Little Venice

I mentioned in my previous post that I'd made the decision to put together a proper board for Carnevale and I've been making some headway.

I've managed to put together enough terrain to fill a single 12"x12" tile and it gives an indication of just how much I'm going to need to do to fill a 3'x3' board.

Admittedly, not ever part of the board needs to be full of buildings, and I am planning for at least one tile to be open water with only jetties, piers and boats allowing passage, but I do have a job ahead of me.

First up is the building itself which is a paid for STL from a company called Hartolia Miniatures that I accessed through Cults 3d, but they are on other platforms.

This printed up really well with only a couple of minor issues: I ended up with a couple of broken pillars (you can see if you look closely) which could have been prevented if I'd added brims for stability.

 Additionally, I could probably have done with scaling the print up a touch to allow 30mm bases to stand on the balcony. Finally, the pitch of the roof is a little steep for Carnevale, but blutack and varnish will fix that.

For painting I relied on contrast and sponging. I may revisit it with a dryer sh, but I never really want the terrain to be the star, so I probably won't.

The street tiles come from the Carnevale MyMiniFactory tribe and are really functional and fast to paint.

I'm not rushing to print an paint all of the tiles that I need as I suspect some other styles and shapes will be released in time.

For now, I am going to print one building at a time and just print enough tiles to support them, meaning that I can adapt as my city grows.

Finally, I've added another proxy model to my Vatcan force, which is currently unplayable due to having too many heroes.

This is a Heroclix model of Spoiler from the Batman comics, a model which I owned three of. One got added to my Batman Miniatures Game collection, a second ended up in my Freedom Force project and this one got drafted into a Guildball proxy team.

A bit of a paintwork tidy up, a new base and a splash of purple and gold did the job of bringing her into the Vatican as a Redemptionist (a fanatical member of the ominously named Knights of Silence). She actually looks more like an Inquisitorial Agent, but I didn't have a hand crossbow to give her.

I've now started on printing my second building, which will be a touch smaller, but I'm looking forward to how this develops.

Acquired: -113

Painted: -503

Lead Mountain: 219