"Project dollhouse" 4x4 skirmish wargame table

What could make you feel more like a weirdo than painting butt cheeks or cleavages? Painting furniture. I've dubbed my current terrain building project "Project dollhouse". The idea is to have a very detailed set of terrain pieces for SydCon this year where I hope to run a demo of either Strange Aeons or Empire of the Dead if it gets finished by that time.

"Project dollhouse" will be a mix of completely new terrain pieces and buildings, revamped old terrain pieces and will use the back of my current 3-piece foamboard gametable.  The game table currently has the GW battlemat glued to the front facing, the back is messed up but will be fixed with an assortment of flocks, water effects and static grass to create a more realistic surface suitable for a more gritty Lovecraftian horror game.

About the furniture and stuff, I was kind of reluctant at first but it really makes interiors look "lived in" and makes the visual appearance of house interiors much more appealing. This is probably more important to small scale skirmish games than large scale battle games where you usually prefer to have empty buildings to place your troops in for cover and such.

This is the first batch of furniture, enough for 2 buildings. Almost everything is made by "Grendel" and is a mix of resin and metal. I started making my own furniture out of balsa wood as well, stuff like wardrobes and desk (things that don't require lots of detail).

These are the balsa furniture, detailed with Grendel clutter

I also added some details to a few other of the Grendel furniture pieces, the "evil book" on the lecturn is a piece of taped balsawood painted up, and the papers on the table are small pieces of paper superglued in place.

The project is coming along real nice and I intend to keep making terrain and focus on the terrain aspects over the coming months. The immidiete goal is to get a 4x4' area up and ready for games like Strange Aeons, Legends of the Old West, Empire of the Dead and Malifaux. All of those games are relatively small scale skirmish games that really depend on having decent terrain features to tell a story.

My buddy Widgren, being a great guy, will help me out with road sections for the 4x4 table as well to tie all the terrain together.

Pictures of buildings, new hedges and more furniture will be posted during this week over the days to come.