Rangers of Shadow Deep - Ninjilly's DayKnight 30 Day Project
Week 2 - Papercraft Buildings Part 2
The second half of the week finally meant laying down some proper cash on the project. To date I had spent $0.95 on the Pumphouse but this time I knew I was going to spend more to get the final buildings. I decided to stay away from the small ones as I didn’t like the two I’d done that much but I went for the Apothecary at Rake’s Corner from Dave Graffam and the Expansion Set 2 for Fat Dragon Games’ Ravenfell range. I hadn’t built any of the Ravenfell stuff before but I had seen a Youtuber I follow make some for D&D several months ago.
I also needed to buy some card – I try as much as possible to be a zero waste consumer so there just isn’t that much recycling to be raided in my flat!
Thankfully Hobbycraft are still in January sale mode so this pack of 50 sheets was down to £2.50. The weight is a little lighter than I was looking for but the next level up was less than twice the weight but 4 times the price so 180gsm it is!
My printer doesn’t like printing on anything other than paper so I was still gluing sheets onto the card as I went which would have been less time consuming had I not insisted on getting as much bang for my buck by trimming off all the excess to get the maximum number of pieces per sheet of card.
So to the Apothecary
This build was pretty much the same as the previous post. The major differences with this one were a) it comes with internal support struts which were great for cutting out any bowing that I was worried about with the thinner card and b) no layers within the files that could be adjusted. This second bit was disappointing if only because I really dislike the “lichen” layer that Graffam put on their models. It looks like a dragon has pissed on it as a fly by.
"Lichen"Overall, I’m happy with the building. I’m still undecided about adding some flock to the bases (or to cover the dragon piss), I suspect it would make it look better but I’m mindful that I have a bunch of trees to do first. Perhaps if I have flock left over after next week I might add some in.
Next post will be a quick Ravenfell walk through and some photos of all the buildings together.
Project Cost:
Pumphouse model 0.95
Apothecary 2.95
Ravenfell set 3.99
Cardboard 3.21 (£2.50, converted via Google)
Total $11.10
Budget remaining: $8.90
Really enjoying this so far – a great approach to have such a targeted goal in such a tight time window. Results are looking fantastic!
Thanks. It has been a really interesting experiment so far. To have such focused hobby time has meant each session is much more productive. I don’t fanny about picking what to do and having the time constraint has meant that working smartly has been important. This week is trees and that has a bit of dread creeping in because I haven’t done a test run but knowing the end goal is just be able to play and stop focusing on things being perfect means just bashing through