EnderToys - Rounded Hallowed Mausoleum

 

This is a good size piece of terrain and while I could put it on my Bambu Labs A1 Mini 3D printer it would cost me $12.95 for the .stl files from Printable Scenery and probably about $10 worth of filament. So in these cases EnderToys to the rescue - their prices on Amazon range from "amazing" to "you want how much" - so you have to pick and choose to what works with your budget - anything in the $10-$20 range is pretty good and as I'm typing this EnderToys has this on Amazon for $20 minus 20% = $16.

Unfortunately the piece is too big for my background paper, but it's better than seeing a messy paint booth. The painted image from Printable Scenery I thought was rather well done - so I didn't reinvent the wheel on this one but more or less gave it a go using their visual queues.

I actually painted this during the summer and used it in a Dungeons and Dragons session - I think I had some large spiders in the encounter for the party. Unfortunately I don't recall the specific colors used or the order I did it in - I just remember it taking me the good part of a Saturday for our Sunday game and that I thought it turned out way better than I was expecting for some reason.

Overall I think it's a great 3D print and can be used for all sorts of encounters from an old mausoleum buried by time in the forest with large spiders to ghosts / undead creatures in the cemetery to an ancient hilltop where a gang of villains are using the mausoleum as their hideout - in all cases there could be a trap door leading to further dungeon encounters.

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!

EnderToys - Bone Bridge

 

This is one of the coolest terrain pieces I've purchased - $15 on Amazon.  I have the perfect adventure for this from Kobold Press within the Underworld Lairs book.  My players are going to lose their minds when I put this on the table.

I started this one off with the airbrush - first hitting it with a black primer.  Then I airbrushed all the bone pieces with Bone White.  Then airbrushed the bridge with Beasty Brown.

Once complete with airbrushing, I brought it onto the desk to clean up overspray - mostly on the black.  I did not drybrush the black with my grey stone treatment that I do to most bases because the model's 3d print is a little bit rough - if there's a negative on this one is that the 3d is a bit coarse - would like to have seen this print with a bit finer settings.