Friday, July 4, 2008

Tiling the pit

First up, the pit end. Tiling this end of the room is slightly more complicated than the other two sections. Mainly because of the way the stair wrap around. When working with a piece of this size doing a dry fit before gluing is essential. Make sure you know which size bricks go where and that they'll all fit. The bricks will sometimes not fit quite right. If you can't force the brick into place, try tapping on it with something. If all else fails, sand the edges a bit to get it to fit.





This section is done and ready for paint. You might see that I took a slight bit of liberty with the stairs. In order to make things fit nicely I made the top stair a full square level with the elevated portion. This change is purely aesthetic and it won't affect game play at all.

While we're on the subject of paint, I should note I'm not sure how I'm going to paint this yet. The map of the room provided with the module has brownish floor tiles. I think I'm going to go with that. Some tiles have a small patter on them. I have some ideas to try out for that, though I may skip it and just make all the tiles plain.

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