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Ah god, this thread's going to be like my Fallout one where I randomly find it appearing on Tumblr, internet blogs and tattoo sites...

And its gone up by like 200 views again. Eugh, bloody internet screwing up my metrics! Rage!

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Ah god, this thread's going to be like my Fallout one where I randomly find it appearing on Tumblr, internet blogs and tattoo sites...

And its gone up by like 200 views again. Eugh, bloody internet screwing up my metrics! Rage!

Yep, I was looking for unrelated stuff, and still the search engines showed me my own images from Dakka! it is inescapable.

Mwahahaha! Share the plog! SHARE IT!

How much are your metrics ruined by now, Wyrmalla? :p

I think I counted an extra 600 views.

Oh for crying out loud. 3500 views? Screw my bloody numbers!

Feth it.

In other news I'll probably post that mushroom house a bit further along tomorrow as I've bothered my arse to actually buy clay today. Should have it done quick enough hopefully, though I'm trying to push myself to have enough models finished to play a game with them this Tuesday coming hopefully as well.



Ignore the half painted Morag Tong assassin which I've been too lazy to finish. I prioritized that Hot Dog van (in my Fallout thread) over any stuff for myself. =P


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Ah lemme check:

20:27 yesterday night was: 1792
07:50 this morning was: 2154
23:06 (current) is: 3446

...I don't really care too much about the numbers. Its that watching them tick off while at work gives me something interesting to do on the side.

Still have no idea how Reddit works though. =P

This is a really cool project. What were the base minis for your initial Dunmer warriors? Also that bonemold armour looks very nice painted up.

The Morag Tong "chitin armour but a bit darker" affair was kind of a disgrace, wasn't it...

Huh, I thought I said what the first batch were made from? ...I usually do so in case someone comes along in a decade and wants to know, so they aren't totally screwed as with other threads.

That first lot were made from Deus Vult Steppe Warriors; with the inferred reposing and greenstuff. If you were to use them I'd say that they're more 25mm than 28 and are a bit limited as far as posing goes (unless you want to arse about with greenstuff).

For what they are I'd suggest just sculpting skirts onto other models which are better. If you want the extra hassle Perry plastics are probably a better base, its just that I happened to have a spare box of those Steppe Warriors. =P

'nother WIP.



Ready to paint, bar adding some crap to the base possibly. I would say that the next one which I make will be a bit squatter with a larger roof and with a Morrowind style staircase rather than the Skyrim one I have on this. Least that means they'll be a bit varied.

Nice!

Very nice!

That Mushroom home is looking great! almost felt like you got us into the game itself!

Skyrim and Mass Effect are the two table top games I'd most want. I have Infinity but nothing really comes close to Elder Scrolls.
I'd kill (not literally) for a good Argonian model line.

The Morag Tong Assassin. Hmn, could have probably have done more with those red areas.




Tis an enchanted sword, hence that weird blue effect which Morrowind felt the need to put on all its enchanted bits of gear (...I removed that texture when playing)

A Dunmer thug type. ...I do have a thing for Chitin armour.




And err, a Scamp in a vase. Damn the manufacturer's slipped my mind, but its from a line of comical Goblin minis from the 90s IIRC. There were tons going second hand, but I only took this one. It'll be a Treasure Marker in Frostgrave (adventurer walks up to that fabulous - not crappy - looking vase and has a Scamp jump out, blow them a raspberry, then scuttle off).



The mushroom house's being painted, so are three more thugs for my warband.After those its just the Nix-Hound and another archer, though looking at my time I may have to use a regular wolf as my warhound during my first game on Tuesday. We'll see what happens. =P

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God do I hate "automatically appended last post". Wish it'd clock off based on word count/ images.

Churning through these so I can at least have something to play with this week...

Two bandits and an archer:

Netch Leather over a robe - made from a Deus Vult Steppe Warrior.



Just plain clothes, but I suppose the massive axe does him fine. He's a Frostgrave soldier plastic with a new head. I'll probably use that kit for Nords rather than Dunmer, just wanted to see how one would look in Dunmer colours.



And lastly an archer in more Netch Leather armour. He began as a Wargames Factory WWII soldier.



The only model of immediate concern which I need to finish for my warband is another archer (who'll probably be wearing Chitin Armour). The rest, including a Nix-Hound, two Imps (one of them a Scamp) and two Major Demons (a Flesh Atronach and perhaps a Storm Atronach) can be proxied, so aren't a priority just yet.

Amazing work! Very "in character" and with great attention to details. (I am so stealing that idea about mushroom buildings on the tabletop, somehow I didn't thought they would be practical to make, but Your example makes me rethink that. Thanks!)

The Thug is really neat.

Look pictures! With real models in them! This thread isn't dead!

...Neither are my two other ones. What? Oi I have other crap to do other than play with my dollies. Like sleeping. ...And uh, sitting on Facebook. ...an' ...stuff.

I played my first game of Frostgrave this week. Out of that I noted the need for a token to represent the Wizard's Eye spell. So here we go, a two pence piece with the Imperial Mage's Guild symbol painted on it. ...Yes I know the Morrowind branch used a different symbol. Yes I know that the Mages Guild, along with many other establishments, went down with the Septim Empire. No, I frankly don't care.



Ooh, something like that'd do for those magical traps from Skyrim...

Some Reaper Miniatures ...miniatures which seemed suitable were picked up too. This is one of their "Dregs" which I'm using as a stand in for a Lame Corpus (even if the Divine Disease was cured with the fall of Dagoth Ur and I'm thinking of setting my games after the Red Year). Not sure about the exposed intestines, but I didn't want to mess with such a nice model.




The other minis which were picked up are going towards an Ash Slave, Thalmor Wizard and a Nord Warrior in Iron Armour. Hmn, it may be an idea to make some more Sixth House models at some point.

In other news my hard drive failed so I lost all the resource pictures which I collected for this. So a couple of hundred of those and about three times as many for my Fallout and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stuff.



I may make a ruined Hllalu style building this weekend. Youknow like the ones in Balmora. I may not. Hmn. That mushroom's mostly finish, but procrastinating is awesome. Whatever, guess you'll see what crops up.

That Lame Corpus is lame. Sorry for the gakky ass pun... That model is great! May just have to use him as a herald of nurgle...

Off the back of one unfinished terrain piece, here's another. A Halalu building, actually in the style of the first one most people will see in the game as they come down off of the Balmora Stilt Strider dock.







Its 7 by 4.5 inches wide and 4.5 inches too, though it appears larger due to the perspective in the photo oddly. I made it out of the same cork tile material which I've been using for the Middle Eastern buildings which I've been making for a friend (they're in my gallery, but I haven't bothered making a separate thread for them). I thought that I'd have a go first at an intact building then once I'd worked out that move onto ruins.

There that is anyhow. Currently being painted besides this is that Nord warrior and Ash Slave which I mentioned yesterday. Expect something to turn up here tomorrow in a painted state unless I become super lazy, which is a possibility...

Cacty will be very dissapoint if you dont make all of Balmora. All of it. *Buys whip* DO IT!

Yes Balmora. Modded Balmora...



Actual Balmora though? Hmn, I wonder if that could fit into a 3x3 board? 5x5 maybe...

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Yes Balmora. Modded Balmora...

If this was how it looked in game, I'd redownload Morrowind immediately. :p

What is that yellow putty? Milliput? How large of rolls is that sold in?

@ RexInvictus

Well if you want your computer to lag out to all hell... There were mods which expanded the size of the town significantly though, but with game limitations you can only do so much. For instance when you extend the view distance from 10 feet in front of you soon discover how close all the towns are to each other.



Then you have mods like Tamriel Rebuilt which add stuff like this.




@ Stormwall This stuff. I buy it in rolls for £3, though I know you can find it cheaper elsewhere. Ah it says "4 oz (113.4g)" a pack on the back. That mushroom took like two and a half packs.



With greenstuff I bought pack of the same size as this milliput and its lasted me a year. With this clay though I find I go tear right through it though as you only use greenstuff for individual small models, whereas milliput is for larger things like terrain.

Thanks. I'm thinking of using it to patch this:



Also is that picture taken with a graphics improvement mod for Morrowind? It'd make it easier for me to play it.

You mean just the two holes there at the back? Well if you're wanting a smooth finish and don't want to use plasticard then sure. Its cheap enough too. I'd advise smoothing it out with water and perhaps putting down an initial layer then going out it again with another in case it sinks into the holes a bit. Milliput sets pretty hard so you can pull out a piece of glass paper and sand it down easily enough. Though aye, smooth it down with water then scrape away any excess with a cocktail stick or something.

Morrowind Graphics Extender extends the view distance in the game by however much the players it to (that's Red Mountain way in the background taken from the city of Almalexia by the Argonian border). It can load the default one cell vanilla goes for (i.e. a couple of feet in front of you) or as far as your computer can take. Plus some random other things. I haven't played the game in years, but there were all sorts of mods which improved graphics. For instance one which added grass which blows in the wind. ...Morrowind didn't have grass which did that. Pity then that the game's so old now that a lot of the mods aren't available any more because the hosts have went under. :(

Here's what the game looks like using one of the current gen graphics mods.

Quick dab of paint and this thing is done. Bet you all thought I was going to do it up all respectable like? Nah, its a crap hole.








And like with my Fallout stuff, its any excuse to stick on some graffiti:

Front side: Thieves guild shadowmarks - "empty" - "Hlaalu"
Right Side: Hlaalu symbol with "traitors" beneath, "N'wah", Crossed Imperial Dragon with "Imperials Out"
Rear: Calling some guy a drunkard, "Fallen Gods" and House Dagoth sigil with "the dreamer is awake"
Left side: The meteor Baar Dur (intentionally mispelled) hanging above Vivec city

And the model for scale in the above is a Nord Warrior which I painted up last night.




She's a Reaper Miniature's "Female Barbarian" who I sculpted a bit of armour onto (before she was half naked" I guess acting as a Nord mercenary or treasure hunter in the remains of Morrowind.

Hmn, and now to start planning out a proper ruined version of one of those buildings...

Damn you Wyrmalla. Now I wanna do an Elder Scrolls/Frostgrave project of my own. I already blame you for my £80 order with Brother Vinni for Fallout minis.

The Nord, swashbuckler Dunmer thug and the Golden Saint are my favourite.

Wyrmalla inspires us all. I really, really hope you make the Steel plate armor Nord or Dunmer from Skyrim. If not, I definitely will.

Thank you for all your advice. My plan is to actually fill those chambers because I want this to be sturdy. They're loosely cemented together right now, waiting for the putty to be put in. Then plasticard detailing/panels will go over them to hide the mess. (This is for a gift or I wouldn't go so crazy with it.) So thanks.

I also downloaded that mod and got it working in an hour or less. My FPS has dropped from 45 to 20 but, it's so worth it! Definitely will increase my Morrowind playtime.

An added side-effect is that I now recognize a lot of the stuff you're making. When you started on that building, I was wondering if it was near/the Silt Strider building. You did an awesome job with that.

*tries to mod morrowind* *fails* Loving the graffiti on the house! It really gives it character,

The Nexus Mod Manager makes modding really easy. I've only done it for Skyrim and Fallout New Vegas though.