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paliouras · **Posted:** Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:32 pm

A glorious fleet!
I'm jealous. :yay:

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:05 pm

The eagles look great, literally. Im hoping mine will be as good.

Dezartfox · **Posted:** Sun Jun 15, 2014 2:12 pm

Today I painted the board for me and Amy to game on.

I bought a load of shelves from eBay a few months ago, they were used for card making and storing card for selling I think:

Anyway I have like 6 of these shelving units, and my mother another 6 (she actually makes cards..)

I had loads of the wooden shelves left that all pull out. So I simply placed two down, covered them in pva glue and some strips of double sided tape and placed three shelves ontop of them, and repeated for the other two sections. It created a board about 33" by 38", which is a weird size but its all that will fit on my current coffee table until we get a bigger place

To paint it I bought a couple of cans of grey textured spray paint from B&Q for around £6.50 each.

I found an old roller and painted it with Deathworld Forest paint, the roller creating a cool random pattern across the board and then did the same with Straken green

I then did the same with PVA glue and covered the board in various shades of static grass:

Once the excess was removed (used a load of folded A3 sheets of paper, and whacked the boards over them to loosen all the stray bits, then using the fold poured the grass back into the pots) we had our board! I sat and sprayed it with some PVA through a cheap pump spray bottle thing from Morrissons.

Final step was to add some felt sticky pads to the bottom of the board which will stop the wood scratching my lovely glass coffee table and also allow the boards to stack on top of each other without rubbing together.

Sticky Fingersss · **Joined:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:20 am **Posts:** 1776

I'm so jealous of your storing capabilities.

Dezartfox · **Posted:** Sun Jun 15, 2014 9:47 pm

Sticky Fingersss wrote:

I'm so jealous of your storing capabilities.

They're really useful

I have commissions booked until October so they're mainly used to store projects and boxes of bits

Apparently they were all handmade, but I could never make them without specialist tools

Sithious · **Posted:** Sun Jun 15, 2014 10:07 pm

Your eagles look Great. I may have to get mine to cross my painting table while there is easy inspiration afoot.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:31 am

I think you and Amy could be in danger of taking over here, magnificent prolific work from you too that I only see increasing.
Having partners interested in the same hobby can only mean one thing, an interest bordering on obsession.
I look forward to much more.

Dezartfox · **Posted:** Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:14 pm

Gandlaf the Grey wrote:

I think you and Amy could be in danger of taking over here, magnificent prolific work from you too that I only see increasing.
Having partners interested in the same hobby can only mean one thing, an interest bordering on obsession.
I look forward to much more.

Thanks!

Should see my skylanders collection... That's obsession haha

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:38 pm

I had to look skylanders up, believing it to be connected with Star Wars or something of that type. Would it be described as anime? Ingenious work on the table btw.

hannanibal · **Joined:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 2:55 pm **Posts:** 221

One of the best balrogs I've seen mate.

Dezartfox · **Posted:** Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:21 pm

Me and Amy are going to start Battle Companies using the awesome rules Erunion has kept up to date

I've picked Erebor as my warband and painted up my six starting warriors this evening.
Can really tell the difference between the two rangers and the 4 Warriors or Erebor.. quality close up is totaly different!

Usual scheme of base coat and washes

Quick and dirty like a dwarf should be

Hodush · **Posted:** Fri Jun 20, 2014 12:27 am

Very nice:)

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Fri Jun 20, 2014 11:44 am

Very nicely painted!

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Fri Jun 20, 2014 1:22 pm

These look good Tim

Harfoot · **Posted:** Fri Jun 20, 2014 2:23 pm

Brilliant storage shelves! Well painted Drawfs

Drumstick · **Joined:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:57 am **Posts:** 1223

You have some good storage going on there, that's something I have always struggled with. The boards came out very nicely -simple, effective but fast. How long did it take?

The river blue colour scheme goes well with the dwarves. It's also nice to add the names on the bases - the unit already stands out much more because of that. I would perhaps add some of the limestone/chalk dirt on them to indicate the dust being kicked up as they are marching through.

Dezartfox · **Posted:** Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:55 pm

Drumstick wrote:

You have some good storage going on there, that's something I have always struggled with. The boards came out very nicely -simple, effective but fast. How long did it take?

The river blue colour scheme goes well with the dwarves. It's also nice to add the names on the bases - the unit already stands out much more because of that. I would perhaps add some of the limestone/chalk dirt on them to indicate the dust being kicked up as they are marching through.

Not long at all. The boards were dried ovrrnight, and then I waited a few hours for the spray to dry, painting took less than an hour.

The names are for battle companies, not all my dwarfs will have names

they do have some of the dust on them, might not show in my iphone photo haha,

Thanks!

Drumstick · **Joined:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:57 am **Posts:** 1223

Oh that's super fast, good stuff. Sounds like I could get a few boards done myself then if I just had some more room. Don't worry, sometimes it's difficult to tell. Nice thread though.

Dr Grant · **Joined:** Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:50 pm **Posts:** 1339

The board looks ace buddy! Just debating quite how to do mine as I've finally got a games room so space for a decent board - very inspirational - cheers!

Love the dwarves too, really nice looking colour scheme and lovely work on the bow strings - looking forward to seeing how the Battle Companies progresses!

Dezartfox · **Posted:** Wed Jul 02, 2014 5:30 pm

Some quick MDF ruins I got from eBay. Some sand, grey and white on the stones, weathering powder and the base Skrag brown and then grass. Simples! 12 in total making for a nice random set of ruins, very quick and easy

Still a bit of static grass to blow off

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