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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arabesu" data-source="post: 2165527" data-attributes="member: 534">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. Igot 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 oneside 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</blockquote>

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