Head over Heels - Dungeonalia entry

While the game takes place over a number of different themed planets, it starts in a castle dungeon. However, I didn’t yet have access to the STLs for a dungeon, from the Terrain Essential Interiors (vol.2) set.

What I do have, however, is an orc settlement, from a Patreon release a few months ago (from their Warriors of the Wastelands set – https://www.myminifactory.com/tribes/CastnPlay/posts/Warriors_of_the_Wastelands_October_2022_Release-9269 ). The crude log-walls looked ideal for recreating the “Safari World” in the game and were interesting – and challenging – enough to try out a few rough ideas.

I started by scaling a couple of blocks to represent about how big I wanted my main characters to be. Because these characters are almost cube-shaped in proportions, it would have been very easy to print them too large (or too small) by sticking to some arbitrary scale. So I placed a 32mm mini in my Blender preview window, added a couple of blocks to represent the characters Mr Head and Mr Heels, then used those as my “base units” for the game.

After deciding how big things like the doorways needed to be, I scaled some walls to aim for a roughly-one-inch-square based playing area.

After supporting the STLs myself (one of the things I like about using unsupported files is that you can rescale them without worrying about failed prints) and running the results through UVTuuls (to clean up any islands missed while supporting) it was just a matter of pressing print and waiting….

I’m not sure if it’s because of my resin hanging around in an unheated workshop for a few months (it’s December and in the UK that means it’s cold outside!) or that I haven’t quite got the settings for my AnyCubic 4K Mono dialled in properly yet – or maybe the way I angled the STLs for supporting, or maybe just the resin shrinking as it cured – but a couple of the wall pieces have a definite “curve” to the bottoms.

It’s nothing that a quick run across a piece of sandpaper won’t sort out.
But here’s the minis laid out, fresh off the printer.

I think I’m excited for this project already!