Custom Shadespire Terrain

Wow it’s now 2018.  I believe my last post was way back in 2012, I am surprised I am still able to access this blog.

So what have I been up to lately?  For the most part, I’ve been busy with work a lot.  Obviously the idea of maintaining a regular blog was soon abandoned.  Now we come to the part why I decided to make a new post.  Mostly just for fun I guess. I also wanted to share a recent hobby project I worked on.

A few months back I bought a game called Shadespire.  It’s a game by Games Workshop that is set in their Warhammer Age of Sigmar universe.  The game is a tactical miniatures game played on a hexagonal grid gameboard.

The game had these hexagonal spaces which signified some blocking terrain. Unfortunately the only way to tell if they are such is via a darker shade on the hex and a slighly thicker border line, which in my opinion, could be missed by some players.

That got me thinking, wouldn’t it be better if they had some token or 3D obstacle to show which of these hexes are impassable.  So next thing you know, I made the decision to make some custom terrain myself and here are the finished products.  Till next time...

The Fellowship of the Ring

I've caught a cold recently and was too lazy to go out this afternoon so I decided to stay home and rest.  I actually brought home some work which I was planning to do over the weekend but being ill just gave me a convenient excuse not to do any.  So I ended up spending my lazy Sunday afternoon playing around with my digital camera and taking pictures of some miniatures which I've had for quite sometime now...

"The Company of the Ring shall be Nine; and the Nine Walkers shall be set against the Nine Riders that are evil..." 

- Elrond, from "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

What I've posted here are some miniatures from The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game by Games Workshop. It's the same company that makes the Warhammer tabletop games. These figures are from the Fellowship of the Ring box set. The 28mm miniatures are metal and came unpainted.  You will also need to mount each of the figures to a plastic base which came with the set.

I don't really play the game but I am a fan of the books and the films.  I did admire the fine detailing on the miniatures and purchased them more for their display value.  

Below are some more of images I took this afternoon.

The Hobbits: Pippin, Frodo, Sam and Merry

Legolas and Gimli

Gandalf, Aragorn and Boromir

Frodo the ring-bearer with Gandalf the Grey