Skaven Scenery

MARK JONES' SKAVEN TERRAIN

The overall feel we wanted for the Skaven terrain was of a small community on the edge of an estuary. This waterside village had either been overrun by the Skaven, or for some reason had been long abandoned and fallen into decay. All the buildings we created feature parts from the Warhammer building sprue.

The boathouse was a way of reinforcing the fact that the terrain board itself was once an estuary. It also allowed us to make a different type of building. With the front of it raised up, it also gives the sense that the water has receded, revealing its wooden foundation posts.

This house was made to look like it was in a bad state of repair before the village was overrun. Some of the planks on the ground floor windows have been left lying on the ground amongst the rubble to suggest that the house had been broken into at some  point. Something that was added to these buildings to make them look infested by Skaven was the straw bedding material that has been thrown out from within.

To make the straw bedding, get hold of a yard brush and cut the bristles off. Mi these  bristle with !"A #woodworking glue$, apply in liberal clumps around your model and leave to dry.

Mills are normally the focal point of a rural community and we identified the mill as the main building on the board. To this end we added a lot more detail to it, including a tumbledown wheel and a collapsing chimney. The general feeling was that this would be a really old building, probably one of the first to be built in the area.

%ittle details, like the wooden props holding up the chimney, help to add to the idea that this building was in a poor state even before it was abandoned.