I've been away from Craftees for a while now, instead repainting a boat load of Mage Knight figures for my biweekly D&D game. But this week I returned to doing Craftees at least for a little while to get the terrain done for the Balin's Tomb game I hope to run in my club probably in June. I'm still working on how to do the walls Craftee style, but here are some pictures of Balin's actual tomb, as well as four very large pillars that I will probably use (depends on how I decide to do the walls). If the walls are more than just a flat surface, then I probably won't need the pillars. But if they are just a flat surface, I'll need something in the room to provide cover, block line of sight, etc. to make the game interesting.
Here are the four pillars and Balin's tomb with the Aragorn figure included for scale. You can really see how large the pillars really are scale wise.
Here is Aragorn with the pillars more up close.
And here is Aragorn next to Balin's tomb.
Pillar construction was simple. Just a very large spool from a craft store with the larger circular thin wooden disc glued to the top (it comes in a pack with small, medium, and large discs all together), with the small discs from the same pack glued around the middle of the pillar to provide some visual interest.
Balin's tomb is a thin 2" x 3" wooden base with the top and bottom "slabs" of the tomb made from 1 1/2" x 2 1/4" thicker pieces of wood that come together in a pack of I believe three or four at Michael's. The pieces in between the two slabs are six small cubes (1/2" I believe) arranged 2 x 3.
Painting was the same for each. Base coat of black. Then I used dark gray to lay out the basic "marbling" appearance. Then on top of the gray a slightly lighter shade leaving some of the darker gray showing throw.
That's about it. Next up will be the walls of the tomb itself, hopefully with a door like in the movie. We'll see what I'm able to put together.
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