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Set them up on the table to see what they would look like



Built some stone structures for another scenario



Turned some scrap foam core into ruined walls

Okay, so I've been putting thought into how and where exactly I would film video footage for How To Videos and the recurring problem has been lighting.

The standard wisdom is light box with translucent white sides four light sources. I've had this setup before, and aside from the box I had being too small, the lights were cumbersome and required a power strip. They also through off some significant heat, which made me question the wisdom of their continued use.

While browsing articles on the internet, I came across someone else who used 3 LED strip lights, a desk lamp, and a large container from Ikea. It wasn't the best solution, but it got me thinking about using LEDs. LED technology has come a long way in affordability in the last few years. $20 later on Amazon I purchased 16Ft of White LED lighting, a 12volt power supply, and a dimmer switch. My plan involves making a big box out of white Foam Core and lining it with 16ft worth of LEDs along the top and sides. Then I can cut a hole in the top to put the video camera. It can serve double duty as a light box, for taking pictures of miniatures and terrain, and the lighted stage for my videos.

If you manage to perfect that let me know. It sounds spiffy. I'm not as sure about the videos myself but I'd like a good solid light box and that sounds pretty damn doable.

The power supply won't arrive until the end of the month, but when it does I'll try and document the build.

This is what I was up to last night.

Had an idea, made a template.


Then I cut out the template, made 12 copies in foarm core, and then cut them up, while watching Minority Report, the series.


Cut a base out of the scrap, and then glued a Pringles can to it


Then glued the whole thing together while watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Looks good and I highly approve of the choice of movie. How was the Minority Report series?

The Minority Report series is better than the movie, in my opinion.

It's probably been at least a decade since I watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show last, but I had recorded the BBC's 40th Anniversary Live Performance.

Had enough pieces left over that I decided to make another one.

Fancy stuff!

I received the lights, and bought the materials for the box.

Still waiting on the power supply and dimmer I ordered. However, I did find a 12 volt power supply, while looking for something unrelated.

If I can find the time this weekend, I'm going to build, and light, the box

Built 20 book cases over the last 2 days.



Cardstock book shelves are detailed and easy. Wooden bookshelves are sturdier and have a better feel, but they are a pain to fill with tiny details. These are a hybrid. Wooden frames with cardstock details printed on, mounted to foam core for durability

Oh fantastic The stacks actually being made of wood or whatever makes them look solid and 'real' while you've achieved a much stronger (and readily reproducible) look with the paper print out books. Kind of like making/casting a display/monitor/view screen and printing something to put on it, rather than flailing about with freehand... or in your particular case making tiny little books.

Good stuff!

That is a superb idea. I'll definitely borrow it.

The wonderful terrain ideas you come up with are allowed to be copied right? Because if they aren't I'll just have to steal them.

Copy away !!

I found 3 printable book cases and worked them into 10



The bookshelves images are 2"x3".

I printed them, mounted them to foam core, cut them out, and then glued popsicle sticks to make the frames around them.

These really are amazing!

Cool ! My library made it to the DakkaDakka front page.



These are some objective markers I cooked up this morning, while binge watching Extant

As it should, it's good stuff

Those are interesting, are they little obelisks or somesuch?

Pretty much. I made them for a custom Frostgrave scenario I'm working on. During the light of the Blue Moon the writing on the obelisks can be deciphered and each holds part of a spell. Any wizard who can brave the dangers of Frostgrave at night during the Blue Moon can learn a new spell by deciphering them all.

Sounds pretty fun

I'll have to check frostgrave out sometime, get some inspiration for the rest of my bones stuff and what not.

Your terrain is awesome. I really like what you're doing here.

Thanks WW !!

Knowing that people enjoy what I do makes posting here about it worthwhile.

Ah, the many uses of pringles cans I think those objective markers are simply called runestones. They remind me of runestones anyway. Yours look good. What materials did you use?

Runestones works for me.

They are Dollar Store foam core with the paper peeled off.

Paint on a layer or two or PVA glue and they are durable enough.

Got in an all Hallows Eve game of Frostgrave last night, 4 players and we tried out the Mausoleum scenario, which starts with 4 skeletons guarding treasures and summons an additional one each turn .





Cleared 530 XP !!! It was pretty insane.

Sounds fun

If was one of the players first game of Frostgrave, so we all kind of agreed to an uneasy truce that we would concentrate on the treasures and not just murder each other.

Everyone managed to avoid each other early on, and concentrate on battling skeletons, until there was only one treasure left. Though expeditious use of the Leap spell, I had hopped thugs and archers onto four separate treasures. Then threw up a wall spell to create a barrier between the opposing forces and my own. While I was madly leaping around, between battling skeletons, the other three wizards all made for the final treasure. We had placed a dozen treasures, and I had already grabbed four of them, so I didn't want to contest the last, but they did. Trash talking lead to threats of force, and the most experienced wizard soon found himself on the receiving end of an assault on two fronts. The new player had managed to get four archers into a spot overlooking the final treasure, and his archers aim was true that night. They felled three of the enemy before he they gave up and retreated, but not without the fleeing wizard unleashing bone darts on anything he could see.

My forces were down to the Wizard, his apprentice, and a trained giant spider (war hound), that had gotten lost in the terrain, and I had completely forgotten about. My Spider fell victim to a bone dart, before the cowardly wizard fled. Angered that the truce had been broken, my Wizard noticed that the dastardly villain had fled nearer to the table edge but at the perfect angle for my wizard to see his apprentice though a collapsed wall. Gathering his fury at the betrayal of the truce and being attacked unprovoked , my wizard unleashed an Elemental Bolt of immense magnitude that removed the apprentice from the fray.

2 Standard Treasures @ 50Xp
2 Scenario Treasures @ 70Xp
1 Wizard removing Apprentice from play @ 80XP
16 Successfully cast spells @ 10Xp
1 Absorb Knowledge @ 50Xp

Hah, that sounds really fun. I think it would be a blast if I had people around here to play it with.

Obsesivley checking for updates payed off.

Just won a free piece of terrain from one of the channels I follow on YouTube

I talked to one of the guys from First Round Fireball and they agreed to make me a custom piece of terrain as my prize, instead of that fountain. We dicussed a Well Of Sorrow and Dreams for the Frostgrave scenario of the same name. It will be a large well with a collapsed statue over the back half of it, with a resin water effect. Really looking forward to it, and of course I'll post picks once I get it.

In the mean time, I'm waiting on my Forstgrave soldiers to arrive, so in the mean time I've hasily constructed a warband from Mage Knight miniatures.

This is what I had to start with on my bench last night.




On the left are two custom ice bases I carved and cast, and on the right are four new treasure tokens I whipped up for Frostgrave. Somehow in our All Hallows Eve encounter two of my treasure tokens were lost.

The new tokens are a short stack of Grimoires, a wand, in scale potions, and out of scale potions.

A closer look at the Warband


Wizard, with magical staff, Apprentice, two thugs, and four archers

Snow Trolls


These are repurposed Yeti and Bigfoot figures, out og a tube of Cryptids, I picked up at Michael's Crafts. With a new paint job, and snazzy new bases, I think they came out very well.

Nice stuff, grats on contest. Are mageknight models sti readily available? Bendy prepaints sound like just the ticket to throw to the wolf (3 year old daughter) to spare my precious painted figs.