![]() However, lead items that are not weapons or armor are just as strong as those of any other metal - a lead chain or bridge is exactly as strong as a steel bridge, even against a dragon or a building destroyer. Lead can be forged into furniture and other objects, like most metals, but its low value and high weight may make it a poor choice for personal objects or anything portable, respectively. Lead is not magma-safe or even fire-safe - it will melt in a grass fire. Unlike in real life, lead is not a biological toxin. I am re-posting and correcting some text errors, and to include working images.Lead is a heavy, low-value metal available only from galena ore. (Note: this post was originally posted several years ago, but the links and images had long since died. If I were to estimate though, it's probably around $10 in materials. Apart from the trees (which I recall were around $12 USD for 16, and I am using in several other terrain pieces) and the Plastruct sheet ($5 USD?) the other items were found laying around the house. The trees are from a railroad scenery company (not woodland scenics, I'll try to find out when I get home). Base coated with brown latex paint mixed with white glue (50:50) over the hill and rocks, black sandable spray paint over the stronghold (so as not to obscure the details). I've only used acrylic caulk for many years for two reasons: first, it takes acrylic paint without any complaints, but far more importantly the second reason is it's semi-pliable even when dry and won't chip or shatter like filling compound or spackle. Lots of acrylic caulking compound, glue, sand, flock and cheap paints. Little icons are obviously dwarf sprue extras. Tower floor is coffee sticks over cardboard and styofoam. ![]() All doors, thresh holds, flagstone and slate roof tiles are from cereal box cardboard in various layers. The core of the stronghold is white styrofoam. The hill is white and pink styrofoam, shaped with a wood rasp. I had originally planned on making the bronze circular doors on the second story open and modeled as a diorama with a crane lifting a barrel out (brewery?), but I changed my mind when I gave some thought to how ham-fisted my friends and I are to terrain when we're drunk, plus it would give us less space for miniatures to stand during the game, cutting down on its usefulness.īase from particle (MDF) board. This came to me in a dream (seriously), so you know you have some mental problems when that happens. Brush with the grain, and it will remove the softer material from between the grains leaving a nice texture. A wire brush could be used to the same effect, but the wheel was fast. To that end, I cut lengths of 1/2 inch dowel, drilled holes in them for the trees, and then scored the outside with a wire wheel attached to a drill (otherwise the trunks would look smooth). I figured that trees get brutalized pretty quickly, plus the fact that they could be swapped out for autumn foliage or snowy trees, and that removable trees would allow this piece to fit on our terrain shelves. All I need then do is swap off the tower top and (hopefully) they'll look substantially enough different. If it aids in the visualization, think of a disc of plasticard the same diameter as the tower rampart's wooden floor that will be able to be easily set onto the tower top with components glued to it. The final bit is a series of chimneys, vents and a crane for a dwarf brewery. The third tower module is a domed astronomical observatory (wizard's citadel). I'm also adding a wooden platform for the tower as a helipad for my friend's gyrocopters. I'm constructing a conical, shingled roof with hoardings for the tower, which will allow it to blend in as my Empire hill fortress protecting the Moot (I have a Stirland province Empire army). The stronghold is meant to be multipurpose, so I'm finishing some modular components to maximize our use for the terrain without taking up additional storage space. The piece isn't actually finished, since there are 4 different "toppings" I have yet to complete for the tower, as well as additional tufts of grass, different shades of flock and static grass, underbrush and deadfall along the hillside. Unfortunately, I have a bad feeling he's just going to use it to hide an anvil behind it, but what can ya do? The stronghold was built mainly just as a fun line-of-sight blocker for my friend's dwarf army, and to give him some themed terrain (I'll post the other Dwarf pieces when I get a chance). While I'm not a regular member here (I frequent ) I thought this might be of interest to you, since it's dwarven, and since I know the guy I made it for checks here periodically.
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