dmtucker
Tool Gatherer
Looking for adventure ideas.
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Post by dmtucker on May 8, 2014 0:19:38 GMT
What would be the best way to make walls for my tiles if I use foam board for the floors? It's hard to cut small thin strips evenly. I'm fine with up standing walls if they're like an inch or two. What is your recommendation?
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Post by kokigami on May 8, 2014 3:44:07 GMT
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Post by thedmg on May 8, 2014 7:32:40 GMT
Cardboard. It is cheap and easy to cut. You can also use it on its side for higher walls. You just cover the corrugation with strips of cardstock.
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Post by skunkape on May 8, 2014 20:15:27 GMT
I use foamcore for my walls, that way I can pull off the paper on the exposed side and carve blocks in that too!
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DM Michael
Paint Manipulator
Preparing for 'In the spider's web' part of LMOP
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Post by DM Michael on Jul 12, 2014 20:47:10 GMT
What would be the best way to make walls for my tiles if I use foam board for the floors? It's hard to cut small thin strips evenly. I'm fine with up standing walls if they're like an inch or two. What is your recommendation? When you say, youre fine with standing walls, do you mean genuine 3D and not 2.5D? If so, I would recommend DMGs video on advanced walls for modular dungeon tiles and the Terrain Tutors video on precision cutting polystyrene. I personally use techniques quiet similar to those described in the videos. You can see some of my work here. Some like the texture of expanded polystyrene. I don't. I think it makes terrain look cheap. So I go to great lengths to cover it up. On my dungeon tiles I have used 4 different texturing techniques: 1: White glue painted on then sprinkled with fine grained sand 2: Like 1, but where I use DM Scotty’s "construction sand" instead 3: Like 1, but where I peel of some of the small pellets first to get the surface even more uneven. 4: Grout mixed with water, white glue, and small amounts of acrylic paints into a paste, which is then "painted" on. The door openings are made of foamcore where I cut out the foam so that I can slide in the doors. The stone texturing here is done by gluing on some 5x10mm cereal box cardboard and then using either technique 1 or 4. If you decide to use this technique for walls, I would advise you to go and buy sheets of expanded polystyren for insolation the same thickness as your walls or the same height as your walls, rather than using random packing ploystyrene. This will save you lots of time cutting out the walls.
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Post by curufin on Jul 13, 2014 0:40:31 GMT
I use foamcore for my walls, that way I can pull off the paper on the exposed side and carve blocks in that too! I am also using foamcore for my walls in 2.5D fashion. If you wanted 3D walls you could still use foamcore and just stand it on it's edge.
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Post by Admin on Jul 13, 2014 1:34:48 GMT
As do I. My walls are around 1cm wide.
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