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At long last.............a house

For some strange reason I've been neglecting to make a proper house or building, either too intimidated or too lazy or probably both. Most people make them out of insolation foam which I have a enough of, but I don't have a hot wire cutter which is ideal and didn't really wanna hack at it with a knife so I've just been putting it off

Finally decided to just go for it out of nothing but cardboard. Very glad I did!

Process pics, Goblin mini for scale

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Pretty simple overall. Started with a cardboard frame, cut thinner strips to make the planks, doors, windows, roof tiles etc. Covered it in a black gloop made of glue and paint and sand. Spray painted it gray which was a nice time saver and a huge mistake, should've just base painted it black by hand like I usually do, the paint didn't stick so hot on the shiny side of the cardboard I used, even after priming, so the grey really shined through which was no bueno. Painted it some very basic colors, dulled it all down with black and brown washes, then aged and weathered it with a better paint job and eventually moss

Really happy with it, glad I finally got one under my belt besides the cartoonish cardboard style ones I whipped up awhile ago for stand-ins. Whole thing feels super solid since I sealed it up with glue. Definitely wanna make a handful more so I have enough for a little town or city whenever needed. Now that I've got a more basic boxy one under my belt it'll be fun to play around with different shapes and different sized/types of buildings

Another house! Process was exactly the same as the one above, just bigger. First time crafting a chimney which was kinda fun, cut out all the bricks individually and just laid them brick by brick. The windows are different from the last one too. Last one had closed shutters but for this one I had been saving those plastic bands that hold together large packages or whatever. Ended up being p perfect for windows. Overall the colors didn't turn out exactly the way I wanted but I'm still happy with it

Process pics

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Lighting isn't great in these pics

Bonus, it glows!

https://imgur.com/WVWES8H

And bonus not that great outhouse that I made with scraps during drying time. Planning on making a nasty outhouse Mimic that'll replace this one on the table once some poor bastard steps into it

New stuff! Very basic, both cobblestone related

I wanted to try a stamp technique so I made the stamp below out of foam board. Just carved into it with a pen



Had this packaging material that I thought might make shitty passable walls. Painted them black, put various colors on the stamp and went to town. Tested it on a flat piece too










It came out aight. It'll be pretty situational and I'm sure I wont use them often but they'll work for some things. But it led me to my next post so it was worth i

Made more cobblestone tiles the same way I made the stamp. Carved the pattern into them, painted them up and made sure to paint some stones different colors for variety

Pretty happy with the way they came out, just wish I made more in this first batch cause now I gotta try to match the color when I eventually make more. Ill likely be using these a lot

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Different kinda craft! Been wanting a dice tray but didn't feel like buying one. Found this crappy wall art on the side of the road and it was the perfect depth when flipped around

Added the gray felt on the back, thin foam on bottom, red felt over that, then made a quick divider out of cardstock and wrapped that in felt too

Ez! Cost me $1.50. Very satisfying rolls now

Rip the art

Pce out! Could’ve left it even tho it’d be face down, but it’s not my style. Whole thing feels better on the table with that felt added to the bottom

Quickie! I wanted a "city tree" that was surrounded by stone for my next session

Walked by a broken branch/twig outside and grabbed it. Baked it in the oven to kill anything nasty on it. Gave it some hot glue texture and just painted it up. Ez! Wish I made a batch of them but I don't think I would use a lot of "city" ones, I think I'd rather make a big batch of them that don't have the stone base so I can make a creepy dead forest another time

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Also these are never images from my actual sessions ftr, these are pics that I take just to display whatever I've just finished making. In case you were wondering why all of my encounters look super identical and generic

Yeah I was judging you so hard

Some picz of the crafts from our recent sessions

Tiny thing but it's another first for me: painted my first 3d print. Someone had this 3d printed snail and gave it to me so I figured I'd paint it up and make it some gnarly snail in my game that slowly crawls onto people and has some nice acidic sludge that it leaves behind. I wanted to paint it to look innocent enough on the surface though instead of looking like a monster

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Nothing special! But it was fun to paint a mini for the first time and I'll probably use it for a fun brief encounter sometime soon now.

Would love to try a mini PC sometime, that'll be a lot harder to get right