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Post by AnarchyDice on Apr 23, 2016 15:36:13 GMT
After a long crafting hiatus spent writing and working on a home campaign (and writing for fiverr gigs), I'm getting back into terrain crafting. Adhesive Linoleum Tiles
I grabbed a stack of 1′ by 1′ adhesive backed black linoleum tiles for real cheap. They are heavy enough to stay down and haven’t shown any warping for all the glue I’ve dumped on them. Without power tools, it will be difficult to do anything other than straight line scoring and snapping. Also, the adhesive backing is not very strong, but it does take well to pva and wood glue. Mod-Podge has decent holding power but spray adhesive certainly doesn’t work to hold aquarium rocks on there. I'm going to keep playing with using the tile as a basing material, so I'll keep you all updated on its durability as I go. A Little HouseMy little house was a pretty standard four walls, framed with scored Woodsies. I tried applying pva in a swirling motion around the entire walls for an easy stucco look, and I am very happy with the results. Everything was black-bombed with black spray-paint, and then hit with base colors plus dry-bushed highlights. After the painting was done, I applied some PVA with some simple dirty-grass flock or sand in a few places. Wherever there were gaps in the road or at the edges, I put down some base brown for dirt. Next on the crafting to-do list, I want to make some more trees, some hills, river pieces, and a backdrop of grass. Anyone know a good place to buy cheap, fake fur? I saw a cool war-gaming DIY of turning teddy-bear fur into a roll out mat of grass.
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Post by margaret on Apr 23, 2016 18:23:10 GMT
Depending on where you live, you could try Walmart. Not sure they carry fake fur, though. Or use a 40% or 50% off coupon that applies to fabric cut from a bolt at Joanns. You can download a free cell phone app that gives you a weekly coupon. The challenge will probably be to find something with the length of "fur" you need. You definitely don't want to be trying to trim the surface of a relatively long fur to the length of "grass" you need.
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Post by AnarchyDice on Apr 23, 2016 18:39:42 GMT
I have a hair clipper I could use to trim down long fur to varying lengths, if you've got one in mind that's fur length is too long.
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Post by skunkape on Apr 26, 2016 13:18:03 GMT
Nice looking terrain, AnarchyDice.
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Post by darkpath on May 3, 2016 21:56:46 GMT
Is that moss you're using, so glad if it is, I use it all the time with my tiles. Bought a cheap yet heavy duty food processor for creating really small bits of texture, still need a sifter though....That reminds me, I gotta go grind up some wood shavings!
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Post by AnarchyDice on May 4, 2016 3:29:38 GMT
Yep, I don't remember where I heard the tip, but that is just cheap green/brown moss run through a blender. If you don't mind taking a picture, what do the wood shavings look like after grinding?
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Post by darkpath on May 5, 2016 8:57:21 GMT
I'll have to get one up in the afternoon, still needs another run through the grinder, looking good so far, kind of like wood dust so far, even with the clumpy bits of shavings left over.
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Post by AnarchyDice on May 14, 2016 2:30:02 GMT
I did some more work with using the self-adhesive linoleum, trying some different floor textures to make DMScotty style tilescapes. From top left to right on down: cork, aluminum foil, nothing, foamcore (gotta get the dollar store stuff, this stuff didn't peel well), Popsicle sticks, textured wallpaper, sand, stone-textured spraypaint, and a different textured wallpaper. It all bonds really well with just plain PVA glue. I got this stuff on sale at Home Depot. I found something similar on Amazon or this one that isn't all black but is half the price. Next project is to work on turning some fake fur into a grassy terrain mat.
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Post by margaret on May 14, 2016 2:50:35 GMT
Interesting to see the results of your tests - thanks for sharing it
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Post by SpielMeisterKev! on May 15, 2016 0:17:51 GMT
Howdy,
Love the little squares... Wall paper you say?
Hmmm, Kev!
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Post by DnDPaladin on May 15, 2016 4:08:11 GMT
am i the only one not understanding the "nothing" yet there is a tile there refference ?
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Post by margaret on May 15, 2016 6:08:08 GMT
I assumed AnarchyDice meant that he didn't stick anything else on the tile before he painted it. All of the others have things besides paint stuck on to add texture options.
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Post by AnarchyDice on May 16, 2016 1:42:18 GMT
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Post by AnarchyDice on Aug 24, 2016 1:40:42 GMT
After a bit of shaky cam and nervous rambling, I've got my first terrain crafting related video up on my Youtube channel. Which one is your favorite? What should I dremel, carve, and paint up next? Would you like to see a live crafting tutorial for any of these walls or floors?
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Post by AnarchyDice on May 15, 2017 23:52:52 GMT
Been a while since I last posted, but I decided to go a different direction with the tiles. I enjoyed my Black Magic Craft style cave tiles (link to his youtube tutorial) so much that I wanted to make dungeon tiles in the same manner. The idea here is to mix that foam tile style with DMScotty's tilescape idea of only presenting walls where the distinction matters, which is right where my carved jenga blocks come in. Grabbed some 1/2" pink construction foam, pressed in a grid using a hollow triangular ruler, and cut out tiles of various sizes. For paints I base coated in black with a 50-50 mix of PVA to strengthen the surface. If I was smart I also would have flocked at this point too, but I forgot until I had already done a heavy drybrushing of dark grey. After that I hit everything with a drybrush of grey and some sponging of suede, light brown, and brown. For my blog post with more pictures, go here. All in all, I'm excited to bring these to the table to replace my old "DMScotty Original-Cardboard" tiles for more flexibility of room design, improved reusability, and an updated paint job. An example dungeon setup I threw together. The tiles marked out with a grid and pressed with an engineer's ruler (it gave the best indent shape of what I had). Note that I left on the plastic film and this turned out well as it took the pen ink with it once I had cut all the tiles to shape. I had more 1-yen pieces sitting around than pennies, so I used those, but any washer should work. I figured hot glue will be fine as I don't need aton of sheer strength on this bond, just added weight for the small tiles. The remaining foam even serves as a good painting board base with a little added parchment paper!
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Post by margaret on May 16, 2017 14:28:08 GMT
I like your dungeon - thanks for sharing it!
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Post by ageofgaming on May 16, 2017 22:12:57 GMT
Good looking Dungeon tiles
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kenosis
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Post by kenosis on May 16, 2017 23:38:14 GMT
Nicely done brotha - looks good!
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