Temple of Chaos Undivided: 12 September 2019

I've been left with a lot of time at work recently when I am doing labeling DVDs, which is mindless work that requires hands but lets you watch YouTube videos :) So, I've been binging videos from Wyloch's Armory. Great fun, even if it's not the sort of thing I do (he makes a lot of tiles for D&D, and I neither play D&D nor use tiles). But he recently posted a video where he made the "Hold of the Deepking".

I thought this was a great terrain piece and I was suddenly inspired! My board represents an Imperial city - a ruined one, certainly, but definitely Imperial (specifically, it is the 'Dust Zone of Ophelia VII). But, some variant terrain would be fun - especially with the RPG I am running (I also spent a bit of time today working out where the story is going to go ... and it's going to end up at some point in a temple of Chaos Undivided!)

So, to planning on the backs of expended sheets of DVD labels!

The plan is super simple; the same basic shape as the Hold of the Deepking, but constructed from insulation foam rather than foamcore (it's all basically 1" layers, so it seemed like that would be simple - it would also allow for cutting into the foam to sculpt and texture it). I want to make four of these buildings and arrange them in an octagon with simpler walls between them, to enclose a central amphitheater wherein adventures can happen! Each face will reflect the nature of the particular Chaos god, and I made some notes on how I would accomplish this.

I am really excited about this - I placed an order for some Reaper Bones minis to use as statues for Slaanesh (I didn't to just make it all about perversion and sex - it's a bit puerile - but some statues of alluring-yet-repulsive females seemed appropriate) and made a list of the crafting supplies I would need.

I've got a couple weeks' vacation coming up, and I want to build these during that time. My goal is going to try to emulate not Wyloch's style or technique, but instead his attitude - which seems to be "don't make the perfect the enemy of the good (or even the done)" and "80% result for 50% effort is worth it". All of Wyloch's stuff looks great, but it's not some photorealistic perfection - its strength is the spectacle of seeing it all together on the tabletop.

So, that is the plan! I've made a special label for these posts so you can find them all together if you are interested in following it.

=][= Danforth Laertes