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Post by northtroll on Oct 2, 2013 9:32:45 GMT -5
I am thinking about crafting some tiles for a castle with 4 towers, and 1t least 12 rooms per floor. Most of the basic room shapes will be the same for both levels to save on construction time. My initial problem was how to do the hallways of the castle. It occurs to me that the hallways could be used as a framework to place the rooms on. Getting large sheets of card could be a problem. Ideas? Suggestions?
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Post by skunkape on Oct 2, 2013 9:38:33 GMT -5
I would go to an appliance store to get the boxes they use to ship said appliances. They will be very large boxes and should be double thick cardboard as well!
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sgtslag
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Post by sgtslag on Oct 2, 2013 10:51:46 GMT -5
You could use a mottled gray/black piece of fabric, as your floor, with the rooms laid out to create the 'hallways', assuming the halls would fill all of the space between the rooms (check your local fabric stores -- they have many, many patterns which are useful for gaming purposes, including lava caverns, dungeons, water surfaces, etc.). You could make long, thin markers, to represent the limits of the hallways, say 1/2"-wide, with a raised portion, to demonstrate it is the wall section; this would create a visual marker, without requiring large sections of cardboard -- just long, narrow strips.
For dungeons, and ice caverns, in my 3-D BattleSystem Skirmish games, I use a piece of appropriately patterned fabric to represent the 'floor', using terrain pieces (carved pieces of extruded poly-foam insulation) to represent the walls: it gives me the freedom to dynamically arrange the foam 'walls' in whatever configuration I need, while not having to worry about the floor, itself. I can re-arrange as needed, when needed, to form nearly any shapes required. Static rooms, or dungeons, are much more difficult to make, use, and store -- you will need a lot of rooms, of different sizes, shapes, and configurations, and then you will need to either store them, for future use, or make new ones, as needed, for future games. Cheers!
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apokism
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Post by apokism on Oct 2, 2013 10:53:18 GMT -5
If you have a pizza restaurant nearby you can go there and ask to purchase their (clean) large boxes for their pies. Should let em go for cheap as most places buy them at .66c. I find they work very well but they can be a bit thinner than most but the edges fold and are easy to snap off or cu and it leaves you with 2 very nice squares and the perfect length for the walls(soon as you cut to the correct width.)
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Post by northtroll on Oct 2, 2013 13:46:28 GMT -5
Thanks for the ideas! The castle plan is a conversion of the castle from B9 Castle Caldwell and Beyond. What you have is essentially two floors with attached towers. Each floor is divided into thirds, with the halls looking like a giant "H" with wings leading off at the tips to the tower corners. My thought was to create two long strips for the halls, or even four strips. As the long halls are 140' in scale or 28" long, it makes sense for me to use four sections each 14" long.
Oops. Looking at my map the bootom section is actually 18" long. Well back to the drawing board....
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sgtslag
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Post by sgtslag on Oct 2, 2013 15:24:36 GMT -5
If you want to build each hallway, try using card stock on the top and bottom (will prevent them from folding on you, when handling; apply a texture, and the seams will disappear), to glue shorter pieces together (think 'tape', only using card stock, and PVA Glue). If you apply a thin coating of PVA Glue (narrow bead, smeared with your fingertip to a very thin coating), it will bond within 2-3 seconds, even though it will not be completely dry. The key to using PVA Glue on paper, is to apply very thin coats -- they're like using Super Glue, as it will bond to tearing the paper/carboard apart, within 2-3 seconds, if done properly (excessive PVA will take hours to bond, and dry; learned from card stock modelling). You won't need super-long pieces of cardboard with this approach. Cheers!
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Post by northtroll on Oct 3, 2013 8:49:52 GMT -5
Hey, that is a great idea sgtslag! I have made lots of paper models, so I know what you mean about the glue drying quickly when smeared.
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Post by northtroll on Oct 3, 2013 12:52:50 GMT -5
I managed to get to Lowe's yesterday. Now I have three cans of flat black and a can of gray texture paint. Lo and behold after cleaning up part of my garage I found 2 other cans of textured paint. One gray, the other brownish red! Now I am more than ready!
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Post by markd1733 on Oct 4, 2013 0:37:32 GMT -5
what about doing the inverse--making lots of hallway tiles, putting them on a battlemap. let the remaining space be the rooms, except where the room has s special configuration,
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