So we still have one big section of the board with nothing on it. In the original plan I had intended to have a third warehouse and part of a small house. But to add a bit of variety I decided to deviate from the plan and built a small steam engine repair shop.

I had to make a slight change in direction in regards to the flooring. Originally I was just going to have the buildings free standing, but as they lack any real mass and the terrain is prone to being bumped by hands reaching for models they needed to be more solid. To facilitate this the bases have been magnetised and to give them more of a sense of ‘belonging’ a new sub floor has been added directly to the board. This will continue to have rubble and floor boards added to it.

Suitably shadow figure luring in the alley ways.

I decided to test how the ground floor rubble would look. It still needs some floor boards on those joists, but it’s looking good.

With floor boards.

And finally we need to give all that fresh wood a coat of weathering.

So now we go back to the warehouse and address the large windows. While experimenting with a few designs I came up with a window for the side of the ware house. Despite the window being intact, this will probably get the ‘Quarantine treatment’ but for now it can enjoy being in one piece.

Next up the warehouses need some doors to keep all those pesky Guild Guards out.

Every house needs a fence, so why not some suitable creepy fencing for the Quarantine zone:

And now for a bit of paint.

Building has started on the warehouses. As these are large buildings the floors have been split up and magnetized so that each floor is removable to reveal the floor underneath. Additionally the magnets on each floor line up so the second floor can be omitted to make a smaller building.

The buildings in position on the board.

The patchwork modular ground looks appalling (in my opinion) which is why I’ve rebuilt it. There is now a solid MDF board underneath that the buildings will attach to (via magnets). It has added extra height to the dirt area so it now sits proud of the pavement, which is not ideal, but bearable.

Next up, painting and then adding the weathered wood to the houses, and adding detail to the warehouses. And for the more astute of our viewers you may notice that there is still a rather empty section of the table. There has been a slight deviation from the original plan… #spoilers

Roofing structures are in place, ready for tiling, wall detail added and base layer of ground work added. I had originally thought to make the pieces modular but due to warping of the base card I’m thinking of moving back to the MDF. The original idea was to use a slightly thinner card and then apply ground material so that the final thickness would match the thickness of the sidewalk.

So after building the components and testing the layout I decided to take a slightly different direction for the board. Rather than a clean cityscape I decided to move to a more derelict landscape. This means I get to undo all my hard work and break my models (in a good way of course).

A benefit of having smaller chucks of buildings to deal with, is I don’t have to worry about removable floors. Flooring goes in:

Next up is the small park at the back of the houses. This is area that is potentially a deployment zone during the game so shouldn’t provide a bottleneck to hamper the player, but also should provide a secondary method of traversing the board that provides cover, at the cost of speed (having to negotiate small alleyways).