Curse of the Citadel | A Diorama Gaming Board
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Painting Fire Like a Pyromancer: A Mini-Tutorial for Flames & Light Effects
July 23, 2025
You don’t need Golden Demon painting skills to bring your dungeon terrain to life – just some paint, the right method, and your dungeon will literally glow. I’m not a pro painter either, but even with basic tools and a bit of experimentation, you can achieve impressive fire and lighting effects that elevate your scenery. Whether ...
Dungeon Stonework – Mixing Greys on a Budget
July 22, 2025
The Painting Process in 4 Steps When painting dungeon terrain in larger batches, one question quickly comes up:How do I get a convincing stone grey – without burning through my entire hobby budget?This post isn’t a step-by-step tutorial, but rather a quick documentation of how I painted the walls, stairs and door frames of my current ...
Painting Basic Tiles: Grey + Terracotta
July 6, 2025
Color-Theme Version 1:Basic Tiles two tone scheme After some consideration, I decided to paint my first Dungeon Tiles (Basic Tiles) using a two-tone scheme:The large stone tiles are done in a cool, bluish grey, while the smaller in-between tiles get a warm terracotta red-brown.This helps highlight the distinct structure of this floor set, which features two ...
Painting Basic Tiles: Grey + Terracotta
July 6, 2025Color-Theme Version 1:Basic Tiles two tone scheme After some consideration, I decided to paint my first Dungeon Tiles (Basic Tiles) using a two-tone scheme:The large stone tiles are done in a cool, bluish grey, while the smaller in-between tiles get a warm terracotta red-brown.This helps highlight the distinct structure of this floor set, which features two ...
Painting Classic Dungeon Tiles
October 25, 2024
1. Priming Black and painting the sand After priming, I painted the gaps with Desert Yellow. The light sand should provide a great contrast to the dark tiles. 2. Painting “Black” To paint the dark tiles, I mixed a lot of black with a little white. To give the dark gray more depth, I added purple. 3. Second layer ...
Painting Castle Tiles
October 25, 2024
1. Priming Black + first brown layer After applying a black primer, I applied a first coat of brown paint. 2. Some more brown spots! I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the result: So I added some more brown spots with Army Painters Oak Brown and concentrated on the areas where you can see a lot of soil and ...
Painting Basic Tiles: Grey + Terracotta
July 6, 2025Color-Theme Version 1:Basic Tiles two tone scheme After some consideration, I decided to paint my first Dungeon Tiles (Basic Tiles) using a two-tone scheme:The large stone tiles are done in a cool, bluish grey, while the smaller in-between tiles get a warm terracotta red-brown.This helps highlight the distinct structure of this floor set, which features two ...
Painting Classic Dungeon Tiles
October 25, 20241. Priming Black and painting the sand After priming, I painted the gaps with Desert Yellow. The light sand should provide a great contrast to the dark tiles. 2. Painting “Black” To paint the dark tiles, I mixed a lot of black with a little white. To give the dark gray more depth, I added purple. 3. Second layer ...
Painting Castle Tiles
October 25, 20241. Priming Black + first brown layer After applying a black primer, I applied a first coat of brown paint. 2. Some more brown spots! I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the result: So I added some more brown spots with Army Painters Oak Brown and concentrated on the areas where you can see a lot of soil and ...
Painting Classic Dungeon Tiles
October 25, 20241. Priming Black and painting the sand After priming, I painted the gaps with Desert Yellow. The light sand should provide a great contrast to the dark tiles. 2. Painting “Black” To paint the dark tiles, I mixed a lot of black with a little white. To give the dark gray more depth, I added purple. 3. Second layer ...
Painting Castle Tiles
October 25, 20241. Priming Black + first brown layer After applying a black primer, I applied a first coat of brown paint. 2. Some more brown spots! I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the result: So I added some more brown spots with Army Painters Oak Brown and concentrated on the areas where you can see a lot of soil and ...
Painting Lava Tiles
July 12, 2024
A little documentation of how I painted my Lava Tiles. I hope it helps you to paint your own. Maybe my documentation is also a good suggestion for a completely different painting of your own!
Painting Castle Tiles
October 25, 20241. Priming Black + first brown layer After applying a black primer, I applied a first coat of brown paint. 2. Some more brown spots! I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the result: So I added some more brown spots with Army Painters Oak Brown and concentrated on the areas where you can see a lot of soil and ...
Painting Lava Tiles
July 12, 2024A little documentation of how I painted my Lava Tiles. I hope it helps you to paint your own. Maybe my documentation is also a good suggestion for a completely different painting of your own!
My Temple Diorama Built with 3D-Printed Dungeon Tiles
July 18, 2025
From Test Build to Full Layout – My Modular Temple Board Journey This project began as a simple experiment: placing two freestanding temple structures made from my modular “Curse of the Citadel” 3D-printable dungeon tile set on a classic grass-matted gaming board measuring 210 x 140 cm. I wanted to see how well these tiles would ...
Storage – the foundation for setup creations!
February 4, 2025
Keeping all the parts of the set well sorted means that you can quickly find the parts you need. This not only allows for a quick build-up, but also a lot of fun when creating a new layout!I always try to sort the parts back when disassembling a setup and have now developed a fixed ...
Great Hall Dungeon Setup Guide
February 3, 2025
Welcome to the first setup guide for a “Cursed Citadel” Dungeon Map. The modular dungeon board consists of 7 areas (A-G). As these are only connected by doors and stairs, the individual areas can be easily pulled apart and moved separately. Below you will find a small assembly documentation for each area, so that you can ...
Great Hall Dungeon Setup Guide
February 3, 2025Welcome to the first setup guide for a “Cursed Citadel” Dungeon Map. The modular dungeon board consists of 7 areas (A-G). As these are only connected by doors and stairs, the individual areas can be easily pulled apart and moved separately. Below you will find a small assembly documentation for each area, so that you can ...
Great Hall Dungeon Setup Guide
February 3, 2025Welcome to the first setup guide for a “Cursed Citadel” Dungeon Map. The modular dungeon board consists of 7 areas (A-G). As these are only connected by doors and stairs, the individual areas can be easily pulled apart and moved separately. Below you will find a small assembly documentation for each area, so that you can ...
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Create Dungeon Maps | Elements Concept
Basic…Scenery…and Special Scenery…
Floor Elements
Basic Floors
Dungeon stone and brick tiles
Bottom View with Diorama Sockets and round magnets
Bottom view with round magnets
Scenery Floors
Contaminated pit
Huge Pillar Floor Elements
Pillar Detail
Wall Elements
Basic Walls
Wall Fill Element Collection
Scenery Walls
Bricked Door
Doors and Placeholder
Doors
Doors
Bottom View with Diorama Sockets and round magnets
Placeholder
Placeholder
Different views
Diorama Borders and Special Scenery
Diorama Borders
Create Diorama Look
Special Scenery
The rocky Cliff
Cliff Detail
Cliff Elements
