Operation: Spidicules

I would like the base to involve grand and imposing brickwork, something that both invokes Kingdom Death and matches the scale implied by Spidicules. As a reminder, I’m starting with this:

I decided to start by crafting separate ‘pedestals’ that minis can be placed upon, as I thought this would help start to establish the idea of stonework.

I’ve had some 3D printed Kingdom Death terrain lying around for quite a while – while I like a lot of the 3D terrain and will probably use some of it one day, I don’t really like the grass tile replacements. They are large, flat, and will require a lot of bristles gluing to them in order to work as ‘grass tiles’.

I decided to break one of these tiles into four pieces, then smoosh green Milliput around the edges to give the idea of a stone lip.

To get the edges of the Milliput really flat and looking like stone (i.e. get rid of my fingerprints) I got a plastic box, wet it in water, and basically ran it over all the angles over and over again.

This made all the edges really sharp and all the surfaces really flat.

Then I waited for an hour or so. When the Milliput was mostly cured, I used a hobby knife to cut even more flat angles into the already flat surfaces. I also sliced some hairline cracks into them and ‘crumbled’ the corner of one. This was partly for aesthetics and partly to help it fit around the brass rod in the centre of the base.

When they were all cured and placed atop the newly-corkified base lump, it looked like this:

The perspective in that photo is kind of weird, but it’s starting to look like ‘stonework’.