Dungeon Crawl Tiles in 15mm

 

Initially this  project was to create a set of playable, Zombicide type tiles for a D&D based simple crawl. 

As an experiment I drew and painted about 12 cards to see how they would work. I had made preliminary sketches in rough and referred to my copy of Zombicide, just incase you are worried, I never launch any big project without a long time thinking stuff through, (am old after all.) 

So the idea was the cards could be used in two ways, either as seen here a blind deck, cards laid down when drawn so they make some sense i.e. the corridors match up.

Below is a completed dungeon. 

They are quite flexible, as seen in next picture, so can be used offset. About this time I realised doors were going to be a thing.

There are lots of rooms, but wasn't entirely sure if they were big enough for play.

Anyway, full of confidence, and beans, I begun creating a couple of characters to play in the crawl. Mrs Daxio and myself had two PCs were hadn't played in a while so it seemed appropriate to use hem, Zaphira the Dragonborn barbarian and Ovi the Dwarf cleric. 

Set up for a more Zombicide style of play with the board in full view and objectives specific, using all the rooms. 

You can see where all the Undead flats were going to rise from.

You may have noticed that the doors have slight design differences, that's because in my haste I folded the designs I had drawn rather than cut them separately. I much prefer the nice thick dark edge of the cut doors and so am currently altering all the folded versions. Was tempted to chuck them but I really don't like wasting even small amounts of paper.

So about two months ago when I started this idea, I was all up for a dungeon crawl but using D&D monsters and PCs. I quickly realised this would be Warhammer Quest by another name and I don't want to play that any more.

Then I discovered Ironsworn RPG and everything changed...

More next post.

15mm Fantasy Flats: Undead

Following on from my last post, these are the outcome. 

I colour them at 30mm as they were drawn and then reduce them by 50% making them 15mm high.

then I cut them out, mainly with a knife, then mount on 210 gauge black paper, colour out the missed areas with black and mount the whole figure onto a washer. 

the washer is covered in PVAcrete and painted then the whole miniature is coated in at least 3 layers of acrylic varnish, the cheapest I can get.

Some close ups of the larger models mounted on 2 pence pieces.

The whole undead collection.

This last shot shows them with a 30 mm original I drew a few years back, to give a sense of scale and size. These have inspiered me to have a go at making some skeletons mmmm.....

Next post I will show what I have been making to go alongside these, so that me and Mrs Daxio can play solo... ish DnD on holiday

 

Flats: Lower level Undead.....but not Skeletons

 

Not posted for quite a while now, longest gap in the blogs history, but I have been doing stuff.

Mainly drawing flats at the moment. We have a weeks holiday coming up and we often play a game while away. Six weeks ago I had the idea of creating a board game similar to Zombicide, but with a range of Undead, which we could take with us to play.

These are the flats I drew to play with, not very keen on the spider, all the rest will do the job.

The backside of the undead horrors.

Water coloured rendering, this is over a photocopy....I never colour the original, just in case...

Will show you what I did with these next post.

Stargrave: Loot Tokens

 

These are 6 Loot Tokens I have just recently made for playing Stargrave with,

Very simple to make, a base from card with half a wooden Jenga block stuck on top.

Then some weapon parts from my bits box and some cereal card to make the crates look more...cratey.

Data Loot tokens I made to look roughly like a consul of some kind, just used very small bits of cereal card painted appropriately.

A quick drybrush all over to give them a slightly worn look and some wash to bring out the details, finished with a bit of varnish.

Could easily use these in 5Parsecs as well. 

Seems that I am not really getting my finger out when it comes to actually playing a game of either Stargrave or 5Parsecs at moment, its because real life has opened its ugly maw and swallowed me whole. Work and elderly parents are really taking up my time and they have to be the priority, however I will get to it eventually.

Cheers for looking in.

What a load of Walls...

 

For the last week until I had to isolate again I had been working on some stone walls for myself and for Geek Gaming Scenics.

These were constructed from the slate chippings that we sell, superglued together onto a lolly stick cut into 4" lengths.

I made 4 sets and here are all the different faces for your walling delight.

I then used sand and glue to mortar them together so there were no holes as we intend making molds of these to use in projects.

Some GS was also used in the deep gaps to lend strength and support.

Without the mortar, start of the build.

At the same time I had been experimenting with different ways of making walls other than the way I usually did. So while I was waiting for the slate chipping variation to dry I had a go at creating some with foamboard , having stripped off the backing paper.

Very regular and the glue left from the paper interferes with the rounding process, but I will be doing some further experiments to see if I can get round that. Probably just needs a bit of light sanding.

As another side project I had been reworking some low interior walls I made for D&D ages ago, slicing them in two, length wise and reworking the rubbish face left over.

All the walls I made at 25mm.

When I downloaded all these pictures I was very careful to get them in the correct order, so I thought, but in reality they are all over the shop, sorry if they seem a bit random....its because I am :-)