Homemade Dungeon Tiles?

[Three_Haligonians]

My regular group wants to make our own dungeon tiles. We have already made our own numerous miniatures (from Model Magic ), and now we want to stand them on something other than a plain vinyl mat.

Has anyone else attempted this? Share your photos and ideas here!

. . . so I can steal them.

We were thinking of printing off floor patterns onto 8x10 labels, sticking them to cardboard (uncorrugated) and then cutting them out into room-shaped er. . . blocks. Oh, and of course they'll have to have the grid pattern on them.

Good idea? Bad idea? Got another idea?

Thanks,

R from Three Haligonians

 

[Steel_Wind]

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[freyar]

You might try printing out the tiles at Dream Weaved Worlds and pasting them to cardboard. I've not tried it myself, but they could be handy in the right situation.

I myself draw inch x inch squares on some old graph paper and then sketch in features with colored pencils if I think we're going somewhere particular in the next session. The only problem is the limited size.

I'm glad someone else out there makes their own minis, too! I use some crayola modeling clay (maybe it's model magic ??) that dries pretty much overnight, and then I paint them with some cheap acrylic. At first, I made a lot of different size generic "token" minis to go with the few real minis I have, but, now that I have many of those, I'm making specific monsters I think I might use. I haven't painted them yet, but I've "sculpted" a beholder (which could double as a gauth, I guess), an ogre mage (an upcoming BBEG), a manticore, and something that could be a wyvern or other similar winged beastie. I've also made a few people as NPCs, which are also still not painted. Anyway, it'd be cool to see your homemade minis and/or tiles, and I could always post a picture of mine if you'd like to see.

 

[Three_Haligonians]

Anyway, it'd be cool to see your homemade minis and/or tiles, and I could always post a picture of mine if you'd like to see.

BWAH HA HA!!

I've been waiting for someone to ask me that for YEARS!!!

. . . And now I'll return the favour and ask to see your miniatures!

Thanks!

R from Three Haligonians

 

[robberbaron]

Don't do it so much now but, before we started using a wipe-clean battlemat, I used to draw rooms out in Powerpoint and lay them out as necessary.

There are loads of dungeon accessory bitmaps out in the interweb and I just pasted in the ones I wanted.

I've drawn a few plans on paper and cut them out as well, but only for huge caverns, etc. The last being for a fight in an opera-house on 2 sheets of A3.

 

[Asmor]

BWAH HA HA!!

I've been waiting for someone to ask me that for YEARS!!!

. . . And now I'll return the favour and ask to see your miniatures!

Thanks!

R from Three Haligonians

Ha, that's really cool. It'd probably look really cheesy if there was just one or two of them, but seeing them all sculpted like that with a very consistent style they look pretty awesome. My favorites are the rat dude near the front on the right, the squid and the fire elemental.

 

[Jdvn1]

BWAH HA HA!!

That's really cool.

 

[Drkfathr1]

I printed out a floor grid and then put togther some stone wall textures, glued them to foam core that I cut into specific sizes, then hot glued the foamcore together to make modular dungeon pieces similar to the Dwarven Forge stuff.

Cost me a grand total of about $20, but now I have the equivalent of several Dwarven Forge sets, including round rooms (30', 40', 60', 90', 120') and curved corner passages and wall corners. I even did a set for building interiors with wood textures. Next on my project list....carverns.

Then I put magnets on the bottoms and used magnetic paint on a piece of thin plywood. Now I just plop the modular pieces onto the board and they stay in place with no problem. Even if I tilt the board completely veritcal. Someday I'll post some pics.

 

[D'karr]

BWAH HA HA!!

Those are pretty cool. I like the Giant Squid, Fire Elemental, Beholder and the Displacer Beast. As a whole the set looks really cool.

Well done.

 

[Roger]

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That's about all there is to it, really.


Cheers,
Roger