15mm Doors from Ral Partha Europe

 Not the most exciting post, perhaps, but my early activities this year are all about accessorising my games in free moments, because life is otherwise very busy. One thing I have wanted for a while is some doors for use while exploring dungeons. Ral Partha Europe has some as part of their Terraincards series that the furniture I posted about a couple of weeks ago came from. These come in two flavours.

The rustic doors are standard wooden doors that would not look out of place in a dungeon or as part of a typical medieval house. They are wooden doors with a bolt, a wooden lintel and a wooden frame.

The stone arch doors are for fancier dwellings or dungeons. They are arched doors set in a stone surround.

Both types of door come on a small lasercut, 3mm thick plywood card that you need to press or cut them out from. Each card has eight doors. They are set up so that four have the hinges on the left side and four have the hinges on the right side, so that you can glue them together to make a single door with each side having hinges on the same side or just glue them to a structure for making houses.

I bought two of each card and made eight freestanding doors of each type by gluing them together and sticking them to 15mm square mdf bases so that I can place them where needed on a 2D or 2.5D dungeon floorplan. This will let me keep track of open and closed doors more easily. The paint job is nothing special, but coloured in is better than not. I feel sure that they will look fine on the table. Time to start planning a dungeon bash.

Bonus pic for those that could be bothered to read this far:

Paper and plywood terrain in action

The bold adventurers tied their pack horses to the ominously fresh gravestones that stood near the door of the creepy castle ruled by Prince Killemall. They opened the double doors into a large pillared hallway. Ahead stood double doors ajar as if the servants were too slapdash to close them again after passing through. To either side were closed doors. Who knew what horrors lay beyond? Or what treasures?