Realm of Battle Gaming Board 14

Thanks to a trip to Ikea earlier and an hour rearranging furniture and building tables I can now do this in the lounge...

So that is a 6x6 foot gaming table. So 36sq foot for Apocalypse games and with enough room to still get round the room and get through the door.

Once I had the chance to get the two extended hill panels out I was able to see I need to do a bit more drybrushing on them to better match the existing boards.

Recalcitrant Daze - This and That.

Welcome to post 400.

A combination of things has resulted in a lack of updates recently. One is work, one is a tattoo convention and the other is the water effects I put in the board ponds.

As the water effect was taking so damn long to go off I at first didn't want to do anything near them that could spoil it (e.g. getting dust into the stuff as it cured), the boards have also taken up most of the room so I haven't been able to cast or even do moulds.

As such I've not been able to do enough on one particular project to do an update on them. But as it's been a while I thought i'd do a generally 'this is what I have done' post.

Realm of Battle Boards:

The water effect I put in finally cured. I then moved onto adding the next layer. For this I needed some new water effect, turned out GW has changed the stuff they sell. This is a problem. For a start it is more expensive (what a surprise) but the main problem is that it appears to be shit.

The first stuff added finally cured.

Basically the water effect went white - not a problem I thought as it is probably just what it does.

The problem is as it has cured in some areas it has started to peel away round the edges. As you can see in the picture below it is hardly a small thing that can be brushed aside.

The new stuff...

So I am now going to have to wait for the two pools I have added the new stuff to to fully cure so I can then peel it out without damaging what is underneath it.

So has anyone got a good recommendation for water effect? Keep in mind I have a river to fill so don't want to spend an absolute fortune on it...but on the other hand with the amount of work I have put in to building the river I won't be looking to scrimp now.

Talking of river boards I did get a bit more painting on them done. Namely neaten things up, add was to rocks in river and pick out the two skulls.

Papa Nurgle:

Sitting on my desk are a few Daemon units I have made a start on getting finished:

I know I should of begun by finishing the Plaguebearers and Nurglings I started painting a while back but to be honest I couldn't be arsed.

Big Drone, Little Drones, Scabby...

I must sort out my paints soon as well...

Talking of Daemons I have some new recruits for them which arrived yesterday...namely a Plague Hulk and a Jabberthingymejig which I plan on converting into a Nurgley Great Spined Beast.

The Hulk wasn't the only thing to arrive from Forge World, the Death Guard are almost complete (in the sense of buying all the bits, they are somewhere off being actually 'finished').

Ah, the smell of Resin in the morning.

That is that for now.

If you can give me some pointers to good water effects please post it up as it would be highly appreciated.

Realm of Battle Gaming Board 13

After a quick trip to the local hobby store to pick up some Raw Umber paint I was able to crack on with the Realm of Battle gaming boards.

To recap (as it has been a while since I last did work on these) I modified some Realm of Battle gaming boards to give me more variety in set ups.

Two boards had the hills extended...

And two others had rivers carved into them...

So the paint job has come on a lot today. Unfortunately as the sun had long gone by the time I had finished just the first two I won't be able to touch up the paint jobs or paint any corrections so that these match the existing boards I have. I will also add some washes at this stage as well before adding a bit of foliage. The river boards will then get some water effect.

Here is the current state of the boards:

I still have two hill panels untouched. The plan for one will be a waterfall of some kind, the other is currently in limbo. I did think of doing a panel similar to FW's Imperial Strongpoint but I went off that idea so if you have any ideas post them up and I might (might) do it.

Recalcitrant Daze - This Still Isn't a Review Post.

So yeah, not a review post. More of a 'what-may-be-coming-in-the-near-future-type-of-post' post.

Realm of Battle Gaming Boards.

After the gaming over the last couple of days I decided not to pack away the gaming boards just yet. Even though I started these several years ago I have never had chance to finish them off. So to begin with I have poured more water effect into the pools onto the first two boards.

After these pools, and the ones on the remaining board, are filled i'll move onto the other RoB boards I have started...



Extended Hills

River Boards

Nurgle Daemons...

Awaiting my attention are my Nurgle Deamons.

Still to finish off are a unit of Plaguebearers, some Nurgling Bases, three Plague Drones, a Blight Drone and of course Scabby...

Dreadball.

The futuristic ball game is a blast to play so it seems natural to pick up a team to build.

I'm not a fan of many of the teams but the Robots caught my eye so I have those sitting on my workbench.

Fortifications.

As mentioned before I got hold of Stronghold Assault. Being a fan of all things siege-y I can't help thinking that in the coming months I will turn my hand to building something that will play a part in a defensive line.

Whether Ork or Imperial I am yet to decide...

Other things...

On top of those I have my Deathwing Zone Mortalis force to paint up...

Oh and of course the Death Guard Horus Heresy force which while I have some models for but I am still in the process of planning as you can see left and right:








I think that is everything I can think of at the moment.

Just to finish off I should mention last night I had an article go up on Bell of Lost Souls which can be found here.

Realm of Battle Gaming Board 12

So. Things have been a bit quiet.

Basically I am in the middle of moving. Most of my modelling stuff is actually packed in boxes already and have been out of the way for a bit.

I even missed doing the monthly post, again. I may just give up on that or go bi-monthly or something similar.

However I wanted to get something done and so I turned to the gaming boards with the aim of at least getting them undercoated.

This I (just about) managed to do in time.

I got all four boards sanded, for some reason one of them was a nightmare to do and I had to keep re-touching it but eventually I got them all covered.

I ran out of black spray twice (I had two cans which turned out to only have about 3/4 of a cans worth of paint between them) but eventually I got them all in black...

River Boards:



Hill Boards:

Not entirely sure when I'll have something worth doing an update for, hoping it won't be too long.

I am waiting for some TL Big Shootas to turn up from ebay so when I can get back to doing models I will be able to crack on with the Junka again.

Realm of Battle Gaming Board 11

So last post until I get back from my work trip. Boards are pretty much done now sculpting wise. I have one little mod to do and some clean up (bit of sanding of some edges and the odd filler job on rock surfaces).

As you can see the join is much improved. Once the sloping area has its covering of sand and similar on the rear of the top level has its sand added the join should be no difference than with the regular boards.

The one mod I want to do you can see above. I want to reshape slightly the side of the rock which butts up against the other panel. The side which you can see poking above the rock on the adjacent panel is far too slab sided. So bit of reshaping is required.

The picture above and the one below show the alternative set up, with the panels 'side-by-side' instead of 'end-to-end'. Again the jon is fine, no worse than the regular panels joining and once sand is added it won't look any difference. However the corner of the one panel will need a bit more work (picture above, top left corner of right hand panel).

To help show up the texture and show better what areas need some work (sanding/filling) I gave the rocks a coat of grey primer.



Panel 1



Panel 1 close up of new rocks.



Panel 2



Panel 2 close up of new rocks.

Panels side-to-side

End-to-end close up of join

End-to-end

This pic shows the rock which needs a bit of work better.

So that's it for now. The plan will be to work on the Junka when I get back - I hope for better conditions to work on it. If not i'll get the panels out again and get the sand added.

Realm of Battle Gaming Board 10

I picked up some Milliput which meant I could carry on with the rocks.

This is taking a while due to having to wait for each round of milliput to cure before being able to do anything else. But slowly things are coming together.

This is the first panel which I had started in the earlier posts:

And this is the second panel, with the moved rocks:

The panels can be arranged so that they are either side by side or back to back. The main thing I have to work on now is tidying up the edges so that the panels meet better.

As an example this is the join when the two panels are end to end:

Now obviously the join will never be seemless, but then the join between the GW panels isn't seemless either. But I do want to get the join move even. This alas means more milliput and more sanding.

The slightly pale lookin places is due to me adding a PVA/tissue layers to give a tougher surface to the foam and help tie everything together. The resulting texture isn't a problem as once the sand is added all of it will be covered. While I was doing that I also added some small rocks.