I'm taking a Mountain Dew!

[ctc]

BEHOLD!

One of the bestest Mego playsets EVER!:



Well.... okay; there's more to it than just that. It's a geomorphic dungeon tile, that you can hook together and make dungeons!:



Or, classic Dr Who sets; depending on how you paint them. I was thinking of a stone pattern on one side, a high-tech corridor on the other. (Perfect for Mego 8" scale games of Spacehulk.)



"Wait! I hear something! Huzzah!"


"It's a 30' by 30' room.... with an orc and a treasure chest! Quick! Kill the orc!!!! Take the gold!!!!!"


Originally I was gonna make this out of cardboard; but reinforcing it enough to be played with resulted in parts that took up a LOT of room. This one collapses for easy storage:



One of the local hardware stores had a sale on scrap wood. When I got there I found this stuff: it's really solid, heavy, and saw resistant. (While cutting it the circular saw was sparking.) It still needs a few tweaks, but it works and can replicate all the neccessary D&D dungeon fictures; like stairs, dead ends, doors.... eventually pits. The holes in the middle are for accessories, like torch holders or support beams.

Don C.

[GaryPlaysWithDolls]

AWESOME! I love wood stuff!

THE BLUE BLAAAAAADE!

Dude, the orc is my favorite!

[Random Axe]

That's fantastic DOn.

As someone who has downed immeasurable amounts of Mt. Dew and Doritos during gaming campaigns I truly appreciate this. THe stone spray paint works pretty well but only if you prime the wood first with flat grey.

I'd like to see some more adventures of these guys. That was fun.

Scott

[thunderbolt]

Fun stuff, glad the Blue Blade found something to do while waiting for the Twelve to finish up.

[ctc]

>THe stone spray paint works pretty well but only if you prime the wood first with flat grey.

That's an idea. I'm kinda worried about spraying this stuff: it's INSANELY resilient and impermeable. It's some kinda composite wood, made from super-compressed sawdust and iron filings or somesuch. (Hence the sparks whenever we tried cutting it.) I was gonna cut irregular blocks and stone shapes from various materials, glue 'em on and spray; like I did with the cardboard ones. So it'll look like stone. I want to use it for a few games first, to see if it needs tweaking.

>the orc is my favorite

He's currently my generic one. I have a team of them, and every now and then I add one. They're a sort of generic AD&D/Warhammer design. I'm planning on a team of 40K ones soon.

Don C.

[Blackkryptonite]

Very cool Don! Endless possibilities with this new sparking wood you have

[GaryPlaysWithDolls]

You might check out your local hardware store's linoleum section. A lot of times they give away samples of stone-like design linoleum. I took a bunch of them for a project. hell, you might even buy some. Pretty cool, easy to cut.

[Cosmicman]

That's cool. When I was a kid I made a cool looking Hall of Justice out of cardboard boxes that I did this to and then I painted the walls and added tons of furniture I stole from my sister's Barbie Townhouse.
It really didn't look that bad but of course you know how well cardboard holds up against time!

When I get some more room I have some playset ideas I was thinking about constructing like this using the plastic sheets you get at Staples to put printed pictures inside.


Nice idea all the way around!!! Keep it going!

[ctc]

>you know how well cardboard holds up against time!

Yeah. Although you CAN make really durable stuff with corrugated cardboard. It takes a lot of planning though. Supercity's been up for a little more than a decade. (If you check out the second pic, that thing in the upper right corner is the frame for the M-113 I'm building.)

....and before I forget; just in case you don't get the Mountain Dew refrences:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zng5kRle4FA

The routine this was made from is pretty old: I remember hearing it on Dr Demento way back in the mid 80's.

Don C.

[johnmiic]

Not sure you can use this but I've seen a lot of Marbelized contact paper in hardware stores. Maybe get stone patterns and just apply to your segments. Add a different pattern to the outside wall if you can reverse the wall and get double use from it.

DC Fix Contact Paper - Marble, Brick Stone Group


Tuscan Stone Contact Paper

[Tothiro]

It's some kinda composite wood, made from super-compressed sawdust and iron filings or somesuch. (Hence the sparks whenever we tried cutting it.)

If you want to look for more it's called MDF for Medium Density Fibreboard... The sparks are probably bits of sawdust lighting up from the heat coming off of the glue resin as it's cut.

[TrueDave]

Love the Dr Who corridor comment.
great idea. Looks heavy though.

[QDOGG]

Thats pretty cool Don