Grand Staircase - Central Staircase

I've built the central staircase first. The reason is that this is the piece that will be used in multiple configurations. Therfore I'll use it to to make sure that it is working with the other pieces the way I expect it to.

Something I haven't mention is that I haven't attached the railings to the any of the pieces. I plan to do that once I have them all built.

Grand Staircase - Work in Progress (WIP)

 A couple of years ago I got my hands on a couple pieces of styrofoam that screamed at me "Tower Keep"! This was before I got into the brick building I am doing now.  So a few months ago I decided I should finish making that stryrofoam in to the tower, I thought to myself, I can build a staircase and put a door on it, you know, make it cooler than just painting it grey and being done with it.

So as I started making the stairs, it quickly grew into something much larger than what the tower called for and decided that the tower was going to be just the beginning of the keep. As I fiddled around with the design of the staircase I realized that I could make it modular, we could use different configurations of different pieces.

As part of that modularity I found 1/4'' cubed magnets and have cast them into certain brick molds in order to have the various pieces stay together without fear of them falling over and breaking. More on that as I progress.

So here's the first picture of the vision of the Grand Staircase in it's entirety and unglued.

 Looking at the picture below, you can see the division of the major pieces. Broken into 3 large components; left stair, right stair, and central floor. The idea is that we can remove the top stairs and and use just the left stair and top stair, or put the left and right stairs together and set the top stair on that. There will obviously be a few other pieces to make to give it a complete look and you will see this as I build it up.

Away we go!



   It's been awhile since I've posted. I have been building and casting but the things I've been working on are all predesigned constructs from Hirst Arts. I mostly did o to hone my skill and learn the ins and outs of casting and building. They were fun to build but far from anything great. I've built a Bridge (complete with Cthullhu statues), a Gallows/Guillotene, and a Teleport circle or Stargate, whatever you want to call it. Pictures below.

   Now I'm starting on a couple of original projects and plan to post as I design and build. The first is a grand staircase that is modular. This came from the desire to finish another project that this will ultimately be part of but can be used for other purposes in gaming.

   The second is an ultimate DM screen for gaming. It'll be similar to the one WotC offered a few years ago but bigger. It'll take som time and a lot more casting to finish but ultimately worth it.

Here are a few pictures from the previously mentioned projects.

This is what I call the Bridge of Madness. The statues on them are Cthullhu markers from a Call of Cthullhu game by Fantasy Flight Games and were a perfect size for this.

 Here's the approach.

The Teleport circle we call the Onyx Gate. This picture is not a completed picture. The final has some acane symbols scrolled around the gate.

The last is the Gallows platform.I've also bought a blackhooded excutioner from Reaper Miniatures that I'll eventually paint to go with it.

The other I haven't mentioned it the corner tower piece from the modular wall project I mentioned awhile back. Haven't gotten pictures of it. I'll post those later. As part of that project, I have started designing the gatehouse for it.