Title: Build your own Blood Bowl Pitch
Description: Digits shows you how
Description: Digits shows you how
Digits - April 11, 2008 07:17 PM (GMT)
OK, I have been asked how I built this.
Unfortunately, I have no WIP shots but here is what you need.
1 bag of tile spacers (look like little crosses)
1 large mdf board
1 sheet of foamboard (large enough for pitch)
1 tin of exterior textured paint
PVA
a handful of sand
brown liquid poster paint
paints and two colours of green flock
Copy the grid from a standard BB board onto the foam board in pencil to get exact copies of the squares. Important because of range rulers.
Stick the foamboard to your MDF, bevelling the edges. If you intend to add a dugout, do so now. Materials to suit!
Now, stick a tile spacer at every junction of the gridded pitch. Trim off bit from the spacers for outside edges and corners. This is the ball breaking bit and it takes a few hours!!!!
Mix your brown poster paint and pva into your exterior paint and chuck in the sand. Take the board outside, and pour the paint on the table, spreading it over the whole surface so it is flush with the top of the spacers. At this point, I added a few skulls, ripped off limbs etc to the surface of the paint.
Leave it to dry! This can take a while!!! However, as it dries, the paint shrinks down onto the board leaving the spacers proud.
Paint it earthy colours.
Mix the two flocks roughly, then stick on with pva, leaving exposed earth where appropriate. Avoid glueing to the top of spacers.
Paint your lines (and central motif / end zones as required)
Et voilą!!!!!
Hope this helps.
Unfortunately, I have no WIP shots but here is what you need.
1 bag of tile spacers (look like little crosses)
1 large mdf board
1 sheet of foamboard (large enough for pitch)
1 tin of exterior textured paint
PVA
a handful of sand
brown liquid poster paint
paints and two colours of green flock
Copy the grid from a standard BB board onto the foam board in pencil to get exact copies of the squares. Important because of range rulers.
Stick the foamboard to your MDF, bevelling the edges. If you intend to add a dugout, do so now. Materials to suit!
Now, stick a tile spacer at every junction of the gridded pitch. Trim off bit from the spacers for outside edges and corners. This is the ball breaking bit and it takes a few hours!!!!
Mix your brown poster paint and pva into your exterior paint and chuck in the sand. Take the board outside, and pour the paint on the table, spreading it over the whole surface so it is flush with the top of the spacers. At this point, I added a few skulls, ripped off limbs etc to the surface of the paint.
Leave it to dry! This can take a while!!! However, as it dries, the paint shrinks down onto the board leaving the spacers proud.
Paint it earthy colours.
Mix the two flocks roughly, then stick on with pva, leaving exposed earth where appropriate. Avoid glueing to the top of spacers.
Paint your lines (and central motif / end zones as required)
Et voilą!!!!!
Hope this helps.
Lt.Gregor - April 11, 2008 07:26 PM (GMT)
Yes! I'm going to need to build One! Tile Spacers I'd never have thought of that!
Deserter - April 11, 2008 09:00 PM (GMT)
Thats awesome, cheers for that :) What two flocks did you use?
Digits - April 11, 2008 09:51 PM (GMT)
You're welcome mate! Glad to do it.
The two flocks were Jarvis stockport. One light meadow I think and one darker. It really doesn't matter though. What IS important is to roughly mix them so that when put back on the board, they look more natural than one single shade would. The grass is the bit my kids did! :D
The two flocks were Jarvis stockport. One light meadow I think and one darker. It really doesn't matter though. What IS important is to roughly mix them so that when put back on the board, they look more natural than one single shade would. The grass is the bit my kids did! :D
Digits - April 12, 2008 08:20 PM (GMT)
I have been toying with making stands for the pitch sides for a while now. I am interested to hear from anyone who has built any of the new fantasy buildings as to their suitability. In particular, if I were to build them in halves, ie as a facade only.
Dizbuster - April 17, 2008 03:25 AM (GMT)
Excellent :ph43r: Once i get my figures i'm away.