A sorceress looks out from a fortification

[Alarantalara]

Not near finished, everything outside the frame is obviously incomplete, but it made for a nice scene,

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[Jonathan E]

Kicking it old school with this one. What went into the fortress' construction?

[Alarantalara]

Not much, mostly serendipity:
1) A single piece of pressed paper packing material from some electronic device my brother-in-law bought and I noticed looked a lot like a fortification. What you see is how it came out of the box.
2) Toothpicks for ladders
3) Aquarium gravel (the rocks in the foreground)
4) Various colours of clump foliage, static grass and premade flowers

There are two circular depressions on the top (you can see one as a dark semicircle on the right side) that I'm still trying to decide what to do with. I've considered making them fire pits and adding burnt out logs or covering them with a trapdoor, but haven't committed to anything yet.

Ideally I'll also add something (spare weapons/shields?) to make it look more occupied.

[Just Tony]

Fantastic work so far. We'll probably be using the Isle of Blood High Elf sorcerer in our Wood Elf army alongside a mounted Wood Elf Mage we got in a lot.

[Alarantalara]

A bamboo forest. I think I finally have the right number of stalks, and it's way more than I anticipated. Now to finish them all off and do some more work on the base.

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[Just Tony]

I'm twitching at the thought of trying to move a unit through that. It'd be pretty good for 40K, though. All our pads of trees are removable so as to facilitate if we're ever crazy enough to send a regiment through.

[Alarantalara]

You're not supposed to move a unit through it:

Dense Jungle
Some areas of the jungle grow so densely that they are all but impassable, the tree trunks pressing so tightly even the light is blocked from passing them.
The same rules apply to areas of dense jungle as apply to light jungles, with the addition that only models with the Skirmishers special rule can enter them, and they provide hard cover. Units that are noted as being able to ignore the effects of difficult ground so long as the terrain is woods or jungle may not enter dense jungle unless they are skirmishers.

7 Dense Jungle
An area of dense, tangled jungle with the trees and vegetation so closely spaced that it is impossible for any troops other than skirmishers on foot to pass through or hide among them. It is very difficult ground and provides cover.

I have more than enough normal forests and hills. It's time to fill out all the weird things that normally don't show up, thus this nasty piece of terrain.

Also this, which I think is about finished for scrub.

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[Just Tony]

Fair enough, I don't flip through those books regularly enough for that purpose to register, apparently...

[Alarantalara]

Finished! Lokhir (and black dragon—just finished it yesterday) for scale.

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Ended up with even more bamboo stalks than the in progress version—2 full height and 2 small, for a total of 24.

[Just Tony]

Magnificent.