Dungeon Walls, Templates, and Materials

With the skull dungeon entrance circling my mind I had to embrace my new ideas of a modular dungeon tile system that can be used in a diorama.  I am happy with the flooring I have come up with so far and started thinking about the walls.

Of course I plan to detail the flooring more.  I am just happy how it has started out so far.

After a long while I got out my dusty hot wire 3d scrolling table and started to use it again.  I found some scrap pieces of expanded polystyrene and cut them to size for wall segments.  The floor tiles are  simple 4 x 4 inch squares and I don't plan to make them any larger, unless an effect on the tile will suffer in that small design.  

The foam pieces are 3/4 of an inch thick and I like that for a robust thickness of a dungeon wall.  The walls will span the length of the floor tiles and stand at 3 inches tall.  For a 28 mm figure that is a very tall and imposing wall.








After some careful thinking I decided I wanted to add some foam core sections to the room side parts of the walls for decorative reasons and to help reinforce the expanded foam.  What I came up with is a simple archway that will add texture and strengthen the wall as mentioned earlier.


In order to ease the task of measuring and cutting all these wall additions I started working on a template that I can use to trace around on to the foam core.  I am using cereal box cardboard for the template, since it is so easy to work with and cut out.

My old dungeon system that was basically made out of just expanded polystyrene with reduced walls.  That project is pretty much abandoned at this point and I look back on it as a good experience with foam.

It is available for viewing on my website:

https://www.strongholdcrafter.com






You can find my project and tutorial videos on my YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/StrongholdCrafterKev