"Frost Giant Jarl -- 3D project has begun..." Topic
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Sgt Slag | 05 Sep 2016 7:48 p.m. PST |
I've been exploring the use of EPA Foam Mats (from Harbor Freight tool store) for terrain basing material. I've also been developing true 3D wall sections for use as either stone caverns, or glacial ice walls. Today, I began painting up some foam mat sections as a snow/ice base. I also used the same blue shading techniques on the wall sections, so that they would match up with the terrain base. What pushed me to get started was a crafting competition, on DM Scotty's crafting forum. Here is a link to my competition entry, on DM Scotty's forum (scroll down past the slingshot, to view my entry). Here is a a photo of a layout I threw together to see how it all would look, in an actual game:
Note that this is just a scene put together to see what it looks like. This is not a scene from the classic Gygax adventure module. For more photo's of the Jarl project, click on the slide show link, below. This is the same terrain concept applied to making caverns, possibly to represent The UnderDark realm. It is from a BattleSystem Skirmish game I put on for my wife, and two of our sons. They played an adventuring party invading the lair of a Red Dragon, and his minions.
Here are some links to slide shows: Steading of the Hill Giants project slideshow; Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl project slideshow; Demonstration of the full, 3D wall sections in a cavern setup. I hope you find something useful, and entertaining, in this post. Cheers! |
21eRegt | 05 Sep 2016 8:33 p.m. PST |
Nicely done Sarge. I'll be looking forward to follow-up postings. |
Xintao | 05 Sep 2016 10:18 p.m. PST |
Cool. I like the snow/ice pattern. |
Sgt Slag | 07 Mar 2018 11:30 a.m. PST |
Progress is being made, albeit very s-l-o-w-l-y. Employing a technique recommended by DM Scotty, for ice: paint the pieces as normal, then apply some Silver Glitter Glue, and 'paint' this over the entire surface, with a disposable brush. This hardens the surface, overall, as well as putting some silver-colored glint onto the surface, randomly. While not perfect, it is an improvement, IMO. I have around 10 Frost Giants (60mm Viking figures) fully painted, with another 26(?) in the painting queue. Aside from them, I have a Reaper Bones Rhemorhaz figure I just picked up. It is unlikely that I will need it (located in the central pit floor of the Rift, per the module), but I could not resist: such a wonderful monster, and the Bones figure is excellent, and relatively inexpensive. I will find other opportunities to put him on the gaming table! I had made up quite a number of the carved, pink foam, wall sections, which I initially painted up as rock cavern walls. As I have purchased a Hot Wire Foam Cutter Table, I will be re-purposing the rock-painted sections for ice cavern wall sections. This should provide me more than enough modular wall pieces to build out an entire level of the Rift, in 25mm = 5 feet scale. I really want to be able to build out an entire level, on the tabletop. This goes a very long way toward demonstrating the massive size of the Rift. It really brings it home, to the players, when they see it… I am able to carve effective rock wall cavern sections with the Foam Cutter, very quickly. It also allows me to perform 90%+ of the texturing with the Cutter! This will allow me to carve up the needed rock cavern wall sections for modular cave complexes, in 1/10th the time the old method required. The texture technique employed previously, yields a more carved, and chiseled, texture, which is more appropriate for ice caverns. Win-win for terrain making! Cheers! |
cooey2ph | 27 Jul 2018 5:26 a.m. PST |
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Sgt Slag | 01 Oct 2018 7:58 p.m. PST |
Did an analysis of what I need for figures: players will not finish the Upper Level, so I wrote down just the figures I need for that: Frost Giants: 42 maximum Stone Giants: 5 Hill Giants: 5 Ogres: 16 Yetis: 7 Winter Wolves: 12 Snow Leopards: 2 Ice Toads: 5 White Pudding: 1 The monster miniatures are easy… The killer is the terrain pieces I need: the Upper Level, in 25mm = 1 inch = 5 feet scale, means the board size, to depict the entire level, is 5' 2" by 6' /8"!!! That is a lot of carved foam pieces to create all of those caverns… I need to get busy! The modular foam pieces are textured, but they need to be painted yet… The game will be played at Tundra Con, in the first weekend of January 2019. Time to get real busy… Updates to follow, as progress is made. Cheers! |
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