Graveyard or Cemetery - Empire of the Dead.

Finally finished my piece of terrain for Empire of the Dead gaming, a Graveyard, or Cemetery...

Actually I was not quite sure what, if any, difference there was in these two words... so a quick glance at wikipedia: Graveyard

In a quick summary, Graveyards are typically old, near a church and within the city limits... Cemeteries replaced this practice by burying the dead in municipally owned land, not adjacent a church and often outside city limits... So I can use this piece of terrain in both an urban or rural setting; in town, put it next to a Church and its a Graveyard, in rural environment, it becomes a cemetery, though I may conceal the perimeter pavement if used in a rural setting...

I began this project earlier this month detailed here.

I would have had it up on the blog sooner put had problems with the PVA warping the whole board quite badly. So had to turn it upside down, and glue the under surface, with some weights in place to bend it back... of course the darn thing then warped the other way! So I had to repeat the right way round again! If you look closely it still has a slight lift to the corners of the perimeter pavement but its not too noticeable...

So, "bring out yer dead!"...

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A skirmish in the Graveyard, some Gentlemen encounter a Vampire!

I have ordered some brick pattern embossed Plasticard to have ago at making some city buildings, though the Hobbit / LOTR craze could well distract me away from this project now...

Empire of the Dead - Graveyard - WIP

Well a wet weekend has seen me crack on with a project I have been planning for a little while. If you are going to play Empire of the Dead, then it makes sense to have a graveyard as a scenic item! Somewhere for those zombies to come from! This is what I managed this weekend.

I know it looks a little out of alignment, but I have just put the railing sections in place for you to get the idea of how it will end up. They still need trimming to fit properly and glue into place, but I want to paint the walls before I do that.

The walls are made from 5mm depron foam, two sheets together to give greater thickness to walls. The railings are from a Chinese based ebay trader that does railway scenics, sold in 1m strips. The gravestones are the Rendra plastics set. They are on lolly sticks at the moment for ease of handling and painting, but I will stick them down in rows once ready to go.

A pic with a gentleman for scale. I have left enough mdf base around the outside of wall to act as a pavement. I just have to decide what colour to paint the walls and mortar...

My order of Westwind background figures arrived over the weekend too; bobbies, inspectors, strumpets, civilians, thugs, London gents, and The Ripper! Looking forward to cracking on with these figures :-)