bit and accidentally deleted some of the pictures in the bloodbowl folder :(

Making these tiles is quite easy and doesn't involve casting. The finished product is quite durable however.

I'll see if I can find enough pictures to do a little writeup here.
I will greatly appreciate: it really is a beautifully done playing field :D :D

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nikolishin wrote:sorry that I revive this old thread, but many of the images as missing :( and I think it's a really beautifully done playing field - that's why I'd like to hear / know how the tiles are made?

I am considering similar to the 2016 edition of BB - and having problems on how I should make the 34 mm tiles. I had considered casting tiles, but can not find any mold that fits in size - and it also requires maaaaaaaaaaaany tiles ... :-?

I start with styrofoam

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In this case, I picked a thinner foam for the canals, but normally I use one big sheet of 40mm foam. The yellow foam is ok, but the pink foam is more plyable so it makes for a better material to do the small brick walls

I draw the patterns using a ballpoint, then use an xacto knife and a sculpting tool to create the depth I want on the seams

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For the Skaven board my girlfriend did most ofthe shaping. I only did the ballpoint work

With all the tilework done I applied paint, some washes, and texture (sand, static grass etc)

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Lots of detailing to be done

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After all this was done I cast the resin watermassess.

If you have questions on any of these steps, please feel free to ask :)

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Thank you for the quick reply - and the guide!

First up, I want to finish painting my Skaven, but then I take a look at making my own sewer pitch :D

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Hell, I also want to finish my Skaven team, but first I have to find them :o

I recently moved and I know they are in one of those 10 boxes with miniatures... or in one of 5 boxes with fields and terrain.... or in the box with paints and basing materials maybe?

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the solitaire wrote:Hell, I also want to finish my Skaven team, but first I have to find them :o

I recently moved and I know they are in one of those 10 boxes with miniatures... or in one of 5 boxes with fields and terrain.... or in the box with paints and basing materials maybe?
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That's quite a challenge.
Good luck finding them!

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I'm at the point of desperation (or even buying yet another Skaven team) and to make things even worse, a few of the boxes ended up on the attic at my moms place (different country)

To take my attention off these matters, I started painting testers on a 3rd edition High Elf team. Horrible miniatures, but they bring over the High Elf flair quite well, and my girlfriend suggested a paintscheme that will work really well with them.

So I hope to have Johnny's Frogmen here soon as well, and then I have some bits and pieces that could make me a Harlequin team (to be used as Dark Elves)

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