15mm Ruined Temple

Hi, everyone. I took some pics of my ruined temple. The lower half is made from 10 pieces of Proxie Models Gothic Buildings, 4 door pieces and 6 wall pieces. The roof and upper half is scratchbuilt from cereal box card, craft sticks, some Decorflex brick wall, and corrugated wood from MicroMark. Based on a piece of vinyl tile.

Pic above is the front view. Double-tailed Comet was printed out from a google search.

Pic below is a side view. Showing the ruined roof. The roof piece is removable. I may make another non-ruined more techy roof to use in Sci-Fi gaming.

 Pic below is more of an aerial view showing a little of the interior and the steeple top with an archer in place. 

 Pic below is an aerial view from the front.

 Well, there it is. I may still add some floors for the different levels. These Proxie Models Gothic Buildings are pretty nice and versatile, and certainly affordable. Thanks for looking.



15mm Mordheim Ruin Update

Hi, folks. I got the bases of the Proxie Models 15mm Ruins done. I used some thick card for the tiles, cut into irregular squares. I decided to paint most of them in different checkerboard colors. I likes me some colors on my table.  :) Then sanded and flocked.

There you have it. Pretty much done. I may add some vines and signs but they're playable now. Thanks for looking.

Painted 15mm Ruins

Hi, folks. I painted and based some of the Proxie Models 15mm ruins. Just drybrushed a variety of colors. These babies drybrush up very well. The detail is deeply incised so it's hard for even someone as hamfisted as me to screw them up. There is a surprising amount of detail on these, especially on the 15mm Corner Ruins and 15mm Ruined Brick Building sets. Not only do they have nice exterior brickwork with detailed window frames, broken brick and bullet holes, they even have nice detail on damaged interior walls. The detail on the Gothic Ruins is pretty much limited to the outside, but it there, just not as pronounced or intricate as is seen on the prior two. Now if Proxie Models would make some Half-timber models, I'd get them in a heartbeat. Anyway, nuff said - pics.

 Pic above shows Gothic building and corner ruin side by side.

 Pic above shows some of the exterior detail (note the window frames and bullet holes) and the interior detail on the piece in the background. Note the damaged interior walls.

 Pic above shows some of the interior detail.

 Pic above shows the Gothic Building with door piece detail.

 Pic above is a side view. This piece was made from door pieces. Each set has 2 door pieces and two wall pieces without doors.

 Back view. The model has a nice integral ledge to support flooring. (Not provided)

I think painting these pieces has really helped bring out the excellent level of detail Ken of Proxie Models brought to these pieces. Thanks for looking. 

15mm Mordheim Building Ruins WIP

Hi, folks. I've been working on some ruins for a 15mm Mordheim board. I'm using Proxie Models ruins and buildings. I've got 4 each of the 15mm Corner Ruins, Ruined 15mm Brick Buildings, and 15mm Gothic Buildings. These are great little models at an excellent price. If you haven't checked him out yet, you should cruise over there if you like sturdy, beautifully detailed models at a way-low price. I'm using them now for Mordheim, but I think they'd be great for just about any era.

Enough yakking - pics:

 Pic above side view of the board. The street tiles are from Fat Dragon Games. The big building with the broken roof is made from 10 of the Proxie Models 15mm Gothic Building pieces.

 Pic above view from another angle.

 And another angle shot. The big building center view is going to represent a ruined cathedral/temple.

 Pic above is one of the Proxie Models 15mm Gothic Buildings which I ruined with a pair of tin-snips. The plastic is very strong so the tin-snips worked a lot better than my usual sprue-cutters. Those are Rebel Minis miniatures for scale.

 Pic above is one of the Proxie Model 15mm Corner Ruins. The minis are Eureka Dwarves I got from Eureka Miniatures USA. Another place with great minis for great prices. The skelly is Khurasan Minis (I think).

 
 Pic above shows a mix using the Proxie Models 15mm Corner ruins with some Ruined 15mm Brick Building pieces. The minis are Eureka.






 Pic above shows a couple of the 15mm Corner Ruins with a Splintered Light Miniatures Ogre mini. I love these Splintered Light Ogres, very nicely sculpted and detailed.

 Pic above is another ruin made from the Proxie Models 15mm Corner ruins and Ruined 15mm Brick Building pieces. The Elves are Eureka "Elves of the Lofty Spire" 18mm minis.

 Pic above shows another mixed Proxie Models ruins piece. The Orc is either Eureka or an old Khurasan.

Pic above is another of the Proxie Models 15mm Gothic Buildings. I love the stairway piece for the door. Minis are a Splintered Light Minis Ghoul (left) and an old Rebel

Minis Necromancer.

Once I get the buildings finished I will probably make a 2x2 foot board from pink foam with inscribed cobblestones.

Thanks for looking.

GW Garden of Morr for 15mm Fantasy

I recently got the GW Garden of Morr set. I really like it. It's beautifully modeled and detailed. I think the mausoleum buildings are a littleon the small side for 28mm, and wondered what they would look like with 15mm minis. I think they work fine with 15mm, and especially with 18mm. Here's some pics. What do you think?

I could see using these mausoleums to make some pretty cool 15mm Fantasy terrain. Thanks for looking.

And on that day, many tiny paper lizards lost their feet. Or how I made some leaves.

Hi, folks. I added a little vine to a new tower today. A while back I bought this hole punch that punches out little lizard shapes. I was going to use it for some Warhammer Fantasy Battles Lizardmen terrain. Then I noticed how much the feet look like leaves. I had punched out a whole bunch of the lizards from light green construction paper about 6 years ago, and they were still sitting in one of my bitz boxes. All of the lizards had mostly faded from a bright green to a light brown, even better for leaves in Mordheim.

So then I started performing multiple amputations on the poor, defenseless reptiles. (Insert evil laugh here)  :)

Pic above shows footed lizard on left with feetless pile on the right.

Pic below shows lizard feet... err, leaves, added to a sisal twine vine.

Another shot of the leaves. They also make pretty good leaf litter if you have the patience to defeet a bunch of lizards.

And there you have it. A pretty cheap, kind of wierd way to make leaves.

28mm Modular Gothic Series Ruin by GameCraft Miniatures

Hi, folks. I just finished a 28mm Modular Gothic Ruin by GameCraft Miniatures.  I used the Building Frame 1 set which features two ruined 3-story walls, made from foamcore, and with doorways and windows, all pre-cut out by laser. I also got two of the resin Doors and Windows sets. Each Doors & Windows set "contains 6 window frames, one closed door frame and one open door frame with a separate door".  There are some nice videos available through the GameCraft site detailing construction of the kits to help with your first build.

What interested me most about this product was the resin doors and windows, and the potential time saving in construction from not having to hand cut all of the doorways and window openings into the foamcore. That plus all of the resin door and window pieces are precision made to fit into the pre-cut holes in the foamcore. Having just spent a lot of time cutting windows and doorways into a bunch of foamcore buildings for Mordheim, I was more than a little excited about the thought of rapid construction with precision-cut components. Turns out I was mostly right.

Resin components - Doors and Windows: 10 out of 10 stars
Great stuff! Beautifully modeled, ornate and detailed with skulls and intricate scroll work in the window frames, these are an incredible value. The resin is thick, strong and had very little flash, which cleaned up easily. Both of the open doorway pieces were a little warped on arrival, but straightened out readily when placed in boiling water for a minute or two. These resin pieces are probably the best terrain bargain I've ever found. For $6 you get 6 window frames, one closed door frame and one open door frame with a separate door. And these aren't tiny doors and windows.  Each window frame measures 1.7 inches (43mm) wide by 2.7 inches (68.5mm) tall and are about 5mm thick.  The doors are larger. Doorways are 1.7 inches (43mm) wide but are a towering 3.05 inches (77.5mm) wide.

Pic below shows the 3 door pieces in the set with a GW 28 mini for scale.

 Below pic shows a couple of the 6 windows in the set. Note the intricate scrollwork at top and bottom of the window frames. 

Next up are the foamcore wall pieces.

Pre-cut Foamcore with doorways and windows already cut out: 8 out of 10 stars.

Made from a nice, sturdy 5mm white foamcore, both pieces are 10.35 inches (263mm) tall and 6.7 (170mm) wide. These really didn't meet my expectations for saving time in construction.  Though all of the cuts were precise, the foamcore had receded from the paper edges of all of the cuts at least 2-3 mm, leaving only the edges of the hard outer paper of the foamcore to make contact with the resin windows and doorways, as well as the corner joins for the walls. I thought that small amount of contact between components would make for a very weak model if used like that. Now I should say at this point that Mr. Rockwell, the owner of GameCraft Miniatures did make a point of warning buyers that the laser does cause the foamcore to recede from the paper edge, but I was surprised by the depth of melting that resulted when I saw the product in real life.

Pic below shows one of the edges where the foam has receded from the paper. In a couple of thinner spots the foam had burned through leaving a small hole but that was easy to fix. And, unfortunately, the foam recedes from every single laser cut, and it does so irregularly to differing depths.

 Pic below shows some more of the receding foam problem and my first interim fix - matchsticks cut to size to fit into the hole. Unfortunately, because the foam recedes irregularly at varying depths, matchsticks just didn't work very well. On the left of the frame you can see the cut-outs for the corner joins. Lots of missing foam. The fix for this problem is to fill all of the gaps in the foam with Spackle  (pollyfilla? for our friends across the pond).

 

Unfortunately, the spackle fix takes quite a while, and has to be repeated because the Spackle shrinks when dry, and then all of the precision window and doorway cut-outs have to be carefully sanded and resanded and each window and doorway piece adjusted. Not too bad but tedious, and any time saving is totally lost. And because so much of the foam is lost in the corner joins, it was very hard for me to get the corner to look okay with Spackle alone. However, I used the old tried and true method of hiding the join under a piece of cardstock cut to resemble cornerstones. Problem solved.

After that it was ready for basing. I based it on a piece of vinyl floor tile, added a ground floor from Hirst Arts floor tiles, and upper floors from foamcore covered with craft sticks. Painted up and ready to go.

In the pic below, the door inset has been left out. Minis are variuos manufacturer's. I think the detail on the resin really stands out.

 Pic below shows inside of the building. The resin inserts are plain on the inside surface.

 The other side.

 Pic below shows a close-up of the doorway with a door piece inserted.

 A view of the fancy-shmancy Hirst Arts floor tiles. I figured the beautiful windows and doors deserved a more ornate floor. The door in the door has been reversed. It's backside is plain. However, the door pieces are thin and could conceivably be mounted back to back.

Well, that's all of the pics for now. Overall, I am very pleased with this product. I absolutely love the resin widows and door pieces. They are just outstanding and an excellent value. I would love to see more of these, and in different sizes and shapes. Perhaps the window frames and doorways could also be produced in a half-thickness, like the doors are, so you could have a decorative interior surface as well. I was a little disappointed with the laser-cut foamcore. It took a lot of effort and time for me to plaster all of the cut edges. However, the shape of the frame was nice, and I did get a nice result in the end. Considering that I only spent $18 plus shipping on this project, got great customer service and had access to online tutorials regarding the product, I'd have to give the GameCraft Miniatures 28mm Modular Gothic series a 9 1/2 out of 10. And I got a piece I can use for fantasy or sci-fi gaming.

Thanks for looking. I hope this has been helpful, and I hope you'll give excellent product a try.

Luckyjoe