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Building a Diorama - Part 5 - Adepticon or Bust

Building a Diorama - Part 5 - Adepticon or Bust

We made huge progress last week, in the space of an hour the task of completing this board in time for Adepticon went from seemingly impossible to nearly accomplished. Unfortunately, the picture was a little deceptive, as always the Devil’s in the details. In order for the demo board to be useful we needed to make a bunch of terrain. We got a little head start last week with some 3-hex bushes but we wanted all the terrain required for the scenarios in the rulebook, and we wanted some variety.

Building a Diorama - Part 3 - Details

Building a Diorama - Part 3 - Details

Last week we sculpted our foam base and I got a bunch of hexes glued down on the 4 quadrants. This week I worked on our decorative end-cap. We wanted to make the diorama break down into parts for travel, the priority being the actual play surface. We painted some apartment buildings long ago and they always attract people to our table at conventions, this will be the deluxe version. With that in mind, we wanted to make an add-on with buildings and scenery that was optional.

Building a Diorama - Part 2 - So Many Hexes

Building a Diorama - Part 2 - So Many Hexes

With the 12 initial models painted and photos and video in the works, I finally get to dig in to a project I hoped to have done way back in December - the deluxe demo board. We have had some fun misadventures with this project already, like shopping for materials with a broken foot, finalizing the design on the fly in Lowes 15 minutes before they closed, and Bernie amazingly sawing our huge styrofoam sheet down to size in the parking lot with a pencil.

Tabletop Quality Bronze Statue

Tabletop Quality Bronze Statue

Kublacon was great fun but the week leading up to it was hectic! Bernie and I each had our different goals to accomplish and mine was to have all the painting done for our 2 demo games. At the last minute we realized we didn't have good central piece of terrain for "The Airdrop" scenario, the only issue was I already had 2 models to paint and only one night after work to do it. I decided to try to paint it up as quickly as possible by whatever means necessary. It came off pretty well so I thought I'd share...