RobAGD's WIP's

[robagd]

Welp been busy. Never really took much in the way of pictures while doing a lot of my builds. Started taking some recently thought I would throw them into one thread for giggles.

So I started off with some tiles, basic stuff nothing special there. But I built a few special rooms for big battles/treasure and wanted some of the cast treasure piles.

So did the Clay and molds thing -







The silver I had didn't work out overly well. I think I am going to spray this with just a tad bit of gold glitter to give it some bling.



Punched these out from a fender, painted up with silver and gold for some loose treasure.

Next up was what started out as a beholder.







So took a dense foam ball and covered it with Crayola Air Dry clay, Used a round wooden "coin" to press in the plate lines. The down side is the clay contracted quite a bit and cracked. Just refilled it and hit it with some paint. Use a little card board to mask off the mouth/teeth. When I did the highlight for the plates I though it was pretty damn creepy even w/o the eye stalks. So I left it as is. No eyes at all. This Beholder is a product of evil drow magic at least that is how I am going to end up using it. In trying to do something with the teeth, I kinda messed it up and went a different route. Used a dremel with a bur bit and dug into the foam and made the mouth cavity then used some tooth picks jammed into the foam with just a bit of hot glue.



The color in the mouth didn't work out quite like I wanted but it works. The patch where the eye should have been was a happy happenstance that will work into the story as well.

So I still needed a normal beholder so Attempt #2



So wanted this one to have its mouth open, so I peeled up the mouth area and supported it with the stick until it had dried up. This one cracked baddy as well, use a little white glue to secure the edges and let it eat. Also added a lower jaw to the ball.



So Started working on the eye stalks, I was going to use heavy duty paper clips, didn't really work like i wanted, so got a coat hanger and clipped up drilled some holes a bit smaller and pressed in. then bent up the hangers to point up where I wanted and then covered in clay, using a large ball stick pins for the eyes.

So I have a Wiz that like to cast hold person ETC so I made this marker from some dense foam I cut real thin then cut hand shapes into. I used a dremel to cut the fingers and attached it to some plastic and a base piece.



and here is Lex in his new home taking 1d6 fire damage per round




I'll have a a few posts coming up.

Couple more updates.

Bridge in process, they jute string is a bit more of an MF'er than I expected



Posted these else where but some treasure gems for handouts



Picked up 36 smaller 25ct sized colored "diamonds" on ebay or amazon for a few bucks.

Casting some more small things. Post those up when I pop them out.

OK a few updates here :

The skull pile :



I am going to attempt to cast a few walls like that for a back drop as well

The ubiqutous fire ball


Ball of force or water I think I need to add some more light blue to this


Beholder updates. almost done still working on the Main Eye






Ok Skull walls are cast. I re did the mold a bit after the first as I didnt get deep enough impression for the look I wanted :






Ok so started some trees, I am not sure who's thread I stole this from but Thanks !  LOL

I did several of the some what normal trees so no pictures of those, only thing I did was vary the tightness of the cone.

These I did something a little different.









Have to see how they paint up

Ok got em painted up and mounted the picture didnt come out very well :/ Meh



Did some different heights, and a some leaners for variety

Did a little more casting



First face cast got an air pocket that wouldn't pop, the second did much better, and I dropped in some glass bits for the eyes.



Used the skull bead to make teh base for something, not sure what, but the plaster was a bit to thick and got a lot of air pockets in the jaw areas.


Ok So here is a second bridge I have started, it will be used on the same base tile, I wanted to have a few options and I hate building the same thing twice. This will be a typical rope span bridge.

So tacked down 2 runs of the rope to my work surface, then under that put some parchment paper to keep the hot glue from sticking as I glued down the runners.



Here I have added the up ropes glued to the main ropes



Using some thin cardboard, I made cover plates for the Chasm glued down the Post



This is a tile for having to jump the chasm this is on a 1.5" to 10ft scale, I really didn't do a very good job of the painting on chasm walls for perspective. Meh



Next is a little hand out, I am working on. I wanted to hand the players the book so they could tinker with it a bit. I have a translated packet for them when they make the rolls.



Here is a sheet glued into the book. Using a nice new sharp razor blade cut out a few pages, leaving about 1/2"



Here is the back side, I used Super Tack glue and it was a bit quicker than I expected in this instance, but it wasn't too bad.



So, as they don't have Automotive Engines in DnD so I re covered the book, added card stock to the covers to make it look a bit more legit



The suspension bridge all finished up on the base chasm, a few things I would like to redo but its will serve its purpose



So back to the rope bridge, putting the hand rails ropes up, to attach the hangers.



All done, I was real happy with this. Still need to touching up the paint on the "logs"



So the idea was to be able to throw down colored foam for different things Water, lava etc. Oddly enough both those foam bits are the same color in person and well They are pink vs Red in the photo lol, so it is a river of "Love"



Thanks for looking

-R

[robagd]

Ok so one of the things I am working towards is a mass battle 50+ baddies vs the 7-8 good guys with possible help from Elven Rangers and or Dwarven Guards depend on how the battle goes. There will be a total of 4 of these kinds of battles coming for the group.

In order to make it a little more interesting I am build a cavern area where dwarven teamsters park for the night. So this is what I am working on.







I still need to add the walls and finish painting the ends. Given its size I am not doing a floor just using a battle mat with carts and stuff

Started work on one side wall. These are Entrances to Taverns with rooms with a view to the cavern. The over hangs are in case of attack to seal off access



So I need a lot of doors and the pre cast Hirst stuff was cheap enough I went that route vs making my own.



Mostly done, need to finish the banding

Also picked up some large casks



Just need to finish the spigot I added a very light brown for a final highlight

So I happened on this. I was re caulking the tub, and when I ran the scrapper I had these wads of silicon I wiped off into the trash can.

Well I went to throw something away a day or so later and they popped right off the liner. So they were neat rock like blobs so ....

The shape is just about as I peeled them off





The silicon didn't paint very well so I threw on a coat of that modeling paste and it seemed to stick well and took paint decently as well.


So I still have a 1/2 a tube of silicon left so I put these down on parchment paper ( Should have used trash bag )





And painted up a little




Ok Update 02/12/14

So I was working on some treasure stuff, there is a spell book, and while working on bad guy spells and the treasure spell book I was loosing my mind in keeping track of stuff. So I think I am going to make my players maintain spell books. This will keep the players book hunting to a minimum and I hope keep the battles moving along.

So, I found my old Day Runner and the gears started turning. I had a pack of 3.75x6.75 lined paper. So using that as my template I started working in Word to copy and paste Spells from the Players handbook. The here is what followed :



Here is a first run of sheets. These were kinda flimsy and I didn't like the lines.


I found some 32# Linen stock, 250 sheets for like $27. So adding a 1/4 in width and length you get 3 Spell Sheets per page



So as I will be requiring spell books, it is only fair I at least get them started. I added a few extras, Like Level bonuses



Spells per day



And of course, the spell list


And now some spells. So far all but one firsts with a little figgiling with font sizes and spacings



So here was my bastard spell. Ended up making a template just for this spell because of the off set for the holes. You look you can see that I pinched the outer edge so I ended up re tweaking that a little so when I re print it will be clean. So the rule for spell books is 100 pages and they are full up. This book is currently at 47 pages. 1-3 Level spells ( all cantrips that were not in his opposition schools )



Then I remembered I had a project where I needed some special/weird holes punched into something I was working on as a side job. So The nice thing here is that you can set where the holes go. I did have to fiddle a bit to get spacing right when flipping to punch the 2nd set of 3 holes. Glued a wad of sticks to act as a guide and well as a spacer.



So this was my Prototype, I found Mead note pads that takes these sheets about $4-$7. I will be covering them in Leather and heavy cloth to make them unique to the player. ( Still waiting on them, the vendor kinda hosed me )

Shot a video of this twice, and I got killed by the ummm monster ( there is a reason I don't do commentator duties on my racing videos LOL

Ok So, I only hand cut 20 sheets of paper, and I am not looking forward to cutting 250 sheets and then hole punching 750 ( really 1500 punch ops ) so I called a local print shop and they quoted me $15 to cut and drill the paper for me. Way worth it

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Ok so for this update I wanted to show off some cavern tiles that TheDMG did a few videos on and gave me some great idea for something I have been wanting to tinker with.

So this is my water tile. cut through the dual layer card board then put some thin stock under it for the bottom.



Here is the upper plate, the hole is cut a bit smaller and you can see the shadow under the ledge, where the water has worn away the cavern floor.



So putting the foil in for the water. I crumpled it in line to give it a flowing look, and then used the Blue anno spray paint 2 coats. With a little white high lights



Unfortunately my camera lost it mind and chewed up a few images so there is a bit of a jump

This is all painted up and glued together



And here is what I have done so far




3/3/14

OK finished up a few more



Now working on 6x6 tiles

6x6 tiles added to the group shot



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Ok some spell book updates. The Wizards book was a big hit, and it did exactly what I had hoped and keeps the page flipping and pdf reading to a minimum during combat. So Every player will now have a "Book" Think of it as an extended Character sheet that has proper full descriptions of feats, powers etc without having to figure out the sheet short hand.

So Started on our rangers book. As these are like Cleric spells and you don't have a book of available spells you can cast, you can draw from a massive list of spells depending on what you feel your needs will be for the day.

So I went down the road of Spell list with Page numbers for the spells. The more cumbersome spells in this case the Summons Natures Ally I added that to the book with the monsters. ( this was taken before adding the page numbers :/ )



and this is an example of the Monster list for the SNA. As a fun add I have been editing up the monster pictures and as I can adding them to the book. I was going to use some filter to make them look sketched with pencil or charcoal but they never came out well. 



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Ok finished up the Mages book tonight and got it covered. Added the closure. Made 2 mistakes only one of witch i could not fix :/

So started with the faux leather I picked up at G Street Fabrics.



Got most everything folded up and pressed out, Ill have weight in it over night, here you can see where I cut for the closure band and where I had to move it. The other mistake is I have it rolled the wrong way. I am using a hair band from Scunci called No Slip Grip. I cut it and trimmed the length to what I need and then used parchment paper and super hot glue to join the ends back into a band. Then used some Hot glue to 3 points along the length under the fold.



All done here, ends trimmed and as you can see the grippy part if the hair band is up vs Down. I didn't want a TON of force on the covering as I left about 1/16 or 1/8 doubled over w/o backing support. The edges will be black, and you can see the page markers I used 4 thin strips of leather hot glued to the binding.



The stand alone post with more details on the spell books : dmscraft.proboards.com/thread/1031/spell-books-never-project?page=1&scrollTo=10443


So I was hunting at the thrift store for some used Day Runners. I saw a chest of drawers that would fit in just the right spot in my "storage" area. But I didn't want to spend teh $100 they wanted for it.

Called my dad who is a rather avid yard seller geek and had him look for a chest for me. Got a 40 min later with this wonder of red neck crafted furniture.



Yea doo doo brown latex paint of some 6 layers of hard ass white paint.

So I dug out the 40 grit and the direct drive rotary sander ( My pops uses this for metal finishing body work on cars )

Took 8 discs but I got it all off. The entire thing is plywood. except the rails.

Took the handles off as they were junked, picked up some Birds Nest knobs from the Depot $3 a pop



This is the top over all not a bad chunk, and the stain brought out a really nice pattern in the wood.



So I have $18 in this, not counted the sanding discs mooched from my pops LOL. This will be where I now store all my crafting stuff and when I find a double drawer That will be used for storing all the gaming supplies and goodies.

Welp with warm weather I mostly stop crafting, needed to finish up a few tiles for something upcoming so I added quite a few, including dead end caps etc So this is the layout Ill be using. Yet another use for my GoPro that I am sure was never thought of Should have tried a medium or narrow setting but forgot :/




-R

[robagd]

Reserved

[adamantinedragon]

Nice! I'm looking forward to seeing the reserved spots filled.

[skunkape]

Great looking pieces there! Love the coin piles the most!

[monkeywithtacos]

Sweet!

[dmdubbledee]

I really like the way you've literalized the "hold person" spell. Great stuff!

[robagd]

Some updates.

Danke

[DMScotty]

Cool stuff!

[robagd]

A few more updates.

-R

[pedrodevaca]

super cool stuff, mang!

[wilmanric]

Really nice stuff! Like the beholder a lot. Looking forward to updates!

[robagd]

Ok a bunch of updated.

Danke

-R

[robagd]

A few more updates. Finally scored some eyes the right size for the Beholder so that should be 100% tomorrow

-R

[monkeywithtacos]

Very cool....look forward to seeing more work on the beholder

[clanoneillguy]

Great work.

[robagd]

Update post #2

[bloodchoke]

I haven't been in this thread in much, much too long. SO MUCH incredible stuff here, I'm not even sure what I want to comment on first!! The beholder, the bridge, the arena--all amazing. But what I really love is the book, probably just because I love books. What did you put on the cover? It looks very nice, and I like that you made translation sheets for when they succeed in decoding it.

Awesome work, Rob, love it all.

[robagd]

Thanks BC,

The book is covered in a faux leather material I found at Hobby Lobby in the fabric dept. Used 3M Super 77, painted the edges of the book that may show black to match. Then a heavy card stock liner on the inside covers to finish it off.

I cant wait to get to use these but we are still a few months out from me running

-R

[kerflop]

robagd, how did you do the skull pile?  

thanks