Mordheim

Welcome to this post on my First Mordheim Building. (Click to view all posts for this Mordheim Building.)

I’ve spent the last couple months saving all of the packing foam/material I could find. Now I’ve got a couple boxes full of Styrofoam, and finally have some time to test it out. I remember having trouble with Styrofoam because of how it reacts with both spray paint and some types of glue.

I started with a thin yet tough piece of cardboard (from a Logitech Speaker box) and a edge section of Styrofoam:

I took an old pocketknife I had lying around, and heated it over the fire on my stove. When it was hot, I’d make a quick cut through the foam. Then, I’d repeat the process. This is great for making straight cuts for doors, windows and the like.

If you’re looking at destroying an entire wall, probably the easiest way I’ve found is to break/cut off the section. This will make lots of loose foam bubbles and your wall will look like foam. To smooth out the foam, just hold it over some heat. This will melt all of the loose foam pieces and create a fairly smooth wall.

To get the piece of cardboard into place, I first drew a straight line with a marker, and then using my hot-knife technique, I cut along the line. This left a perfect slot to slide the cardboard into.

More to come,
-Ashton Sanders

Hello and welcome to Ashton Sanders’ Mordheim Blog.

My plans for this Mordheim Blog is to document many of the different aspects of Mordheim, the “Specialist Game” developed by Games Workshop. Their most popular games are Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 (40k), but both of these games require hundreds of models, and I’ve never been interested in spending the rest of my life painting the same colors on the same models.

So I started playing Mordheim, where instead of armies; you fight with warbands of 5-20 models. There is also more terrain (usually) in Mordheim, which can be very fun to create. Unfortunately, there really isn’t a good website dedicated to Mordheim, so I plan on putting one together. This is the beginning of it.

I plan on updating this blog with everything having to do with Mordheim, whether it’s creating buildings, designing unique terrain, painting models, or just playing the game. I currently have a Skaven warband and an Orc and Goblin warband. (Both of which could use improved paint jobs.)

That sounds like I’ve covered everything. I hope you enjoy my blog.
-Ashton Sanders