I love collecting, painting, converting and scratch building terrain. I even get to play a game once in a while. I'm a big fan of gamification as part of teaching - I'm an elementary school teacher.
This blog covers my hobby work and 'teaching through gaming'.
Here's a quick little post on a buildings for Guilders and other fantasy stuff. The kit is from a now defunct sellers (who had bad health and decided to scam some people). I've seen the kit from other players since, so the files at least out there somewhere.
This building was painted quickly by my mate Lau. Then I gave it a few upgrades afterwards to make it fit better with the style of my board.
The kit is originally a water mill. But we don't have any water stuff made for the board yet, so the wheel has simply been removed.
The roof got a quick fix for a flat top, allowing miniatures to balance on the top of the roof.
The railing were originally brown, like the other wooden areas. After trying it on other buildings I decided to add bright green railings instead. Getting more colors onto the house with little details like that.
All the windows have added coffee stirrer ledges for a bunch of different flower tufts. And there's some grass flock on the roofs for extra color as well.
In Guilders one of the scenarios is called 'Pious Pickpockets'. The objective for the guilds is to steal relics from a temple. In the scenario there's still civilians for pickpocketing, so I wanted some clergy for that. I had a good friend 3d print me some monks. The bald guy clutching a dagger is from a second set - a royal court. He's an adviser of something, but fitting well for the monks.
I did a really quick paint job on them. Red base coat, red wash and then a highlight (though it's hard to see on the photos).
I'm continously stunned by this 3d printing technology and how quickly one can get whatever they need. I've had so many different specifics printed for me.
Here's a tutorial style post on how I made my crowd bases for Guilders. In the game the crowds are represented by a 3" round base. There's no rules as to how many miniatures should go on it, but I've made room for three.
When painting these I've drybrushed some different greys, picked out a few individual stones on each base and then added small bits of static grass.
Here's a guard totally unable to find that hiding thief!
Materials
Cardboard, XPS foam (1 or 2mm), paper, Green Stuff World pinroll and pva / wood glue.
Step 1
Cut a 3" round circle and draw it onto the XPS foam. Cut those out with some scissors.
Step 2
For stability, I want to make inserts for the miniature bases. They're all based on 25mm bases, so draw three on it's large 3" base.
Step 3
Cut out those 25mm inserts with a fresh hobby knife, needs to be really sharp. This leaves room in the middle of the crowd base for another miniature, if a player character enters and hides in the base.
Step 4
Glue. Lots of glue on the 3" bases, but on some thin cardboard and put pressure on it while drying. I placed a ton of books on top, we don't want them to warp too badly.
Bonus Step
Mess up some 25mm round bases with a knife (for better grip) and glue all those 1" discs to them. We don't want any waste!
Step 5
Time to bring out the Green Stuff World roller. It'll keep the presured texture made in the XPS foam.
Step 6
Mod Podge is amazing! It's some kind of varnish / glue thing. I've mixed some black into mine, so that it now dries a very dark grey. This will seal and harden the foam very well. I can't recommend this stuff enough for anyone working with foam.
After a nights work I have a bunch of finished crowd bases and a lot of 25mm bases for future miniatures.
A couple of weeks ago I sat down and started testing the solo capabilities of Guilders - A Life In Shadows. All scenarios will need a couple of solo playtests from myself. Both to check who the campaign works and if the scenarios are fun.
Playing the three games did bring up a few point that I need to tweak, but nothing major.
The first solo Let's Play is now up on YouTube. And this video will cover the entire section of a game.
I've added timestamp / chapters to the video for easier watching. The video is fairly long but it will cover:
My Guild: All the characters, quick description
Setup: How the board, objectives and civilians
Full Game: A full 6 turn long game, with descriptions of what goes on in the different phases.
End Game Sequnece: All the RPG elements going on in a game. XP, Loot, Injuries, Roam the City.
This video will give a fairly good overview of the game and definately make it easier for people to read and understand the rules.
I have a bunch of How To Play and two more Let's Play videos filmed. Just need editing and will be posted in the future.
I would love feedback on both my video - editing stuff if really new to me and I learn stuff each time.
The rules. Read them, check them, play if you want. All manner of feedback is appreciated. You can find the rules and the various SoMe on the Linktree.
Wargames Tournaments is a company making various MDF kits. Sometimes they have some insane 'kits under 10£' deals. So way before Brexit I stacked up on a ton of wonderful and cheap kits. Between those kits was a love midieval church kit for cheap.
I used thick card to make foundation stones all around the base of the church. And on the tower I mixed different thickness of cardboard.
The roof got shingles mde some long strips of thin card, with small triangles cut into them. It's a lot quicker to cut than one might expect. The top rof is the most tricky. I cut both sides and leave a 1cm wide flat space on the top. This allows miniatures to stand on the roof, perfect for skirmish games. I also did this for the small roof on the entrance.
The nave (main house on church) I gave the premixed polyfilla with some added woodglue. Giving nice various textures on the build.
Base painting was done with four different rattle cans (just the cheap ones). Black on the roof, white on the nave, dark grey on flat tower surfaces, light grey on the corners (a kind of pre highlight).
The tower had a wooden floor added. I cut a small square piece of XPS and rolled it with a Green Stuff roller. Painted it with modpodge and then drybrushed light brown.
The rest of the build is painted with different cheap acryllics. Gave the roof a dark drey drybrush on the black. Picked out individual stone with various greys here and there.
I also painted individual stones on the flat parts of the tower, further giving the illusion of stone work.
The base around the church is made with a mix of sand in some places, cardboard tiles in others.
I went with a bright red for the windows around the church, making it match on the priests and monks I've painted up.
I continue to dabble a bit in video editing, I think it's an important media for any game. Since I don't have a fan base or something like that in the back - I need to make videos myself to get Guilders out there.
So I'm working with a limited setup and no real editing experience in getting better with it. I just finished a small 'What's Guilders' video. You can check it out below.
I have plans for a complete 'how to play' series and to stream / edit all my solo game playtesting of the game as well. Will probably get around to filming the first solo games soon.
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