Sloppy execution here, but a grand total of 72 "slab" shapes as symbols (randomized and whatnot) made for some interesting paving. Colour Key:ed out the bits that didn't fit the room boundaries to clear the space for the wall. Kind of circling back to Bande Desinnée aesthetics.

Symbols as contours for the paving was also way quicker than the below 15 x 5 ft corridor section. But it, too, has qualities that I enjoy. The idea of keeping modular sections as symbols is very tempting.

Absolutely never will be a sea-worthy encounter map.

But the beach is coming along nicely and I think that it, at the proper zoom level, could pull off some rather neat area map qualities.

I seem to have failed designing a ship.

Going back to front is the way to go so I will do the frame (back) and move my way up to the holly and whatnot. No contours until it's all done on top; I don't feel like to going over the stuff that needs to be blocked out with Colour Key this time.

Giving the wooden frame a hollow fill style means I get the boundaries for the norse/dwarf pattern, while also actually being able to see what I'm doing. Which is preferable at all times.

Coffee break and administrative duties await.

40% of the map in one go. Bit too high up for an encounter map but the file size wasn't too awful. For the big one I just might be able to make do with 30 pixels per square and the 70-75% jpeg quality range in post-production. I'll have my dragon-rider air assault yet!

Drop Shadow would be the ticket, as per @Loopysue's suggestion, with the addition that because sheet effects apply wholesale to all entities in a sheet you also need multiple sheets to accomodate the sense of variations in height.

Range difficulty modifiers, people.

Proably should have clarified it's for an encounter map....article! It's for an article. But also an encounter map. An article about an encounter map.

C: wine before, during, and after

The game is afoot! Breaking it into Contours and also a Surface (which helps for selecting an area to draw in).

I think I'll be adding some air width to the back: will absolutely want to be able to center symbol on the turret itself since it makes it easer to fit on the chassi, in-map. Also gonna have to add even more air because of course they had the entire alphabet's worth and F has a shorter barrel than L and this was probably a terrible idea. But it's handy to have all turrets in the same workspace.

More height also, for discrete shading around the turret.

And then...painting and decals I guess. Or maybe not decals, after all...I have seen kit hobbyists' blogs on the subject of markings, and I am not yet ready to get that bachelor's degree in tank markings methinks. Good call on layer structures, @Wyvern.

No more hijacking this thread! 😂 Will share in a seperate thread when results.