{"id":1457,"date":"2017-02-08T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2018-01-01T11:08:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T18:08:35","slug":"walking-dead-wednesdays-farm-scenery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=1457","title":{"rendered":"Walking Dead Wednesdays: Farm Scenery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stewart Gibbs is a studio manager at Mantic Games<\/a> and answers questions on Facebook for The Walking Dead: All Out War<\/a>.\u00a0 I was going through one of the threads and Stewart was kind enough to give details on the scenery for the next three expansions.\u00a0 I don’t recall exactly what thread his comments were in but I did save them for future reference:<\/p>\n

For the farm, you’ll need 6 fences around 3″ long, a tractor, a barn around 6″ by 8″, and 4 hay bales.<\/p>\n

For the prison, you’ll need 5 chain link fences around 4″ long – that’s it for the prison as the rest is the internal corridors which are printed on the mat. You could build a 3D one to match, but you’ll need to wait for the actual mat if you want to match sizes etc.<\/p>\n

For Woodbury, you’ll need 2 smoke clouds about 3″ across, 4 lamp posts, 6 stakes for walkers to be tied to in the arena, and a tank around 7″ by 4″. The rest of the Woodbury stuff is four houses, all printed on the mat. They must be small enough that there’s room on a 20″ mat to have a street between them, and space between and behind them for models to move. They can have a few rooms in each, but all of them must have at least one 75mm square room that is used for certain objective overlays.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Having finished up my scenery needs for the Core Set<\/a> and Days Gone Bye<\/a> expansion, any lead time to create scenery now for the new expansions helps get that content to the table quicker.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, I went on a search for hay bails. I found some recommendations on making your own but I don’t have time for that.\u00a0 Instead, I found some O-gauge model train terrain at Hobby Lobby and gave it a try.<\/p>\n

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I was skeptical about the size so here is the direct comparison.<\/p>\n

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They are a little smaller than real life rolled bails but they get the point across. The square ones are pretty much spot on though.<\/p>\n

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They are really light so I tacked them down with thumbtacks and double sided tape so when I sprayed them, they wouldn’t go flying all over and make a mess.<\/p>\n

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Pretty easy and if you have a coupon, you can get these for about $6 plus tax.\u00a0 A lot of sellers have them on eBay as well so if you don’t have a Hobby Lobby near you or they don’t stock these, you can try that outlet as well.\u00a0 The company makes quite a few different kinds of natural scenery and I saw some dried cornstalks that might go great for the Greene family farm expansion.<\/p>\n

In other news, I bit the bullet and went all-in getting the comics.<\/p>\n

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This won’t catch me up with the current issues but is better than me stealing some reads off my friend’s copy and I find that they are a great reference for terrain and scenarios.<\/p>\n

Speaking of comics, I’m finishing up my next issue of The Real Adventures of Rick and Glenn<\/a>.\u00a0 This one is running a bit longer than my first session but I still hope to have it out next week.\u00a0 Here are some shots of my set up.<\/p>\n

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And for closer shots<\/p>\n

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The game board is on a large homemade lazy susan so that I can get different angles without having to mess with the black backdrop.\u00a0 Timeline and Bananagrams work well as a DIY steady platform. The exposure times on some of the high depth-of-field shots run in upwards of 10 seconds so a stable platform is pretty essential.\u00a0 One of these days I’ll get better lighting for this too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stewart Gibbs is a studio manager at Mantic Games and answers questions on Facebook for The Walking Dead: All Out War.\u00a0 I was going through one of the threads and Stewart was kind enough to give details on the scenery for the next three expansions.\u00a0 I don’t recall exactly what thread his comments were in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,542],"tags":[396,179,395,394,177],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-the-walking-dead-all-out-war","tag-hobby-lobby","tag-mantic-games","tag-o-gauge-model-train","tag-stewart-gibbs","tag-the-walking-dead-all-out-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}