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Super Dungeon Explore 3D

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so, Super Dungeon Explore has been gaining a following at Triple Helix and i must admit, it's rather fun!

SDEs popularity, combined with Gav being off work 'till the 4th means it's project time!
and so i'm making myself a 3D SDE board (i know Nurgle_boy is doing something similar!) :D

i'll start with a couplea images of figures from the game itself; small plastic kits with plenty of peices and plenty of flashing :(

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Gougers; basic grunts to throw at the heroes!

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Ironscales; stop heroes in their tracks :D

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Spawn Points; each one pumps out monsters every turn; Kobold Spawners come in pairs, hence the matching paintjobs :)

anyway, on my first day off i visited Charltons, the local wood shop to get me some supplies.. to find they didn't cut to size <_<
so i travelled to Frome and visited several shops to get the same response :(
however, Tip-a-dels not only sold me a 8'x4' for £14, they cut it into 12.5" squares for a tenner :D

a gurt stack of wood :D

i had them cut slightly larger than the SDE boards; this should allow a nice border around the outside :)

from here, i cut some corkboard to make the tiles and dug out some plaster Hirst Arts bricks to build me some walls :)

D'awwww! ain't she cute!

next up i scared across my measured lines. i tried using a sharp knife to cut smooth grooves, but i didn't like the effect :P

so i scored 'em with a screwdriver to get a great shattered slab effect :D

as i played around with the wall sections, i decided to style this section as a cell block, long ago abandoned and left in ruin..

i assembled the ruins and added sand / gravel to pad the board out :)

an intact cell; i'm sculpting a wee padlock to go onto the handle :)

Two ruined cells...

the final cell is having a small Easter Egg modelled on...

a certain plumbers outfit will be hanging from the wall :D (you may have spotted a skull at the base of the wall in the previous shot!
SDE has a great retro video game feel to it and the official tiles feature a couple of small easter eggs :) so i'll be adding one to each section :D

and finally, the manhole in the centre of the board :)
the whole section is slightly lower to give the feeling that they simply hose out the cells!

so, once the sculpting work is dry i'll be sealing the gravel and then undercoating :)
tomorrow i'll head into Bath to see if i can find some 12" square cork board; the pieces i have are only 11"x10" :P

thanks for looking!

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Fenryz

Re: Super Dungeon Explore 3D

Nice! Ive been using some cork to make bases, but I never thought about using them like this. Also, these pictures is getting me real tempted to buy one of those molds to make bricks.

I guess not just me are interested in seeing more of this project :)

messyart

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Looks awesome! :D

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looks awesome!! I'm looking forward to playing another couple of SDE games in the future!! (Druid is bagseyed!!)

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so, day two and there's a little bit of progress :)

i finished off assembling the details for the Jail Section and then went into Bath to look for supplies :)
as can be expected, it didn't go according to plan; didn't manage to find any Columns and none of the supply stores had cork board :(
in a last ditch attempt, i visited Homebase and couldn't find any ... the chap there and i searched and could only find cork notice boards.
i steeled myself to having to pay for notice boards then destroying them when we encountered packs of floor tiles; placed on the wrong shelf :lol:

£9 for a pack of 9 :D

next up, i grabbed a SDE board section at random and ended up with the large room with Arcade Cabinet:

so, out came the Sharpie, the steel rule and the Screwdriver :D

i've cut out some squares, going to fill them with either resin (left overs from casting walls) or PVA for a liquid texture which will then be painted as magma

so, i've got a load of weights on the board at the moment; worried about warping so the weights stay on till the PVA is properly dry :)

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greenstuff_gav

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more work on the second board section :)
got me some columns for Xmas but i think my moulding compound is knackered as it's not setting :(

moving on, a dredge thru the rubble box gave me alot of stuff to build up the rubble in the centre;

now, i came into difficulty with my hirst-arts-brick-wall mould ... they're a bit wide for the boards : (

so i've been casting the walls with only a small amount of resin in to make thinner walls for the edges;

now, placing them together in a dry fit seemed to work,

except looking closely, the corners are horrible...

so i've clipped the sticky-out-bits off and about to venture into the rain to the hardware store for some heavy duty sandpaper : )

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Marchomer

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My compliments! Nice tiles here!
I've a certain interest in 3D dungeons, and I really like your work, I hope everything will be painted soon!

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Your figures and dungeon building are looking awesome. :)

I was fairly baffled by the look of SDE in my thread here: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.664610.n2.nabble.com/Super-Dungeon-Explore-board-game-tp6735646p6735646.html
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