Maniple

This looks great. It gave me the idea of doing a "rooftops" board made up of just the tops of buildings connected by bridges. That project will have to wait for another day, but in the meantime this stuff looks awesome!

I am looking forward to also using this house in Horrorclix and Call of Cthulhu. Hanging wallpaper takes forever! But does look pretty neat: Here is the fireplace: And the library: The scale on the bookshelves is not quite right. I will have to go back and paint over some of the details to achieve a little more consistent look. Also, my doors have turned out to be too short. I am going to increase their height and make new frames.

Fantastic. Will be adding them to some of my buildings.

Thanks for the tips. Not sure yet how I want the outside to look. The biggest challenge will be finding some nice railings and such for the porch and the stairs. Right now I am focused on the interiors. I would like to give a shout out to jennifersprintables.com for the wallpapers shown here. The site also has printable victorian periodicals that are neat and may show up here in the mansion soon. Here is a picture of Colette and one of her babes hanging wallpaper. It is not glued on yet as I need to cut out doors and make a fireplace. The rug is just a picture of a persian rug printed out on heavy paper. enjoy.

I got some work done on the wood floors yesterday. And some tile in the entryway:

More pics? No prob. Here is the library: The front porch: Servants quarters and roof: And the observatory: Let me know if you want to see any more details.

I like how you used all the GW bits. Leman Russ barrel and bits Skaven bell Giant collar Chimera wheel Missle launcher bracket. Nice work making them fit in!

If all laid out close together it is almost equivalent to a 3x3 board. I hope to get a few test games in before I do too much more work on it. I could forsee playing a few different ways, especially concerning deployment. To get the action moving I think the parties will have to set up on a single floor within one floor of each other. Objective marker placement will also be important. Another potential is to set the house up complete in the center of the board and confine the battle to the first floor and surrounding grounds. Finally, one party could start anywhere inside and the other party can start along any edge of the board. Updates made on rules post. Keep the ideas coming!

Here is an exploded view of all the floors: Here it is all put together with some more detail added:

Here is my first crack at some house rules. Terrain Flip: Black Joker- Flip 2 more cards 1-2- Cache of Tomes 3-4- Wetbar 5-7- Dim Lighting 8-9- Growing Fire 10-11- Disturbing Whispers 12-13- Howling Voices Red Joker- Player's Choice Terrain Rules: Exterior walls are hardness 6. Interior walls are hardness 3. Doors are hardness (edit)3 and can be (0) opened and locked with interact (1). Windows are hardness 1. Auras and Pulses do not pass through intact walls. Blasts can break walls if strong enough. All other interior terrain rules apply. Game Rules: "Confined Spaces" All combat strikes are made at -2cb. "Creaky Floorboards" Models may make ranged attacks through walls at -3cb per wall separating attacker from the target. "Get Upstairs!" All characters inside the house receive "(0) use stairs or dumbwaiter to move up or down one level." "Secret Passages" Before the game begins, players alternate placing (edit)four secret passage counters anywhere in contact with a wall. All ht 1 and 2 characters may "(all) move from one counter in base contact to any other counter. Optional Rule: Bad Things Happen- If any model flips a black joker while inside the mansion, the opponent flips on the following table. effects are resolved at the end of the current activation in the room where the model who caused the flip is standing. Black Joker- "The house is hungry." The model is removed as a casualty as the house devours him completely. 1-2- "The house is angry." (edit)The model is pushed to the nearest wall and receives 2 damage. If shortest path contacts a window, the character breaks through and falls to the ground outside taking fall damage as normal. 3-4- "The house is displeased." Objects begin flying around the room causing 1 damage to all characters. 5-7- "Nightmares of days gone by." The character who caused the flip makes a terrifying- 14 duel. 8-9- "Weak floors." The character who caused the flip falls through the floor to the level below. If on lowest floor, reflip. 10-11- "Collapsing beams" The character who caused the flip receives "Paralyzed" until the end closing phase. 12-13- "Come play with us." The character who caused the flip is immediately moved to any other location in the house by the opponent. Red Joker- "Eerily Silent." All models in the room receive "slow" until the end closing phase. Feedback and ideas are most welcome.

I spent my Thanksgiving break working on the mansion. The superstructure is mostly done. The detail work will likely take a lot longer. My plan is wooden and tile floors, carsideing, wainscoating, wallpaper, and furniture (a bit). For now it is looking fairly rough, but more to come! The 1st Floor: 2nd Floor Rising: Ugly barn stage: With a little work on the eaves she is startig to look scary:

Before I start on my next project I thought I would post some pics of my Malifaux slum. Almost everything you see was built out of cardboard, styrofoam packaging, sticks, glue, and paper. I am pretty happy with how it looks, and best of all it stacks together into a fairly small carboard box when I am done playing!

Is there an Eddie Murphy mini out there somewhere?

Here is my first mock up of the mansion. The proportions are not quite right, but I am getting there. It will be three stories plus a tower when done. The trick will be making it big enough to be impressive but small enough to fit on the board when the levels are taken off. Right now most of the rooms are around 5"x5." but I will probably dowsize them a bit.

Yeah... you could read that comment a couple of different ways...

Looking good. What is it made out of?

I would like to build a haunted mansion setting for Malifaux and am looking for some inspiration. It will be easier to build one if I have some pictures of an actual mansion to work from. The Carson Mansion in California looks pretty good, but are there any other ideas out there?

I have a step by step western town on my blog. See link below. I am currently building a Malifaux slum as well. Nothing near as detailed as that stuff on the above link. Wow.

Clarification: "S" scale would be on the small side of 32mm wargaming. Since it is hard to find, O is probably the best one to go with.

You can always be mounted on a larger base, but not a smaller one.

www.ironhalo.net has inserts www.back2base-ix.com has full resin bases. Both have large selections of styles.

"S" scale is closer in train scale, if you can find it. I keep my buildings at 2.5" or 3" per flooor. Pics of this size are on my blog, but no choo-choos yet.

Thank you for finding these. I have been looking everywhere for this kind of stuff! Now I can build McMourning's lab...

Beautifully executed. All the buildings look like they belong in the same town and the details really pull it together. Can't wait to see more!