Row House - Table Top Gaming Terrain

Well this is going to be a long post. To be frank it will be all my progress pictures up to this point. I will try to add comments and steps as to what I was doing as we go along. To give a brief explanation I was looking at some inspiration pieces of terrain that were made for Rackham miniatures. I wanted to explore that method of constructing terrain so I embarked on this project. I tried different things as I went a long. Then I took a break for over a year on the piece because life happened. I am now getting back to it an plan on finishing it. I was originally going to attach it to a port board but the time and effort spent on it I decided to keep it an individual piece that can be an edge piece on any board. I struggle with the over all theme because the games I play are largely different in themes. So I am just kind of doing whatever mostly so I can learn from it. Anyway here you go. I will start off with a progress pic of where this project is currently at and then start at the beginning.

Cheers,
John...

Okay... Here we go from the beginning. Take a deep breath and bare with me. Haha...

I started out with foam pieces that were just really dense. I didn't care that they were not the standard pink foam I used because I knew none of it would be showing when I was done. This was strictly for support. Like I said this stuff was denser than normal packing foam and has a great structure to it. I started off by carving bass wood with some designs and then using a wire brush to force the weathered grain look.

After framing it up with the wood I wanted to make a frame so I could pour the plaster that I would later carve.

Once the plaster is poured I let it set up for 30-45 minutes before carving. 

In some areas I would wait for the plaster to stiffen up a bit and then add more to one specific spot that I wanted to have raised stone during the carving process.

Alright... you tired yet? Well I am going to create a page break here. There are a ton more pictures to view if you are up to it. ;) I just don't want to make a ginormous post.