And now for something completely different.

This is a medieval tower-themed dice roller. It's built out of my typical XPS foam bricks and built around a chipboard/cardboard/old pringles can core. It's not particularly fancy but you can tell that the brick work was pretty shoddy, kind of on purpose, but it kind of got out of hand. I spent extra time weathering it and going up and down the color scale and even spent time putting joint compound between the brick cracks in the hopes that it would look more authentic with light mortar than the usually darker "hit the thing with a wash" look which completely got painted over. Overall it sells OK on the tabletop and is a functional dice roller but if I had it to do again, I'd do a few things differently. It took something like ten hours all told and it will count as my one structure for the year. Next week we return to Propapalooza and maybe just maybe some better photographs.

Propapalooza, week 14 (2024 week 44)

Surprise! More props this week. I guess that's not a surprise. Anyway.

First up we have some perfectly normal hatches, grates, and ammo bins. These have a tiny bit more detail than a lot of the items in the last few weeks and thus they probably look a little more striking. I did slightly more with the grates than I might have because I thought they'd look better weathered a bit, hence the rust. The ammo bins have a green wash over the top that I don't think sells super well. Overall, they all still read reasonably and I'm not unhappy with them.

 

Next up we have a pair of emplaced guns. These make a lot more sense than some of the other turret-y looking bits (lookin' at you, weird walking turret guys from last week). I chose a military green-ish tone that ended up skewing a little too cool mostly because I had a too-thin mix in the airbrush when I basecoated them. I also took extra time putting some heat bloom on the barrel which sells better in person than in my lousy shots here (some day). Also of note, Vince always says you should drill barrels and I'm starting to get that. These look wrong without it but I am far too lazy to go back and drill them now.

Next up we have to very large props which are (hopefully) clearly bridges. There's a whole set of fantasy bridges to come but these are all sci-fi-ified. I didn't look closely enough at the details to see which ones might have been better picked out but I wanted them for a near-term session and rushed the last few steps. These are somewhat zenithaled in their metallics from the airbrush as part of a large batch and they look pretty striking on the table. And if you're wondering, they did get screen time.

Last up we have a...well...I have no idea what this is. It's clearly pretty Geiger-esque but I can only guess as to what it is. It's got a pretty obvious booby-looking structure at the bottom but it's mirrored on the other side which is clearly not boob-like. So, I have no idea what to do with it or if it'll ever get screen time. What I can say is that it's painted and it'll count toward the total.

2024 finished mini counter: 317/208