Vhailor was not sure how long they have already been adventuring through this damp, godforsaken place, but it was too long for his liking. He gazed back at his friends. Baron Tillius von Drachenau, the young nobleman, constantly eyed the surroundings, while Laetitia silently scouted ahead. A stair led them even deeper into the dungeon, and the cobblestone floor ended abruptly where a bed of mud and dirt began.
A tingle crawled down Vhailor\'s spine.
\"There\'s something sinister about this place\" he muttered.
\"Indeed so, my friend. I feel the presence of the power.\" Tillius answered under his breath.
Vhailor grasped his weapon tighter when he heard a rumble down below. The rumble intensified into an omninous bellowing as the earth began to shake. Laetitia jumped back rather clumsily and readied her daggers while Tillius drew his sword. With a damp, but loud boom the floor erupted in a shower of earth, mud and some kind of rotten organic material....
\"Brace yourselves!\" Vhailor cried. He was ready for whatever might come.
Through the splatter of mud and dirt, the heroes beheld three, no, four figures in the dark of the dungeon. Incredibly thin humans, anorexic even.....
\"Skeletons!\" Tillius shouted. He held up his sword and conjured all his might as the first undead charged the party.
Vhailor stood fast in front of his comrades.
\"We will not fall. For Sumus, goddess of earth, we shall shatter your unholy bones and grind them into the dust of the past!\" he shouted, sensing how Laetitia beckoned their enemies to come closer if they dared....
Well, that\'s the scene. I am going to do this dungeon scene as a birthday present for my cousin, but I am not sure how to accomplish this as I have never made a Diorama before. Of course the first step would be to find some suitable miniatures; for the skeletons, I would use Morbid Puppets (Confrontation), while a GW Witch Elf would be Laetitia. Tillius von Drachenau will be Dieter von Regmon (Reaper) and Vhailor either Nagel the Hammer (Reaper) or Piotr Irongale (Reaper too). Now my first problem is scale; to my untrained eye they seem to have the same scale, but if I place them directly beside each other, Piotr seems about a head shorter. Now I\'m not sure if those \"breaks\" in the scale would be obvious after the Diorama is finished..... I would really prefer Piotr instead of Nagel because he is far more dynamic and quite frankly because a chain as a weapon is even cooler than a large hammer
Second thing is the ground. I have an idea how to do cobblestone with Efaplast (that stuff works a little like china clay), but rough earth sound like a challenge. Would it be convincing to just drag a toothpick around it in irregular patterns? I fear it won\'t....
And last one, what order of work would you advise? I thought of painting the miniatures first and then attaching to the base (which also be done seperate), but I fear I might rub off the paint trying to get a good hold on the base (I tend to be quite rough).
Which actually brings me to another question: Do you think it would be enough to just glue the minis to the sculpted base? I though of using two part epoxy glue (I think that\'s what it is called in english), but I am afraid it could break. The Diorama is supposed to stand in a glass.... display.... cupboard... thingy my cousin has and will probably not be handled much anyway, but my fear consists
So many questions, so much eagerness to start working right away.... restrain yourself, plan it well beforehand..... omm....
A tingle crawled down Vhailor\'s spine.
\"There\'s something sinister about this place\" he muttered.
\"Indeed so, my friend. I feel the presence of the power.\" Tillius answered under his breath.
Vhailor grasped his weapon tighter when he heard a rumble down below. The rumble intensified into an omninous bellowing as the earth began to shake. Laetitia jumped back rather clumsily and readied her daggers while Tillius drew his sword. With a damp, but loud boom the floor erupted in a shower of earth, mud and some kind of rotten organic material....
\"Brace yourselves!\" Vhailor cried. He was ready for whatever might come.
Through the splatter of mud and dirt, the heroes beheld three, no, four figures in the dark of the dungeon. Incredibly thin humans, anorexic even.....
\"Skeletons!\" Tillius shouted. He held up his sword and conjured all his might as the first undead charged the party.
Vhailor stood fast in front of his comrades.
\"We will not fall. For Sumus, goddess of earth, we shall shatter your unholy bones and grind them into the dust of the past!\" he shouted, sensing how Laetitia beckoned their enemies to come closer if they dared....
Well, that\'s the scene. I am going to do this dungeon scene as a birthday present for my cousin, but I am not sure how to accomplish this as I have never made a Diorama before. Of course the first step would be to find some suitable miniatures; for the skeletons, I would use Morbid Puppets (Confrontation), while a GW Witch Elf would be Laetitia. Tillius von Drachenau will be Dieter von Regmon (Reaper) and Vhailor either Nagel the Hammer (Reaper) or Piotr Irongale (Reaper too). Now my first problem is scale; to my untrained eye they seem to have the same scale, but if I place them directly beside each other, Piotr seems about a head shorter. Now I\'m not sure if those \"breaks\" in the scale would be obvious after the Diorama is finished..... I would really prefer Piotr instead of Nagel because he is far more dynamic and quite frankly because a chain as a weapon is even cooler than a large hammer
Second thing is the ground. I have an idea how to do cobblestone with Efaplast (that stuff works a little like china clay), but rough earth sound like a challenge. Would it be convincing to just drag a toothpick around it in irregular patterns? I fear it won\'t....
And last one, what order of work would you advise? I thought of painting the miniatures first and then attaching to the base (which also be done seperate), but I fear I might rub off the paint trying to get a good hold on the base (I tend to be quite rough).
Which actually brings me to another question: Do you think it would be enough to just glue the minis to the sculpted base? I though of using two part epoxy glue (I think that\'s what it is called in english), but I am afraid it could break. The Diorama is supposed to stand in a glass.... display.... cupboard... thingy my cousin has and will probably not be handled much anyway, but my fear consists
So many questions, so much eagerness to start working right away.... restrain yourself, plan it well beforehand..... omm....
