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[Thantos]

Beer glorious beer!
Another one sculpted by the talented John Warner



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[Galious]

Hi Thantos,

Could you please explain how the modular tiles shown on your website are supposed to be used ? What would their typical use be ?
Is there a way to make them 'stick' to each other ? Do they click together ?
All of this looks very promising.
Thanks !

[Big Bene]

Oo thanks Big Bene Actually just finished the secret door created from your base mesh today
Looks like a good prison door base mesh, would help certainly.

Well, you obvieousely like your masonry rough...
Don't really know if I like it this way. Don't get me wrong, the stones themselves look really good, but judging from the rendering, the angle of the secret door seems somewhat less visible. My main aim was to choose a look that make the sectret door still part of the wall but readily recognizeable as what it is (a secret door, as opposed to just some displaced bricks). But perhaps this is just the picture (or my vanity).

Of course you can do with the model as you please, it was a gift.
Same is true for the prison door. Have just sent you the file.

Having said this, I really love the surface finishes you give to your models, expecially the wood. Have tried to do good wood for months. I'm really somewhat envy and would like to learn how you do it.

[Tott]

loving this!
will the modular tiles have risers? id still love to see the ability to raise certain areas of a room.
I like the secret door, if your using a full 3d board with all the rooms included it might be a bit too subtle but as a replacment for the tile in HQ its awesome.
really like the sorcerers desk, looks great.
Are we going to see any really big pieces?

[Thantos]

Hi Thantos,

Could you please explain how the modular tiles shown on your website are supposed to be used ? What would their typical use be ?
Is there a way to make them 'stick' to each other ? Do they click together ?
All of this looks very promising.
Thanks !

Hi Galious, welcome to the inn, have an ale!
The tiles allow people to create rooms and passages of any size and shape by gluing the tiles together. These are a stretch goal, that if funded, would be cast in injection moulded plastic, so would be quite cheap and durable to buy hundreds of them to build a dungeon. (may do a few more flooring designs also)

Glad you like it so far Looking forward to next week!

Well, you obvieousely like your masonry rough...
Don't really know if I like it this way. Don't get me wrong, the stones themselves look really good, but judging from the rendering, the angle of the secret door seems somewhat less visible. My main aim was to choose a look that make the sectret door still part of the wall but readily recognizeable as what it is (a secret door, as opposed to just some displaced bricks). But perhaps this is just the picture (or my vanity).

Of course you can do with the model as you please, it was a gift.
Same is true for the prison door. Have just sent you the file.
Having said this, I really love the surface finishes you give to your models, expecially the wood. Have tried to do good wood for months. I'm really somewhat envy and would like to learn how you do it.

I think your right Bene The rough stone does make it harder to see the 'planes' of the secret door. Ill render it from another angle, which should show a bit better. Sorry to change your mesh, as it was good and very suitable for a miniature. Its just a continuity thing with how the rough stone needed to be sculpted in the same style as all the other pieces in the Kickstarter, so it blends in with the other bits. Thanks again for helping out

Thanks, wood is a tricky one to do. Its an organic object (tree) which has been crafted into non organic shapes, and then weathered and damaged over time. I struggled quite a bit last year, i was taking pictures of gate posts and fences all around where i live Can turn it out quite quickly now though. Ill post a video of the sculpting process and can talk you though it if you like.

loving this!
will the modular tiles have risers? id still love to see the ability to raise certain areas of a room.
I like the secret door, if your using a full 3d board with all the rooms included it might be a bit too subtle but as a replacment for the tile in HQ its awesome.
really like the sorcerers desk, looks great.
Are we going to see any really big pieces?

Ooo yea we did mention risers before. May be a stretch goal if the tiles get funded (£7.5k for the mould for the tiles... hmmm its a long stretch goal..)

Glad you like them, Tott. Postive feedback always good Large pieces, not much bigger than the double doors and stairs, maybe a And will have something for an ultimate stretch goal



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[IvenBach]

I'm really liking the flooring tiles. The tongue and groove aspect is a nice touch so you can fit them together. Just tell your wife that you're planning on redoing the floor in one of the rooms and have it be your dungeon room . That chest of drawers calls to me.

[Tott]

yeah, i like that chest of drawers. simple but looks great and gives a nice flavour and variety.
any beds yet? maybe an oven or a campfire?
where do all the monsters in these dungeons sleep and eat.
come to think of it, where do they crap?
maybe a toilet.
any details about the actual KS yet? how many levels? how many different items? what you give free stretch goals or stretch goals just unlock new stuff to buy?
what are you thinking for an ultimate stretch goal? furniture? scenery? monster?

[Lord Flordvow]

Salivating at the chance to replace and extend all my old HeroQuest furnishings, much like I expect everyone else is. Do you have an updated master list of all the currently revealed pieces?

I've got two suggestions at the moment. So there's a tile with a key. How about expanding that to other quest items normally too small to place? Gotta have those scraps of paper and unfurled scrolls as playable tiles which double as tokens. Run with that idea, please! Other suggestion is to offer a variant of those braziers without flames. I'll be needing a few extinguished ones, and a few to mod with translucent flames & LEDs, oh yes indeed.

[Thantos]

I'm really liking the flooring tiles. The tongue and groove aspect is a nice touch so you can fit them together. Just tell your wife that you're planning on redoing the floor in one of the rooms and have it be your dungeon room . That chest of drawers calls to me.

Genius! lol how about the bathroom? The evil wizard dungeonmaster can sit on the toilet?

yeah, i like that chest of drawers. simple but looks great and gives a nice flavour and variety.
any beds yet? maybe an oven or a campfire?
where do all the monsters in these dungeons sleep and eat.
come to think of it, where do they crap?
maybe a toilet.
any details about the actual KS yet? how many levels? how many different items? what you give free stretch goals or stretch goals just unlock new stuff to buy?
what are you thinking for an ultimate stretch goal? furniture? scenery? monster?

Gah! Yep, will be a few more core things, then the rest will be stretch goals. Planning on doing little and often stretch goals, so it will be an additional piece, like beds, some will be offered free to current pledge levels. Some will be add ons. Bit of a mix.

Half way through putting the pledge levels together. Will be something up for preview on the weekend with any luck.

Ultimate stretch goal will likely be scenery for an entire themed room, will brainstorm that if we make it to stretch goals xD

Salivating at the chance to replace and extend all my old HeroQuest furnishings, much like I expect everyone else is. Do you have an updated master list of all the currently revealed pieces?

I've got two suggestions at the moment. So there's a tile with a key. How about expanding that to other quest items normally too small to place? Gotta have those scraps of paper and unfurled scrolls as playable tiles which double as tokens. Run with that idea, please! Other suggestion is to offer a variant of those braziers without flames. I'll be needing a few extinguished ones, and a few to mod with translucent flames & LEDs, oh yes indeed.

Hah glad to hear, thanks
Most up to date list is the image gallery on the website http://www.zealotminiatures.co.uk/twist ... acombs.php although some things missing >.< Its a bit of a mad rush now its 4 days to go!

Yea can do scrolls. Thanks for the pointer Lord Flordvow Will be a stretch goal. (Im sensing a Twisting catacombs 2 coming on at this rate, so much stuff!)

Yep can do tinted clear braziers, just the price... will not be economy, as with all things clear resin! :/ That why im reluctant to include it in the core KS But can do special requests
Extinguished is no problem too.

For big bene, a wood sculpt timelapse. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=71 ... =2&theater
8x Speed

[Lord Flordvow]

Hah glad to hear, thanks
Most up to date list is the image gallery on the website http://www.zealotminiatures.co.uk/twist ... acombs.php although some things missing >.< Its a bit of a mad rush now its 4 days to go!

Yea can do scrolls. Thanks for the pointer Lord Flordvow Will be a stretch goal. (Im sensing a Twisting catacombs 2 coming on at this rate, so much stuff!)

Yep can do tinted clear braziers, just the price... will not be economy, as with all things clear resin! :/ That why im reluctant to include it in the core KS But can do special requests
Extinguished is no problem too.

Wise to keep the fiddly requests (such as mine!) to stretch goals. Those core furnishings are really where it's at. What else is missing from that core? A torture rack and a tomb?