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Post by skunkape on Apr 11, 2016 17:15:51 GMT
The bottle creates some great looking terrain pieces! Good job!
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Post by sgtslag on Apr 11, 2016 23:17:54 GMT
Yep! The Dip is a staining technique using MinWax Polyshades Urethane Stain. It leaves a dark stain, with a super-tough urethane coating. It is used to both stain, and seal, both mini's and terrain pieces. Do an Internet search on "The Dip technique", and you will find lots of information on it.
That looks really nice, by the way. Super easy, super fast, and very decent quality in the end, to boot. Great work -- thanks for sharing! Cheers!
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Akrid
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Post by Akrid on Apr 12, 2016 2:52:18 GMT
So I agree with anyone who thinks a wine bottle is actually superior over a wooden dowel. A. Glass is heavier than a wood, thus takes less force applied. It could even be filled with water and corked to add extra weight B. And I believe tauster may have meant this(I tend to feel you/he have/has similar thought progressions) the greater circumference means more texture gets applied before the pattern is repeated. I like how what was at hand lead to a better tool P.s. Get a LED you can suspend by it's wire to the mid point of the bottle and you got a pretty sweet lamp too, maybe put some hot glue on it to better diffuse the light. I'd go with blue to complement the green bottle
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sotf
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Post by sotf on Apr 13, 2016 21:32:30 GMT
So I'll join by saying well done pepebe, it's a beautiful idea birthed by resources at hand. I also saw mention of a wooden dowel, this was coupled with the thought of carving the wood, but wouldn't hot glue similarly applied to the dowel still function proper? Possible after a spraying with glossy enamel coating? Also sanding the ball would give it more surface area thus increasing it's adhesion to the sculpty or other such median. I have no experience with sculpty but if if takes no solubility issues with water dampening it's surface with water may be a solution.......or creat a solution again I don't know sculpty I think/hope that working with a wooden dowel or a billiard ball would create much sharper edges. I'm not sure though if this will actually enhance the effect. Apart from this, the hot glue method can also be applied to a wine bottle... The bottle took much longer to create. I guess about an hour. It also swallowed about 10 gluesticks. The advantage of the bottle is that you don't have to be very careful rolling over the clay. The ball had a tendency to break parts of the clay away. Might actually work better to use one of the cheap rolling pins rather than a wine bottle. A couple bucks would get you the pin and rings to control the thickness of it. Not to mention that you don't need to worry about potential accidents with the bottle itself because I know that I drop things a lot, and glass objects that require that much work to get set up, well, I'd be expecting that it would shatter on me and I'd be stuck cleaning up shards with pieces jabbed in...
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Post by sgtslag on Apr 14, 2016 13:20:32 GMT
Excellent point, sotf! I'd recommend your local Goodwill/thrift store for a rolling pin. Cheers!
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sotf
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Post by sotf on Apr 14, 2016 21:38:55 GMT
Excellent point, sotf ! I'd recommend your local Goodwill/thrift store for a rolling pin. Cheers! A lot of the dollar stores have them including the rings for them, and they aren't the fancier types...on top of that, thrift store rolling pins can have a lot of things wrong with them...
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