Monday, May 30, 2016

Frostgrave Library Terrain

Now that Cangames is over, its time to get cracking on my bookshelf terrain for the Frostgrave scenario.

I saw some excellent foam core shelves at Cangames (see previous post), however I had already set my mind to doing them with popsicle sticks & foam core books.

I completed my first prototype this past weekend & have several more in various stages of completion now. Always a bother waiting for the glue to dry, so I am hoping to get this phase done before heading to bed each night, to give it a chance to dry.

First up, the cut pieces of Popsicle (Craft Sticks) are glued together. I am using some lego as a guide


Once that dries, a piece of cardstock backing is added, & then its painted up.


For books, I printed out numerous "Old Book Covers" which I searched for online. These were then cut to wrap around 1cm x 1cm foam core books. Thus the book cover was cut to 1cm x 2.5 cm to account for the spine.

The pages portion will then be painted with Old Parchment colouring. 


The shelf is then loaded with books. 


The completed shelf with figures for scale. Yes these would be more like tomes than books. I may dabble with making some smaller ones. We shall see. Time is the killer at this point, as I have quite a few of these to build. I can always add more later. Also as the base is thin, I may add them to a base which I can further litter with books. Just thinking on how best to do those.


The scenario also calls for piles of discarded books. More food for thought.

Lastly we hit our first Town Wide Garage sale this past Saturday & I found this old pencil sharpener curio for 50 cents, which although large, will make an interesting centrepiece.  I am thinking I will build it up with a platform around it. We shall see.


Thanks for stopping by.

12 comments:

  1. Fabulous scratch building, the shelves look spot on Terry.

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    1. Thanks Michael, just going to need lots of time to complete

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  2. Clever and very effective looking Terry.

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    1. Thanks Simon, I may need to invest in some Balsawood to make longer shelves down the road.

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  3. Looks great Terry...the shelves and books look spot on...I like the covers for the books. Cheers.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by & your kind comment Stanley

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  4. A great idea Terry, they look very effective and the globe was a bargain.

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    1. Thanks Silver Whistle. My mind has ideas for the globe, just need to find the time to put it into reality

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  5. Awesome stuff! Really nice :)

    Like that globe as well, must keep my eye out for similar!

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    1. Thanks Toxic Pixie, you will pretty much only find those in your Grandparents house or at Garage Sales these days. I also picked up a piano, but that will be for more modern gaming

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    2. Yeah, I never seem to see such good pieces!

      I like the piano idea - can you model it with a chap playing and use him as a Bard :D

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  6. Check out some of the dollhouse sites, they often have images of various books and magazines for a lot of different eras that can easily be reduced down to the correct scale.

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