Dungeonalia – There’s Something Amiss at the Abbey

As a side quest for the adventurers I’m making a cave to distract them before the final showdown at the Abbey as all becomes clear.

It’s been a couple of weeks since the last update but I’ve been busy 3d printing miniatures, painting them and c=building out a second location the adventures will need to investigate.

We start with heroes and citizens.

The Cult.

Some beasts.

To speed up the process I dug out some old Warhammer boys for guards.

Entry from the Abbot’s.

Entry from the Abbey.

What lies beneath the Scriptorium?

Well, nothing odd there. Hey. What’s behind that door????

Someone once said art is never finished only abandoned. For the time I had with Dungeonalia this would be true but, this project has another month for me to work on it for the high school gaming clubs convention they’re putting on. So this project goes on. More finish work will be done and I’m going to start populating this adventure with everything from the people that live above to the denizens that dwell below. I’ve been following the On Table Top Crew for years now and I finally jumped into one of their community projects and had a blast. More than anything the Dungeonalia project pushed me to get this project ahead of schedule. The great thing about what I’ve made during this time is that in many ways its a blank canvas for continued gaming as it can be modified any number of ways or adventures. I’ve also really appreciated feed back and will be coming up with ways to make the board even more modular by making each building have a ground silhouette and essentially a foundation so the building can be lifted separate from the “ground” board to access the underlayer. I’ll be looking forward to the next On Table Top seasonal project as well as continuing to update this one, since Gerry sort of demanded a battle report from the convention. Threats were made about crossing the pond and we can make that happen. I suggest making your first visit to Alaska a summer one though.

Well, its the last official day of the Dungeonalia project for me as its back to work on March 1st for me since I work a non standard work schedule. last minute fixes and painting happened though out the day, which included having to take the SUV into the mechanic since its alternator decided to start to fail. Not only did that eat into project time but its going to be a nice unplanned large bill. Adulting is fun.

Once back to the project things were set up and photos started to be taken….

The grounds.

The Abbey.

The Scriptorium.

The Abbot’s.

Now we delve into the dungeon…

I’ve been printing various items to fill the dungeon and desperately been trying to get them all painted. As glue was drying and before I could finish by painting the table, I started placing various things around the dungeon to get a feel of how much more I needed to add. I also played with the layout of the dungeon a bit, like adding some space for an alter. Nothing nefarious here.

I remembered I had printed out a set of stairs for the scriptorium and made adjustments for them. I wanted each main building to have access to the dungeon so the players could discover it when the time came in any way them wanted as to not railroad them too much. Investigate the Abbot’s house, gets you there but the furthest away from the final show down. Find a slight breeze coming from under the alter, well now you have choices, left or right as they are in the middle of the dungeon. Creep about the scriptorium, boom, maybe you’ve not been slowed down too much to be able to stop whatever nefarious deeds are being done.

I also realized I had a good bit of floor tiles and walls of various types just laying about so I made an add. Every dungeon should have some cells right?

As the month is winding down, so is the build portion of the project. Details for the ground level are being touched up, doors are being printed and painted. Have to keep the chill out as well as evil…out. I started fleshing, um, leafing out the large tree and I worked on finish of the main portions of the garden. The clamps and adhesives were put to work as I moved on to finishing the table build and turning my attention to detailing out the dungeon level.

After branching out the tree I airbrushed them lightly and added fine flock to bulk the canopy out.

After the flock was secured, I added a layer of Noch fine foliage. Everything added to the branches was glued on with a spray adhesive.

I felt the tree hung a bit too low, which was easy enough to fix since it’s based on a wire frame. After a bit of gentle bending, I felt it had a better shape.

More paint and some different textures were used to make the garden appear a bit more finished. Water coming from the fountains spouts was added by use of clear fishing leader and air-dry water effects.

The top layer was removed and I got to glueing down the foam edge supports. Never pass up reasonably priced hobby clamps.

Well, I’ve made it back from sunny weather to get back after the project. My goals this week were to really get after the top side details, prep dungeon details and work on the fit and finish of the table itself. Grass mats were cut, paint and industrial adhesives were procured.

The Abbey’s garden started to get paint and details added.

Adding some miniatures around is always fun.

Speeding up painting was in order so the airbrush and contrast paints were put to use.