Seeing you dissect the weather top ruin, legit just broke my heart. I remember watching that video when it came out and inspiring me to give a crack aswell.
You know, despite the lower effort this is probably one of the most interesting Zorp boards yet. There's something oddly perfect about the layout, really excellent stuff.
Riiiiiight? It's really surpised me how much I like it. I spent a lot of time considering the exact balance of the various elements and I think that really paid off. Hopefully playing some games on it later this week to test it out :)
I think the snow is perfectly realistic. It's a snapshot of a very specific point in time, a late autumn snow, where there's a very thin layer of very dry snow just enough to cover some open areas, but not thick enough to go through the evergreen canopy, so you get these patches of brown foliage and white powder interspersed. Then a day later it's either melted, or covered by a second, thicker layer of snow. I've definitely woken up to snow like this many times before. Well done!
Oh that's awesome buddy, I'm about to live in a place that actually gets snow soon, so hopefully my knowledge if winter themed scenery shall be greatly enhanced haha!
No man I live in Utah we get snow like that all the time. Especially when it's really cold outside and it just snows a little bit just takes the moisture out of the air. I love your work keep it up
I'd say the snowcovering is quite realistic! It kind of looks like springtime here in Sweden. When most of the snow has melted, the bigger piles are still there as little splotches, and the weather sometimes decides to snow a tad more!
@@Zorpazorp Do you think that decorative snow spray has a chance of staying on for gameplay? I tried some once and it just turns to dust and brushes off. I toyed with the idea of temporarily "winterizing" some pieces with it but judged I couldn't clean the pieces up completely afterwards.
Love this channel, literally planning out a snowed-over Arnor ruin board right now, great inspiration Lachlan! It’s wonderful to see all your projects coming together after years in storage and various stages of production, and gives hope of taking an accumulation of hobby goodness and turning it into something practical and cohesive.
This would be really good terrain for Frostgrave. The snow on the ground versus the trees looks to me like it's the period around March, when the weather keeps shifting back and forth, with it first getting warm enough for most snow to melt away, after which it will briefly get really cold again. During that type of weather you will have limited snow on the ground, closer to piles of rock-hard ice, while the water on the trees will freeze to frost, so it looks like there is less snow on the ground than on the trees.
DUUUUUUDE! I love the excitement in your voice in this one. Such a great concept for a video. These kind of constraints result in really enjoyable watching experience. Great job mate. Top notch!
The board looks nice and I like the idea behind the construction. As others who live up north have commented, that looks like spring around here. The thinnest layers of snow have melted but there are still a lot of snow piles around the area. Good luck to you with the remaining projects!
Made board looks awesome. For something thrown together you should be extremely proud. Hope you got some game time on the board before you left for NZ regardless of if you decided to keep or sell. Great board. I especially love the retaining walls along the riverbank
Really enjoyed this one - great to see this old terrain get a new lease of life, and also feels doable for people like myself without access to all the fancy moulds and stuff you use for your bigger epic builds!
Glad you enjoyed it Hazza! Just had a game on it this evening with a few mates, it's utterly amazing to play on. We just did 150pt and 250pt Chaos in Arda, most fun I've had in ages hahaha
This is cool! I think in any hobby there’s always a tendency to chase the “new” - the newest products, tools, projects, etc. This is good reminder that sometimes you already have everything you need!
Oh man, a fornost board has always been one I wanted to see. Absolutely class man, hopefully one day we get a inner city fornost one with key buildings, or an Anuminas board with the palace of kings
I love it, think it looks great. If I may make one constructive note - I wonder what it would have looked like (not sure if it's even possible to do so, but...) if you had painted or tinted/drybrushed some of the trees to add some slight variety to them. The whole board looks amazing though!
That snow actually doesn’t look too bad. It would be more under the trees than it is, but honestly when I look at it it just looks like mid spring where I live (Canada) when the snow is starting to melt and it’s creeping back into patches where it built up deeper or there’s shade cover to prevent it from melting too quickly. The build is awesome, would be fantastic for a game of Frostgrave.
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I still have all of my HirstArts molds.....I can't bring myself to get rid of them, such nostalgia and history of where terrain building has come from to where it is now.
You should kintsugi that chisel back together and give it a display of honor for its time served. Epoxy glue it and paint the cured bond gold. Hirst arts molds will always be a nostalgic blast. I remember someone at my gaming club getting some and making scatter back in 09, I love that the website looks unchanged.
this is eary, i *just*, like two days ago, started a battle companies game with my brother, Angmar vs. Arnor - me fielding Arnor in the days of the split in the three countries, converting gondor and other models into my Arnor company, my brother making some nice turqouise minas morgul esque orcs for his Angmar - and i thought about building a srt of similar snow ruin board (with the intend to use it later maybe in a north east Erebor, Dale and Lake Town campaign), man im jealous of your work space and all the finished things in your collection! :D
Man, I envy you so much. I literally can't make straight cuts on my own no matter what :( My hands shake too much. Still, seeing you do such big project without hotwire cutter gives me *some* hope, even if I can't do something on that scale xd
I was about to say how lucky you are to be able to make a hobby into a full-time occupation - but watching your videos, it becomes pretty obvious the harder you work at achieving your dreams, the “luckier” you get. Awesome work as usual and a joy to follow your constructions. Unfortunately, due to circumstances (age and illness) my efforts at terrain building and gaming are minimal and amateur at best, but through your achievements, I do get to experience what can be done with enthusiasm and drive. Good luck with the new life in “Un Zud” 😜.
Two sad things about this video: One seeing the weather top board tore apart... which has already been mentioned. I've always preferred your weathertop to the official one. Second, the knowledge that this board was probably originally meant to be a part of the battle companies campaign that covid put a halt to. Love the board, the quick planning and the use of the Christmas decor. Great to see an artistic mind getting hands dirty and just knocking something out.
@@Zorpazorp Would still love to see any kind of Arnor or Angmar terrain content, maybe using the new Gondor Ruin or Dol Goldur sets? Think they'd be pretty great for it tbh
I know that it's really niche and far-fetched, but I would love to see the Battle at the North Pole, from the "Letters from Father Christmas" book by Tolkien
Thats a great board, you could have just said you made this board and not mention it was from left overs and it would still be awesome. I want it, its a shame I don't want to risk shipping it to the UK!
I sincerely hope none of your terrain ends up in the trash and ultimately a landfill 😟 There have to be local gamers who would love any materials and broken terrain pieces. That stuff would be gold to some people!
Hahaha, I was very into wood carving at the time, did a lot of whittling with pocket knives making spears and wooden knives, so Mum and Dad wanted to help me level up.
Appreciate your attempt at Aotearoa: you'll get the pronunciation down in no time. :) "Spruce up". Heh. Board is pretty cool, but you gotta make some tough decisions. And you'll be building way more boards! I say leave it for someone else in your old hood to enjoy and get some games in on. Donate it to a mate, your club, or a local wargaming store and you'll no doubt have the chance to play on it yourself when you are back over doing the family visit thing.
Thanks mate, yeah we're learning Te Reo at the moment as my wife needs to speak it for her job and it's easier if she has someone to practice with so hopefully I'll start getting the vowel sounds down soon haha.
Actually, instead of trashing terrain and elements of gaming that won't be sold or shipped, why not send them to clubs or local stores? I'm sure a lot of people will be very glad to use it and repair it, as it generally costs time and money. A half done or damaged project is often a good start.
@@Zorpazorp Really glad to read that. :-) Please continue to do great jobs like this and being close to the gaming community, that's what make the hobby continue!
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Seeing you dissect the weather top ruin, legit just broke my heart. I remember watching that video when it came out and inspiring me to give a crack aswell.
IT shall live on! and the base is getting a new lease on life too fear not!
@@Zorpazorp great video thou man. Nice to see a full build in one video again.
@@Zorpazorp Yep. Though it's sad to see it broken down, it feels so good seeing it go on to bigger and better things. The weathertop ruin LIVES.
You know, despite the lower effort this is probably one of the most interesting Zorp boards yet. There's something oddly perfect about the layout, really excellent stuff.
Riiiiiight? It's really surpised me how much I like it. I spent a lot of time considering the exact balance of the various elements and I think that really paid off. Hopefully playing some games on it later this week to test it out :)
Honestly i like these self-contained little videos, not everything needs to be a huge mega-board with years of work!
"only use what's in my house"- house has more supplies than any hobby shop I've ever seen
I think the snow is perfectly realistic. It's a snapshot of a very specific point in time, a late autumn snow, where there's a very thin layer of very dry snow just enough to cover some open areas, but not thick enough to go through the evergreen canopy, so you get these patches of brown foliage and white powder interspersed. Then a day later it's either melted, or covered by a second, thicker layer of snow. I've definitely woken up to snow like this many times before. Well done!
Oh that's awesome buddy, I'm about to live in a place that actually gets snow soon, so hopefully my knowledge if winter themed scenery shall be greatly enhanced haha!
I think it works! especially if one were to add a few snowcovered tufts here and there to sell it a bit more.
This is so cool, you could game the most amazing Frostgrave tournament on that board!
Thanks Carl, it absolutely would!
No man I live in Utah we get snow like that all the time. Especially when it's really cold outside and it just snows a little bit just takes the moisture out of the air. I love your work keep it up
I'd say the snowcovering is quite realistic! It kind of looks like springtime here in Sweden. When most of the snow has melted, the bigger piles are still there as little splotches, and the weather sometimes decides to snow a tad more!
Ah that's awesome!!!!! I'm glad works haha
I get the feeling that as an Aussie he doesn't have much experience with real snow
@DSlyde yeah, and pictures of it online doesn't really show the goopy sludge state of snow which we swedes call slask!
@@Zorpazorp Do you think that decorative snow spray has a chance of staying on for gameplay? I tried some once and it just turns to dust and brushes off. I toyed with the idea of temporarily "winterizing" some pieces with it but judged I couldn't clean the pieces up completely afterwards.
Love this channel, literally planning out a snowed-over Arnor ruin board right now, great inspiration Lachlan! It’s wonderful to see all your projects coming together after years in storage and various stages of production, and gives hope of taking an accumulation of hobby goodness and turning it into something practical and cohesive.
This would be really good terrain for Frostgrave. The snow on the ground versus the trees looks to me like it's the period around March, when the weather keeps shifting back and forth, with it first getting warm enough for most snow to melt away, after which it will briefly get really cold again. During that type of weather you will have limited snow on the ground, closer to piles of rock-hard ice, while the water on the trees will freeze to frost, so it looks like there is less snow on the ground than on the trees.
Awesome.
I love it when you reuse old projects to make new things with it.
And as many said already, the snow feels realistic.
DUUUUUUDE! I love the excitement in your voice in this one. Such a great concept for a video. These kind of constraints result in really enjoyable watching experience. Great job mate. Top notch!
The board looks nice and I like the idea behind the construction. As others who live up north have commented, that looks like spring around here. The thinnest layers of snow have melted but there are still a lot of snow piles around the area.
Good luck to you with the remaining projects!
Thank you mate :) :)
Made board looks awesome. For something thrown together you should be extremely proud. Hope you got some game time on the board before you left for NZ regardless of if you decided to keep or sell. Great board. I especially love the retaining walls along the riverbank
Awesome video! I cannot believe how awesome this looks with the time and resources you had! Just shows how awesome of a builder and designer you are!
This is actually so sick
Thanks Joe!
Really enjoyed this one - great to see this old terrain get a new lease of life, and also feels doable for people like myself without access to all the fancy moulds and stuff you use for your bigger epic builds!
Glad you enjoyed it Hazza! Just had a game on it this evening with a few mates, it's utterly amazing to play on. We just did 150pt and 250pt Chaos in Arda, most fun I've had in ages hahaha
@@Zorpazorp Chaos in Arda is such good fun!
Just a quick and easy board... Looks bloody brilliant and I think would be super interesting for gameplay as so compact!
The board looks amazing! Love how you used only what you had to hand. Definitely inspired.
Thank you mate, I'm so stoked!
Wow! It looks great, and only 5 days to produce. That's amazing. Your stuff is always great. I'm getting inspired to craft. Thanks.
Your work is really amazing 👌 congratulations 👏
I was hoping for some resin work for the river bed. This was such fun to watch. Love your skills. Keep it up.
It's in this video here :) ua-cam.com/video/-w1YIhNj-oU/v-deo.html
This is cool! I think in any hobby there’s always a tendency to chase the “new” - the newest products, tools, projects, etc. This is good reminder that sometimes you already have everything you need!
Yeah it feels so goooood to be decluttering and revamping all the old stuff, especially as I'm skint broke atm haha.
Oh man, a fornost board has always been one I wanted to see. Absolutely class man, hopefully one day we get a inner city fornost one with key buildings, or an Anuminas board with the palace of kings
NGL this is one of my fave board builds so far... definitely need to see a batrep on it!
Amazing! Excellent idea to save the budget, see you next time.
Great video and amazing results for the short amount of time you had!
Thank you Pete, I was really happy with the turn around in the timeframe. Things I'd do better if I had more time, but that's alright.
I love it, think it looks great. If I may make one constructive note - I wonder what it would have looked like (not sure if it's even possible to do so, but...) if you had painted or tinted/drybrushed some of the trees to add some slight variety to them. The whole board looks amazing though!
The greens on those trees are pretty awful but it's a "quick and dirty" project so I suppose he gets a pass :)
Green, white, tan ! So many colors I'm not used to here :p
Looks great champ, good work!!
I really do love the melted snow look, I must admit I am quite excited by the semi-departure from your usual content!
Hahahahahaha if this is a jibe at me basically making grey warzones for two years, then I bow down before you haha
@@Zorpazorp I am but a humble appreciator of your work, my good sir! Your grey city warzones are grand in of themselves!
Awesome build mate! Nice to see some slice and slot pieces in there 😁
Thanks mate 😁
Looks like a lovely fun project to use up a lot of your leftovers!
Can't wait to see the other builds you finish. I wonder if we'll see a combo of multiple builds into one giant epic build
That snow actually doesn’t look too bad. It would be more under the trees than it is, but honestly when I look at it it just looks like mid spring where I live (Canada) when the snow is starting to melt and it’s creeping back into patches where it built up deeper or there’s shade cover to prevent it from melting too quickly.
The build is awesome, would be fantastic for a game of Frostgrave.
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Your ruins look so realistic
Unreal dude, thank you for the vids. So inspiring and entertaining
Glad you like them mate!
I still have all of my HirstArts molds.....I can't bring myself to get rid of them, such nostalgia and history of where terrain building has come from to where it is now.
And here I thought you had reached your peak man, and then you do this master piece with only what you have left? It looks so good man.
Thank you mate
It'd make a nice Frostgrave board too
I know it isn't the right game, but this looks perfect for Mordheim. I love the river and the use of Hirst Arts bricks.
Just like me! I too only build and paint warhammer minis and terrain I already have carried inside my house 😁
You should kintsugi that chisel back together and give it a display of honor for its time served. Epoxy glue it and paint the cured bond gold.
Hirst arts molds will always be a nostalgic blast. I remember someone at my gaming club getting some and making scatter back in 09, I love that the website looks unchanged.
I know right hahahahah, basically the same.
well done, love builds done with minimal cost. I reckon you should auction it off!
The snow covering reminds me of winter morning frost here in north England.
Perfect build video and great looking board.
Ah t hank you mate, I really enjoyed this one. Shame it didn't do so well haha
this is eary, i *just*, like two days ago, started a battle companies game with my brother, Angmar vs. Arnor - me fielding Arnor in the days of the split in the three countries, converting gondor and other models into my Arnor company, my brother making some nice turqouise minas morgul esque orcs for his Angmar - and i thought about building a srt of similar snow ruin board (with the intend to use it later maybe in a north east Erebor, Dale and Lake Town campaign), man im jealous of your work space and all the finished things in your collection! :D
Oh yesssssssssssssss that is awesome! this board has me keen for some BC haha, it's the perfect layout for it
That is a cracking board; very cool.
Play some frostgrave on it!
Oh that is the perrrrrrfect board for it!
@@Zorpazorp Haha, stay frosty ;)
5:50 Press ”F” to pay respect to the childhood chisel! He will join his ancestors, in whose mighty company, he will now not be ashamed!
Man, I envy you so much. I literally can't make straight cuts on my own no matter what :( My hands shake too much.
Still, seeing you do such big project without hotwire cutter gives me *some* hope, even if I can't do something on that scale xd
I was about to say how lucky you are to be able to make a hobby into a full-time occupation - but watching your videos, it becomes pretty obvious the harder you work at achieving your dreams, the “luckier” you get.
Awesome work as usual and a joy to follow your constructions. Unfortunately, due to circumstances (age and illness) my efforts at terrain building and gaming are minimal and amateur at best, but through your achievements, I do get to experience what can be done with enthusiasm and drive. Good luck with the new life in “Un Zud” 😜.
Thank you so much mate, that means a lot.
You need to build a little display for the shards of Chisel!
Anduril style!!!!!!
Two sad things about this video:
One seeing the weather top board tore apart... which has already been mentioned. I've always preferred your weathertop to the official one.
Second, the knowledge that this board was probably originally meant to be a part of the battle companies campaign that covid put a halt to.
Love the board, the quick planning and the use of the Christmas decor. Great to see an artistic mind getting hands dirty and just knocking something out.
Ware did u get the molds for the stone works!! Thouse look amazing
Let's build a massive gaming table with a ruined city for free!
What you need:
-A gaming table.
-An entire ruined city.
-A few dozen minuatures trees!
Wow! I play alotta Frostgrave, but could never bring myself to make a static board. Well, I think I might try one! Very Classy board.
Cheers Scotty, I really need to learn more about FG, so many mates recommend it.
Doing Luke proud with the whole "no time, no budget, no materials" thing!
Hoping for some Arnor/Agmar content coming up!
I wish this board was in New Zealand!!!!!!
@@Zorpazorp Would still love to see any kind of Arnor or Angmar terrain content, maybe using the new Gondor Ruin or Dol Goldur sets? Think they'd be pretty great for it tbh
5:34 - You getting a chisel for Christmas when you were nine seems very on-brand for you, considering what you do for a living now!
Please can you make a Amon Lanc or Thranduils halls piece or maybe the mirkwood forests overgrown with Dol Guldor Spiders.
great video. great result
I know that it's really niche and far-fetched, but I would love to see the Battle at the North Pole, from the "Letters from Father Christmas" book by Tolkien
Woahhhhhhhhhhhhhh hahahahaha that is super niche but man that would be cool.
There's somebody that would love to play Frostgrave on this board.......
......It's me......
.......I'm that somebody......
Honestly all I am going to say is: Yay, Fornost!
Looks great!
Rip the chisel a true soldier
ouch. that roller must have left some cobblestone pattern on your palms.
Are you going to get any of the proxy models from rings of power for adding to your armies? 😊
Thats a great board, you could have just said you made this board and not mention it was from left overs and it would still be awesome. I want it, its a shame I don't want to risk shipping it to the UK!
Thanks Richo, I'm so happy with it haha, I want to keep it now...
Can't believe I missed this one. The algorithm must have cursed it.
Liked the Celeste soundtrack there at the beginning
I honestly think you should keep it.
I sincerely hope none of your terrain ends up in the trash and ultimately a landfill 😟 There have to be local gamers who would love any materials and broken terrain pieces. That stuff would be gold to some people!
I'm talking about the absolute rubbish haha, not useable stuff. Things well beyond repair.
@@Zorpazorp oh thats good to hear! best of luck with your move man :)
Word of the day: 'riverbeddy'
R.I.P that chisel.
You're a wizard Harry
Looks great to me, if this was in US I’d get it!
Aussie Christmas gifts for kids are different huh.
Hahaha, I was very into wood carving at the time, did a lot of whittling with pocket knives making spears and wooden knives, so Mum and Dad wanted to help me level up.
How good are those Aldi trees?
Do we know what the plans are for the stuff that's going to be sold? Because I certainly know of one lord of the rings fan who would be interested...
There'll be some auctions, have to work that out, probabaly jsut ebay or something haven't worked it out yet but it'll be announced soon :)
No pressure on finishing then😉😂😂😂
Looks cool.
Mate anything you declare unfinished and gonna bin send my way XD
Frostgrave? Let's play Frostgrave
GREAT video
You just made a frostgrave board xD
This is why I want to move out of my apartment and into a house x)
Space is a tricky aspect of these projects to be sure haha
I came here because I saw furries in the hover over preview. As always your content is amazing!
Hahahahahaha, I really hate that YT picks the weirdest spots for the preview.
I love how you got a chisel for a present at 9 haha. Rip
16:35 "... existing materials to 'spruce up' and combine old builds..."
I see what you did there.
I think he was pining for a good pun in the video.
Hehehehehehehehehehe
Appreciate your attempt at Aotearoa: you'll get the pronunciation down in no time. :)
"Spruce up". Heh.
Board is pretty cool, but you gotta make some tough decisions. And you'll be building way more boards! I say leave it for someone else in your old hood to enjoy and get some games in on. Donate it to a mate, your club, or a local wargaming store and you'll no doubt have the chance to play on it yourself when you are back over doing the family visit thing.
Thanks mate, yeah we're learning Te Reo at the moment as my wife needs to speak it for her job and it's easier if she has someone to practice with so hopefully I'll start getting the vowel sounds down soon haha.
Great board! I'll buy it from you, starting bid; 5$.
1:58:50
When are you thinking about selling some of your pieces?
beautifull
Did you called New Zealand by its Maori name (forgot how to write it and don't want to butcher it)? Nice!
Hay send me what you don't want ill take it
Arudian ID:3VM213, cool build
Actually, instead of trashing terrain and elements of gaming that won't be sold or shipped, why not send them to clubs or local stores? I'm sure a lot of people will be very glad to use it and repair it, as it generally costs time and money. A half done or damaged project is often a good start.
I'm talking the absolute rubbish mate. Fear not nothing decent wasted :)
@@Zorpazorp Really glad to read that. :-) Please continue to do great jobs like this and being close to the gaming community, that's what make the hobby continue!