Giant Mushrooms

For a long time I had a piece of ground with giant mushrooms in my mind. I wanted something like that in Jules Verne's "Journey to the center of the earth". Now, with Ghost Archipelago, the time had come to get to work.

There are prefabricated mushroom molds, but I wanted to make everything from scratch. The basic shapes I have completely cut from Styrodur, the bottom of the mushroom caps I have hollowed out with a kitchen burner. In order not to let the mushrooms look like from the fairy-tale forest, I decided against the typical red white dotted fly agaric painting, so it would fit better to a jungle.

 

 

 

A small swamp

A small swamp built from scratch. Can be used for the upcoming Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago, Congo or the deep south of Dracula's America.

An old compact disc is used as base. I use tin foil for the basic shape and paint it with variations of green and blue. Fast hardened plaster is used for the outer rims. The two little rocks are cut out of styrodur. After everything was dry I fill in a little bit of liquid resin mixed with a light brown wash. Before the resin was dried, I have sprinkled some spots of dark grass, which becomes lumps.

Generic Swashbuckling

During the vacation I started this small side-project, not to paint and tinker on Wild West stuff only. These are some swashbucklers from Wargames Foundry, laying around on my unpainted pile of shame for many years now. There are many more to paint, but it's a start.

 

If I cannot use them in the upcoming Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago (not sure because of the muskets!), I will use them for own scenarios with the Donnybrook rules I recently bought, which seems very similiar to the dice system of Dracula's America with addition of some nice, a little bit deeper stuff.