Found Object Dungeon Castle Tomb

Dungeon? Old Tomb? Castle or Fort?

A free gift from the wider family, this versatile cardboard packaging. Great that it isn’t unrecyclable plastic. Even better that it suggests lots of scrap modelling possibilities.

Versatile and suggestive of many scenarios.

There are a few felt tip marks from previous play owners that will need a gentle paint disguise. Otherwise I will probably leave the blocks as they are for now. Any detailing would diminish them or fix a scenario  too much. They remind me of the desert and city scenery in Star Wars Rogue One.

They also work for multiple scales, another reason for not adding detail. At 54mm the deep pits make firing positions in an old fort or blasted village. At the 36mm scale of pound store plastic warriors, they are more like old tombs or excavations, an abandoned city in the Generic Badlands.

Exploring the Lost Tombs … Little Green Men – 36mm pound store plastic space alien conversions.  

Being essentailly papier-mâché cardboard packaging, they may need hot glue gunning to some backing board and not leaving around in the garden. A thin brush over of PVA might waterproof them all.

When storage space becomes a problem, they “flatpack” back to cardboard with the happy aid of boots and into the recycling.

Blogposted by Mark, Man of TIN 19 January 2018.

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