The wall that turns.
I used my custom Fieldstone Wall Builder mold and experimented on the cast I made. Just to see how it would look I used a fine saw and cut out the secret passage. This was quite simple but the problem here is that I had to make the opposite side as well. By doing so, the stones structure turned out bad because where the natural form of the entrance existed on one side, it did not do so on the other side. Another problem was the possible friction that could occur between the wall and the door itself. The cut of the saw was thin and straight there where actually I would like to have a hollow or round cut when seen from above. To make it more understandable the wall and door section looks like this when seen from above;
===wall===((=door=))===wall===
Altering tactics was the next step. The door is 4 rows of normal building blocks in height. To make the secret passage I used normal Fieldstone Building blocks and sculpted the sides where blocks from the wall connected with the door (or the other way round) So for the first layer I sculpted 4 blocks to get the connection wall-door and door wall correct I repeated this with the 3 layers that followed. The 4th layer was a bit more difficult since I choose an arch type of layout that actually break while sculpting it.
The sculpted stones (12 in total) now form a door and the wall that surrounds it. I could make a mold out of these stones to actually make a secret passage mold. But it is still to early so we went on experimenting a bit more. In the exact middle of the door I drilled 2 holes. One at the bottom and one at the top. I repeated this also in the wall so now I have holes in which I can make the door rotate. Unfortunately I could only find out if it worked by simply gluing the whole thing together. After some adjustments on some wall segments the door works.
To avoid the door from scraping over the floor and thus removing the paint over time, it is essential to use a round piece of wood in the under side of the door that sticks out a bit more than ¼” .This ¼” is for going through the tile that is underneath the door. Because the part that sticks out is a bit more then ¼” the door gets lifted a bit avoiding to scrape over the dungeon floor.
Assembling the secret passage made me find out that this type of passage is a bit too complicated to simply mold it and glue it all together. Adjustments have to be made and so this is just a first of a possible 4 secret passages I want to try out. When a passage works I will mold it since my future dungeon must be full with these things.
