Mythology Terrain, Hecate Statue - 3D prints

More pics to follow on this project, this is a statue of Hecate in various forms.

New mythology range - Acheron

 After a few months of beavering away I've achieved a good grasp of 3d sculpting in Zbrush, and 3D printing using the Mars 2 Elegoo pro.

I need to figure out the best place to retail the STL files next, but for now: a preview.

These are 30mm on average, historical style and size (not games workshop size like my sci-fi stuff). All multipart with separate heads, arms and shields.

Thematically these people live on the threshold of the underworld, I'll do a follow up with some of the lore at a later date, along with the terrain I've made for them, some of it also 3d printed.

Low quality iphone pics for now

More Frostgrave terrain painted

 

These latest 3 terrain pieces painted up relatively easy, and they seem to configure in a few different ways quite nicely (totally unplanned).

The entire collection now needs details like signs, railings and the odd crate. I really want to add icicles and snow to everything but it's quite a delicate procedure so I might experiment with photoshopping these images before I jump in with glue and artificial snow... I've never been satisfied with my winter efforts on terrain in the past.

Some gratuitous shots with a background skyline with the Loke battlements DM screen.

Christmas decorations equates to Frostgrave terrain

I wanted to make something that might be a row of houses or reflect a little street in downtown Felstad. I'll do more later continuing this theme but this is a nice little versatile set to start with.

Almost everything is from Firedragon Games: XPS foam sheets and resin windows and doorways. Only the cardboard tiles and wood were entirely raw materials.

In hindsight I might have preferred to make everything from scratch, I'm not sure how those windows will look next to the actual wood texture once painted. I'm sure it will be fine...

Sunday afternoon Frostgrave is becoming a thing

 ... at least until the summer, at which point it will probably become Sunday night Frostgrave. Or Sungrave.

Frostgrave terrain: the wood

Balsa wood flooring and doors in place, stained a few times with wash.

Final details still to go like metal door hinges and some weeds, but nearly done!

Frostgrave terrain - paint jobs

That's the first round of painting done - stone and slate.

Next up is to build out the balsa wood doors and fittings, and flooring planks for the second floor, and stain it all. Once that's in I'll do the final pass with some foliage and texture, and then final weathering.

Still unsure if I'll even bother with snow, if I do any it will be very subtle.

Frostgrave terrain WIP

Materials from Firedragon Games (foam sheets, windows and arrow slits)

https://www.firedragongames.co.uk/

Once painted I'll add in balsa wood flooring for the upper levels.

Atheros Playtesting

 

Rival demigods duke it out in the depths of the underworld.

The final pieces are all falling into place, today I was testing out alternate combat mechanics in an effort to lock in on the final version. (Roll vs an enemy Defence target -or- Player vs Player roll, highest wins)

Lots of open space to get right to it!

D10 for this one. A demigod and his travelling party of heroes. Modular dungeon like set up's make the while thing more interesting, and are a key element when playing scenarios.

Hopefully 2021 is the year this finally breaks the surface...

Sci-Fi Terrain Swatches

 I mentioned these in my last post: terrain swatches.

These are essentially little test pieces that are useful for trying out techniques and colour schemes. I played these ones pretty safe because they're for a specific set of scenery, but I'll be doing more in the near future that are a bit more wild.

A little perk at the end is, if they're worked out, you have a little vignette/background for photographing your miniatures in!

I'll do a full tutorial for the actual scenery pieces (modular Sci-Fi) in the near future but for now I'll talk about the swatches themselves.

• The card they are mounted on was from an Amazon book delivery, so quite robust.
• The black foam is actually some excess laminate flooring underlay. Very cheap and comes in massive sheets, but beware - it's quite brittle and takes some getting used to.
• Panels and joins were simply scored in with a ballpoint pen.

Painting was done with basic acrylics, 2 coats for the main colour. At this stage you can add in another colour using the panels you've scored as a guide (blue), or use modellers masking tape to lay in some shapes, then paint in those shapes with a contrasting colour.

These were all done quickly so take some care to make sure they are aligned straight and parallel. You can also find random stencils for use at this stage, like this green thing that came out to a christmas cracker (and straight into the tool drawer)

When I removed the masking tape it had lifted small specks of the grey basecoat, so that was quickly touched up. 

The scratches should always be done after the masking stage, I'll explain why in a proper tutorial later.

Quick wash of watered down black acrylic paint next. This takes practice and you need to be subtle.

What follows are lots of step by step images without any commentary, I'll cover that in a full tutorial!