Fat Dragon Games DRAGONLOCK: Tent

 

This was a bit of fun - my son picked up a 3d printer to get ready for Warhammer the Old World which is about to come out - he can print bases and terrain and all sorts of goodies for the game. He did this test print of a tent from one of the Fat Dragon Games DRAGONLOCK packs. Again, Golden Maple's drybrush brushes made the fur a piece of cake.

Painting instructions for Tent (used Vallejo paints)...

Step 1: Undercoat model with black primer

Step 2: Use Tanned Flesh on tent

Step 3: Mix Bleached Bone with Tanned Flesh and repeat about 4x to get to final highlights
Step 4: Use Beasty Brown on sticks and pegs
Step 5: Drybrush Leather Brown on sticks and pegs

Step 6: Drybrush Plague Brown on sticks and pegs for final highlights
Step 7: Use Terracotta on fur 
Step 8: Drybrush Parasite Brown on fur
Step 9: Drybrush Scrofulous Brown on fur
Step 10: Mix Scrofulous Brown and Bonewhite and drybrush on fur for final highlights

Beware of the wildlife...

Fat Dragon Games DRAGONLOCK: Stoneskull Tower Final

Finally finished! Painted up a couple of layers as were needed by the game module. The roof I drybrushed it with Scorpion Green and the gargoyles grey, and the dome gold.

Fat Dragon Games DRAGONLOCK: Stoneskull Tower Part 4

Same drybrushing technique was used on the skull mountain base. Once finished, I gave it it's first go at fit and finish for the first ring and to see how everything lines up including some test models. Confirming everything was good, I then sprayed all the remaining levels with a black undercoat.

Fat Dragon Games DRAGONLOCK: Stoneskull Tower Part 3

I mentioned in an earlier post I made a trip to Humpty Dumpty to pickup paint and my local hobby store to pickup a large Citadel drybrush - I made use of both on the first ring of the tower. After spraying the ring with a black undercoat, I then drybrushed Magic Blue and then Electric Blue. The floor was done using Cold Grey and Stonewall Grey.

Fat Dragon Games DRAGONLOCK: Stoneskull Tower Part 2

Today was determining fit and finish and stackability. The 3d print comes with a quarter wall - print four quarter walls and you have a complete ring. Each quarter sits on a pyramidal peg which actually sets very well. However, I figured that you needed to use the dragon locks at the bottom (there's 3 slots) which cinches in the sides together tightly - else it it'll have a gap. While the tower was designed with only a couple of levels if you use the included stair - I needed more levels for the module I was going to run and the party was going to be magically teleported, so I asked my buddy to actually fill in the center hole.

Fat Dragon Games DRAGONLOCK: Stoneskull Tower

 So we did a thing, a really big gigantic thing, lol...

We purchased the Stoneskull Tower from Fat Dragon Games. One of my Dungeons and Dragons players has a very large 3d printer but this tower was even larger than his print table - however, he's a pretty talented guy and he figured out how to slice the base into a pie and delivered the skull mountain base to me in pieces.

They were supposed to be printed in quarters - and he essentially printed them in eighths - so a little bit off glue and then some compound to hide the gap and all was good!  These four pieces then created the skull mountain base for the tower.

Once all the glue was dried and the gaps filled and the fit confirmed as being good I then took the pieces out on the workbench and used the airbrush to spray a black basecoat on the entire skull mountain base.

Game Day With the Dragon Bone Bridge

The pillars were completed as well as the demon spider that was going to be the big bad at the bottom of the bottom of the chasm. I set everything up on the dining room table.

Giving the miniatures a test go on the platform to make sure everything was stable. It was exceptionally so! There are pegs that link into the bottom of the dungeon tiles and the bottoms of the pillars are dragon locked into the other pieces - the board was solid and would take any abuse from the players.

The results were awesome! Both groups had a great time and the board held up as expected. Highly recommend the dungeon tiles by Fat Dragon Games and the pillars module which provides the ability to create multi-level dungeon terrain.

Making the Bridge Work With Fat Dragon Games Dungeon Terrain

It was time to put that really cool dragon bone bridge to good use by building it into a terrain gaming piece for a module I was going to run from Kobold Press for two different groups. I had a friend print off a bunch of dungeon tiles from Fat Dragon Games which I sprayed black and then layed out into what was going to be the top layer within a dungeon chasm with the bone bridge going across.

I then went to Home Depot and picked up some sample pots in color matched grey. Then a trip to the local hobby store and I picked up this giant scenery brush by Games Workshop. Then I went drybrush crazy.

The pillars weren't quite ready so I used some paint bottles to elevate the top layer from the bottom and gave it a test with the miniatures that were going to be used for the dungeon adventure.

And there you have it - more or less ready to go! I have two groups that are both in need to run through the same module so I get to use this scenario twice!