Dungeon Construction – Paint on the Walls

Worried for nothing.  The craft store sells a nice foam-safe spray paint in a dark gray.  After spraying these boards, you can dust them with a black and light gray for an easy mottling effect.  The boards were ready for use, at that point, but I slapped down some brown and gray on the floors, too, to add even more texture.

Then some gray on the walls, and you’re off to the races. At this stage in the game, we’re looking to make the floors look dirty, and make the walls pop out from the tile.  With such low placeholders, you really want the walls to stand out from the tiles.  As you can see, the lighter gray provides that all important visual queue to the nature of things.  Looks like we need to darken the shadows on that flight of stairs heading down, though.  See it in the lower right hand corner of this next photo?

Still have some work to do on this, but it’s coming along swimmingly.  Rightnow everything still packs up into a nice and tidy box, with some room left over for furniture.  Once I get the last few tiles built, painted, and in the box, we can start looking for smaller boxes to hold the more fragile furniture pieces.