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[Lawgiver]

This is a WIP shot of a dragon I'm working on. He is the center of attention for a convention game I'm running in April. My question is, should I put him in a stone cave or go the extra step and do an ice cave? On the one hand stone can be easily recycled for other scenarios/games, but on the other ice has cool factor...

[dargrin]

Well I am partial to stone. So if asked that is my vote. However I could easily see it in either.

[mousekiller]

Ice would look so much better, but will probably be so much harder.

[CuCulain42]

It sounds like you're willing to invest the time so I vote for the ice cave. Go fo the coll factor.

[TaleSpinner]

Do both.

Make the stone cave in such a way that it is water proof (i.e., no PVC glue and coat it in several coats of varnish). Then, before your game, add snow and ice using water soluble Christmas flocking and/or royal icing (the kind of frosting use for Gingerbread Houses). Then after your game you can wash off the ice and have a stone cave.

TS

[Stubbdog]

I'd say go for both too, but just carving it out in the foam (assuming that you are using foam to create it). Going from a rough rock, to crystal shard like stylagtites and such

That would look very cool to have the light blue crystally shards jutting out of dark rough rocky cave.

[Lawgiver]

I'm using foam. I cut out about a dozen or so stalagmitesthe other night (several more to go). I'm going to leave them freestanding so that I can rearrange the terrain as needed.

[ReaperShaun]

How about doing stone but have the area he (or she) is standing be turned to ice from the frigid cold that radiates from the dragon itself?