Archaic Abodes 5

 Ok so I haven’t made a blog post in awhile...I’m really bad at this 🙄. I have noticed that many of the Oldhammer guys that used to have active blogs have been slowing down lately. I’m definitely not the only one who has noticed this. Oldhammer staple Golgfag has posted about this trend not only on his blog https://golgfags.blogspot.com/2017/12/is-oldhammer-dying.html?m=1 but also on the Oldhammer forum. http://forum.oldhammer.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=28019

One of the things that is probably drawing people away from blogs is the allure of social media. Facebook might be more convenient but it has way too much drama for me. While I may not be good at updating my own blog, I do plan on carrying the torch and doing my part to keep this kind of thing going. Drama free! 

All that being said, I don’t want it to sound like I’m getting a big head or putting myself on some sort of pedestal. I’m just some old school guy, doing his own thing and blogging about it. Really at this point, I’m probably just talking to myself anyway. I don’t have any followers and no one has commented on any of my posts. Whatever.

My buddy is making a table and I offered to help. He is on a deadline and was starting to feel a bit overwhelmed. I took on some of the smaller, generic pieces. He didn’t assign me anything that would give away any plot points as it is a themed board built around a campaign and I’ll be a player character this time. The first two are bridges. He requested a stone one and a rickety type wood one.

I took influence for the stone bridge from the ones in Brian Ansell’s collection. http://realmofchaos80s.blogspot.com/2017/08/marcus-ansells-meritorious-posting-of.html?m=1

I used foam board, corrugated cardboard, card stock, sand, drywall compound, Mod Podge and craft paint. The balls on top of the pillars are beads I liberated from my daughter. I hope she doesn’t read this...I’m probably going to be in trouble!

I painted the road part grey at first and hated it. It looked weird. But on the flip side, I’m not totally sold on the brown. Six of one, half dozen of the other I guess.

To me at least it has a Dave Andrews feel to it. Nice and old school stylee.

The wood bridge has more of mid to late’90s GW feel to it with the skulls and spikes. My buddy’s board is undead/Halloween themed so it is fitting. He said it was perfect and better than he would have imagined. He’s happy, I’m happy.

Build with two different size craft sticks from the Dollar Tree, Gorilla wood glue, craft paint  and skulls and spears from Warlord Games plastic skelingtons box.

Not too bad for a bunch of crap glued together and painted. It looks bigger than the stone bridge but they are actually very close to the same size.

I also made some hedges. This time for my table that I haven’t built yet!

Made with green scrubby pads (once again from Dollar Tree) cut to the length of a craft stick. Approximately 110mm. Then cut into strips of 40mm. The strip was then folded over and hot glued together making a 20mm high hedge. This was then hot glued to a craft stick for a base. Sand was glued to the side of the craft stick to hide it. The green part was painted with wood glue mixed with a little brown paint. Then Blended Tuft green blend by JTT Scenery Products was applied when the glue was still wet. The sand was then painted brown. Baboom babam, done!

Once again, thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog. Be strange but don’t be a stranger!