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Temple display board!

There's a new terrain board on display at our little studio here in Aso (Japan), mixing the temple walls and the temple bell with the big pagoda, with a scattering of festival market stalls and even the new ruined hut model!

So come and take a look, and transport yourself back into feudal Japan....



▲ Foolishly, I only printed 4 temple wall sections in addition to the big temple gate building, and while they make a great solid wall of terrain to cover one edge of a board, it's harder to bring that wall into the centre of a table - so this was the slightly unorthodox arrangement I came up with!

▲ The street right outside a large temple makes a great setting for an impromptu market, so I've placed them at intervals alongside the road and the large bridge.

The mat, by the way, is a design called "Treasure Island" by Playmats.eu. The models are mostly metal minis by Warlord Games, Grey for Now Games (creators of the Test of Honour game), and Perry Miniatures.

▲ Cherry blossom tress always make a board look alive, and bring some much-needed colour to all that faded wood and roof tile grey!

▲ Here you can see a local watchman checking in with one of the temple priests at the temple gate. But is everything really calm and peaceful?

▲ This is stinky old Jiro, the local drunk, enjoying his early morning bowl of shochu (potato alcohol) by the ruins of an old hut.

▲ Inside the temple walls, everything seems tranquil and calm, as a basket-headed priest quietly plays his shakuhachi flute beside the ancient temple bell.

▲ Stall holders carry tubs of water from the stream, oblivious to the lurking danger.

▲ .... if you haven't spotted the dangers by now, then you'd definitely be going home with a shuriken star in your hat!

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