Tabletop World Graveyard

It's time to share with you the  project that took most of my time for several months and kept me away from my Vampire Counts - the grand Tabletop World Graveyard! It was a crazy ride and I really enjoyed the whole process. After planning out the display board, I started by painting individual graveyard structures like the chapel, mausoleum, tomb, etc. Then I did all the smaller features: tombstones, vases, crows,... Finally, I painted all of the walls and fences and dead trees.

To create the flagstone walkways I used segments of Tabletop World Town Square.

I wanted the Graveyard to look pretty weathered, with lots of rusty elements and parts overgrown with grass, moss and lichen. I also wanted a lot of crows resting on the trees, tombstones and other graveyard features to give it that creepy feel.

Without further ado, I present to you the finished Graveyard:

As much as I enjoyed working on this big project, at the same time I was frustrated that my Undead are not progressing. However, now I have great scenic piece to use for taking photos of my future Vampire Counts characters and units! 🧛 

Very soon I will be posting painting tutorials on how I painted the stone, wood, rust and oxidized copper on this Graveyard! So keep an eye for it. ;) 

Now back to my beloved Undead! 💀
Cheers guys! 🍻

Mausoleum

Another Tabletop World piece that I painted for the Graveyard kickstarter which should launch by the end of this month. I really love the model and I painted it in the same style as the chapel. Without further ado, here are the photos :)

Undertaker's Hut

Working on this little corner of Tabletop World's upcoming Graveyard was especially joyful for me. I had a certain atmosphere I wanted to achieve and I think I succeeded. In my mind the undertaker of this Graveyard is a scruffy man, a misanthropic figure who likes to be left alone and avoids contact with other people. The crows are his only friends. He rarely leaves the Graveyard and most of his days he spends making coffins and headstones if not digging the graves. You could say he is a jack of all trades when it comes to anything corpse related. At night he guards the Graveyard, sleeping really little and always with one eye open. I wanted his hut to reflect his personality so I made it look really weathered and dark, almost abandoned looking.

There are lots of details that come with the hut: casket, shovel, saw, pick-axe, workbench,... all these accessories help bring the scene to life. The only thing that is missing is the undertaker himself. Thinking about it, one of the Dregs which I converted some time ago for my Undead Mordheim warband fits the undertaker role perfectly. :) I made him holding a shovel while guarding the coffins of his Vampire masters. Talking about my Undead army...my Necromancer will defenitelly pay him a visit. 🧟

Tabletop World Graveyard Sneak Peek

I am in the finishing stages of making a big Graveyard display base for Tabletop World. Two days ago, early in the morning, I noticed the sun rays hitting the Graveyard through the window making it look really cool and lifelike. I just had to take few shots, so I'm posting two of them here. Few more days of work, mostly adding vegetation, and this massive project will be complete!