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Miscellaneous => The Sallyport => Topic started by: Sir Wolf on 2012-02-12, 01:47:55
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http://offbeathome.com/2012/02/game-room-inspiration (http://offbeathome.com/2012/02/game-room-inspiration)
how would you lay out your secret man cave dragons lair?
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It needs more armour. ;D
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Agreed! Still, the room has great bones. Thinking I should finish the basement...
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I love it. But I agree, it needs more swords and armor and the like. One little rack of weapons off to the side doesn't cut it.
I think more of that shelf space should be displaying period manuscripts and medieval artwork too, in addition to lots of books. :)
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I remember seeing this years back. I never did see pics of it with the smoke/fog machine or anything else "operational". I love the stone walls though.
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I do have to say though, it's a wondeful foundation for something that could be great. :)
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A few additional pics here:
http://www.acaeum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8714 (http://www.acaeum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8714)
I'm wondering what the "stone" in the walls is made out of. I think they're a little bright and don't have enough contrast with the "mortar" lines between them. For my taste, anyway. But in any case, it's beautifully done.
I need to do something like this for an armory room eventually. :)
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The stone looks like either cast "surface" stones, like the kinds you'd put over top of a concrete block wall, or possibly just a very thick layer of stucco that he used a bricklayer's mortar tool to scribe the mortar lines, then stippled the "stones" with a brush. Those were the two "practical" ways I came up with back when I was castle-build-planning many years ago.
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This is the stuff I would use.
http://www.culturedstone.com/photos/6/houses-interior.aspx#123 (http://www.culturedstone.com/photos/6/houses-interior.aspx#123)
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tile, not a bad way to go!
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I'll be keeping this for inspirational purposes...I think it is time for me to start planning that sort of thing. I know, I know...I'm the world's worst at starting stuff. RK, love that tile...love it. Wow.
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One idea I had was to do it the way people make stone facades for Halloween displays. Basically, screw 1/4" plywood panels onto the wall (so they're removable), and then glue onto them "stone" slabs made from foamboard. The foam can be cut and shaped pretty easily with the right tools, and can be roughened up on the surface with spray-paints (they "eat" the foam to some degree). This keeps the panels light-weight and removable, and they can still be painted with latex paints to look very real.
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glue will eat that foam too!! foamwould be so much cheaper i think.
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It depends on the glue. Liquid nails or silicone should be safe to use.
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tile, not a bad way to go!
It's actually cultured stone. Looks very real in person. We're using some of it in the office.
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tile, not a bad way to go!
It's actually cultured stone. Looks very real in person. We're using some of it in the office.
It looks great. Any idea on the pricing? I don't see it on the website.
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Another option:
http://www.fauxpanels.com/ (http://www.fauxpanels.com/)
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This is the stuff I would use.
http://www.culturedstone.com/photos/6/houses-interior.aspx#123 (http://www.culturedstone.com/photos/6/houses-interior.aspx#123)
I had one of their sample books about 15 years ago. Good stuff, and they even have one called "castle stone". :)
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This is a more expensive option, but there are some Halloween vacuum-formed wall panels here (scroll down a bit for the "cathedral" walls and so on):
http://www.hauntedprops.com/Vacuform-Wall-Panels-Halloween-Props-s/73.htm (http://www.hauntedprops.com/Vacuform-Wall-Panels-Halloween-Props-s/73.htm)
And here's a Halloween display that someone did on his house/yard in Leesburg a few years ago, using the foam-board method (the realism varied):
http://makaabe.necrobones.com/gallery.html (http://makaabe.necrobones.com/gallery.html)
Another panel option:
http://www.textureplus.com/stone/ (http://www.textureplus.com/stone/)
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Very want!!!! 8)
(http://makaabe.necrobones.com/photos/2006/42.jpg)
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Yeah, he did a great display for Halloween. It was pretty crazy, he needed a 30' storage unit to store what he couldn't fit in his basement and garage. :) But it was fantastic. The "stone" facade covered the entire length of the front of his house, with the large castle entrance in front of the garage. He had a walk-through haunt, then went through the garage and around the back yard, with a whole walled-in yard area. Very elaborate for a home-haunt.
BTW, here's another faux stone panel option-- they're more expensive (though the cost per square foot could be similar), but also much larger panels (4'x8'), which will make the repeating pattern less noticeable:
http://www.fauxstonesheets.com/store/c/2-Urestone-Panel-Series.aspx (http://www.fauxstonesheets.com/store/c/2-Urestone-Panel-Series.aspx)
I'm posting a lot of these for my own reference too. Eventually I'm going to need this stuff, either for a room in the house, or for a Halloween display. :)
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Oh man, you guys...this is AWESOME. If anyone's going to be doing up or redoing their man caves, I wanna see pics! This one sort of reminds me of some of the remains at Kerak. Not sure if it'd translate well indoors though...what do you knights think?
(http://www.textureplus.com/images/thumbnails/0/600/450/Ledgestone_Select_Gray.jpg)