WARHAMMER QUEST: RE-CREATING MIDDLE-HAMMER'S FINEST DUNGEON CRAWLER

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DESIGNING AND PRINTING CATACOMBS OF TERROR EXPANSION BOARD SECTIONS

July 7, 2026

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Flames of Khazla Board section - I believe this one also featured in a White Dwarf article, which reminded me that I will have to look up additional tiles that featured in White Dwarf so I can draw them up, too! Quite a straightforward make really - the raised area I actually made taller in the end so that it would look better alongside the minis, and I tweaked some of the diamond floor decorations as they weren't very clear in the first print

DESIGNING AND PRINTING CATACOMBS OF TERROR EXPANSION BOARD SECTIONS

Hall of Death. This one was awful! I made some VERY rough circular shapes for the skulls and replicated them, but had to be careful piling them up because I didn't want to have any floating areas, or weird things like half a skull with another stuck out of it. I ended up making the corner sections separately because I wanted the option to modify these at a later date

Up close the skulls are nothing special, but as a collective they have worked quite well. The proof will be in the printing!

I was also a bit worried about how well the skulls would actually print on a filament based printer, but it seems to be ok. I'll paint them up and see how that goes before looking at the need for amends

Chasm of Despair. I had to modify this one a little and take the columns off the floor tiles so you can fit a mini on there. I also couldn't raise the tile too much or it would look out of place with the others, so I had to try a bit of forced perspective for the actual chasm. I also realised after the first print that the columns were much to short, so went back in, increased the size, and added metal bands an a few other embellishments

Much prefer the taller columns

The Dread King's Throne Room - last of the Catacombs of Terror board sections. This needed a bit of thinking about as it is 4 tiles wide with a ramp on the first part, and then 5 tiles wide with a stepped dais. The angled step for this dais was also tricky as it's split in half along the diagonal. In the end I did steps rather than a ramp (although I may go back and create a ramped version to see if the minis will stand up on this). I used the gap between the ramp and the adjacent platform level areas to create the pillars. I had considered doing a forced perspective thing, but thought it would look out of place given the steps etc. As for the diagonal split dais steps, I decided to raise the entire square, and just make the design clearly different for the stone tile vs the dais steps