"How Do You Paint Your Dungeons?" Topic

When painting terrain for DungeonCrawls, what is your technique?

* I use pre-painted terrain
* I leave it in its natural resin/plastic color
* single color
* single color with highlight
* single color with wash
* single color with highlight and wash
* two or more colors with highlight
* two or more colors with wash
* two or more colors with highlight and wash

Lots of bright sparkly colours!

Chibi dungeon crawls =^,^=

With the blood of foolish adventurers.

Pre-painted (Dwarven Forge) mostly.

Two or more colors with highlight and wash.

And I cast and build it myself.

Hirst Arts FTW.

What does printable paper terrain count as in this regard?

What does printable paper terrain count as in this regard?

* I use paper terrain products

single colour, dry brush, highlight dry brush

I paint my own bases chocolate brown – dry brush with a grey slate – dry brush with a light sand

link

I paint them CDA Grey Green, drybrush Light Grey, wash with black Supershader…

Mike

I just leave it the natural color of the concrete block wall…

Let's update my category to:

* Lots of colours, glass tiles, rhinestones, and other sparklies

Bought an assembled Hirst Arts dungeon a few years ago. Way to many skulls and shinny glaze.

After chipping off the most of the skulls and using filler on the gaps, I started to paint the whole thing. If you every do this, please take before pictures.

After that:

Seal with gray exterior house paint.

Paint all Creamcoat Hippo Gray 02090

Dry brush all – Anita's Foliage Green 11153

Dry brush all – Anita's Rainy Day Gray 11084

Dry brush walls – Americana Warm White DA239

Wash floor – Anita's Foliage Green 11153

Wash all – Flat Black

Dry brush floor – Anita's Rainy Day Gray 11084

Tudor dip

Spray – Acrylic flat coat


Dry brush all – Anita's Rainy Day Gray 11084

Dry brush walls lightly – Americana Warm White DA239

Wash floor – Anita's Foliage Green 11153

Tudor dip (thinned)

Spray – Acrylic flat coat

Lightly Dry brush floor – Anita's Rainy Day Gray 11084

Spray – Acrylic flat coat

Spray – Dullcoat

Four colors with highlight, wash and a mix of painy white glue and scenic grass to make mold patches

Dwarven Forge prepainted

Spray-paint dark gray, then two layers of successively lighter gray drybrushing.

With blood….

For my dungeons: * I use paper terrain products.

I also use home-made, carved up XPS foam insulation, covered with crumpled paper grocery sack cut to match, glued to the surface, for rock texture, and as ice cavern texture. I paint the rock pieces a light tan, then apply The Dip, to create a mid to dark rock surface. For the ice block pieces, ceiling white latex paint, followed by a light blue sponge painting technique, on the higher points, to give it some depth.

For a base, I use foam puzzle mats. For the rock surface, I used different browns, sponge painted. For the ice fields, I used ceiling white latex paint, followed by the sponged' on, blue's, just like the textured XPS pieces. The rock/ice wall sections are placed end-to-end, to form chambers, making them completely modular. Cheers!

However my mistress tells me.

All done with cheap craft paints.
Black primer & undercoat; charcoal gray; thicket green; yellow brown, sage green; wash of thinned black paint.
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I'm old school. I use a battlemat and markers. Or just grid paper and pencil.

On my first one…Flat black undercoat, then medium gray sponging

On the one I'm planning to build I'll probably mix in some greens and highlights and finish with a black wash.

Has anyone used the 2.5D method? There are a bunch of videos on YouTube.

YouTube link

I've been working on a set of basic tiles with the 1.25" squares using a laser cutter/etcher the local library put in. 4 squares to a tile on 1/8 inch plywood.

For painting, my current plan is to hit that with a black primer, then a layer of the stone texture spray paint, then a black wash, then a seal, and then put some felt on the back of the tiles.

Relatively simple to do

tdkguy, the 2.5D method is fantastic! You've seen the videos. What more needs to be said? If you have not visited DM Scotty's forum, it is highly recommended: friendly, informative beyond belief. ;-) More threads, and photo's, than you can imagine. Cheers!

Cheap craft paints then hit it with Secret Weapon Stone Wash. Tutorial: link

with the blood and entrails of the fallen? LOL ;)

Pen and Ink, frequently Illustration Markers. My Dungeons (read Deckplans and station maps) are all 2.5d constructed from Foamcore and Card Stock.

Now location specific Scatter Terrain, generally the same as miniatures.

Couple of gallons of stain block primer. Then about three gallons of latex paint. I cut in with a angle brush. Then use a roller. Unless they are stones then I spray the whole room.

Thanks for the link, Sgt Slag. I have wondered if DM Scotty (or DMG or Wyloch) is a member here.

I would craft some dungeons if I had a regular game; I may try a few tiles anyway just for the sake of making something.