Quickly catching up the Warhammer Quest Cursed City progress from my BATG posts (from 2023, 2024, and now 2025):
Finally at the half-way mark. Too bad I started with the easy stuff!! 
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Working on the second half…
~N
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Looks like a fun project, cant wait to see updates on the Mountain King’s Tomb and the underway 
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Ah well, that big project is your namesake and is ongoing… but slow. Been focusing on behind the scenes details for it (artwork, animations, etc) 
There will be updates at some point, but not until there’s more significant progress!
~N
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It has been a couple of years since I posted any updates on Karak Morgrim. Progress is slow, but on-going.
Working on the area of the cabinet that houses most of the Daemons… it’s much more cramped than the other areas, simply because the current Daemon Lord models are so large. I still have the old metal Great Unclean One, which looks very small by comparison, but I’ve left space in there for the new one if I ever decide to upgrade.
The black strips of bristle board are cut to the unit size needed for Warhammer Quest. I have those so I can ensure that as I build I’m maintaining the space needed for the models!!
I had some spare Daemonette pieces and a Slaanesh mirror that I combined so it looks like the Daemonettes are coming out of the mirror (lower left), next to where the Daemonettes will be placed, I’m waiting on a couple of plastic Bloodletters to arrive so I can carve them up and make them look like they’re emerging from the central portal, and I had several spare plastic Screamers that I have emerging from the Tzeentch portal. I still have a Flamer I’m working on that’ll be coming though that portal as well. All but the Slaanesh portal are infinity portals (mirrored back and a two way mirror in front).
The central portal is still a little dark so I need to increase the brightness in there for this to pop out. Here’s a tumbnail of the linked video to the first powered test:
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I still have some work to do inside that central portal, including hiding the LED light sources better behind some stalagmites so that you can’t see them straight-on, but so that they’re also blocked from direct view of the mirror at the back. The top surface is just a strip of holographic foil paper that came as backing material in one of my kids’ toys 5+ years ago.
With this I logged day 171 of the build, which occurred 2460 days after starting the project back in late 2018!! haha
~N
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I’ve had the Warhammer Quest doorway up in my games room for years now…
But it has always felt unfinished. The original doorway arch is great (thanks eastern-empire for the reference image):
But there’s also this reference from the game’s dungeon cards:
… so I think it’s time to combine the two. I spent some time with Power Point, putting in reference shapes and dimensions so I could block out roughly what was needed and then modify the proportions to match a normal interior door.
Top: reference image and key tracings
Middle: the dimensions of the gaming room door and the distorted proportions of the tracing
Bottom: modifying the proportions of the original and estimating what the door will look like once completed without the arch (and it’ll be mirrored)
The door is original to the house, ~120 years old now so I’m not going to modify the door. Instead I cut foam that holds itself in place within the door panels just with pressure (it’s a snug fit) and then I used small screws and cleats to hold these in place. The XPS foam isn’t strong, but it gives me a surface for hot glue to mount the face of the rest of the foam to!
Printed out the approximate widths that I need to match the new proportions of the boards and marked some guide lines with a Sharpie.
Once cut they were a bit longer than needed for the door.
To cut them to the correct height I put some shims under the door and rested the boards on them, then traced the top of the door frame and trimmed the foam – although what I’m not showing is that the doorframe has an additional inset frame for the door that requires I bring everything in by 1/4" around the top and sides.
Maybe the only clever thing I’ll come up with for this is that cell window… I realized that the new dimensions and placement would be ideal for a spare shadowbox I had laying around!! NICE. To start off with it’ll just be a black background, but if I leave the face of it magnetized I could have it setup to be able to swap out various diorama displays in the future!
I made sure to mark on the door as I’ll need to add some additional mounting for the shadowbox to ensure it’s stable as I don’t want to add any weight to what the XPS foam will be holding up!
At least I’m not stuck sitting around with nothing to do 
~N
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Day 2 of the new doorway.
The doorway requires metal studs for the door as well as additional fasteners for the hinges and frame for the opening. I found a good hammered nail head on thingiverse and scaled it up, then printed a bunch out. We had some left over ‘forged metal’ spray paint from a project on the old house about 10+ years ago that was perfect for the job!
^Those are going to look NICE once they’re in place!!
Next up was some very basic carving of the foam to make the pieces look like wood. I took them out to the workshop to finish them up. They all needed a light sanding to break the surface at bit, which will help them hold acrylic paint. I also used some drywall filler to address a few spots where the sanding paper caught or where there were unintended marks from shipping and the warehouse before it was bought. I also patched the small gaps where I had to extend the pieces. The filler will get one more sanding once its dry.
… getting excited now!
~N
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New doorway. Day 3.
Working inside to outside laying each of the panels and affixing each one to the supports in the door and to each of previous board after the first. I also cut in the shape of the shadow box as I went as well. I was thinking I’d have to figure out some kind of fancy mounting system to hold the frame, but it’s satisfyingly snug and I’m not worried in the least of it falling out given the thickness of the foam supports.
All of the pieces in place and some rough trimming (it is still a door after all).
The doorway before painting the door frame.
I also magnetized a small piece to sit over top of the deadbolt. With the need to paint the doorframe this is the first time in over 8 years that the doorway has been taken down - feels weird!! I also forgot how heavy the columns are
~N
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Working on the embellishments
To get the correct hinge design for the hinges I traced the image in PowerPoint (my usual method) and then resized the tracing so it would print as large as possible on a sheet of paper (8½" x 11"). Only half would fit on a sheet so I printed it as-is and flipped it over while tracing on some 0.06" plastic (1.52 mm). From the scraps I also cut the points for the window/picture frame.
I sprayed the plastic pieces with primer (along with some thick tubing for the hinge attachments). After looking at the dried pieces (left) I decided that the forged metallic paint compared to the door it was all looking too light. I took the pieces back out and sprayed black primer from a distance so it gave everything a light coating. The final pieces look MUCH better!
Since the tubes for the hinges are hollow I want to at least cap the tops so that they look solid. I traced out the end and then trimmed around the line with clippers. I then used a blade to shave away the edges so it looks like it was hammered (same thing I did on the hinge plates and the points for the frame).
On to the door
Starting with the fully primed door I layered up from the black undercoat 6 additional paint colours: dark brown, mid-brown, brown, pale-orange brown, orange brown, and finally orange with light brown for highlights.
After adding the rivets and the frame into the door we’re nearing completion!
The small piece for overing up the deadbolt is held on with magnets. The magnets are glued in with urethane glue, then I added some book binding tape over the surface of the magnets so they can’t come into contact and to cushion the magnets when they click together. It looks obvious.. but that was conscious since I felt like it was always going to be obvious that it’s there.
The finished doorway with the surrounding pieces re-installed:
~N
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