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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadowlight" data-source="post: 2082041" data-attributes="member: 7084">Saturday Night FeverSo by Saturday, I'd made 9 casts of each mold.  After about 2 or 3 casts, you get pretty good at guessing when you should scrape, and how long you need to wait before you remove the pieces from the molds.  I definitely recommend using a 4" putty knife (rather than a massive 12" knife like I used initially).  Also, the wet water method is REALLY helping my pieces come out with noticably fewer bubbles.Before I started any gluing, I built a square form from Legos (see the first picture below).  This is basically a guide to help me keep all of my blocks straight and square while I glue them.  I picked out all the pieces for my first room (a 25' square room, so 5"x5") and laid them out against the square.  Some of the pieces had bulbous bottoms (because I didn't do my first few scrapes very well), so I sanded them off to make the floor relatively even.Once all the pieces were sanded I used Aleene's Tacky Glue (white glue in a gold bottle that you can find at any craft store for super cheap) to glue the pieces together:<img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/gluing_01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Ahh, Taste the Rainbow!One thing I should mention is that I decided to add a half inch border around my room to build the walls on (they're all 1/2" thick).  <a href="http://www.hirstarts.com/dungeon/basicdungeon.html" target="_blank">Bruce Hirst's Dungeon Tutorial</a> says to build them right on the 1" squares, but I wanted a complete grid in the room rather than having only 1/2" rectangles next to the walls.  Here's the finished floor:<img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/gluing_02.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> 5" x 5" Floor!I should mention that I glued on a sheet of tin foil so the floor pieces wouldn't stick to the table.While the floor was drying, I started work on my 2"x2" modular rooms.  These were a lot easier because they were smaller and because I'd built up my confidence a little <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Here they are:<img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/modular_corner.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Cornered! <img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/modular_01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> 10' x 10' PiecesAnd here's the final shot of all my pieces:<img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/montage_01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> My Modular Dungeon is Coming TogetherWell, this is all a lot easier than I thought it would be!  I ordered the molds on Sunday, and by the next Saturday, I'd made all the pieces above.Here are a few random suggestions I'd make after building my first few pieces:1) Use a square form made from Legos.  It's SO easy to get everything square!2) Build the piece completely before you do any gluing.  There's always a piece or two you'll have to sand3) Learn to use the wet water technique.  Water + Jet Dry = Fewer Bubbles4) Have a lot of Ibuprofen around!  My back was killing me by Saturday night from hunching over the table.  In fact, I ended up putting cinder blocks under the table to raise it up several inches.  I took a break on Sunday and Monday, and my back's feeling a lot better<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Next steps:- Paint the dungeon!!- Base the dungeon!!- Order a few more molds to feed the growing addiction!!!!!</blockquote>

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