Custom Modular Board

[chaoticprime]

UPDATE 5/1/13

Okay, so I actually built the board awhile ago, out of resin bricks. I then decided to modify it to make the rooms interchangeable. As I had only attached the bricks to the base, and done a quick n' dirty paint up, it was not that big of a deal.



Here it is with some of its naughty bits showing.



Here is the only room-tile that is finished and painted.



I plan to make every single possible room (hence the modular design). The only optional piece I have started on, however, is Grin's Crag, as shown in the below three pictures.

[Goblin-King]

The tiles are very nice, but promise me you won't make as huge gaps as they did in those pictures! Is it like 3 mm between each tile?!

Looking forward to the pics

[chaoticprime]

Those are some excessively wide gaps--I agree. Do you have any good resources for doors?

[Goblin-King]

Why not just use the HQ doors?
If you are going to sculpt doors from plaster or resin I predict them falling easily over. You'd have to invent a system to attach the doors to the board.
Or have you already considered this?

[chaoticprime]

I had thought to fit the bottom of the doors with thin and durable plastic that would slide between the tiles.

[Big Bene]

As the board is modular, you can just place the door between the rooms, or even make one-square door tiles.
On the the HQ-cooperation site (where you got the moulds), they also show their "enhanced" fixed HQ board here, including their way to put in the doors.

[Goblin-King]

I have often thought about using 1-tile-doors when daydreaming of 3D boards. The problem as I see it, is that it jacks up the line of sight and fighting through doorways rules.
Haven't we all tried putting the barbarian in front of a door with the dwarf and wizard armed with spear and staff on each side of him? Stuff like this gets a little wonky with 1-tile-doors. (in my opinion)

[knightkrawler]

The tiles are very nice, but promise me you won't make as huge gaps as they did in those pictures! Is it like 3 mm between each tile?!

That's because then you can put additional walls wherever you want and to keep it all in a grid, else it would be very distorted.
The walls at 3mm are as thin as possible, methinks.

[Goblin-King]

That makes kinda sense. But if I were to make a board like that I'd rather "just" cut a little of the tiles where there were supposed to be walls. Kinda like on the actual board where the walls just overlap the tiles.

[chaoticprime]

Instead of a modular board, I think I am going to make a full board--the larger spaces were really the incentive, not modularity.