3d dungeon W.i.P

[sundayhero]

Ahhh, I didn't know you were re-painting/surfacing the floors...so I was wondering why you'd attached the walls before painting them.  Shame, I actually liked the finish you had on the floors.  Keep it comin'!

Oh, and building Old West stuff I understand the "saw mill" result on the table.  I am soooo tired of coffee stirrers and bass wood.

Actually, I was first thinking keeping the floors, just masking them and paint the walls only. But finally, I decided to make everything the same color. We'll see if I choosed wisely or not 

Oh, and building Old West stuff I understand the "saw mill" result on the table.  I am soooo tired of coffee stirrers and bass wood.

Hopefully, I don't play old west....for now 

[sundayhero]

Well, I can announce a BIG FAIL concerning painting 

The paint and cork are too porous to use the shoe polish technic...

So now I have two solutions:

repaint all brown, and make grey dry brush, to give a nice warm earth effect.

seal the current painting with dull varnish, then try again the shoe polish, without being sure of the result (I didn't find the same shoe polish).

I don't know...Anyway, it still a bit amount of work. I'd say that the brown solution would be a bit faster, since painting all brown, I will not have to paint each wood stick one by one.

[sundayhero]

Here's new progress of the fiasco 


So this time, I tried to be a little more clever, and I made some tests before painting everyting.

I tried wood stain on one tile, and dry brushing on the other one (brown, grey, light grey).

I like the grey walls, but not the floor. I like the stained floor, but not the walls. Guess what I will do finally

[DeafNala]

LOOKIN' GOOD! The stained floor & painted walls are definitely the best looking of the choices...probably the most time consuming also.
Since I started following your imaginative thread, the lure of the dungeon setting has been drawing me towards an expansion of The Project if not an entirely new one...only inertia is saving moi.

[beefcake]

Very nice!

[sundayhero]

Thanks !


I finished the base coats tonight. Even more boring than trimming the wood sticks  . The dungeon will be completed tommorow. I just want to finish, now  


So the floor will be stained (probably highligted too), then matte varnished, and the walls will be drybrushed in 2 shades of grey. The wood pilars will be brushed in light brown. And if I'm courageous enough, I'll add a few weathering effects.

Then next week, I'll work on the basic door set. Probably resin molding. It will be a new adventure of itself  

Here's some shiny night pics of the current stage :

[Elbows]

That picture makes me want to go buy a reese's peanut butter cup...

I hereby dub this project "The Delicious Dungeon". 

[sundayhero]

 

[sundayhero]

It took me a good part of the day, but I did everything I wanted.

Tommorow, I'll varnish the shiny woodstain, and add a few weathering effects if needed. On the pics, it's drying. The floor will be less dark.

[DeafNala]

That is a VERY IMPRESSIVE day's work...VERY WELL DONE!

[Vauln]

Wow, these look great! I would love to play in that dungeon. Pit traps and trapdoors next...

[Vauln]

A bit od cork and some toothpicks would make some great sliding walls too.

[sundayhero]

Thanks !


Concerning traps, doors, etc... It will be the next stage of this quite cyclopean project. Bigger than I expected  


I'm still wondering at this stage if traps and doors will be handcrafted (as I first thought) or ordered in a store...  


edit : by the way, if I counted correctly (I'm a bit tired  ),  I made 42 tiles in this set.  

[Elbows]

I'd say you could incorporate some stuff nicely from the store into your own home-made pieces.  I'm anxious to see good photos of it complete in game!

Planning any large rooms?

[sundayhero]

With this system, the largest room is 6" width, 6" to 14" lenght.

The small rooms are from 4" by 4" to 4" by 12" or more  (I can add 3" lenght tiles)

the medium rooms are from 4" by 6" to 4" by 12" or more (I can add 3" lenght tiles)


In the future (far future  ) I plan to add some special rooms too.


For anything really large, I'll consider it as a cavern or caves, and use my dtailed heroscape tiles :