Plodding Along on The Gaming Table, Part I: Updated: 06/05/116

Love those first close up and detailled pics! Give a very nice atmosphere!

Thanks Gatlag! I enjoy the closeups also...it's the little things that hold my interest. I've added some streetlights of a sort & a restless inhabitant of the graveyard; photos will be along soon...I hope.   

As the sign says, there are a few more details some of which I photographed...well actually the Camera of Continual Contrariness made the photos...she said to say that.

SO...Some Candles Around The Town:




AND in The Tree:


The Neighborhood Watch:




The next thing to be added is some signs. In the interim feel free to offer your comments & critiques.   

A Lovely Couple moved into the Graveyard next door to the Shanty Town. Here a few photos of ASTOUNDING MEDIOCRITY of the new neighbors:

The Couple:


Himself & Herself will reappear once I straighten out the photos. Better photos will be forthcoming...hopefully. In the meantime, comments & critiques are as always most welcome...mostly.   

Haha, wow, I can't believe how just keep on churning out this stuff.

Do you even play on these tables? If so, what do you play?

Arachas wrote:

Haha, wow, I can't believe how just keep on churning out this stuff.

Thanks, Arachas! I think it's a matter of an Old Man with an over active imagination & way too much time on my hands.   

Arachas wrote:

Do you even play on these tables? If so, what do you play?

Not yet. If all else fails, I'd like to start doing solo games again. I'd probably modify Mordheim or Chaos in Carpathia or something similar.

Are we putting SMOKE on the candles now? They were amazing before... now they are plain AWESOME!

The undead look great too! DeafNala is a painting machine... practice makes perfect.

Mordheimer wrote:

Are we putting SMOKE on the candles now? They were amazing before... now they are plain AWESOME!

Thanks, Mort! I got the smoke idea from pics on one of the forums; it cuts down the size of the flame to something more believable.

Mordheimer wrote:

DeafNala is a painting machine... practice makes perfect.

We're on opposite ends of the painting/modeling/hobby specturm; i.e., your life is SO full of family & work that you have little time for painting/modeling/hobby; whereas, I have just about nothing else going on...we both could stand a better balance.   

Mushrooms & Signs sound almost prophetic. Other than adding a couple of the last details to the Shanty Town the only omen is the start of a new board or two...possibly three. Be that as it may, here are a couple of now anticlimactic photos:

The All Seeing Yenta Snoop's Place:


The Drop of the Pure Tavern (purveyor of Holigan's Hooch):


AND a personable Mushroom by the Downtown Shabby Arms:




As details are added to the Isles & the Shanty Town further photos will be added. The Graveyard, Catacombs, & an old W.I.P. loom on the horizon...well they're sitting anxiously by/on my work table to be more accurate & less dramatic.
Comments & critiques are, as always, most welcome.   

My little boy (5) was looking a the pics and the first thing he said was - cool, then - I'd like that, then (on seeing the vampire) - Dad, will you make me some undead? (he loves Scooby Doo).. Inspiring to the very young and us older guys too Deaf.

Laney

Thanks for the reply, Laney & Son! My stuff does seem to appeal to a wide age group...my neighbor Tom's Grandson loves the horror minis also. AND the best part of being a male is that we aren't expected to ever completely grow up.    

The Vampire is Reaper's 02867 Matthias the Twisted:

http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/02867/latest/02867

It's not The Restless Dead or the Dancing Dead for that matter...just moi. I just finished the crumbling retaining wall in the Graveyard. SO here are a few of W.I.P. photos:









SO it's a underway...may I have an "OH BABY"?!
Your comments & critiques would brighten my day...which speaks worlds as to my social life.   

That wall looks promising! Well in tabletop terms... because an actual crumbling wall would be bad but you get my drift.

Thanks, Gatlag! My old place in Sound Beach had retaining walls; they look fine when they're new, but are a bitch to maintain. Working with them in this scale is a helluva lot easier...glad you like it so far!   

While I'm waiting for the Green Stuff to dry, I though posting a couple of progress photos might be in order to maintain interest...whose interest is another matter. I've been doing up a couple of Mausoleums. Initially I was thinking of adding a Mordheim Gargoyle from G.W.; after a moment of thought, I decided to do my own...the plastic part was just too twinky.

So here's how the board looks so far:


AND a look at the Green Stuffing (the Fellow to the right is Seedy Jon Apfel, Serial Killer & Man About Town):


Seedy Jon is a combination of G.W.Empire Militia & Zombie parts wit a Lead Adventure Mini head. His kill signature is a discarded apple core or two.

As always I would be delighted to hear your comments & critiques...for the most part.   

Nice! Is this the place the dead mushrooms go to?
I like the gargoyle, grotesque as it should be! What does the text beneath it say? Can't seem to read it

Thanks, Gatlag.    
Where Mushrooms go has been the subject of many a philosophic debate. The Mushrooms, themselves, are hoping for Rio. Bayone, New Jersey has long been established as the final destination of Bad Mushrooms...what constitutes "Bad" for a Mushroom is another matter.   
The scroll says "Caveat" As in caveat emptor: let the buyer beware. In this case who should beware is left to the imagination.

I managed to finish the sculpt & prime of the second Face-Above-The-Crypt-Door. SO without further ado here are some photos of dubious quality of the second mausoleum:





As always your kind comments & critiques would be most welcome...mostly.   

AND NOW the first painted piece for the Graveyard, Marley's Crypt:

The long view:


Zooming in...




AND inside a trap door & could that be an apple core?:


As is my habit, your comments & critiques are once more requested.   

The crypt's color is really nice! That secret passage is just great!

Thanks, Gatlag. There will be other trap doors hidden around the Graveyard...one is in one of the mausoleums...don't tell anyone.   

Very clever! That is what I like about your stuff... the big stuff looks amazing, but the little things... WOW!!! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks. Mord...glad you like the stuff. Speaking of "small things", the apple cores are becoming quite a hit. I had to take a separate photo for a guy over on L.A.M.:



...teeny, but cool, eh?!   

ehhh... why?    They are cool and all... but why? LOL

Mordheimer wrote:

ehhh... why?    They are cool and all... but why? LOL

Do remember Aly Morrison's Hands of Fate War Band from the Best of the Town Crier? Well, one of the Brethren was done up with a plate of apple cores on his head. I think that's where Ben got the idea. My living impaired character, Seedy Jon Apfel (a take off on Johnny Appleseed) leaves an apple core next to his victims as his signature...& it fits my weird personality.