Just a little something

I have started to gather together a collection of bits to use to dress the rooms a little.  The stuff still needs painting and I have a lot more to come up with, but I thought I would share an image of where this is currently going.

Any suggestions on things to fill rooms with would be very much appreciated.

Started to add some colour to some room fittings.  Nothing too fancy here, but lots of gold elements to try to give the impression of riches and a purpose to the Dungeon.

Finally found the time to paint the outsides of the boxes to neaten them up a bit.  I just used cheap black acrylic paint from the local hardware store and a small roller to get them done pretty quickly.

Next up was a new model to represent Sgt Tibbet, one of the Heroes of our VSF campaign.  Sgt Tibbet will lead a group of ragtag survivors through the Martian Caves and hopefully discover something important as he does so.

I will need to paint up some civilian-looking models to accompany him and I am thinking of maybe a party of 6 or 7 models should be enough.

Of course, I couldn’t resist painting up a few more survivors from the attack on Valentine’s artillery Battery as the original figures from the game seem to have disappeared into the aether.

Just a little update today.

I can’t remember if I mentioned or not that when I was initially constructing the XPS walls I inserted thin metal strips between the brick layers so that I could magnetise different elements later.

Just In case I didn’t, what I did was insert metal wire between layers of bricks every second row before modpodging and painting the walls.  The idea is that down the line I can add different wall fittings including lightning.

I have some ‘Bulkhead’ looking lights, which I have magnetised, although temporarily misplaced, which I can use to make the Dungeon have the feel that it’s not newly discovered and maybe archaeologists have set up lighting to help as they uncover and excavate the treasures.   Similarly, I have some simple torches in holders to give a more ‘Dark Age or Ancient’ feel.

The metal in the walls also means I can add creatures to the walls, just like these (unpainted) spiders.

Just the base rims to touch up but I’m getting there.

Today I finished off the basing on some of my ‘Adventurers’.  I had to be mindful to match them to the bases of the rest of my VSF collection as best I could whilst also trying to make sure they are not too glaring against my dungeon layout.

Today I spent a little time painting up odds and ends for this project.  Mostly just to add variety to different rooms with various little props.

My kids have also designed some adventures and I am not sure if I should add them to this or a separate project.  If it’s a separate project, do I have to create their accounts or do it under my account?   Answers on a postcard or message, please.

Part of today’s little bits were some wall-mounted torches.  Of course, these are magnetised so they can be moved around or removed.

Well, I showed my kids the Hero Forge Site and they instantly wanted to create characters for adventuring.

They decided to do characters for the whole family and pick character classes and what not.

Just a quick picture of what they came up with, I will get them to start a different project as these characters have back stories and the lot.

The Elephant Ranger/Scout cracks me.