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Hello guys. today I bring you news about another Mordheim endeavours of ours: building a temple of Sigmar. Loek (Artinam), our own Warhammer guru told us about Sigmar Heldenhammer, who apparently is a great character in the background story of both Warhammer Fantasy and Mordheim. (Below a picture of Sig himself)

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The temple is made from the packaging material of my mom’s new netbook. My parents got the netbook when they bought some new furniture their living room. I kindly asked them if I could turn the Styrofoam packaging case that came with the laptop into a will-be sacred ground for the acolytes of Sigmar. The good part is that the polystyrene foam which the casing is made of is much more flexible and durable than ordinary packaging Styrofoam.

As you can see this project is just starting out, but you get the gist of it I guess. Loek told me some Sigmar related stuff which inspired me to make a stained glass window to make it look a bit more like a sanctuary of some sort. Also, Koen, Loek and I had a chat about the strategic aspect of the scenery piece and how it sound be balanced game-play wise. With this in mind we decided to make 3 possible entrances into the building, namely a destructible window, a destroyable wall and a main gate through which the building can be entered.

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