The basic materials used in this tutorial are:
- Foamboard of different thicknesses
- MDF
- PVA
- Putty
The
first step consist on designing the sections, preferably using a
complex design program... like Paint. My first sections will be:
An intersection or junction of corridors.
A long corridor and two interconnected rooms.
Lets
start working. Chose the standard size for your tiles and cut the the
areas for the room floors or corridors on the foamboard. On each
"floor", remove one of the cardboard sides of the foamboard, leaving the
foam on air on that side, and mark the tiles on it with a pen. What I
did was draw a large grid on the plate of foamboard and then cut out the
pieces (the corridor looks more irregular because it's made of leftover
pieces). Once we have it ready, stick it on the MDF base. Notice that
the corridor´s end extends to the edge of the base, so it will match the
beginning of the next section.
Mark the separation between tiles using a thin object (a rule or a
little sharp knife). I used a modeling knife to make the detailed cracks
and broken tiles.
Once finished, give a coat (better two) of very diluted PVA to harden the foam.
To make the walls I also used the foamboard (of different
thicknesses) and cut strips with a predetermined heigh (the height of
our dungeon ). Stick the strips to the MDF base with PVA and fill any
gap with more foamboard.
You can remove the cardboard side of the foamboard and draw stone reliefs on the
wall (as with tiles), but as it would be too much work for me, I decided to use a stone effect
sheet on the corridor walls, and thus give some
uniformity to the dungeon. The remaining walls is just the foamboard .
Finally we can use some putty to cover the top of the walls, where
the cutting of the foamboard can be seen. Iuse a mixture of clay and
plumber putty.
Time to add the doors, but I leave that for
another tutorial... So there is only paint left, but before doing so it
is a good idea to give a coat of diluted PVA to the walls. I used the
following technique, similar to that used with rocks:
-
Paint the base color. For example, Basalt gray in the corridor.
- Make two washes with very dilute black and brown paint.
- Dry brush the base color.
- Another dry brush with a lighter collor (Stone gray).
- Paint the "not visible zones" in black.
I hope you enjoy it and I encourage you to make your own dungeons, boards or whatever!
Nos vemos!
