Building The Lonely Mountain Part 2

We made more progress on our BOFA battlefield. Not as much as we hoped, but at this point we will take any forward momentum. Unfortunately we spend a lot of time discussing and doing mock builds, since we are sort of feeling our way a long in the build process. The gate and Erebor is pretty complicated, which is exacerbated by the fact that the boards need to be transported to conventions. We have a seem between 2 sections right at the gate. We can't help it, otherwise this thing would stay in my basement forever.

So here is our slow progress,

  Adding a 2nd layer of foam on the 2 mountain spurs

Stanley Sureform. Awesome tool for shaping insulation. Makes an awful mess though.

Raven Hill is coming along.

Drawing out the gate to better visualize it, for size and position. This is not what we will use.

Gluing down that 2nd layer. I really need more bricks, the wife is not amused.

Started work on the gate. Once we get the gate placed, we can do the rest of the mountain around it.

Still working on small design elements of the gare.

Using light weight Spackle to smooth out the hills and cover up the seems between foam layers.

More work on Raven Hill

Started basing up some Warg Riders. Black Raven Foundry figures. We have a lot of painting to do.

That's it for now. It doesn't seem like a lot, but as long as we move forward everyday, we will get there.

Thanks for checking out the blog, Xin