terrain Night in Malifaux - Building A Malifaux City Board

[SilentSeeker]

 

Hi,

 

I would like to share my up to date buildings and table elements. Further on I will show some of the steps on how I make the stuff.

 

I’m trying to build a semi-modular city board which transports the nightly atmosphere of the Malifaux artwork (chapeaux dear artists!).

 

Even though it might be to dense or a bit unpractical (“Lets walk up this tower [for the view]; it’s only 30” up!”) I want to build a “downtown”. After all, in games, I will not need to place all the terrain pieces :-)

 

Hope You like it

 

(first pictures will follow soon).

 

Regards,

Timo

 

[Gremlin66]

Looking forward to it.

[SilentSeeker]

So first comes my “Tower of Malifaux”. I think it is quite unpractical for gaming, but its walls footstep is about 6” - so I think it won’t hinder the gameplay too much. If so, I can place it right next to the play area “for atmospheric and aesthetic reasons”

The spoiler at the bottom of the post contains a few pictures of the building process.

 

[Butch]

Thanks for sharing the WIPs. I had never thoght it was totally fron scratch. Looks great!

[SilentSeeker]

5 hours ago, Butch said:

Thanks for sharing the WIPs. I had never thoght it was totally fron scratch. Looks great!

Thank You

 

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Next come the ground elements. They are still in their raw form, because I’m not sure which buildings will follow and how big the standing areas for the buildings will have to be. I have glued/will glue some parts together, so that the single elements won’t be to small, but still small enough for a bit of modularity.

 

[Sandmann]

That looks very promising !

[Burnin' Coal]

Oh wow !  I'm onboard for this one...looks great already 

[DrEvilmonki]

So how do you do the brick work in the foam? Is it cut or scored?

[Gremlin66]

Looking good. Great work.

[Legba]

Love this!  I think that just because something may require you to RETHINK how you play on it does not make it unusable.  The tower is large, yes but totally goes with the setting!  I have wanted to do a downtown board for a long time.  Keep the pics coming!!

[Bazlord_Prime]

17 hours ago, DrEvilmonki said:

So how do you do the brick work in the foam? Is it cut or scored?

Yeah, and the weathering effect on the stone blocks looks great! How was that done?

Awesome work, & thanks for sharing

[SilentSeeker]

On 10/6/2016 at 8:17 PM, Sandmann said:

That looks very promising !

Thank You

 

On 10/6/2016 at 8:21 PM, Burnin' Coal said:

Oh wow !  I'm onboard for this one...looks great already 

Thank You, too

 

On 10/7/2016 at 11:57 AM, DrEvilmonki said:

So how do you do the brick work in the foam? Is it cut or scored?

First, I draw a line with a pencil or sometimes a pen (with a ruler). Then I cut long the line with a knife. And again I draw along the line with a pen/pencil.

 

For the latest building (the background building in the last picture) I tried something new; I pushed a slim metal ruler into the foam with some amount of pressure.

 

On 10/7/2016 at 5:17 PM, Gremlin66 said:

Looking good. Great work.

Thanks

 

On 10/7/2016 at 5:25 PM, Legba said:

Love this!  I think that just because something may require you to RETHINK how you play on it does not make it unusable.  The tower is large, yes but totally goes with the setting!  I have wanted to do a downtown board for a long time.  Keep the pics coming!!

Good to hear . I'm quite new to Malifaux so I'm not exactly sure how the buildings will affect a "normal" game. We will see.... :-P

So, just do it - the downtown board ;). More people making Malifaux terrain is nice for inspiration

Pics will come!

 

On 10/8/2016 at 5:38 AM, Bazlord_Prime said:

Yeah, and the weathering effect on the stone blocks looks great! How was that done?

Awesome work, & thanks for sharing

Thank You

The "weathering" was easy: there is none :D.

First I painted the foam all black. Next I dry-brushed the walls twice with a darker green. I did it again with a lighter green, but only here and there. And last I dry-brushed the walls with a light grey, but only at a very few places.

 

(grey is not in the picture)

[SilentSeeker]

Right now I am working on “Building number 2”. That ist the official name for now :-).  Artwork knowing people (or gallery watchers) might guess which building it shell become  

 

[Frozen Feet]

Pretty amazing!

If you ever want to get rid of that Board..... PLEEAASE CALLL ME!!

Looks absolutely beautiful... but a little, hhhm, let me say: time-consuming.

Great job

[Burnin' Coal]

Man this is going to turn into a master class...and the whole board will end up superb...really enjoying following your progress

[Gremlin66]

Keep them coming. Those are great.

[Adran]

Wow, the work on the windows... 

These look like some amazing buildings, very atmospheric. keep them comin

[Sandmann]

Amazing stuff.

I am in awe that you made the windows out of foam too. That is insane! But in a good way

[ArcticPangolin]

On 10/14/2016 at 2:53 PM, Sandmann said:

Amazing stuff.

I am in awe that you made the windows out of foam too. That is insane! But in a good way

Totally bonkers! Well done SilentSeeker

[SilentSeeker]

On 10/11/2016 at 9:59 PM, Frozen Feet said:

Pretty amazing!

If you ever want to get rid of that Board..... PLEEAASE CALLL ME!!

Looks absolutely beautiful... but a little, hhhm, let me say: time-consuming.

Great job

Thank You

Time-consuming? Yeah, that's true..... ;-P

 

On 10/11/2016 at 11:54 PM, Burnin' Coal said:

Man this is going to turn into a master class...and the whole board will end up superb...really enjoying following your progress

Thank You, too, Burnin' Coal.

 

On 10/12/2016 at 4:39 PM, Gremlin66 said:

Keep them coming. Those are great.

Happy You like it

 

On 10/12/2016 at 5:13 PM, Adran said:

Wow, the work on the windows... 

These look like some amazing buildings, very atmospheric. keep them comin

I will :). And thanks.

 

On 10/14/2016 at 6:53 AM, Sandmann said:

Amazing stuff.

I am in awe that you made the windows out of foam too. That is insane! But in a good way

Foam windows seemed to be a fast way. But it appeared that wooden ones wouldn't take much more time :-P (but they would have been more stable).

Thank You

 

On 10/26/2016 at 5:24 AM, ArcticPangolin said:

Totally bonkers! Well done SilentSeeker

Thanks

 

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So lets see what happened in the last two weeks:

Roof tiles made out of balsa wood and glued with white glue. I cut the overlapping tiles with a knife.

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I made the floors out of balsa wood, too. To prevent curving while gluing i moistened the wood with water on the face up surface too. It appears, that balsa wood spreads into the width when strongly moistened, so i had to cut it a bit more.

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The roof again.

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The finished roof and some decorative stripes.

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The inside of the ground floor.

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The inside of the upper floor (roof floor is not playable).

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Everything primed.

[SilentSeeker]

And the (almost) finishing steps:

The front.

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The back.

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Ground floor.

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Upper floor.

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I used only drybrush techniques to paint the walls. For the roof I used a red, than a pink and finally a beige.

For the walls i applied a darker green, a bright green, than darkened again with black and added some diversity with a brown.

I painted the windows with a dark brown and drybrushed with a lighter brown (only from the outside).

The parquet: First I pained it with a strongly water thinned  dark brown. Then I painted stripes on it with thinned washed (light brown wash, dark brown wash and black wash).

 

Some minor details are still missing and I hope I will get them done in the next few days

[Somnicide]

Wow. This is really inspiring, thanks!

[Eriekiels]

Very nice creations, but I am wondering, aren't you afraid, it will break easy. I mean that house just looks brilliant but the windows look very fragile.

 

The tower looks awesome, can not wait to see more, keep up the good work

[SilentSeeker]

On 11/3/2016 at 9:52 PM, Somnicide said:

Wow. This is really inspiring, thanks!

Happy You like it

On 11/6/2016 at 0:28 AM, Eriekiels said:

Very nice creations, but I am wondering, aren't you afraid, it will break easy. I mean that house just looks brilliant but the windows look very fragile.

 

The tower looks awesome, can not wait to see more, keep up the good work

Thank You :). Yes, You are right. The windows are fragile - but not so much You would think. I mixed a lot white glue to the paints so this gives them a bit more stability. Still they are fragile.

The buildings are for private use only so I hope that dealing them carefully will let them life a long time :-P.

 

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I finished the details on the "Art Gallery". I added the paintings inside, some information tablets at the door, lanterns an lightning. A raven sits now on the roof, too (as do two at the tower now, see the first picture).

 

 

P.S.

Here are my inspirations for the buildings (open spoiler):

[gewaltatron]

I am not a big fan of the green walls but, the details and the constructions are AMAZING! I take of my imaginary hat (which is bigger than all of your hats!)!