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Post by jennifer on Feb 29, 2016 21:46:31 GMT
BookshelvesThere is a Frostgrave scenario called "The Library" which calls for " a maze of corridors representing the vast shelves". Uhh, this means I need maybe a couple dozen bookshelves! I watched the video on TheDMGInfo making the bookshelves with popsicle sticks. I am doing it this way with a modification. To save cutting time, assembly time and cost of popsicle sticks, I am using medium weight chipboard for the backing. I cut all sticks 2 inches long. And I cut the chipboard at 2" tall x 2 1/8" wide -- I use a paper cutter to quickly do this. I hot glue the bottom two pieces together and then hot glue that onto the bottom part of the chipboard. From this point on I use Alene's Tacky Glue. Let me know what you think -- would appreciate some feedback before I go on to make like 24 of them. (The photo below is of one that is still drying -- once dry I'll smooth the rough edges with sand paper -- and fill in any places with a filler if needed.) For the books I intend on putting pieces of rigid insulation in representing rows of book (i'll etch the foam quickly and easily generating each book). ON some rows I'll either start or end the row with a hand crafted book or two (using TheDMGInfo's video on bookmaking).
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Post by margaret on Feb 29, 2016 22:08:28 GMT
That should work well. I have made rows of books like that in the past. You can paint the spines various colors or do runs of a single color for a set of volumes - the complete works of Arglebargle the Atlantean Sage. If you want to vary this with shallower shelves, Michaels sells a narrower popsicle stick and Smart & Final has a wooden coffee stirrer equivalent.
However, since you need a LOT of shelves, it would be easiest to proceed with the type you have and mass-produce the shelves and books.
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Post by jennifer on Feb 29, 2016 22:11:27 GMT
Rows of BooksTwo pieces of dollar tree foam glued together and a couple minutes of etching -- was really fast. about 1 15/16" wide, and 1/2" tall. Let me know what you think. I can probably straighten up the lines between the books -- I'll probably use a straight edge as guide next time.
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Post by jennifer on Feb 29, 2016 22:12:36 GMT
That should work well. I have made rows of books like that in the past. You can paint the spines various colors or do runs of a single color for a set of volumes - the complete works of Arglebargle the Atlantean Sage. If you want to vary this with shallower shelves, Michaels sells a narrower popsicle stick and Smart & Final has a wooden coffee stirrer equivalent. However, since you need a LOT of shelves, it would be easiest to proceed with the type you have and mass-produce the shelves and books. I get a huge bag of popsicle sticks from the dollar tree for $1. It's about 1 cm deep -- I actually need them this wide because the Frostgrave rule book says the minis can stand on them (and 1 cm is pushing it). Is how you etched your's about like what I did above?
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Post by jennifer on Feb 29, 2016 22:19:01 GMT
Rows of Books -- Color Laser Prints?
I'm thinking this is gonna take a long time to paint the books lol. Thinking about just printing out the rows of books and glue to the flat foam inside each shelf. That would save tons of time. I have 24 to make lol.
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Post by margaret on Feb 29, 2016 22:21:39 GMT
Mine were made quite a few years ago - long before the days of cheap and easy to find foamcore - so I used chunks of Sculpey. But I think your top crease for the edge of the spine works very well.
Sculpey lets you do a bit more modeling on the top side for the pages and covers effect, but I wouldn't use it these days. Too expensive for this purpose and rather heavy for tall shelves with a narrow base.
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Post by margaret on Feb 29, 2016 22:33:27 GMT
You can download a paper model of a bookcase with rows of books you could print to use on your shelves at [http://www.d4d6d8d10d12d20.com/2010/09/free-bookcase-paper-model.html]. And there should be plenty you can scale on sites for other modeling.
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Post by jennifer on Mar 1, 2016 0:27:57 GMT
Bookshelf -- Hand Crafted but with color laser printed book rows.I decided most rows of books will be color laser prints. I've been collecting images (using google image) of rows of books. And resizing them just to fit the shelves exactly. I want to collect about a dozen different row images so my library will have a good variety of books without looking too repetitive. (Once I have compiled the set of dozen unique book rows, I'll share a link to that image file here.) Every so often a shelf will have hand crafted books using TheDMGInfo's book making technique. I'll also have the pile of hand crafted books on the floor as the Frostgrave scenario also requests. Here's my first bookshelf made of popsicle sticks painted epresso brown and dry brushed with burnt umber then golden honey. Popsicle sticks are 2 inches long. Chipboard backing is 2" x 2 1/8". Book rows are just a hair over half inch in height and 1.97 inches width. I adhered them to 2 layers of dollar tree foam then smashed em down a bit. (used spray adhesive to adhere the paper to foam and hot glue to adhere the 2 pieces of foam). Foam book rows are a friction fit so I can change them up later to my liking if I desire. Here's the photo:
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Post by curufin on Mar 1, 2016 1:38:28 GMT
Rows of Books -- Color Laser Prints? I'm thinking this is gonna take a long time to paint the books lol. Thinking about just printing out the rows of books and glue to the flat foam inside each shelf. That would save tons of time. I have 24 to make lol. You can do fast books without painting .... Speed Reading
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Post by Sleepy Hollow Mike on Mar 1, 2016 4:11:08 GMT
BookshelvesThere is a Frostgrave scenario called "The Library" which calls for " a maze of corridors representing the vast shelves". Uhh, this means I need maybe a couple dozen bookshelves! I watched the video on TheDMGInfo making the bookshelves with popsicle sticks. I am doing it this way with a modification. To save cutting time, assembly time and cost of popsicle sticks, I am using medium weight chipboard for the backing. I cut all sticks 2 inches long. And I cut the chipboard at 2" tall x 2 1/8" wide -- I use a paper cutter to quickly do this. I hot glue the bottom two pieces together and then hot glue that onto the bottom part of the chipboard. From this point on I use Alene's Tacky Glue. Let me know what you think -- would appreciate some feedback before I go on to make like 24 of them. (The photo below is of one that is still drying -- once dry I'll smooth the rough edges with sand paper -- and fill in any places with a filler if needed.) For the books I intend on putting pieces of rigid insulation in representing rows of book (i'll etch the foam quickly and easily generating each book). ON some rows I'll either start or end the row with a hand crafted book or two (using TheDMGInfo's video on bookmaking). Here is an idea I tried and it seemed to work for that scenario! Instead of individual book shelves I took a piece of foam and put shelves all along its front and capped each end! Basically a huge book shelf! Sure saved time and when the books were installed looked great!
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Post by Sleepy Hollow Mike on Mar 1, 2016 4:12:06 GMT
Rows of BooksTwo pieces of dollar tree foam glued together and a couple minutes of etching -- was really fast. about 1 15/16" wide, and 1/2" tall. Let me know what you think. I can probably straighten up the lines between the books -- I'll probably use a straight edge as guide next time. LOL And that is exactly how I did the copious amount of books needed
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Post by jennifer on Mar 1, 2016 5:17:19 GMT
BookshelvesThere is a Frostgrave scenario called "The Library" which calls for " a maze of corridors representing the vast shelves". Uhh, this means I need maybe a couple dozen bookshelves! I watched the video on TheDMGInfo making the bookshelves with popsicle sticks. I am doing it this way with a modification. To save cutting time, assembly time and cost of popsicle sticks, I am using medium weight chipboard for the backing. I cut all sticks 2 inches long. And I cut the chipboard at 2" tall x 2 1/8" wide -- I use a paper cutter to quickly do this. I hot glue the bottom two pieces together and then hot glue that onto the bottom part of the chipboard. From this point on I use Alene's Tacky Glue. Let me know what you think -- would appreciate some feedback before I go on to make like 24 of them. (The photo below is of one that is still drying -- once dry I'll smooth the rough edges with sand paper -- and fill in any places with a filler if needed.) For the books I intend on putting pieces of rigid insulation in representing rows of book (i'll etch the foam quickly and easily generating each book). ON some rows I'll either start or end the row with a hand crafted book or two (using TheDMGInfo's video on bookmaking). Here is an idea I tried and it seemed to work for that scenario! Instead of individual book shelves I took a piece of foam and put shelves all along its front and capped each end! Basically a huge book shelf! Sure saved time and when the books were installed looked great! Have any photos of it?
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Post by Sleepy Hollow Mike on Mar 1, 2016 6:24:03 GMT
Let me take a look I usually sell the stuff afterwards but I may have at least pics of the game we had!
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Post by jennifer on Mar 1, 2016 6:26:53 GMT
Bookshelf -- Take TwoSince I've been enlighted by curufin's " Speed Reading" method to making books, and in addition getting some gorgeously carved popsicle sticks in the mail from curifin, I've redone both the bookshelf and books. I'm a lot happier with this now Had some nicely textured cardstock (like a linen texture). Makes the book look pretty good NOt all of them have that texture though.. maybe 1/3rd. I painted on gold, silver and tan accents to the spines of like 70% of the books this round. You'll notice the top of the bookshelf is now wider, covering the two side boards--much cleaner look I'm happy with. So this means I can no longer simply cut 7 pieces at 2 inches, for the entire bookshelf. I needed 3 different sizes: a wider top and shorter sides. So what I did is figure it all out and made three "master" popsicle sticks -- with master penciled on each side -- so I could use them as cutting guides. This will make it easy to make more bookshelves.. no measuring involved.. just lay the appropriate master popsicle on top of the popsicle stick to be cut and go to town. I use alene's tacky glue for everything -- it sets fast enough and gives me time to move things around -- getting the shelves just right. Again, the back of the bookshelf is a piece of 2 inch by 2 1/8" medium weight chipboard.
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Post by pepebe on Mar 1, 2016 16:36:35 GMT
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Post by jennifer on Mar 1, 2016 20:33:32 GMT
So many bookcases to craft! And then copious amounts of books and scrolls to craft!
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Post by jennifer on Mar 2, 2016 0:19:15 GMT
Massive Library! I decided I need at least 36 bookcases -- maybe more lol. Here's 12, almost completed. I'll be gluing most of them together as back to back pairs to form library aisles. I've glued three back-to-back pairs together in the photo below. They stand up on there own very well when glued together -- being about an inch wide. The single cases will be used against walls and perhaps as row caps. I'll normally have the glued pairs sitting butted up against one another to form rows, but I separated a bit just to illustrate that they aren't permanently connected and stand freely without worry of knocking over. Thank goodness bags of 100 popsicle sticks are only $1 at the Dollar Tree. I went there today; unfortunately they only had one pack -- but it will tide me over for a short while.
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Post by jennifer on Mar 2, 2016 1:23:43 GMT
Another way to make thick books. It's easier to cut then two popsicle sticks stacked -- cuts very easily with a razor sharp pocket knife, without hardly any distortion if your knife is sharp enough. (This is a variant of Speed Reading.) Cut a strip of dollar tree foam the width of a popsicle stick. Cover with your favorite color construction paper or textured greeting card stock even. I adhere with 3M spray adhesive because I figure it'd stick to foam better than Alene's -- someone correct me if I'm wrong. Then use a very razor sharp knife to cut it. Then paint the edges with a color similar to the popsicle sticks. I used a mix of Americana Cocoa and Folk Art Linen. You can also rake the edge of your knife across the sides of the painted areas to form pages -- very convincing effect if you ask me! Here's a photo:
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Post by jennifer on Mar 2, 2016 3:35:10 GMT
ScrollsWatched a few useful videos on making scrolls, including TheDMGInfo's and Wyloch's. I also saw another one here, that was very interesting: She said she stained her paper with acrylic paint. I had only thought of using coffee for this. So I took some Americana Cocoa and watered it down a lot. I put a piece of paper (standard 20 lb white printer paper) in a glass pie dish and brushed it on with an inch wide brush. I then took some Americana Burnt Umber and water it down as well and tried to randomly apply it (need to perfect this better) to give it some dimension. Put it under the box fan in the same pie dish (after pouring out excess water) and I checked 30 mins later and it was dry. This looks promising -- this is just my first attempt. White bit of paper there just for reference. I have some butcher twine I am going to separate like Wyloch and TheDMGInfo instruct. But after I separate, I am going to paint the strands various colors like : black, red, dark green, gold, silver. Then save those bits of colored twine for when I crank out like 100 of these scrolls.
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Post by margaret on Mar 2, 2016 5:59:55 GMT
I've seen that video, but I am making scrolls using onionskin paper I have saved from long ago. Don't even know if you can get it these days. And I still prefer the tea method for aging paper.
How big are your minis? They look as tall or taller than the 2-inch bookshelves - or is that a perspective issue?
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