Working on more Dungeon scenics at the moment, namely treasure piles, trade goods and some traps for the unwary. These are a combination of scratch-built and store-bought items, often including various accessory pieces as described in previous posts.
We’ll have a look at what’s on offer, and then send our reporter on the scene, Harry, to check them out….
First up, a combination of some translucent resin ‘crystals’ as gem piles, and coin/precious stone hoards, all based on the single squares that came as part of the original TT Combat tiles set:
I’d sourced the dome-shaped bead pearls via EBay with a view to use them as sci-if scenery, but thought they could at a stretch stand in here as variously sized precious stones; they sit atop some scrunched up aluminium foil ‘mounds’ with a bit of gritty flocking gel added, then painted up as coins - well, they had some bronze and gold paint slathered on in haphazard fashion…..
The coloured beads come in huge packs of all sizes, down to tiny dots in all colours, so are worth looking out for in the crafting section of retailers - they also hold paint well if you want to change them into something more utilitarian.
Next up, a straight out of the packet photo of the very useful barrels, chests, vases and vessels in the Crom’s Anvil range at CP Models:
https://cpmodels.co.uk/shop/cas1503-cargo/
Unfortunately, I don’t think the resin vessels are still for sale - as they are some lovely and varied shapes:
These paint up very nicely, and are a good scale match for large 15mm items, here again mounted on the single tile squares:
They should provide plenty for the adventure party to root through !
These are joined by a couple of the similarly scaled scatter pieces, to which I’ve added an accessory sword and an extra vase, and a rack for bottles, made out of sprue scraps:
https://cpmodels.co.uk/shop/cas1505-scatter-scenery/
Now, you can’t have all this treasure lying about without it being defended, and in true D&D style, I’ve been playing around with scratch building some terrifying traps…..
First up, a trio of acid traps, built up onto the ‘drain’ squares tiles from the TT Combat set, with some additional skeletal remains from the old Pendragon ranges - the large yellow acid ‘bubbles’ are some of the pearl beads seen above, stuck down with flocking gel and suitably painted:
Our intrepid Cave Ape, Harry, is sent out to investigate……Hmmmm….that treasure pile looks tempting, but…..
Better move on and leave them unmolested Harry, why not head along that narrow corridor over there….. just be careful crossing those grates in the floor:
In fact, be VERY careful:
Argh ! - spike traps !
Some cocktail stick tips mounted into spare tile squares, slide up under the grates - let’s hope Harry gets the point and treads carefully (groan……):
Talking of treading carefully - next is a scratch built wobbly bridge, made from more sprue scraps from the tile set:
Mind the gap, Harry !
Phew….. made it into the next corridor…… uh, oh, what’s next:
Looks to me like another spike trap, this one designed to spring into the corridor and flush you down the hole ! …… at least Harry is too large to fit down it…… or maybe he made his Dexterity saving throw:
So, what’s next ? - I think Harry has had enough of the traps for now….. I wonder what’s through this arch?
Uh - oh, Harry….. out of the frying pan into the fire !
It’s the Lair of the Liche King !
Let’s hope Harry makes it through until the next instalment……
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