Teaser from previous session (27.09.2018)
Some of the stuff used in this product, can be found here:
https://www.grimfield.no/product-category/hobby/diverse-materiell/
Testing to see if the entire cave can fit into 1 PVA-foam excercise mat.
3D-printed stamp, hexing it out!
Soldering iron to make proper groves
…an unknown amount of time later:
Good enough…
Rending drake is 3D-printed from this file by RobagoN:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3063109
After a rough treatment outside in the gravel, it looks the part!
Bring on the blackness!
Moving on to the cave walls. Cutting 5 x 5 cm strips of XPS foam
freestyling some curvy lines and edges with the Proxxon Hotwire table.
Lil’ Drake approves of this!
Giving them the same rough treatment as the cave floor PVA foam mat
Decided to glue some of the walls together to make them wider, and also create some corners. Added a few flat wall sections with cardboard etc.
Testing, testing…
Adding texture where needed, filling in the gaps here and there with some acrylic texture stuff:
Black “mod podging” it up!
Adding some shades of gray and a bit of tan/red/brown here and there.
Black wash making it pop!
Crafting some drake nests from speaker cable. Brown matte spray + light dry brush some tan color and a touch of Agrax Earthshade wash. Glued to a simple black base.
Simple “doors” or fog as it is meant to be according to the game description. Insulation patch, later spray painted gray + black.
First test to see if all rooms could be assembled with the walls that are ready.
Populating the cave.. (not enough monsters to populate all rooms from the get go. Have to add monsters as we go along.
Fog “doors” and 2 nests up close
Cleared the cave entrance and moving into the first big room. Black covers for the rest of the rooms to simulate fog of war. Made out of cardboard and hot glued a mini to them, acts as handle to simplify removing of the covers.
The black coating I use as primer for my projects is a mix of these two products + regular water.