Quote from: Doom;1045831Well, you guys have me there.

I use a plastic container for the 3 basic pieces of a DF dungeon, then a for the off pieces (curves, angle walls, and bits). Another box for water pieces, another for lava, then small boxes for shrooms and stalagmites, a clear bag for small dressing, and a card box for larger dressing.

A shelving unit holds all the minis...but overall, not nearly so impressive as you guyss'.

So you know the storage units I used can be found at Target. The battlefoam was kinda of pricey but I am not collecting any more metal minis if I can help it so I am set.

Quote from: estar;1045848I do that for my 5 sets (4x medieval building related, one dungeon resin) resin pieces but of course the dwarvenite pieces came in these flimsy cardboard boxes and plastic baggies that are torn open. So I had to come up with a scheme.

And just to show off I painted all my dungeon pieces. Took me two years before the last one was one. I enjoyed but went with pre-painted on cavern and city. However the KS5 I went back to unpainted so the result will match my DF 1 paint job and to maximize my buy.

Did you follow Stefan's painting guides?  Or did you buy painted?  I used his guide and damn the pieces I did came out amazing!

Quote from: estar;1045849So you know the storage units I used can be found at Target. The battlefoam was kinda of pricey but I am not collecting any more metal minis if I can help it so I am set.

Always buy storage for anything "off hobby".  Case in point: Reaper wants $21 for a tote that holds 90 bottles of their paint.  Meanwhile, $9 gets you a fishing tackle box with adjustable sections that is essentially identical (at Wal-Mart, in the sporting goods dept.)

Quote from: thedungeondelver;1045864Did you follow Stefan's painting guides?  Or did you buy painted?  I used his guide and damn the pieces I did came out amazing!

More or less, his instruction were very helpful. I played around before I got a specific tone I liked. But i used his paints and did the same steps. I didn't like how whitish his dungeon piece looked. Mine are a bit darker. His paint quality is A+ among the best I ever worked with. I pick up a new set of colors when he releases them.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;1045865Always buy storage for anything "off hobby".  Case in point: Reaper wants $21 for a tote that holds 90 bottles of their paint.  Meanwhile, $9 gets you a fishing tackle box with adjustable sections that is essentially identical (at Wal-Mart, in the sporting goods dept.)

Here my solution.

A wire rack thingie from AC Moore for the regular Acrylic paints.

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A lazy susan with the Dwarven Forge, Citadel Paints and other sundries. Along with my brush holder. You can see the Hirst Ars mold I used for dungeon props. A friend has the molds for bricks and buildings. It crazy how many times you have to cast to get anything useful. I use matte Mod Podge to protect the miniatures after painting.

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Finally a 3D Printed Green Devil face that I am going to paint the next time I run Tomb of Horror.

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Quote from: Doom;1045745Dayum, you went whole hog? Between the price and physically having some room issues, combined with some of those later rooms being too hard to use in sufficiently multiple scenarios, I just couldn't do it.

But they sure looked cool.

Oh huh uh, just the first six encounter areas (up to acid bath), and then I individually got some smaller stuff and encounter 15.

Quote from: Ratman_tf;1045748That's my concern about such elaborate setups. Portability. I'd want to run a dungeon like that one day, just to say I did it, (looks very nice) but for day-to-day gaming, it seem like more effort than I'd want to put in.

I've only ever used DF in our regular games maybe twice, partially because it is a pain, and partially since we only play via Hangouts it's kind of a hassle to move the camera around all the time.

Mostly it's for our kids. They love playing with the minis and tiles. We'll usually setup a dungeon while they're at school to surprise them when they get home.

We've sometimes covered sections with paper if we want to surprise them, but sometimes we just leave the rooms empty so they only see the rough shape before going in.

For storage we just buy these trays from Walmart and stack 'em up, usually filling with with related stuff to make it easier to find. Here's a composite picture of our tray-towers.

First has some minis from board games, huge minis, Dwarven Forge doors and terrain bits, and then at the very bottom are the DF city tiles.

Second is the center and left side of our minis closet. There's DF cavern water tiles at the top, plus some water tiles we did as lava, then it's three drawsers of Reaper minis, D&D pre-painted minis, and the big tubs at the bottom are more Huge stuff. The center stack has Cthulhu Wars minis on the top, then a bunch of D&D pre-painted in the next three stacks (mostly heroes & NPCs to make them easier for the kids to find).

The right size of the closet has Zombicide: Black Plague minis, then Dwarven Forge furniture bits and some stuff from the city sets (like food stands). Then it's a bunch of D&D pre-painted organized roughly by type, and at the veeery bottom are Super Dungeon Explore minis.

Finally, the last pic is entirely Dwarven Forge: first set of tubs has dungeon tiles, bottom is cavern tiles.

We're going to need another large tub or two for the new DF stuff, plus all of the Mythic Battle: Pantheon and Rising Sun minis when we finally get around to painting them (only got both board games for the minis).

Quote from: antiochcow;1046122I've only ever used DF in our regular games maybe twice, partially because it is a pain, and partially since we only play via Hangouts it's kind of a hassle to move the camera around all the time.

Wow, my whole decision making process for DF is cost-per-use (cpu). I just couldn't do it for "once or twice." My cpu for the box of painted mushrooms is down to less than a buck thanks to playing the Abyss campaign (at least until writing the unplaytested/sketched out parts got to be too much trouble for me), and the basic DF dungeon bits are likewise down to fairly low cpu (under $10, anyway). I'll by trying to use those rooms often...right now the cpu for them is around $450 (counting everything I bought, but I haven't received it yet).

My "Yuan-Ti" anathema has a cpu of $2.50. I paid $5 for it (because it was such a key monster in the God-Temple of the Yuan-Ti), and I used it in another place--bottom line, a huge snake made out of snakes just doesn't come up much, but the "cool factor" made it a must-by.

Quote from: Doom;1046446Wow, my whole decision making process for DF is cost-per-use (cpu). I just couldn't do it for "once or twice." My cpu for the box of painted mushrooms is down to less than a buck thanks to playing the Abyss campaign (at least until writing the unplaytested/sketched out parts got to be too much trouble for me), and the basic DF dungeon bits are likewise down to fairly low cpu (under $10, anyway). I'll by trying to use those rooms often...right now the cpu for them is around $450 (counting everything I bought, but I haven't received it yet).

My "Yuan-Ti" anathema has a cpu of $2.50. I paid $5 for it (because it was such a key monster in the God-Temple of the Yuan-Ti), and I used it in another place--bottom line, a huge snake made out of snakes just doesn't come up much, but the "cool factor" made it a must-by.

When we play with the kids we do our games. Even made a special sheet for them, plus WP and VP cards that they discard when taking damage. I don't know what you mean by cost per use, but we've played a crapton of games using them. That's actually the reason I got back into them: kids got interested in gaming and wanted bigger dungeons. They also play with them on their own, so they get plenty of use beyond elf games.

I have never cared for using minis in D&D.  But those sure are nice pictures.