Misleading title. I wouldn't blame anyone if you thought I'm into a new Neanderthal project or something like that. But the truth is I'm back to my mining town vertical board! Let's briefly recap. Last time I left you with this pic:
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Here's the post. Wow, that was back in September. Shame on me.
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Next step before I can go any further is finishing those two caves on the rock wall.
First of all, I thought the whole wall needed some more texture. It looked too flat, too straight, doesn't give the impression of being a desert rock formation, it looks more like a weird building. I mean, not that I'm really aiming at something like this:
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Looks awesome, but it's sooo out of my reach
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But anyway I could put some effort into making it all look more like rock:
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The interior of the cave needed it too, of course
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So I provisionally came to something like this:
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Looks better. I won't say "looks good", but just simply better than before
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Once you add some doors and stuff of course it looks a little better:
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Now the title of the post begins to make sense
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The upper cave looks horryfing empty. You know my perpetual dilemma, I'm aware I'm building a doll house, but I still need to... well, at least pretend it's playable! So I'll add some stuff but leaving enough room for minis and so. My starting point:
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Disconcerting, I know. This post is made of pure entropy
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It's a cologne top (the ubiquitous one I use for control panels all over) and a piece of a broken water gun from the Suberlings. Of course they needed some work...
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Not that it's specially complex
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...and some paint:
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Now they look like part of the board
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This is the centerpiece, but I also added some tubes, wires and weird stuff to the caves, so I finally got to this point:
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General view of the whole board so far
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Upper cave
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Lower one
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You can see there's nothing new, I'm just repeating the same techiques and doing the same things I've previously used on the other pieces of the board, to give a coherent look. Here you have them both:
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Still need to add ladders and stuff
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But I need to make some more progress on other areas before I do that, you see
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I tried to give it all the same look than the other larger cave, and I reinforced that feeling by adding the large horizontal pipe on the upper part at the same height, giving the impression it's still the same thing.
Have a look at the caves with some minis:
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Still playable!
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A hand barely fits in there, but it's enough for gaming purposes
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So this is it for today! I know it doesn't look like a huge progress, but I'm afraid it involved quite a lot of hours, so it's tricky!
The good thing is that now I have the back part "finished" (as much as I can at this stage), I can now bring the board from there to the front part, so this was a key stage of the project, which unlocks other new parts.
So I'd better go for them!