Almost a year ago I was contemplating a dungeon style game, and I have finally begun work on it.
I have finished off a couple of fantasy figures I have had lying around for three or four years now, and started work on some others.
At the beginning of August I ordered some Hirst Arts pieces - almost 4 kg to be precise. I somehow did my dungeon tile math wrong and ordered more tiles than I thought, but I am happy with that, as it allowed me to make more of a dungeon.
The tiles arrived last week, and I have assembled them in various sized to allow for different room and corridor configurations.
With some spare tiles I made two secret doors:
And here is a photo of a Mage character and a skeleton:
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| A Reaper Miniature |
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| Skeleton from the Celtos range, sans shield |
I need to visit a hardware store to get some paint for the dungeon tiles, and the bases on the miniatures will be done once I have the paint and some more pollyfilla to do work on them.
The Hirst Arts tiles were a lot better than I was expecting, and I have had a lot of fun working with them.
This has only started a bug in me though - as now I want to get more Hirst Arts to make all different kinds of things.
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Dungeons, Vietnam, Zombies! Man where do you find the time? Damn fine work though.
Very cool. I'd like todo something like this but perhaps in 15mm. That way I could fit it all in a much smaller place. Looking forward to seeing this painted and played on.
Funny how you always play what I am thinking about thinking about playing :P
Looking good Shelldrake, look forward to what,else you have planned for this project
@Irqan - not having a life helps a lot with finding the time :-P
I also have three small Vietnam war huts to finish off for my Vietnam game.
@Brummie - even though this is in 28mm scale, the dungeon in the photo only takes up about a 2' x 2' area, so I can theoretically play a game in little space.
And with mapping I can adjust the tiles and move them around as I move through the dungeon.
@Mathyoo - stop reading my mind! lol I am toying with using D&D as my rules, but really want to play the Goal System Delves which should be released in a few months.
@ The Extraordinarii - this is mostly in the planning stage, as I need a lot more critters and 'fittings' to flesh out my dungeons.
I intend to do a lot of play testing to see if the random dungeon system works though.
This looks great! Looking forward to how you paint it up.
Dirty, dusty and gritty?
Hmm I probably wont put too much effort into trying to make it look dirty, dusty or gritty.
Basically a dark undercoat with a base colour on top of that, and maybe a highlight on the edges.
Very cool. I've been doing up some dungeon based minis myself, and I'm still deciding what kind of surface to play on.
I experimented on using foam card for my dungeon tiles.
It was cheap enough to get a dungeon, but my artistic talents made it horrible enough that I abandoned that idea.
I looked at laser cut dungeon tiles, but they were too expensive, so in the end I shopped from 'Griffin Gove' in South Australia to buy my hirst arts tiles.
I am very happy with them indeed.
Hey Shelldrake, I looked at getting Hirst stuff in the past, but never have ...
As you know I've got a pile of Ainsty tiles which I painted with matt grey car primer spray as undercoat and then a black wash. Was very quick and - IMO - effective.
Good luck with this project!
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