So this is just a prototype, I think the gaps between the boards longitudinally are too big, and there should be more gaps between the boards horizontally, but the basic idea is sound. When I get back from my writers seminar I’m totally going to make one of these for real, and then make a silicon mold and cast as many floors as I need.
Was too heavy handed on the paintbrush last time…
Yeah, I just couldn’t keep it that way…
Here are the five boxes. They are pretty tightly packed. Based on this it appears that I have about as many of these as I do of either of my Hirst Arts dungeon sets.
Here’s a small cave I threw together from about 1/5 to 1/4 of the pieces.
Still need to be painted, obviously. And I need to figure out how/where to store them. For right now my goal is to cram them back into their boxes somehow.
Wow, two posts in one day.
Well, today my Dwarvenforge cavern set arrived from a kickstarter I helped fund about six months ago. With all the mess in my room here I can’t easily take a photo, but I’ll try to get one up by this weekend.
I had thought they were going to be gray, but they look more like a dark brown to me.
On a tip from the DM’s Craft forums, I went to the Dollar Tree store and bought these for $18.
Yeah, I’m a fan of 60’s psychedelic rock, but this is a more mundane sort of doors…
This is what I spent about eight hours in total this weekend painting and sealing….
My big gift this birthday/Christmas season was this airbrush package from Amazon.com. For $99 it’s hard to beat. Three airbrushes and an automatic air compressor. So far I’ve only used the two gravity-feed airbrushes, I haven’t even used the siphon airbrush.
The first project I tackled with the airbrush is this set of cut stone walls and a couple accessories and doors:
I had put them together a few months ago now, but had not painted them. I had even used them in a couple of game sessions unpainted. So lazy. Anyway, they are painted now, so Yay for the Airbrush!
Now, I learned a valuable lesson from painting them. Airbrushes create a huge mess if you aren’t using them in the middle of the Sahara Desert or something like that. With temperatures hovering in the range of techincally freezing to freeze-your-damn-ass-off freezing, I’ve decided not to try to paint outdoors. So after a couple days of painting and learning how to use (and how not to use) my airbrushes, and creating a massive mess in my craft/gaming room, I decided to make a hood to keep the paint from spraying all over kingdom come. (It’s actually not that bad for the type of airbrushing I do, but I did make more of a mess than I wanted.) After looking online for some options, I made this hood out of cheap dollar store foam core posterboard and some hot glue.
The only problem now is that the hood is sorta bulky and I don’t have any place to put it. So I may just use it as a GM screen. 🙂
OK, here’s Fort Pringles with a basic paint job.
It’s amazing what you don’t see until you take a photograph. Clearly I’ve got some touchup work to do. But not a terrible amount. Here are the things I’d still like to do to “finish” this project:
1. Get some lichen and/or moss and glue it around the base of the fort’s outside walls as shrubbery.
2. Line the road into and out of the fort with some bricks or maybe more shrubbery.
3. Do some ivy or vines climbing up the walls.
4. Do at least two more floors for the interior part.
Still, it’s at a point now that I’d actually put it into a game.
Well, as of tomorrow we should officially have our house on the market. Our real estate agent feels confident that we should have it sold within 90 days. I hope so, we really do need to move. The commute is just killing us. One hopefully positive aspect of moving is that I’ll be able to host game activities in my own house instead of always going to someone else’s house. So I’ve been contemplating what that means. Of course that means my mind tends to think of stuff like this:
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