 I'm going to make a tavern for D&D. I use Fusion360 to create a design and then laser cut the base out of foamboard. I'll make the floors, walls, roof tiles, and whatever else I need out of XPS foam or balsa wood. I made an model in Fusion 360. |
 The tavern consists of a ground floor with an outdoor staircase leading to the sleeping area and two large rooms, one of which has a fireplace. There is also a storage space under the staircase leading to the sleeping area. |
 The first floor features a hallway and three rooms. A staircase leads to the second floor. |
 On the second floor, there are an additional 4 rooms and a long hallway. There is also a hatch leading to the large attic. |
 The attic is one big space. |
 Once the design meets my satisfaction, I laser-cut all the walls and floors from foam board. I use painter's tape to assemble everything together to check if it fits. |
 It's a bit of a puzzle, but with some patience, everything fits together. Now, it can be glued together to complete the base. I use quick-drying wood glue to attach the panels to each other. |
 II'll build the floors one by one. I'll use square balsa wood for the beams of the half-timbered house. It's nice and light and easy to cut and glue with wood glue. |
 I use push pins to keep the beams in place while they dry. |
 For all doors, windows, and gates, I use the laser again. I laser-cut basic shapes from 3mm MDF, which I later cover with balsa wood or XPS foam. |
 I'd like to have revolving doors, which involves some intricate work with small shapes and cocktail sticks. |
 Here you can see how the parts form a hinge with the help of a cocktail stick. |
 I glue the bottom and top blocks back into the door frame, and thus I have a basis for a door. |
 I finish the door with balsa wood. You can see two examples here. Then, I glue the door frames and windows into the spaces that have been precisely laser-cut in the base form. |
 I cover the inside and outside of the walls that need plastering with thin strips of balsa wood where I have applied texture. I do this texture application with a small wire brush. It's starting to resemble something already. |
 I plaster the walls with inexpensive modeling paste intended for acrylic paint. |
 In one of the rooms, I've built a fireplace. I covered the walls of the fireplace with small square pieces of XPS foam meant to represent tiles.. |
 In the rooms, wooden floors are going to be installed. I create the wood by using a small brush with metal bristles over thin strips of XPS Foam. |
 When the inside is finished, I move on to the outside. I cut small stones out of XPS foam. I apply texture to the stones by placing them in a container with rocks and then shaking the container for a while. The sharper the rocks, and the longer you shake, the more texture appears on the stones. |
 I fill the space between the stones with plaster so that it looks like the wall is grouted. |
 At the corners, I ensure that a beautiful pattern emerges. |
 Because I won't be able to reach the space under the stairs easily later on, I paint it now. |
 If you look through the door now, it looks realistic. |
 On the stairs, small planks of balsa wood are placed. I've already painted the underside of the planks in the right color beforehand. |
 Once the entire ground floor is finished, I paint it with a mixture of wood glue and black acrylic paint. This provides unity and also adds some strength to everything. The ground floor is now ready. |
 Now I'll proceed with the first floor. I create beams on top of the walls and add the doors. |
 In the hallway, there will be tiles, and the stairs are made of balsa wood, just like the inside of the window frames. |
 On the outside, there will also be beams of balsa wood at the corners. |
 Around the windows, there will also be beams, and the parts that need to remain bare will be plastered again. The chimney will be covered with stones. Like the ground floor, this floor will be painted with a mixture of wood glue and black acrylic paint when it's finished. |
 At the top of the stairs on the second floor, there will be a wooden railing. I'll laser cut the railing from thin MDF. |
 I cover the walls of the second floor with "planks". The roof also starts on this floor. |
 The interior walls are partially covered with planks and partially with plasterwork. Doors are also added here. The chimney of this section extends above the roof of the tavern. On the sections above, there is no chimney, but rather a hole in the roof so that it neatly surrounds the chimney. The roof tiles are made of scalloped strips of XPS Foam. These strips overlap partially to form a beautiful roof. |
 It takes some work to make the second and third floors align nicely. The tiles are sealed at the sides with a thick beam of XPS Foam. |
 Once this floor is finished, only the small roof that goes on top of the attic remains. Here too, everything must fit together neatly. |
 I'll paint the last three parts simultaneously. I want to see first if everything fits nicely. |
 Now the last three parts can also be painted. |
 Now everything can be painted in the right color. That's a tremendous amount of work. |
 The left and right views. |
 The colors are quite dull now, so I'll apply a wash over all parts to make it look more natural. I'll also add some moss, grass, and ivy. |
 It looks so charming! |
 Dots have been applied on the floors to create squares of approximately 2.5 by 2.5 cm. Now, the fighting can begin. |
 You can also see the dots here. On the right, you can also see the hatch in the attic floor. The attic can be accessed via the landing on the second floor (here, on the left). |
  In the fireplace, small sticks are glued. Below these sticks is a bright LED. This LED is connected to a small battery with a switch hidden in the space under the stairs. When it's dark and the switch is on, it looks like the fireplace is cheerfully burning.I'm very pleased with the result. |