Huge Eberron Ruin to give away

I'm not certain if this is the place to post this but I suppose it'll do.

I recently made a rather large model of the ruin from the end of the Eberron Adventure Grasp of the Emerald Claw. This is a minitures scale model made from cardboard and paper and its ... well ... Huge. Something like 6 foot by 6 foot by 4 foot. A picture is enclosed.

Anyway my group had a riotous time with this thing, but alas my wife says it now must go.

So here is the deal. If you want it you can have it. Free. No Charge. Gratuity not included. BUT. You must haul it away. Yes thats right. I am sending out a request for the ENworld community to take out my trash...er recycling.

So obviously if you are interested you will need to have a truck or a large car and be willing to drive to Seattle WA to pick this thing up. Thats it. First come first serve.

Tom

I love the dire tiger beside it in the second picture - gives a good sense of scale.

I'm in Victoria, BC, and *sorely* tempted by that beauty!!!
-blarg

You should see if a local gaming store is interested in having it for their open gaming area. Failing that, maybe someone from WoTC will see this and see fit to give it a home...

I suspect you have a very loving and supportive wife.

That's cool beyond cool! Kudos!

Thanks for the comments.

Blargney, Victoria is a great town. My wife and I love to visit. I don't know if customs would give you any guff if you ferried it over.

Sigurd, yes she is greatly supportive. When I asked her she did not know what she was getting into I suppose. Now she just wants the garage back. So do I actually. If we had room for a dedicated gaming space I'd probably keep it, for a while longer anyway.

Kid C, I emailed Bruce Cordell and he asked around at WOTC R&D but got no hits. I don't really know that many game stores in Seattle with enough space. I like the Game Wizard in Ballard, but it seems too small. Perhaps I will ask anyway.

I plan on posting some pics of how this thing was constructed later today once work settles; Even if I have to recycle it, I can show off how I built it.

Tom

Thanks for the praise, Claudio. I totally dig your art.

Tom

SPOILER ALERT: If you are a player and plan to run through Grasp of the Emerald Claw you probably shouldn't look at the images below or you might learn too much about the module. Instead, go get your DM to have a look if you think this cardboard behemoth is something you would want to own.










Anyway, I thought it might be useful to show how I made this so that you can get an idea for what it really looks like on the inside. Below are some images of the process and here are the descriptions of what they represent.


RuinCnstrGrage1.1.JPG

A view of the assembly a third of the way through. The base, the dark level, and part of the temple level are finished, and columns needed to be added to the base. Note the solvent box in the middle of the base. The cardboard inserts that separate solvent bottles in these boxes make great building materials for models. I got the inserts from the chemistry stockroom before they recycled them. A close up of the material is below.


RuinSpryMnt1.1.JPG

The slab of two layers of cardboard panels that make up the temple level leans against the wall, half finished. I used spray mount and 8X11 sheets of recycled paper printouts to generate the floor plan. You can see the stack of sheets near the can of 77.


RuinCllmnPrime1.1.JPG

Several columns are shown primed on the bottom of the dark level that is flipped over to make a work surface. The columns are aluminum cans glued to layers of the cardboard panels then primed and painted with stone paint. One of the columns on the left looks bumpy because when I tried to use the stone paint without priming it looked terrible. So I primed over the bumpy paint before adding a fresh layer.


RuinCrnrPnt.1.1.JPG

This view of the back corner of the base highlights the texture from the stone paint. I
got lazy here though and didn’t make a flush corner to hide the internal corrugation of the cardboard panels; I did a better job elsewhere. These panels are glued together with “Yes” paste: A FANTASTIC product that you can get Dakota Art supply and elsewhere. I can’t say enough good things about this stuff to do it justice.


RuinMtrlCloseup1.1.JPG

A view of a scrap section of the cardboard panels used to build the ruin. The cuts in one
side of the cardboard were already present in the material, but were both useful in some cases and easily fixable by gluing two pieces into a double layer face to face or by taping over the seam with a strip of tape.


Some of the corners are curling up do to the humid weather we had here the week I assembled it, but its in pretty good shape otherwise.

Tom

When going through life you have to pick your heros carefully.



I pick Arabesu.

Whoa. Thanks Clay.

By the way I particularly like this one:

http://www.markdavispottery.com/pots09.htm

The way the flower bleads up and to the right really evokes an image of flame running over the surface. How did this come about? Did a log or another pot fall against it during firing?

Did I understand your site right? All of the colors and variations you get are just from fire, ash, and salt? Whoa. I've done some raku and electic-kiln firing but never had a chance to woodfire, and I've never done anything even remotely as cool as #9.

Thanks for the kind words.

Tom