venture through the door....

so with my relatively new problem arising regarding doors falling over constantly. i swiftly cracked on from my previous post, getting these new bases painted up and in place to see how they worked.

i ran a couple of test dungeons plotting out the layout and clipping the doors in as i went. these worked pretty well. some gripped a little too tightly, but was easily fixed just by flexing them a little.
pinning them was definately a good choice to make as it mean that the superglue could crack up a little and they were still held in place by the pins, thus making the clips more flexible and not damaging my new floor tiles

and they held together nicely. i ran a dungeon that literally filled up my entire 4ft x 4ft table, snaking around the edges meant i had to shift its position quite frequently, but it all held together relatively weel with only 1 door clip being a little looser than the others.
so not to bad of an effort, and now i can get back on track.

even mixed with all the extra addons...a hell of a lot of corridors seem to crop up!

well thats that problem solved. next i need to get some monsters painted up!

The Quest continues

Rather than me vanish for long periods of time i figured i would post up more progressional blogposts to keep myself on track and share what ive been doing.

so having created my floorpans and such i realised 1 massive design flaw that i had overlooked which was part of the original game...doorclips!!
my tiral dungeon runs so far involved all of my doors rocking precariously but more than often..just falling over. i knew i needed to fix it so put everything else on hold to get something in place.
and luckily....they worked!

1. using 1mm thick plasticard i constructed a base/clip which was 30 in depth and as wide as my doors, the section inbetween which operates as the clip im made sure was as close to 0.1mm thinner than the overall floortiles, and additionally i pinned these clips to allow some flex upon gripping the tiles so not to damage them
2. checked they fit nice and snugly then repeated this process 13 times to cover the 12 doors and a portcullis
3. putting them all to one side i then worked on only one as my prototype, and sculpted some greenstuff flagstone to ensure the doors would fit nicely into the recess.
4. using Bluestuff i created a singular mold from my prototype
5. and then using my new mold proceeded to complete all of the others

next job is to get these bases painted up and get those doors glued on.

additionally to this i thought i would share my spider prototype.

It doesnt look like much just yet, but wanted to show my intentions. and what i have planned

so this guy is pretty small. infact his legspan is probably about 32mm maximum.

And the reason for the pose is deliberate too. it isnt posed at all, and if you look carefully you can see i have put some semi sturdy wireframe through him.

the plan here once i have finished his sculpt is to replicate 12 of these using a bluestuff mold and put wires through each one. then i will 'hopefully' be able to pose each one uniquely...its a bold move i think. and one i hope pays off.

and finally. i wanted to share a new way i develop my bases

you know all of those scrap bits of putty or greenstuff you have left over from mixing too much?

i made them into flagstones on an old piece of plasticard, made a bluestuff mold and et voila

this save me a shed tonne of time too. and any extra greenstuff i have left over..gets sculpted into more flagstones.

so the next week will compromise of me painting up these new door bases so i can get that little speed bump put to bed. and next wekk i will be able to show them all being put to use.

anyways hope this prove helpful for someone out there :)

A Wanderer Returns...

It's been a while.................


i was kinda stuck in a dungeon........


lost for a long time................

but hopefully now i'm back. until my next wander off into the mountains.
i kind of have literally been stuck in a dungeon. and also bring a few goodies.
on my way from the mountains i got sidetracked and had to spend a few weeks at the ye olde photoshoppe, as well as a few stops at various different print masters until i had enough to fill up my pack on my return

firstly i had this

printed off on a huge A0 poster, additionally there is a second print which i didnt photograph.
using all of the WHQ base game tiles and tokens as well as all of the expansions WD addons and some fan made content also thrown into the mix.

part of my quest meant i ended up getting through quite a few swords once i put these onto 2mm thick greyboard

just to get an idea here. it took about 15 gentle cuts to make a full cut to each side of these. i think i rinsed through about 8 or 9 blades. and whilst these would of obviously been better of punch cut...that's not how the home made stuff works is it?
60 bazillion cuts later and having lost the feeling in my index finger and thumb i ended up with these.

and just because i had to get a shot for effect....

you can still see the cardboard dust everywhere hehe.
you may also see a snippet of my bretonnion knight (will get some good pics of him soon)
and how my dungeon doors also pan out. based on the tile size with 30mm squares and 15mm edging. i may well base my doors on something that fills the gap a little better, i may possibly make some similar bases to the original WHQ doors so all of these can clip together.

but there's more
you may of seen my trial card print of WHQ treasure cards way back in may of last year here
well that trial went pretty well and i spent a good portion of time within photoshop (yes i'm talking normally now) in order to flesh out all of the base game cards.

having already done the treasure cards from the base game and all expansions. i took it a little further adding all of the remaining WD cards too. as well as my own art for all of the other cards so that i could have a fresher looking but similar design

but that also wasnt enough. the cost to get these shipped from america meant it was worthwhile that i flesh out as much as possible.

i also added the dark secret cards tot he mix as well as all of the Beyond the grey mountains fan made cards.
i preferred the idea of drawing cards and laying them out in the middle of the table to set the scene for settlements. also taking on the additional event cards and their objective cards. sadly this project seems to be no more, but i have to say i'm a huge fan of what they did and have certainly helped me out here.

oh and finally i managed to repaint some bases of skaven to tick off my list. nothing too major. but still a step in the right direction.

i have also added a page at the top of the blog to help track and show how far along i have managed to get thus far. and hopefully this will be a steady movement for blogging at least for the the next year.

hope you like.