Tavern Time!

Hi. So I’ve been working on getting the next build in the series “My Take on the Mordheim Starter Box Terrain” – The Tavern. This one was progressively challenging in its simplicity yet surprisingly took a bit of time for me to get to this pre-painting phase.

I think initially, I struggled with scale. I wanted to make the Tavern compliment the size and scope of my previous structures in this series, but I this little thing kept bugging me. You see, it is a tavern. And like most taverns, you want to bring in a lot of customers. But when I saw the footprint was kind of small to fit several tables, let alone a bar, I thought to myself I should at least try to enlarge it even if it’s a little bit.

The build was pretty straight forward after that decision. Determine how many sides we would need. How many levels we require as per the assembly instructions as well as how much detail we want to incorporate.

I added a support “post” to this build because I thought in a real world build, the entrance corner would begin to sag and eventually collapse without any supporting structure. My method was simply gluing two pieces of foamcore, ripping into a “square lumber stock” and then adding support bracing. I textured it by drawing in the “wood grain” with a ballpoint pen. Painting it would give it the wooden look and feel.

The little window that jutted from one of the wall faced was also challenging. I had to figure out how to add a curved opening meeting at the upper point as well as covering the jut-out with a small sloping roof.

I added a “wooden” floor to the first level as well as fabricated the upper floors using coffee stir sticks and hotglue method. Then I would destroy the flooring where appropriate as well as to mimic the original box set terrain design.