Walls: Now that my board was covered in snow, the next process was to make the place look livable. This was going to require a lot of buildings. Part of that was the wall structure that separates the two halfs of Whiterun. I already built the turrets and the walls the previous week. I then had to paint them. I had initially carved out a spot for a door and placed some balsa wood to into the turrets to represent the door. (I had made a conscious effort not to make structures that you can go inside as most games we have played used buildings as line of sight blocking terrain.) I once again added a double coat of watered down black paint.
With the walls dried I went about dry brushing them grey followed by a very light dry brush of white to highlight the edges.
Houses: I then went on to make houses. I kept the floor plan very simple and cut out basic 4"x4" structures out of foamboard. I hot glue gunned them together and very quickly I had the basic structure of a building. I should have used a different color foamboard as the structures blend in with the white snow. Not great for photography, but white foamboard is a lot easier on the wallet. Besides, they would be painted soon anyway!
Seven total buildings and some walls. So far so good! I decided to start taking action shots to end my email to my friends. So I'll do the same here as well!
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You can barely make out the little fire wizard in the distance!
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