Saturday, May 30, 2015

custom Brewhouse Bash board

Currently I am in Waterloo to participate in a brand new blood bowl tournament called Brewhouse Bowl - check out the NAF forum thread if you are interested.  The basic premise is they cannot afford the fees to bring the teams to play - so they offer free booze instead.

Thus - after the first three matches players from the teams participate in an old GW mini game called Brewhouse Bash - the rules for which can be found here. The winner of the bash game will get a small boost to their blood bowl team going forwards.

The TO (grant85) is a top notch guy, very supportive of everyone else's tournaments, engaged and involved in; recruitment, setup/clean up, etc.  I had suggested to him to build a custom Brewhouse Bash board - he just didn't have the cycles to devote to it.  So wanting to do something cool for him I decided to have a go - I wanted this to be a surprise hence this is a scheduled post for that weekend.

So first up I did this design diagram so I knew what I had to build, based on the board section graphics in the PDF.
design diagram
I got some MDF from the home depot and got them to cut it to a size that would fit in a standard picture frame I bought at walmart.  The MDF will give it a bit more strength because the rest is just built from cardboard, popsicle sticks and some odds and ends.  You can see here how I did the grid and used hot glue to stick the stones and walls down.

draw grid
mark spaces for features
glue down squares for stones
two rows of double thickness card for walls
Once that was done - I sprayed it with grey primer, lined the gaps with black by hand and then gave it a couple coats using a textured spray paint from Krylon.  This gave it a great stone texture and was infinitely easier than using sand or flock. Then I glued in inside the picture frame.

sprayed grey + lined black between stones
sprayed with Krylon Make-it-Stone textured spray paint
paint gaps black and glued into picture frame
In between while stuff was drying I was building all the features that weren't stone tiles or the walls.  Some loose boxes I just cut squares of double thick card and glued cereal packet to the outside.  The fermenter used floral water tube caps and some straws along with some water effects. All the wooden stuff was build with popsicle sticks, I tried to give it some height without being fully 3D.  Finally I did the bbq after finding a good video about painting hot coals, I used a couple 40k biker bases glued together to make the metal "tub" part and followed the tutorial for painting.

glued thin card to squares cut from double thickness cardboard
made this fermentor from the caps off floral water tubes
larger features like the tables, etc. got square outlines
how the toilets were put together.
here the table is stained with a couple coats of seraphim sepia
toilets stained
the bar
booze crates - I used a different stain colour
the completed stairs/balcony
made the bbq with a couple 40k biker bases
As it was finished I would glue the pieces in - once everything was done and had a day to fully dry I gave it a nice heavy coat of gloss varnish and then a quick light shot of dullcote (that stuff is expensive!) I wasn't planning to but the gloss was very high.

all done!
I'm gonna give myself 40 painting points for this, it was a quite involved "terrain" style project - very happy with how it came out and I hope to apply some ideas I got to more terrain.  Hope you like it Grant!

6 comments:

Axtklinge said...

Great job mate!
Hope you manage to take a few pics of the Brewhouse full of customers having proper civilized arguments about their bloodbowl games!
(I bet Grant loved it.)
Cheers,
A.

everydayloves said...

Pretty sure there will be pics - I forgot my phone charger so I have been trying to avoid using my phone much.
The board is a hit, Grant loves it and folks prefer to play on it by far.

Don't wanna jinx it but it may have some good karma associated - I have won all 3 games so far, hoping it continues tomorrow.

everydayloves said...

ps that was Tristan

Tristan M said...

Didn't jinx it, karma continued. Went 5-0 to win the tournament. Write up later.

Grant said...

I LOVE THIS BOARD!

It was the best surprise of the weekend.

Everyone wanted to play their bash rounds on the 3D board.

thanks again buddy. it's hanging on my wall now lol

Tristan M said...

mission accomplished then

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