More scenery from Zealot

I haven't had much time to paint during the last week or so, due to a gaming con during the weekend, a new job and life getting in the way.

Unholy Portal with a transparent red portal insert in the middle.

Anyway, here are a couple of scenery-pieces from Zealot that I finished a couple of days ago.

I'll hopefully get an hour or so at the painting table this evenening. There are a lot of stuff needing paint.

Dungeon scenery from Zealot

 Another batch of scenery from Zealot. Useful stuff, large and small.

Living door - closed and open. Would you enter?

A double door.

Levers - they told me to pull one, but which?

A cultist - useful as a statue

A gibbet with an unfortunant ex-tenant and a stool

A welcome news is that everything from the kickstarter is now available from their shop. There are things like really large scenery pieces down to stuff like books, goblets, bones and wands, very useful for treasure/objective markers etc. Well worth a visit!

3D-printing – a cool dungeon from Printable Scenery

I finally had my 3D-printer, a M3D, repaired and finally set up in my hobby-corner in the garage. It also got a dedicated computer to feed it 3D-files.

So, it is finally working more or less 24 hours a day all week long. Yay!

Printable Scenery had a smashing kickstarter on Indiegogo last fall  It’s a modular dungeon thingie where you print out your floors, walls and whatnot and connect them with clips. Simply brilliant!

I’ve had the printer working for a week chugging out these parts and yesterday we used them in our just started Dungeons & Dragons campaign. It was a success with much oohing and aahing from the players.

So if you have a 3D-printer or have an idea about getting yourself one and fancy dungeon crawls this is really a no-brainer. I cannot recommend it enough (and Printable Scenery’s got a lot of other cool stuff too). Check them out for all that printable goodness.

I guess you will see a lot of 3D-stuff here in the future.

Even more dungeon scenery from Zealot

I’m still working on scenery from Zealot on and off. Here we have what I’ve painted up during the last few weeks.

A really nice little well. I've added Woodland Scenics 'water' in it.

A spiral stairs

Doorways, open portcullises, a pit, bucket and a cross.

Still lots of Zealot stuff to finish and I try to always have some pieces on the painting table so I can splash on some paint in between the other projects.

Torture chamber accessories from Zealot

Every evil villain needs a torture chamber and every hero needs to save someone from said chamber. That is pulp basics, and probably valid in fantasy settings, too.

A good thing then, that I have an assortment of implements for such a chamber. They are all made by Zealot Miniatures, and are part of the kickstarter stuff I got a couple of months ago. 

There will be a thing or two more for the chamber from Zealot soon and also some stuff from Reaper, but those are from the Bones III kickstarter and will take a while to arrive.

A warm welcome to new follower Ivor Evans with Saturday Mornings where you will find fantastic terrain, great AARs and more. Recommended!

Pål from the club has also joined and he’s got a brand new blog, Wargame Development from the Trenches, which is about his just started project to build a WWII skirmish computer-game. Just one post so far (he got started with the blog yesterday!) and it sure looks interesting. I for one will follow Pål’s progress and I became his first follower! Yay! Do check it out and have a chance to influence the design of the game!

More dungeon scenery from Zealot Miniatures

Lots of stuff from Zealot Miniatures ready for action.

Tiered stairs for use in the dungeon or maybe a castle

A Fireplace with a comfy little fire to drive away the chill of a dungeon near you.

That's a nice Forgotten Fountain

There were clear inserts but I used Woodland Scenics Realistic Water instead.

When you least expect it... a water weird! A clear resin piece you can put over the fountain. Difficult to see in the picture, but there is a monstrous head there. I put a gloss varnish on it to let it look more watery.

A dwarven arch

This lectern is actually from Pulp Figures and their Cowled Cultists 1 pack.

The lectern and a big Zealot box. You can never have to many boxes.

A Tomb...

Oh, there is a mummy inside.

Aaaaargh! (mummy from Blue Moon)

I hope you enjoyed this look at some of Zealot's stuff. 

Clutter, grave-stones and dungeon scenery from Zealot Miniatures and RAFM

Nothing much is happening on the modelling front now, but I’ve painted these assorted pieces from Zealot Miniatures and RAFM.

Fireplace and Thick Pillar from Zealot 

Death Seal from Zealot and pentagram from RAFM

Four gravestones from Zealot and a Summoning Stone from RAFM (secont from the left)

Two more barrels from Zealot

Dungeon Terrain from Direbadger

Dungeon from Direbadger in action

I’ve long been on the lookout for the perfect dungeon terrain for my Dungeons & Dragons games. 
I’ve tried:

World Works Games – printable paper scenery. I’ve got a couple of sets and while they do look good you need to print them out and assemble them. Never really used them in more than an odd game.

Terraclips – Cardstock terrain made by WWG above, and they look good but you can’t really build a dungeon after a map and the clips looks awful.

Battle Systems – great cardstock dungeon, perfect for Open Combat or other skirmish games set in a dungeon, and I’ve used it for that. But impossible to build a dungeon after a map.

All terrain is pre-painted.

In the autumn of 2014 there was a Kickstarter by a new company called DireBadger and they offered a MDF dungeon system that had everything I wanted.

Very user friendly and versatile system.
Illustration © DireBadger and used with permission.

It comprises baseplates, wall-sections and inconspicuous pillars. Everything slots together easily and fast, and now I can build a dungeon true to scenario maps. 

There is no problem assembling the dungeon during gameplay when the adventuring party reaches a new room or corridor, and due to the versatility I can make whatever forms I want as the wall-sections come sizes between one and four inches. No problem if I need longer sections as that is easily done with a supporting pillar in between.

I’ve used this during the last year and I’m very pleased with the durability and flexibility. This is really good stuff and highly recommended. Well worth an investment if you’re into dungeon delving.

You can buy your own dungeon, or a MDF village, through their website. 

I'll invest in a couple of the new diagonal walls soon.

Cave walls

I have four different rock moulds from Woodland Scenics that I have moulded ‘rocks’ in already. I used DAS Modelling Material instead of plaster as it isn’t as brittle.

Mould C1230 Outcroppings in action 

Some of the rocks have been used already but most were stored (read: forgotten) in a box.

The result drying on a piece of paper towel.

The first use was when we did our Chain of Command Western Desert games. Here I used mainly C1231 Surface Rocks and a few pieces from C1232 Boulders. They blend in well in the desert landscape.

Thomas in action during last years terrain building weekend.

A painted bead-sheet, "rocks" and sand makes a good-looking desert

British infantry advances among Woodland Scenics Surface Rocks

The moulds C1230 Outcroppings and C1233 Embankments are bigger and higher and just didn’t lend themselves to the desert. But they do look great as cave walls and that is where they will be used in the future.

I’ve used all sorts of ways to represent dungeon walls in our D&D campaign, everything from sketched walls on paper, to chains to whatnot. Nothing looked even remotely good, but his does in my opinion.

This is a good beginning, now I’m going to mould more of these bigger rocks for even bigger caves. Fun!

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