Dungeonalia - There's Something Amiss at the Abbey
All buildings have paint, weathering, more furniture and a display of my basic carpentry skills...
As time allows I have been working on getting all the base colors for the buildings down. More PLA filament arrived and the printers were put back to work pumping out tiles and furniture…well furniture never stopped as I had plenty of resin. I’ve started to weather and build up layers to break up any large spaces.
With paint drying and printers printing a trip to the hardware store was next to start building out the base board. I already had picked up a couple plywood sheets in 2×4 foot flavor. Nice and light, also inexpensive. I had initially been wanting to top edge the plywood with 2 inch blue board to support the top “ground” level, but at a price of $70 a board I decided on a different course of action. With a couple small 2×2 foot, one inch, foam boards, only $7 each, I started cutting 2 foot long, 2 inch tall, strips. I decided to strengthen the bottom of the plywood with some precut pine hobby boards, at $3 each. To add to its strength and portability I also attached the two plywood boards with hinges. After some rather “impressive” carpentry work, the board…actually worked.
I mocked up the layers and everything seemed to be working out. Next up I’ll need to decide how I want to flock the top foam boards. I’ll be continuing to paint the last of the exterior of the buildings, paint interior details, start painting furniture and get after the central Abbey garden.
The board coming together. Have to love the precut lumber…never quite the same measurements. 2 foot wide plywood sheet with a 2 foot long board. At least they were consistent.
Mockup of how things will line up. A little off but I’ll measure everything out for the final layout.
Your interior detailing work on the floor is impressive. Did you paint that before assembly or afterwards? If afterwards, did you have any issues getting the brush in past the walls and how did you overcome them?
I did it after assembly, which thankfully, mostly worked out. The walls I would have liked to get a few more angles on with the dry brush but the floor was pretty easy to reach with a detail brush. If I did it again, I would remember to wait to wait to attach the second level walls to the ground level just to make it easier.