Shadespire Custom Objective Markers

Of late I have been getting into Shadespire, since you know: strategy game, check; awesome minis to paint, check; custom dice, check; card and secret elements, check; deck building, check... (I could go on, but I think you get me by now). BUT I am a customiser, so anything that is cardboard I like to make it 3d, as much as possible without interfering with the game, and I already bought some prefab 3d scenery for the obstructed hexes in the board a couple of weeks ago.

But I also wanted to make 3d the objective markers (the first 5 for a 2 player game at least to begin with), which is more problematic, because minis need to be able to stand in the hex, and they supposedly see through it. And no one sells anything like that, so I bought some pieces and did them. Additionally, they need to have some numbers on them (you know, objective 1, objective 2, ...), but I did not want to put numbers on them, so I went for skull: 1 skull is objective 1, 2 skulls is objective 2, ... I think that anyone that plays Warhammer knows how to count skulls.

Photo of the results:

And the materials involved in all of them:

Common: for the 3d floor (stone like, which I have a blue light glow to match the overall ambience of Shadespire) I used blue Styrofoam, 3 mm thick. for the skulls I used this, but any skulls will do I guess.

Marker 1: I was quite unsure what is depicted in this one, have asked people and no one seems to agree: is it shardglass, a random piece, a helm made of it, a katophranic relic? no idea, so I just went for glass, which I stuck on the finished (and already varnished) pieces of Styrofoam, leaving space in the middle for a 40 mm base to fit.

Marker 2: The magic orb is a blue Styrofoam ball while the plinth I bought it here.

Marker 3: The cogs are real watch cogs that I bought on eBay for spare parts.

Marker 4: The book came from here, while the plinth came from here.

Marker 5: That Icosahedron is a d20 (shocker) covered with crack filling putty in order to remove the numbers and give it a (non-dice) texture. and the plinth is the the same as for objective 2.

Next, when I feel like it I will go for 6-9 objectives.

Shadespire Scenery

So, if gone back to Warhammer planet, but not in the big way, not in the Imperial Knight, not in the 10,000 points, not in the "takes a whole fucking weekend to play a game", but mostly for painting, for now, with the intention to get into the smaller games like Shadespire (which I think is quite good as a not-so-hardcore competitive game). Problem is that I am a sucker for a good looking game table, and those folding boards alone won't make it for me. Don't get me wrong they are gorgeous, and I don't intend to replace them with anything fully custom for the time being, but some pretty scenery on top of it makes a big difference, so I started with the blocked spaces (which I got from Hexy-Shop). I tried to paint them using the same blue glow that all things (scenery-wise) in Shadespire seem to have, hope you like it.