The stairs on the Battle Systems terrain look great, but you do need a bit of space to accommodate them. As a workaround, decided to make up some climbing ropes to provide accessibility to higher levels of the dungeon where stairs won't fit.
First up, using wire cutters I started by carefully cutting a '+' clip in to 4 pieces, and trimming the edges as shown.
Next up I filed the edges down a little to smooth where the wire cutters had snipped.
After this i covered the pieces in masking tape. Needed to drill holes using my pin vice and this stops the pin vice from sliding around.
Holes drilled in each of the part plastic clips, just behind where it 'grips' on to the card.
Tape removed, holes expanded a little more using a sharp hobby knife and lengths of kitchen twine tied through.
This step may seem overkill, but I wanted my ropes to hang downwards and not curl randomly back in on themselves, so I tied a weight to the end of each length of twine and soaked them in watered down PVA. As this was still not providing the desired effect when it was dry i then brushed them down with super glue.
Once the glue had dried I stained the ropes using a sponge and some watered down ink wash, then gave it a light coat light brown of paint once that had dried.
Ropes were then trimmed to length, coated in super glue at the end to stop the rope fraying, and installed as per the above image.
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