The tiles are carved with a 1 inch grid and some minimal detailing. The picture below shows a few different pieces in various stages of color layering. The bottom couple of small 5 foot wide hall sections have been base coated in CraftSmart "dark taupe". The middle three pieces have a moderate sponging of Folk Art "camel". The top piece has had its final light sponging of Folk Art "vintage white". The edges have been painted black. Any similar colors would work for this three part process as long as you used a chocolate brown, a rich warm tan and a creamy white.
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| Stages and Colors |
The setup below shows all the pieces I made in this first batch thrown together in a basic dungeon layout. There are ~12 chambers of various sizes, and a decent sized assortment of 5 foot (1 inch) and 10 foot (2 inch) passages.
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| Tan Dungeon Tiles Starter Set |
With the aid of the Proxxon thermocut hot wire table, this went faster than similar projects done previously with nothing but a few knives. My best guess would be that this took about an hour to cut all the pieces. Then maybe another hour or hour and a half to scribe and distress the pieces. Then another hour or so (in 15 minute batches) to paint them. All told, this is probably 4 hours of work. When done a half hour here and a half hour there as time allows, and while a Flyers game is on in the background, this was an extremely easy, and quick, project.
Total materials cost is maybe $4-5 of XPS foam (less than half of a $12 4x8 foot sheet of 3/4 inch foam), and a couple of bucks worth of craft paint. If you bought one 4x8 sheet of XPS and three craft bottles of paint, this would cost less than $20, and you'd have a good bit of the paint and more than half of the foam left over.
I'm working on a few stair pieces, but that's all I have planned for this set at the moment. But you never know...
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