Belatucadras' Eclectic Collection

[belatucadras]

Yes. The books do have pages. I don't remember which member posted the tutorial on them.

Basically you take the insert from a news paper, thin magazine or the center grouping of pages from a thicker magazine.

You cut 1/4 of an inch or so of the spine then cut book sized pieces from that.

You can use card stock on the outer paged if you want a sturdier/hardcover book.

[Deleted]

Your stuff is really cool.
I just started a new pathfinder / ogl steampunk home-brew game, where the gnomes are aliens that used technology to swoop in and take over a war torn classic fantasy world.
They use humans as their muscle.
The airship is pretty awesome.
Im working on one right now as well. Went to Michaels with my 40% off coupon and got a wooden 3d puzzle ship to use for it, i think it was like $5. I'm using one of those large barrels that they sell cheese balls in for the balloon above (you just have to really like cheese balls). I placed dome covers from cold stone ice-cream cups at each end to round it off.
Its still a work in progress, but i'll post pics when i can.
Great job man, you've inspired me to participate with this forum.

[belatucadras]

Thank you for the kudos and kind words, @darthantb. I can't wait to see the things you build.

[belatucadras]

My wife was cleaning in the garage and found a pile (literally a pile...a jumbled mass...a conglomeration) of miniatures shoved haphazardly into a bowl then stored in a box. What you have here are miniatures from 25 or more years ago. Some Shadowrun minis, some old school D&D minis, some minis from the Stormbringer RPG, some of the minis from the world of Krynn and a few other tidbits. I think they have held up pretty well considering the poor treatment they have received these past 25 years.

s1298.photobucket.com/user/Belatucadras/library/Minis%20found%20in%20storage

The Draconians are perfect for my current campaign and are now being washed based and painted. My game is steam punky so the Shadowrun minis might see some use as well.

[belatucadras]

Some miniatures I am painting for my campaign:

Dark Ice Fey Spiders
s1298.photobucket.com/user/Belatucadras/library/Miniatures/Fey%20Ice%20Spiders%20and%20Webs

Carnivean mini I am using for an electricity based Dracolisk
s1298.photobucket.com/user/Belatucadras/library/Miniatures/Carnivean

The forest the party is currently adventuring in has redwood sized darkwood trees
s1298.photobucket.com/user/Belatucadras/library/Darkwood-Redwood%20Trees

A Tengu I repainted for my wife. She is playing a homebrew class called a Tinker (Basically a Bard with all the music fluff replaced with steampunk style crafting and knowledge) She is using a clockwork repeating heavy crossbow and has a clockwork minion (The winged cat mini). The yellow robed Tengu was what it looked like before.
s1298.photobucket.com/user/Belatucadras/library/Miniatures/Tengu%20and%20Clockwork%20Familiar%20Modification

[belatucadras]

Here is some brick'a'brack for my witch's hut.

s1298.photobucket.com/user/Belatucadras/library/Witch%20in%20the%20Woods%20Encounter/Brick-a-brack

I forget who posted the book covers and the pages with writing, but thank you. They work wonderfully.

The bed in the background is a work-in-progress for a before and after animated bed the party will have to deal with.

[voodoo]

Druid mini rocks! I've been wanting to do a large ship piece (actually 2 ships) for an encounter I have planned to take place in the future. this gave me a lot of ideas! great work!

[belatucadras]

Here is the Witch's Hut tile with everything in place.

s1298.photobucket.com/user/Belatucadras/library/Witch%20in%20the%20Woods%20Encounter/Witches%20Hut

[belatucadras]

Witch's Hut in play.

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It was a fun encounter that started with a subtle mind affecting spell designed to keep unwanted visitors from finding the hut.

Once the party was able to overcome the spell that had them unknowingly bypassing their target, they had an illusion to overcome. The illusion had them believing the hut and clearing were mostly destroyed. One member overcame the illusion initially and was eventually able to talk the others into opening their eyes.

Then the party had a puzzle lock to decipher to gain access to the hut. It was a fairly simple puzzle with two keys. One was a changing key based on the time of day. The answer was found on a sun dial in the witch's garden. The second key was found in the topiary scattered around her garden. The topiary were in the shape of various animals. After being unable to figure the key through role play, I allowed characters with nature skills a roll. All the animals depicted in topiary were common to the area except one. The topiary were spaced in such a manner that each animal could be attributed to a point on the sun dial. The number corresponding to the odd topiary out was the second key.

Once inside the party was very concerned about touching anything (rightly so, but they had already broken in right?) Disturbing the items in the hut caused the furniture to seemingly come to life. Things were hastily returned and a retreat to the outside made and everything seemed to return to normal. Then they decided to make a snatch and grab and a fight ensued.

The door frame, when viewed from inside the hut, had words written in an ancient language lightly carved into it:

One two eerht four
Hard semit knocking at your door
Five six neves eight
Reflect on this and end this prate

This was a simple puzzle lock. The backwards words when viewed in a mirror are 'three times seven' which is twenty-one, but 21 when viewed in the mirror is twelve. Knocking 12 times on the closed door then opening it revealed pocket dimension space that held the witch's more important books, including a journal and a few other treasures.

The journal held clues for the larger campaign including a poem:

I looked in the mirror and got quite a fright.                        
This old dragon's eyes were losing the light.
Our kin, I told them, will arrive before long.
We will need their help, we must share the song.
But they declined and will hold to their course.
Their manipulation is just making things worse.
Though feeling a bit tired and losing this battle,
I must save the masses from being treated like cattle.
Herded by elves, like a flock of dumb sheep,
Too young and too ignorant, their minds are asleep.
Man and the animals need to be woken.
Ware halfling and gnome, their plight left me broken.
Fear and hypocrisy going hand in hand.
Dwarves and elves are ever so grand.
The Wyrm must die else the world will be eaten!
Maybe the orcs, at least they are not beaten.
For beautiful Mila, Order, it's creation your task.
Merlo, forgive me, you'll wear the masque
To create a martyr, the only role left me.
For this world will soon crack, so must it be.


I am not much of a poet, but was pleased with the outcome. It holds several clues to the campaign story.

[belatucadras]

The witch's hut encounter won the party the final items they needed to fulfill a task. Their payment for fulfilling the task is the location of the antagonist of the story, a gnomish mad scientist. One of his labs is in an underground facility built by dwarves before the first cataclysm (there have been two). It is a futuristic place built with advanced technology, most of which has been destroyed in the wake of two cataclysms. A ruined dwarven monastery, built in reverence to Voseges the Maker (Actually an alien precursor but that is another story) sits on the site above the ruined complex.

This is what I have of the monastery thus far:
s1298.photobucket.com/user/Belatucadras/library/Monastery

Some of you might recognize some of the places I have been building. I have heavily modified four low level modules set around Droskar's Crag in the Pathfinder world. The modules themselves are barely recognizable, but the maps are very nice. The monastery is Droskar's Crucible in the original modules.

[rane]

I was about to say, this looks a lot like a certain Crucible!



Great job

[belatucadras]

Thank you. I still have a few things to finish up on the monastery then I switch gears to some tiles with a futuristic feel. I am pretty excited for the coming change.

[Sam]

Awesome looking stuff sir. Your players are being spoiled. Keep up the great work. Thanks for posting the WIP pics. Very inspirational.

[Draklith]

exceptional coolness overflow-ith

thanks for posting the piccies

[onelastlaugh]

Amazing work, hope you post some more of your crafts.

[belatucadras]

Thanks guys. We took a break from the game over the holidays and Dragon Age: Inquisition has consumed me whole. We started up again last sunday. New builds are coming as the party begins their attack on the monastery and the sci-fi themed complex on which the monastery is built.

My gaming group gave me an airbrush setup for Christmas, including the air compressor and a couple of different brushes. I am anxious to put them to use.

[michka]

This whole thread is a treat. Thank you for posting so many inspirational photos.

[milojaggerson]

The wrecked ship really rocked (pun!). Your work on the shipwreck is excellent. Love your interpretation TSR's module. Did you do the cave systems that appear on the shoreline?

[belatucadras]

Thanks for the comments guys!

milojaggerson,

Yes, I carved the shoreline from white styro (the formed kind used to protect a TV or in this case a microwave we had bought).

I then textured the entire surface with hot glue, which also allowed me to use spray paint on the styro.

Sand, gravel, some grapevine driftwood and varying kinds of moss for foliage completed the project.

The rocks the ship had crashed into were made with textured white styro as well.

[renel]

My all time favorite is the lazy susan gaming table!!!