guppy
Paint Manipulator
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Post by guppy on Oct 30, 2017 11:02:16 GMT
If you have wood floors you properly already have the materials needed if not it's sold in most furniture & grocery stores: protective felt pads that you stick under chairs and other furniture that gets moved regularly to keep it from scratching the floor. If you no know what I'm talking about then do a google search for "self adhesive felt furniture pads 25mm" [just a quick heads up the ones from IKEA "fixa" line are the wrong size ( 20mm & 40mm )] In their raw form they aren't that usable they are too floppy, this is why it's important you get the felt kind - they will soak up your 50/50 white glue mix and go quite hard ( or let them soak up watery paint mix if your running low on glue - same result ) reason I found this out; My 4 year old wanted to play the "dragon game" and while most of my terrain is built to handle his level of demolition the minis generally aren't, so I whipped up a batch of easily replaceable paper minis - but due to a recent project I've run out of washers so we tried the pads and they really quite good for the purpose. Please note that the drying time is 6-12 hours, so avoid my mistake - prepare the bases before inviting your kids to create minis as patience tends not to be a strong suite image shared from google drive:
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Post by sgtslag on Oct 30, 2017 19:37:17 GMT
Need the image link... Intriguing idea. Looking forward to seeing the images. Cheers!
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guppy
Paint Manipulator
Posts: 202
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Post by guppy on Oct 31, 2017 7:21:31 GMT
Need the image link... Intriguing idea. Looking forward to seeing the images. Cheers! The image isn't all that interesting - I mostly put it there because somebody else here started using google photos to share images, which has never worked for me before. Anyway I've now linked the photo in a different way - let me know if you can see it.
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Post by sgtslag on Oct 31, 2017 13:06:48 GMT
Yep, it's there. Not bad, not bad at all. Thanks! Cheers!
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Post by luckyjoe on Nov 1, 2017 18:46:20 GMT
Nice. Adds some 3d to the paper mini.
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Post by lordmorbius on Nov 2, 2017 20:04:01 GMT
I'll have to try this one.
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Post by deafnala on Nov 3, 2017 12:15:18 GMT
SPLENDID! The Paper Wizard actually does look three dimensional. I will bet your Young Gamer loves them. The picture(s) look good to me...I think I may be the Google culprit.
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Nov 3, 2017 20:54:00 GMT
Heh. Nifty.
Have you thought of using a Bake-Box to speed up your drying times? Having built one myself, they work great!
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