Underneath frostgrave

I’ve finally started assembling cellars to go under the buildings and I thought I had enough parts but I could only manage these 4 so the printer whirring again.

I would like to do some additional weathering to these at some point but for now they are done.

The sewers are complete for now. I would like to add some water effects in the future but these will do for now

For the cellars I have decided to go with a sandstone finish and I hope to tie that into the building above, this was after Gerry said the other week don’t paint the stone grey if its going to be covered in snow.

The two samples I for the stone are on the left painted ivory (from a tube) and the one of the right which has ivory sponged over the grey primer. They are then washed brown (using some home made wash using the stuff the last photo) and then sponged ivory once that had dried.

In the end I decided on the one of the left, so time to paint some dungeon tiles.

Time to get some paint on these, I thought I would start with the sewer. This was primed with Halfords grey primer and then Vallejo black wash applied and wiped off the with a cloth. Once that was dried the washes above were applied randomly, unfortunately when I applied the matt varnish it wiped out a lot of the weathering wash. Once the varnish was dry a gloss varnish was added to those places I thought would be damp.

I might come back to this an winter it up later but that is it for the sewer for now. There are still a foot or so left of the sewer to paint so still work to do.

After giving all the sewer and cellar pieces a coat of the finest halfords primer I set up  the layout again with the tiles from sarissa. The tiles are supported by some wooden blocks or resting on the sewer walls.

The first thing this showed me was two of the building are too big to fit on the tiles I have, so I have ordered some bigger ones to accommodate them.

The second thing I noticed was I don’t have have enough buildings, I added a couple of pieces from 4ground in to see how they looked but they are bit flat compared to the others. The 3d printer is churning out more buildings.

The last thing I was I don’t have enough cellars so those are on the list of printing jobs.

Slight change in plans as I’ve realised I need more time to get this finished, so with printable scenery’s modular ruins system I am going to print the base of the buildings and at least get the basis of a city down and print the rest of the buildings later.

I have managed to complete the sewer layout to give me a 3×3 cross and sample cellar that could be under a building. The plan is to have some preassembled cellars that are already setup under the city or use some wooden blocks as fillers and use a random table or deck of cards to select which cellar is under the building and what’s in it.

I need to make a start so I have printed the gatehouse from Printable Scenery, which uses their modular ruins system so parts can be progressively removed. That might make things interesting if there was some mechanic to damage the buildings or allow the board to change between games as parts are removed.

The Sewers are getting printed as the first dungeon tiles but I hadn’t realised how many I would need. The plan is to have a 3×3 board and I wanted to start with the sewer crossing from all table edges, so nearly 6 foot of sewer. That box of parts is about half the total I will need for that.