While waiting for
the wood glue to dry, Chad primed all of the wedding
cake pillars black. Then, he began with the ruined
column, gluing it down amidst a debris pile made from
pebbles, gravel, sand, and wood glue. Next, he sprayed
all of the MDF hardboard walls with more textured spray
paint and glued them to the insulation foam.
Chad added
debris to the four side entrances to imply a cave in
or access points to Dwarfen mines. He carefully mapped
out the placement of all the fireplaces and alcoves
before gluing them in place, minus the statues and
bitz that would be painted separately.
Chad had to hand
brush black latex house paint over areas of exposed
insulation foam before he could use spray paint, which
dissolves foam. Once the manual layer dried, he sprayed
the rest of the table, along with the statues and other
bitz.
With this undercoat in place, Chad began drybrushing
greys over the stonework and browns over the tunnel
entrances.
He continued his
drybrushing across the entire table, using lighter
greys for the columns while leaving black in the alcoves
to suggest shadow. The shots above show a few different
areas where Chad drybrushed with greys and browns.