A quick and dirty one today. I printed this set over a year ago now for Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms. It was originally meant for a simple 3×3′ board, but with a bit of “other stuff” it reasonably extends to a 6×4′ board for less dense games, as seen in a recent Desiderium post. My intent was to see how much board I could make with only two buildings to anchor it on.

Conceptually, the board was envisioned as a watch tower and the house of the person who keeps watch. Just two buildings and a few accoutrements to help round it out.

The tower is tall: coming in at a solid two feet high. It’s an obvious centerpiece and quite striking to see as you walk up to the board.

The house, by contrast, is almost understated in size. It’s quite small, but the style fits the tower well. Both are from the Silver Haven set from Dark Realms Forge. They’re really nice and printed seamlessly.

I don’t quite recall where I got the scatter. Both the small and large planters were probably found by googling “Elven planter” or “Stone planter” or something. The trees are train hobbyist trees I bought off ebay for cheap. Well worth it for their impact on the board. The small bushes were 3D prints that I put glue and flock onto so they’d look a little nicer than just painting the print directly.

This crossroads piece came from a file ripped from Elder Scrolls Online, I think. I know it was free.

As to how I painted it all, I kept it very simple: I primed white, washed it wish Runic Grey from Army Painter, and then dry brushed it back to white. It’s my favorite way to do simple stonework and allowed me to blast these out in a few hours. After sitting on them for a year, I really didn’t want to put a lot of effort in, so I’m happy with the effort to result ratio here.

This was, per usual, a nice change of pace from the moderns I spent much of August painting. Exactly the little refresher I needed. Now, back to the rat mines…