Inspiration

New! I've added a picture of our local country church - it should be inspirational for all you Mordheim fanatics...

Charles Traylor has asked me to host pictures of his gametable. Take a look! Or check out my special helper...

First gather a bag full of useful junk and some of the materials mentioned under Material and Tools in Terra Genesis.

Then take your useful junk and look at it. Does it inspire you to make something? Then do it. If not, then take your faithful camera, a pad and a pen and go out in the real world. Either go visiting the industial areas of the city or the churches. Look for the way real-life buildings look. Then go back to your pile of junk and recreate reality in a smaller scale. For inspiration, here are some pictures and drawings of and from Dublin.

The Games Workshop in Dublin has a more or less permanent display of terrain. If you are in Dublin, go there and get inspiration - or try the local shop in your city.

This is a bannister I saw in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland. Copying it for Necromunda is going to be one of my next projects.

A fence outside the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland. See also my Dun Laoghaire page.

Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland. Click on the image for more inspiration.

I will be uploading more pictures and drawings as they are scanned.

Sounds easy? It is not... Ok, then do the simple thing: Go buy some foamcore, a good knife and some PVA glue (for starters). Read (and print - I can recommend printing...) Gary's instruction on making ruins at Terra Genesis. Go to Mayor General Tremorden Rederring's Colonial-era Wargames page and learn about corners. Make a lot of corners in a ruined way. Add details such as barrels (two lids from cokebottles glued together is an OK approximation) and boxes (bits of foamcore covered with cardboard looks nice). Buy a bag of lentels and add rivets (lentels in disguise) anywhere you feel like it.

Go back to Terra Genesis. Make an Archaic Bridge (boy, it looks so good, and mine is not even painted yet) following Gary's instructions. Start working on a Refinery (guess where you'll find the instructions? ;-))

Or you could start by brainstorming. Think about the kind of buildings you think would look cool. Look in the rulebook(s) for inspiration. Look at Warhammer 40.000 - after all they are closely related. Add details, details and details. Patience, time and drybrushing.

If you do not have a lot of buildings after this and lots of plans for new ones, then you did not do what I told you to do ;-)