Mordheim

In my daily perusing the Internet, I came upon a website with lots of good content (and web ranking).

Terra Genesis has a new terrain competition that starts every month and lasts for two months. So at any given time, they’ll have two competitions going at the same time! Then all the visitors vote on the best completed submission. If you like to create Mordheim or just plain miniature terrain, Terra Genesis is a great website community to get hooked up with!

Right now, they don’t have any good competitions that I could build a Mordheim building (or terrain) for, but they should have another Competition starting on the 10th (of every month). I’ll see if I can do anything for the next competition.

I’ll keep you posted,
-Ashton Sanders

Probably one of the coolest ideas I had when I first started playing this game was to create a Mordheim Box for my Skaven warband. I found an old cardboard box I had, and a block of foam. I cut the foam to perfectly fit inside the box, and then cut it in half like a hamburger. I then cut out custom holes in the foam for my Skaven warband. That way, all of my Mordheim guys had a specific hole that would keep them protected.

After years of use, the box is pretty ugly, and many of the Skaven models have changed. I have a new piece of foam and a new Mordheim carrying case that I’ll be using to create Mordheim Box v2.0. =] I’ll post it when I’m done.

-Ashton Sanders

In my earlier post I described how I had been cutting foam. It was a slow and tiring process.

Yesterday, I went to a couple hobby shops in Kalispell. I purchased my very first Woodland Scenics Hot Wire Foam Cutter.

All you do is plug it into the wall, and press the yellow thumb-trigger forward, and “Voila” You have a pipin’ hot wire that glides through foam like a hot knife through… butter… (I know, that wasn’t much of an analogy, but I couldn’t think of anything else.) It works pretty well too. This foam cutter gives you a little under 4 customary inches of hot wire to cut with. So don’t get a 5″ cube, or you’ll only cut off the corners. Here is the first victim of my new tool:

My Second Mordheim Building (before and after):

Look at that character! Both of the walls had been different sizes (one was almost twice the size of the other). Using this foam cutter, I was able to make both walls the same size, and add a good deal of character with ease. The only problem with cutting foam with a hot utensil, is the toxic fumes, so be sure to always use a hot foam cutter in a well ventilated area.

-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