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I'm currently running a D&D campaign and the group is playing through the module "Curse of Strahd". One of the locations they will be going to is a windmill called Old Bone Grinder, home to a particularly nasty coven of hags. I haven't made any scenery for a while and I wanted to use some of the supplies I have had sitting around ( mostly so I can justify not throwing them out), so I decided to build a windmill to represent Old Bone Grinder. Here are a few shots of the first mockup I had for the main structure:






I decided that the overall size was too big, so I reduced all sides a bit, and came up with something quite a bit slimmer. heres the main build after down sizing and putting on the stone texture (Sorry for the side ways pic, I rotated them before uploading, but then they were sideways again...D'oh!)




Heres a couple of shots with the whole build, before washes, details, and putting fabric on the sails.





Heres the stone work after a wash with some very watered down black paint to bring out the details. I went back over this wash with a dry brush of lighter grey to tie it all together





I actually finished the build for this last weekend, but I haven't had a chance to take pics of the finished product yet. I will take some and add them ASAP! As always, comments and criticism welcome and appreciated!

Great. An especially impressive job on the sails. I'm intrigued to see how they look with the fabric.

What's the stone texture? Textured plasticard, or hand-made?

Thanks Vermis! The stone texture is done by hand. Its blue insulation foam that I took an old dead ball point pen to and lightly pressed to indent enough to create the look of field stone. Its a slightly time consuming technique, but you can do while watching tv or whatever and it usually turn out pretty well.

cool!

I love the vanes especially! They came out really well

Nice work!

Thanks y'all! Glad you like. I finally got around to getting some pics of the finished product the other night, so here they are:

The first shot is one of the vanes as the napkins I used for cloth were drying.




The next couple are as it sits on my display cabinet, with my vampire counts army in front. I think it fits the undead aesthetic well:






And last but not least a few shots of the mill with some detail shots:












So thats old bone grinder! Hope you guys enjoyed the process. I may go back at some point and paint some of the details like the bricks above the windows a different color to give it some contrast. I also thought of adding a balcony at the top around the sides and the back, so If I do I'll update this thread as I go. Thanks for the comments!

Great looking piece! Gives me inspiration to start on my Mordheim city board & terrain again.