Have you considered only gluing the dungeon together in sections so you could one day take it all down and lay it on a table and construct a modular 6×6 (or bigger?) dungeon to game through?

The test piece is great. I love the sand you’ve put down. If I ever spruce up my 4Ground ruins any further, I’ll give that a go.

Ok, a couple thoughts for you. On your corners where your seems are showing you could take a hot knife on a medium setting and smooth them together, a light sanding afterwards and they should look fine. Barring not having a hot knife you could use some airdry clay or Miliput and blend out the joints followed by a light sanding. For something this large I’d usually mix up my own wash. I use basic craft paint, the cheap stuff from Walmart… lol, and depending on how large the project is I’ll either use a 59ml bottle or the larger… Read more »

Warren, If I recall you have a temple, smithy, and all kinds of various rooms. I would look at make the dungeon overall one color but pick a few rooms where the base color of the stones in different. Nothing says the Temple isn’t made of onyx, or the smithy from granite, or the treasury made from marble. It would be more work but would look fantastic if some of the rooms have various colors. For the corners you could theme them as well. The Armory and areas around it have suits of armor. The library has book cases. The… Read more »

I would recommend testing the lighting on the dungeon before fully painting it if possible, you don’t want to go through the process of painting everything only to learn because of the lighting placement that some areas can’t be seen well or even at all. Some spots you may be better off with a higher dry brush just to pick up shapes where other spots may need the full treatment or even a less brighter dry brush because light is shinning directly on it. Think like a movie or photo set dressing, you want the light and shade to show… Read more »

This is looking really great Warren – an I’m loving the options you’re exploring for getting quality results but in an achievable way.

I don’t know if it helps – but like you – I’ve been learning to quickly paint warm wood, stone etc as part of my project and have just done a how-to on Contrast only wood https://www.beastsofwar.com/project-entry/1558850/

I can’t wait to see what you do next – and am definitely picking up tips to improve my own terrain project!

I am thinking that the dungeon rooms may be too deep to be useful.
The kids might be able to place miniatures at the back of a room once it is assembled, but I kind of doubt you could reach that far …

What about creating the illusion of depth ?

You can paint the sand as moss or something then it doesn’t matter if it’s raised up?

Hi Warren! For the quick & easy stone effect that I went for my Warcry ruins I used mechanicus grey primer followed by P3 Troolblood Highlight heavy drybrush (its a kind of warm light stone color), finished by light white drybrush. It creates quite decent contrasts on the stone, quite warm blue greyish effect and – as it is mostly drybrush – is pretty fast. Using shades surely gives more stark effect but I find it more time consuming with larger terrain. Also try to mix contrast medium with GW shades. This will effectively make very light contrast type paints… Read more »

The Gray base coat then a small range of washes to vary the stone’s should be quick an look great.

@warzan have you thought about using polyfiller on some of the joins and gaps, then give a quick over with sand paper once it’s dry. Once painted it should give the appearance of mortar.

This just keeps getting better and better. I agree with folks that point out the lighter shades may read better once assembled in place and the painted minis will stand out nicely. The sand o the ground really builds up the narrative that this is a functional place, where creatures move about and inhabit. Don’t worry about consistency of color in the walls and floor as stone is almost always variegated and in a dungeon there will be any number of colorful organisms inhabiting all the surfaces living off of the moisture. Also keep in mind as cool as these… Read more »

Plastic display board = foamex? I love that stuff!
What size are the holes in your walls? I think a WS2812b (RGB LED) is 5mm across.
If those holes are bigger than 5mm, I could pre-wire a load of LEDs for you and you can insert them in from the back.
(if 5mm diameter or smaller, it wouldn’t be that easy to provide a plug-n-go lighting solution, but I’ll see what connectors I’ve got in my shed)

Inspiration from Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/TerrainBuilding/comments/icfqs7/the_dungeon_diorama_this_is_the_4th_level_i_had/

Not mine!

Thanks for the vid!

Can’t wait to see what’s next