Mausoleum

Another MDF kit from Sarissa to enhance the graveyard encounters in Perilous Tales and other figures games.  Just 9cm square (plus the steps) so nice and compact, and perfect as a small temple or mausoleum.

The MDF kit uses cardboard for the roof and for the middle columns on the three walls, building up the base and capital using a few pieces to give it more depth.  The kit ingeniously used narrow pieces of MDF along the corners to represent fluting on the columns.  After priming, it looked like this.

I drybrushed with greys and white before adding separate washes of umber and green to represent dirt and moss/lichen.

I added a strip of cardboard along the pitch of the roof, painted it copper and then tarnished with a wash of turquoise.

The vines are embroidery thread soaked in watered-down PVA and then teased apart with tweezers to form thinner branches growing along the brickwork.  Two different shades of flock form the leaves.  Tufts of grass were applied around the base with some fallen leaves collected around the steps.

Using image software, I created small mosaics and printed them on to glossy card and fitted them to the door and building pediments.

The larger has a pair of dragons in the foreground, the smaller a capital D.  So who on earth could be resting in this mausoleum...?

The roof is removable so the occupant of the crypt can be hidden inside ready to leap out on our unsuspecting heroes.  Back to painting figures now ready for a game using this piece of scenery.