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Post by dossen on Feb 23, 2018 17:54:00 GMT
long time without see you sir! nice closet... can i ask how did you make the hinges¿? look so real! cheers! It's been slow going for a while. Besides non-hobby distractions there were also a couple of Christmas gifts that wanted my time (a nice big chimera from GW and an Ork Deff Dread) and then a bunch of space marine kits wanted to be put together. Mostly just grey plastic at this point though. But on to your question: The hinges are from grey stuff. I take a tiny bit, roll it to a sausage, flatten the sausage (water on a granite kitchen table is nice for this, but any surface you can get it off again works). The tricky bit is peeling one end from the table and putting it down again with a fold - and doing it evenly for the middle hinges. Then I shape the outline a bit more, scrape it loose with a knife, and glue it on. Finally a few marks with a large needle or similar to look like screw/nail holes and a bit of sculpting on the bulge/fold. Does that make sense? I think the technique works for lots of details that go on top of larger items. And unlike sculpting it in situ on the item, you can try again if it doesn't look good. And you can still do a bit of final sculpting after gluing it on :-)
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Post by factoriatabletop on Feb 25, 2018 23:56:02 GMT
OOH! that´s why look amazing, you made it from scratch! thanks for the info, i will try to do in future!
I will try be aware of your furnitures...( i dont know what i said now...my english is...awful) i mean, i will keep an eye to see more projects of you in future! My best regards!
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Post by dossen on Aug 8, 2018 16:51:39 GMT
Some progress on one of the first items I started working up here :-) It starts with these bits: A Hama bead cut into quarters and some small rings bent of copper wire (stripped electrical wire - about 1.5 mm diameter (I believe it's 1.5 mm 2 cross section to be exact) - leftovers from my Corpse Flower project). Superglued together on a piece of baking paper: Painted a bit: And glued in place: Finally done with this one! :-)
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Post by factoriatabletop on Aug 9, 2018 12:29:50 GMT
they look amazing on this closet! very cool idea dossen, really! nicely done
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Post by Draklith on Aug 9, 2018 13:58:50 GMT
awesome idea for door knockers Dossen, I cant tell you how many times I have struggled for a solution for those thanks for posting
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Post by dossen on Aug 9, 2018 20:46:32 GMT
Another two small crafts got done today - and fits under this heading. First a simple little thing I put together from a banner top, the cap of a small tube, and a base: Makes a fine little shrine - but it took forever to paint, since I just left it on my table and did a color here and there as they were in use anyway. But now I'm reasonably satisfied :-) And the next one was a real quick one (actually did it a few days ago, just forgot to take a picture: The craft's the rope, not the monk-like guy behind it ;-) It's a bit of string meant for jewelry that I twisted a couple turns around a suitable round object (a pen, marker or something like that). Then I secured it with superglue and went around another few times, this time layering it over the first turns. More superglue until I had a nice little coil of rope to start with. Then I pulled out the pen and secured the inside with superglue. Finally I twisted the string underneath and made it come up the middle and rise up like a magic trick. Really quick and easy to do - and the string is about right for rope at 28 mm scale :-)
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Post by factoriatabletop on Aug 12, 2018 12:36:00 GMT
the rope....wow!! its magic!!
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Post by dossen on Sept 9, 2018 14:30:07 GMT
And I finally got another piece finished :-) After the final bits of paint and a little bit of crafting my fireplace went from this: To this: The picture is a printout of a picture of the original picture (so the above is actually a picture of a picture of a picture). I cut a couple of slim timbers from a coffee stir stick, glued them on the printout just where the frame would go. then I painted them with gold and gave the actual picture a light wash of some Army Painter light tone cut with a lot of Vallejo Glaze Medium. There's still a few details I'd like to revisit, but the addition of the picture makes it a reasonably nice looking bit of furniture - and I'll probably like to do a few other things before doing further detail work on this one :-)
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Post by dossen on Sept 14, 2018 16:40:35 GMT
I'm still brewing on the details of the last two furniture-pieces, but in the meantime, here's a few other bits in the dungeon theme :-) From bits of leftover sprue to a pile of gold bars: I just stacked them on a small scrap of thin plastic, glued more on top in a regular stack and painted it up. And this is my prototype for piles of gold and treasure for a dragons hoard: Hot glue over crumpled up foil, covered in sand, a few small plastic bits, and some slices of a styrene rod. Then paint with gold, wash and drybrush with gold. I might pick out some details with silver and such.
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Post by erho on Sept 14, 2018 17:03:18 GMT
So cool!!
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Post by dossen on Sept 14, 2018 17:03:55 GMT
I also started on making a nicer (and slightly larger) set of open and closed doors. The first one started as a variant of Scotty's portcullis from sticks and corrugated cardboard. To make it nice and sturdy I used superglue and baking powder in the cracks: Once dry, I sculpted frame from airdrying clay. It needs a few strategic drops of superglue to make it bond with the door: Then I made a template by hotgluing a piece of thin plastic around a cut-out bit of cardboard. Around that template I sculpted a door frame with a bit of wire as armature: Then more frames and the beginning of an iron door from a bit of card stock decorated with decorated with bands of thin plastic (cut out of the bin from some laundry pods). To make rivets in the bands I pushed a pointed tool into them from the other side. With a bit of practice you can make a nice big indent without punching through: Then I added another template for rectangular frames and created my first wooden door from coffee stir sticks. So far I have this nice start to the set: I'm still considering how to base them - either on clear plastic or on card or plastic that I flock and/or paint a bit. Clear helps with versatility, but decorated bases would tie it all together.
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Post by dossen on Sept 14, 2018 18:37:42 GMT
BTW: They are quite alike in size, but I got the phone angled, so perspective makes it look like quite some difference.
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Post by dossen on Sept 17, 2018 20:56:54 GMT
My little door-project just got a big dose of inspiration the other day - literally big :-) I watched some random crafting vids, and one of them was Wyloch's "pilgrimage" to visit Scotty. And right there somewhere they looked at a giant-sized door, and that just spoke to me and demanded to be crafted. So a little bit of thinking, some Popsicle stick gluing, some fidgeting with sticks and bits of plastic tubing, and some clay-crafting later I had these little parts (small door and fighter for scale): The tubes rotate freely around the stick, and the clay has lots of armature in it. The door got a pair of bands from thick brown/grey paper. They were placed carefully to line up with the tubes (this picture is a bit fuzzy): Then I wrapped the paper around the tubes ad super glued it on the other side (and to the tubes). I'm using a couple of bits of scrap wood wrapped in cling film between the clamps and the paper - that way the super glue doesn't glue the wrong pieces together: Once the glue was dry I made sure that the door worked: Then I made sure that the clay dried fully before sticking the door on a bit of card (two layers of cereal box glued together): And another one just came to me out of nowhere and likewise demanded to be made: A secret door. Again my I failed my roll to document everything, but the start is not hard to explain: Another piece of double layer cereal box card with a thin layer of clay on each side (super glue on the card makes the clay stick while sculpting) and sculpt to desired texture. Then I let it dry quite completely and put a pin in each short end to act as a pivot. Another bit of card, some beads, and some thick, stiff wire gave me this little contraption: The weld-like join above the upper pivot is super glue and baking powder. Then it's just about sculpting the nicest bit of wall I can: Now I just hope that it still works after drying... :-)
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Post by Sam on Sept 17, 2018 21:54:19 GMT
Like the hinged doors.
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Post by dossen on Sept 18, 2018 10:41:44 GMT
It's a bit fiddly to get it working, but it does make for some cool little crafts - and in the end making cool stuff in our tiny little scale is what this hobby is all about, right :-)
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Post by erho on Sept 18, 2018 15:28:26 GMT
Very cool idea to use the armature for the hinge!!
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Post by dossen on Sept 29, 2018 18:40:23 GMT
I've been getting a few more bits of my improved Hero Quest set underway - I'm slowly churning out some doors, so eventually I'll have a suitable set (I'm aiming for slightly more regular doors and open frames than the game would come with - plus a variety of special doors, portal, passages, and portals (as many as I can come up with)). Another needed piece is the blocked corridor markers - the simple card stock ones need some upgrading :-) I cut out some heavy card stock/chip board or whatever the stuff at the back of our writing pads would be in US terms to the needed shapes - again I made a few more than in the game proper and a few shapes not ordinarily included. Then I hotglued on some decorative rocks - and hotglued some more on top to make nice piles: Since then I've given them a layer of mixed PVA and cheap black acrylic paint to lock it in.
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Post by dossen on Sept 29, 2018 18:55:40 GMT
Another little craft was inspired by something Wyloch made on his channel: Sacks. I made them with a small washer and some aluminium foil as stuffing. The string was secured with a bit of superglue and cut to length. Then I painted with a mix of PVA and some light brown and tan paints. Add a bit of wash and done: In retrospect I peeled the paper towel apart a little too much - should either have left two layers or just used two single layers, since painting it almost tore the paper. But once dried they work :-)
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Post by dossen on Sept 29, 2018 19:00:36 GMT
I also wanted more of my gold piles - enough for a real dragons hoard! First some shapes on paper and some foil shaped within the desired outline: Then hot glue all over the foil: And construction sand all over the hot glue: And gold paint with PVA all over the sand: Right now they are drying from a dark wash and then I need to add some details and do the real paint job.
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