Following on from my previous post about building/cobbling together a version of Warhammer Quest, in this post I make some moulds to cast resin tile sections…

Following on from my previous post about building/cobbling together a version of Warhammer Quest. In this post I tackle building the board sections used to create the game’s dungeon.

The idea I had in my head was to create some board sections that would be fun to play on and hopefully be quite durable. These are some of the attributes I wanted my boards to achieve.

• Durability – be a bit more than just a piece of printed paper/thin card.
• Have some weight to them so they don’t move around too easily on the table top like printed paper and card would do.
• Interlock, so as the dungeon builds up an accidental nudge doesn’t create an earthquake of dungeon collapsing proportions.
• Be interesting to look at, I want there to be nice little details on the boards in a similar manner to the original artwork for the boards.
• Be playable, not much point in making these if they are awful to play on.
• Painted up to a good standard.

Well that’s only a small wish list, right?

I have to admit I didn’t really give much thought to alternative materials or methods and I just ploughed straight in to using what I thought would be best with no experimenting/research. Perfect recipe for disaster, don’t you think? Well lets see…