Cobblestone Madness: Week two continued with a lot more work carving out cobblestone. After dumping countless hours into it I had a very big fear that once I added paint to the board, the paint would hide all my hard work. I took out some black paint and watered it down to easily fill in the cracks around the cobblestones.
It took two coats of watered down black paint, but I was happy that it didn't washout the cobblestone.
Adding Depth: Carving each stone by hand was mind-numbingly boring and began to hurt my hand. So I would take turns carving stone and then terraforming my board. In the above picture you can see that I have a slopped hill. I did this with other sections as well, including adding two staircases in different board sections. In Whiterun (my inspiration from Skyrim) there are larger walkways leading to a more upper class section of the town. So I added in a much smaller stairwell to represent it. I'm trying to keep playability in mind!
Rock and Roll: In the upper section I decided to make it more rocky and less hilly. I took out the hobby knife and started carving into it to create rock. This was actually kind of fun, easy to do, and a bit therapeutic taking out any anger issues on the poor defenseless pink foam...
Finally, a look at what the board looks like at the end of week 2:
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