The Watcher - Terrain - WIP

Well I am pleased to say our Fellowship of the Ring campaign is moving steadily onward, though now albeit a bit more slowly, as I am having to get figures painted and/or scenery made as I go along...

...so I thought I'd share a little of what I am currently working on...

Now I had recently made a terrain section to do double duty as The Walls of Moria, and the Dwarrowdelf... here, but...

 I also recently came across 'Celevue's Fellowship thread here, on the The One Ring Forum, and his wonderful terrain, inspired me to try a bit harder, so...

I decided to make a custom Watcher in the Water scenario board; I made a MDF Base and Frame, and lined it with Dense Poly (Styrodur). I read up on the description of the area in the FOTR novel, and decided make the pool, with a stream feeding into it from the side, which in my version will also splash down a rocky cliff face, as cliffs were also mentioned in the area description...

I also then started making a more imposing cliff face for the Walls of Moria, hacking up and gluing together more poly sheet... and then a pause in proceedings came, as I knew I had to figure out how to make a decent door, with that iconic image from the book and movie; the Doors of Durin!

I decided to quiz 'Celevue', on how he'd done his, and he kindly replied, confirming my suspicions, so I set to, printing off a downloaded black and white image of the pattern of the door, scaled down to match my figure scale.

I then over painted the black outline in GW Mithril Silver paint. Then painted the surrounding area in dark grey. A little touch up back and forth with the colours until I was happy. The elven scroll work at this scale was nigh on impossible to copy directly so I hope I have given a good enough impression, to make it look right?

So here's the Doors of Durin, so far...

This took me most of Saturday afternoon to do. I now plan to stick this to two foamcard doors, that will both be hinged to open, and the complete gateway, will then be cut in, to fit flush with the gap in the Walls of Moria below...

The Walls of Moria, WIP

The Watcher scenario board, WIP

Side cliffs and stream feeding the pool, WIP

I am going to have a play with the Woodlands Scenics Water Effects and see if I can make a waterfall for my stream with it...

So things are progressing well, on the terrain front.

I also ordered a crafters kit from the Hotwirefoamfactory in the US, (which was waiting on my doorstep when I got home today!), so looking forward to having a go with that and see what I can do with it... I just need to order up on some more Styrodur as I used the last of my current supply on the above...

Finally for the weekend, I finished off all my hills which had been re-shaped with shallower slopes, then re-flocked and finally sprayed up...

I have also been working on some figures too - more wargs for the 'Hounds of Sauron' mission, and a couple of figures for a fellow blogger as part of a figure swap-deal... more on  that later

So not to bad for a weekends work... stay tuned for more...