Miniature Spotlight: The modular City Graveyard // Garden of Morr

It took me quite a while (I have way to many projects on my workbench...) but I finally finished my modular city graveyard:

The awesome Garden of Morr from Games Workshop is integrated in the design of the Graveyard. I chose to make three separate terrain pieces from the Garden to create more possible variations:

(the Tomb in this picture is also removable)

I also included a small Diorama:

 it is (as almost everything else) designed to be modular:

 
It can be used with miniatures:

or with additional scenery elements:

I also created a small hill for the Cemetery Chapel from Ziterdes:

There are two large areas for optional scenery and/or houses:

There are various smaller, bigger, broken and unbroken pieces to change up the design. Here is an example of a few of them:

I used 2 Trees from the Citadel Wood and the two Tombs of Darkness together with the three statues from Ziterdes in this setup as well as several single graves.

All in all I'm very pleased with the results of this project. It was a lot of work to get it this far but it was worth it. I will create new pieces for this project in the future but for now I'm done and extremely happy. :) :) :)

On the Worktable: Building a Medieval City

I'm making some (slow but steady) progress with my modular fantasy city project:

Hours and hours of casting plaster...

WIP 01

This will be the first board on a series of suburbs boards. Since these areas will not represent some far away behind the woods village but a highly structured suburb near a gigantic fantasy city I decided that every board will be framed with road tiles that will make a great board to board transition. The form of every board will vary, the one above is one of the biggest single boards I plan to make. Each board is based on a 10 mm (0,39 inches) piece of Styrofoam.

WIP 02

WIP 03

There's still some stuff to do before this can be painted but so far I'm happy with the look of this. :)

The Happy Spender: Hirst Arts Gothic Molds II

The Rabenwall project is going forward and I bought 4 new Hirst Art molds that will keep me busy casting plaster in the next few days:

These are the Gothic Floor Tiles Mold (#205), the Prison Tower Mold (#60), the Smooth Floor Tiles Mold (#202) and the Bridge Mold (#53).

Speaking of plaster: I bought 50 pounds of Excalibur Dental Plaster.

That is one huge ass bag of plaster. I also have a little left from my last 20 pound bucket which gives me around 52-54 pounds to work with. Casting Time! :D

Casting Time: Hirst Arts Gothic Molds

Oh yeah! It's that time of the year again! ;)

Sometimes I get the feeling that I may be working on way to many projects at the same time. But when there is so much great stuff out there and my imagination runs wild I simply can't help myself. And now that my first fantasy buildings take shape it's time to kick-start my Fantasy Town Project. Except that is has grown in to a Modular Fantasy City Project. Of course it has. ;)

To get started I bought 5 new Hirst Arts Molds from Hirst Arts UK:

These are the Gothic Additional Accessories Mold (#44), Basic Block Mold (#40, I bought this one twice), Gothic Floor Tiles Mold (#201) and the Gothic Dungeon Builder Mold (#45). And I also bought a food dehydrator from Severin:

Normally it takes ages for the blocks to dry. But with this nifty little helper it just takes two hours. Perfect! :)
Last but not least I bought 20 pounds of Excalibur dental plaster which should keep my busy for a while.

Yay! A bucket full of plaster! :D

YAY!!!

On the Worktable: Hirst Arts Sci-Fi Setup

I'm making progress with the casting of my Sci-Fi sets. I have my first floors and walls ready and I decided to make a little setup. Nothing is painted yet but I wanted to get a feel for the possibilities of the individual parts. And I got inspired by the upcoming holoboards from MicroArtStudio and decided to create my own. I made several different designs and this setup includes the first example.

On the Worktable: Modular Hirst Arts Sci-Fi Terrain

At first everything was very organized...

I've received the 3 remaining Sci-Fi molds from Hirst Arts UK last Saturday. After a weekend full of  mixing, pouring and scraping I finally had a decent amount of parts to create the first pieces of my modular Sci-Fi set. I opted for polystyrene foam insulating board for the base of the pieces since this material allows some very cool variations while giving a nice amount of stability. Each tile is based on a 10 mm (0,39 inches) piece of Styrofoam.

...but that didn't last very long.

The total of 36 modular pieces are the result of a day's work of gluing and cutting. This is what I've got so far:

(28) 2" x 2" floor pieces
  (4) 3" x 3" floor pieces
  (4) 4" x 4" floor pieces

Casting Time: Hirst Arts Sci-Fi Molds Part II

Working on several projects at the same time is really fun because it's varied and I can switch between the projects when I get temporarily jaded with one or don't have the time to work on something very time consuming. One of the projects of the latter category is creating my very own modular Sci-Fi terrain with Hirst Arts molds. But next Tuesday starts my vacation time and I'm looking at 14 days of relaxing and taking a break from my everyday life. I will use this time to work on several projects and the Sci-Fi project will be on the top of the list. I already ordered 4 new molds from Hirst Arts UK last Friday:

 Cargo Bay Accessory Mold (#302) Med Lab Accessory Mold (#303)

 Laboratory Floor Mold (#271) Pipeline Floor Mold (#273)

For reasons unknown HA UK decided to send all 4 mold in separate mailings which really is a mystery for me. The first one arrived today. With a little bit of luck the remaining molds will be in the mail tomorrow (according to the order status from HA UK the 4 mailings were send out at the same time. Why the heck did'nt they arive together? Mysteries over mysteries).
Anyway, I decided to work on this project early so I started today. The last time (and first time) when I used Hirst Arts molds I had 10 pounds of Excalibur dental plaster at my disposal. Now I have 30. 30 freaking pounds.

Oh Yeah. A bucket full of plaster.

Lets see what we can get done with all that plaster. I also used the molds I had already used before (Starship Wall Mold [#301] and Starship Deck Mold [#270]) together with the first of my new molds, the Pipeline Floor Mold (#273). And that's what I got done today:

I seriously hope my remaining molds get delivered tomorrow. I would like to empty that bucket this weekend. :)