More than Mordheim

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Lots of old Citadel and Metal Magic wandering around an open market

When Mordheim came out 25 years ago I loved it.

I built a city base out of a sheet of foam with sand and paint and water created from a sheet of clear crackle plastic from a 2 x 4 flourescent light fixture with the underside painted. The base has not survived but I have some of the awesome miniatures and two boxes of ruined buildings that have seen a great deal of play.

So with Mordheim play growing and several other city based skirmish games in play, its time to build a new base and clean and repair some card and balsa buildings. 

My new base is 4' square (1.2m x 1.2m) and made of four 2'x2' sections. Each section starts with a gator board base (water level). City level is built up with 2" rigid foam topped with pva glue, sand and paint. The harbour walls are a mix of 3D resin prints - some from Ancrabourg by 3DLayeredScenery (which I had to modify using Blender since I only wanted the outside faces) and some by Gothic Things. The built-in tower bases and the rubble roads inbedded in the top are also by Gothic Things. The water level is paint and then two rough brush layers of AK Water Gel (a mix of swamp green and atlantic blue)

The board is designed for several configurations and the riser at the back is movable.

My biggest mistake I made was not keeping some of the water paint for additional future board options.

I have parts for three very different uses

Mordheim in Ruins

Modified buildings from the original set, some scratchbuild ones, and some resin prints.

Thriving Market Town

Buildings: Large scratch built inn in the center and a selection of resin (Tabletop World) and 3D prints by various designers but Gothic Things features heavily because their buildings work well for small or medium sized resin printer. Wizard tower in the back is Printable Scenery. The docks are Lemax Dept 56 village stuff i got at a garage sale, as are many of the crates. The rigged boat is a converted Little Mermaid toy, the larger nearer boat is Reaper, and the far one came home in my stuff from Adepticon one year and I have have no idea who it belongs to!

The third build option is a necropolis combining a huge variety of graveyards, crypts, and ruins.

But... most of them dont have so much as a lick of paint yet and I need a few more to fill the board so pictures will happen another time.

Cheers. C