My Gift To En World - The Tissue Box Tavern!

[NewJeffCT]

For a cleaner look, I bet you could use rubber cement instead of tape. Brush the glue on the box and on the paper decals, let it dry, and then carefully apply, rubbing out any bubbles and wrinkles.

How about a pattern to make walls from spaghetti boxes?

good idea

 

[NewJeffCT]

"You must spread some Exp around before giving it to Scorponox again."

That looks really nice.

I got that same message about spreading the XP around

 

[kitsune9]

Here's how to make lots of durable boulders, rock obstacles, etc. in short order.

1. Make an assortment of paper wads, of any size and shape you need. Arrange them on a sheet of wax paper.

2. Make a thin slurry of plaster and water (mixture should be the consistency of paint), and pour it into a shallow bowl.

3. Working quickly, saturate strips of absorbent paper towels in the plaster slurry, then drape over the paper wads. Press the plaster-soaked paper towel into the paper to define the shape, and smooth it out at the base to create a flat lip.

4. Let dry. Gently remove from the wax paper, then trim the base with scissors (I like to leave a little bit of a lip, like 1/4 inch or so.) Glue onto heavy paper, if you wish.

5. Seal with flat white paint, then spray with your favorite color of FleckStone paint. Decorate with pebbles, twigs, model railroad turf or snow, Polyfiber green, etc.

Presto...a boulder field/obstacle course for your battle mat.

Cool idea Clever! Could you post photos of your project?

 

[NewJeffCT]

Yeah, it probably did level me up. Thanks for all the exp guys!



Yeah, you can definitely use glue as well. However, I just used tape because it is faster, and basically, the tavern picture then just becomes a sleeve - one you can remove to turn it into a different type of building.

And the spaghetti box wall sounds like a great idea too!!

Thanks for the great tavern. How did you create the roof, sides & front/back? I'd love to take it to the next level and make a few similar buildings (Bakery, Cobbler, Tailor, etc) so I can create a small town square.

For my "town", I have a few buildings from Miniature Building Authority, which can get expensive. For more, I just wrapped a few empty boxes with brown paper & drew windows/doors on the brown paper for effect and used those to fill out the town.

 

[Scorponox]

There are some really great ideas coming out in this thread!

And as pointed out to me in one of the rep comments, you guys have got to check out worldworksgames.com

That is some hard core stuff!!

How did you create the roof, sides & front/back? I'd love to take it to the next level and make a few similar buildings (Bakery, Cobbler, Tailor, etc) so I can create a small town square.

Personally, I did it all in Adobe Photoshop, although, with a bit of difficulty, you could probably do it in MS Paint too. Basically, you go onto Google and search "medieval doors" "medieval windows" etc. You then cut and paste the ones you like onto a wall texture. The roof was just a picture of wooden sticks.

 

[Jools]

Ooh, lovely! Please give us one without the "Tavern" sign on it so we can populate our town with even more buildings. Thanks!

 

[NewJeffCT]

Ooh, lovely! Please give us one without the "Tavern" sign on it so we can populate our town with even more buildings. Thanks!

good idea - maybe just a blank space so you can write in "Bakery" or "Cobbler" or similar on it.

 

[CleverNickName]

Ooh, lovely! Please give us one without the "Tavern" sign on it so we can populate our town with even more buildings. Thanks!

Not to split hairs or anything, but it's pretty easy to open these in Paint, wipe out the text on the signs, and save them with a different name...

 

[NewJeffCT]

Not to split hairs or anything, but it's pretty easy to open these in Paint, wipe out the text on the signs, and save them with a different name...

Thanks - did not know that was possible.

 

[Scorponox]

good idea - maybe just a blank space so you can write in "Bakery" or "Cobbler" or similar on it.

I'll probably do this in the coming week, but I have to DM-prepare stuff for my campaign tomorrow.