Osgiliath ruins

king elessar 2615 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 6:12 pm

i have just accquired some of the games workshop osgiliath ruins and though they havent arrived yet i was looking for some suggestions on expanding them as they seem quite small and hopefully the will be in my first builidng on my osgiliath board, all replies appreciated

king elessar 2615 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 6:16 pm

alos just a quick point hopefully my board will be for SBG so the buildings are going to be close together for sime nice close fighting

Hilbert · **Joined:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:07 am **Posts:** 2088

You will need foamboard and pva glue...
TTT journeybook has awesome tutorial for osgiliath ruins...

Also welcome back we have to see you since last year :-D

king elessar 2615 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 6:34 pm

thanks here are some of my womt that i painted ages ago

http://s661.photobucket.com/albums/uu33 ... omt2-1.jpg

:-D

also all tips are needed as although i am an avid gamer i have never built any terrain before at ALL except a cardboard wall

so any hints where to get thing or techniuques are very much appreciated

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:19 pm

Make your bases as small as you can so you can use the terrain as many ways as possible.

I set this up in about about ten minutes for this illustration. I use lots of different small detail parts.
I use the Christmas village roads for every thing. Mount some of your trees separately The old 40K buildings make good buildings too.
It is easier for me to answer questions about how I do things than for me to give general advice.

king elessar 2615 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:26 pm

thanks this look really good and yeah i want some buildings to be on bases so i can take the out and play WOTR if i want to

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:34 pm

The square bases will work well for WOTR. I put sidewalks on some of the 40K buildings I made in the past. They are more useful for other things if you make the roads and sidewalks separate.

king elessar 2615 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:40 pm

i have seen a few good boards and was just wondering should i try to incorporate part of the river or not as i have never made a river before?

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:55 pm

I think the river and the bridges are an important part of the city. I think I would start with one small part at a time and work up to it. May be a building, a statue then some walls and fences.I have some purpose built boards but they are hard to store.

king elessar 2615 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:59 pm

yeah i was considering doing a small part of each side of osgiliath so you could have the orcs attacking one side like in the return of the king or have a scenario with faramir and boromir holding the bridge for a number of turns or somethig like that. Does anyone have any ideas about the bridge i mean should it be whole or ruined and then create some kine of wooden platform to make ot whole or have two interchangeable bridges one whole and one ruined

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:34 pm

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yeah i was considering doing a small part of each side of osgiliath so you could have the orcs attacking one side like in the return of the king or have a scenario with faramir and boromir holding the bridge for a number of turns or somethig like that. Does anyone have any ideas about the bridge i mean should it be whole or ruined and then create some kine of wooden platform to make ot whole or have two interchangeable bridges one whole and one ruined

I think that is a good idea. I shifted some parts a round for a mock up. Is that what you had in mind?

You can make the city in sections like we did for the club D Day FOW board. The water and board sections are 2X4 you can reveiw the thumbnails if you like on photo bucket.

king elessar 2615 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:39 pm

yeah similar but witha bit of the city on the other side
hopefully ill have some pictures soon of my first building

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:42 pm

I am looking forward to the post!

king elessar 2615 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:45 pm

yeah hopefully after the weekend as the ruins wont be here by monday so maybe some plans for the city at the weekend

king elessar 2615 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 06, 2011 6:25 pm

Hilbert wrote:

Also welcome back we have to see you since last year :-D

thanks, had a bit of a slump in warhammer due to school and sport but back on the track to warhammer recovery lol :-D

king elessar 2615 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:20 pm

in addition hopefully i can put some pics of of my warriors of minas tirith in the ruins but that might not happen as my camera isnt working great at the moment

on the up hand plans are being formed on the creation of the board and individual ruins

Hilbert · **Joined:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:07 am **Posts:** 2088

Awesome sea... Goodwork...

king elessar 2615 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:52 pm

its good that ive finally begun on this project as i have been planning it for an age lol

Wah Wing · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:39 am

You could make the bridge like they had in the WotR Rulebook- the Osgiliath Battle Report.

king elessar 2615 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:53 pm

yeah thats partly why i wanted to have a osgiliath board and i think my ruins have just come so ill be back in a bit with updates see yah :-D

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