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Post by Sleepy Hollow Mike on Nov 24, 2013 15:30:17 GMT
The Brass fasteners had me really thinking! Well I work in VSF and at 1/72 scale I am seeing automaton parts. Definately robots!
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Post by thorswulf on Nov 26, 2013 15:22:31 GMT
I don't know if I posted this or not, but here goes. Don't throw away minuatures that break at the legs! Kut it down to the top of the boots or shoes. Then glues sand around the footwear. paint it black, drybrush greys over it and now you have a vaporized figure! A few wisps of cotton for smoke would be a nice touch... This works well with pretty much any lower leg bits.
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Post by slurpy on Nov 27, 2013 0:44:59 GMT
And the rest of the figure can be mangled to simulate someone half-melted into a floor, or acid pit or gelatinous cube or drowning quicksand or whatever. . .
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Post by tauster on Nov 27, 2013 9:05:42 GMT
I would have never dreamed of throwing away broken miniatures, but I hadn't thought of melted/vaporised minis before - this is awesome!  I suspect some of the minis I don't like will see some serious damage in the near future... |
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Post by thorswulf on Nov 27, 2013 15:21:19 GMT
Well to be perfectly honest, it all started as a joke at a wargaming con when one of the figures was discovered to be broken. My co referee placed it down on the table after an exploding round had killed the figure in question.... We are a morbid lot sometimes!
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Post by tauster on Dec 4, 2013 12:12:25 GMT
Another type of pasta, another idea...  Initially I thought of fungi terrain, as almost always with weirdly shaped pasta. You could put them on the ground almost as is, or you can invert them, fill them with a water effect and glue/magnetize them to some rocks or rock walls. While the gluegun heated up, I got another idea and, ...well, a warm please welcome for the underdark emu!   This is still a work in progress; I want to do some more and then paint them in one go. Below is a short foto tutorial. Skulls from a skull bracelet (got the whole bracelet for a few cent on ebay), glued on a piece of wire and then added hotglue around it. Tip: Put much hotglue on and while it runs down, dip in in cold water! The glue instantly starts to harden, which not only speeds up your working process but also results in wonderful new glue shapes.   Acorn caps, thread and hotglue for the legs:  Hotglue on the inside for added stability (noodles are brittle!)  The legs glued on. Take care that you balance them out or your two-legged creature tends to fall. Not so important for critters with more than two legs, but with bipeds this can become tricky, especially when the barycenter is higher up. That's it so far. I'll post more as I go on, but probably not today or tomorrow. Suggestions on what else to do with this type of pasta or others shown above are always welcome! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2013 13:26:06 GMT
lol, love that emu.
The shells would make great riding snails for kobolds.
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Post by tauster on Dec 4, 2013 13:40:55 GMT
lol, love that emu. The shells would make great riding snails for kobolds. Sails - I would have never thought of that. Brilliant idea!!! |
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Post by tauster on Dec 4, 2013 15:18:42 GMT
You wrote s nails, I misread sails...  I couldn't resist and had to do something with sails, and here it is:   Next step was to make another three skull emus, so I have a small herd:   |
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Post by sgtslag on Dec 5, 2013 16:09:54 GMT
That raft would be perfect for a Goblin War Raft (got a book on different races' ships and such -- looks a lot like the artist's drawing for the Gobbo's). Thanks! Cheers!
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Post by gnomezrule on Dec 5, 2013 16:14:15 GMT
Sgtslag what book is that I am running a Pathfinder AP Skulls and Shackles and would love to see some variant ships.
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Post by sgtslag on Dec 6, 2013 14:02:33 GMT
The book is called, "Ships of the Goblinoids", by Mongoose Publishing: link. They had one for "Ships of the Elves", as well as one or two other books, all with drawings of the ships, along with deck plans in a top-down view. Check Amazon.com, and other sites for available copies. Cheers! |
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Post by tauster on Dec 7, 2013 23:53:58 GMT
Haven't got any further with the running snails, the raft or the emus. But I found... guess what? Another type of pasta.  This time: Giant Penne!  They are practically screaming to be crafted into reborn as pillars. The only thing I had to do was rectifying one end, and that proved a bit difficult at first: You can't simply use a nipper because dry pasta simply breaks into irregular shards. So I experimented with cooking them (I had planned pasta for dinner anyways), cutting them straight while they are soft'n floppy and then let them dry. Well, they are still drying... I tried a faster way and took them to my workshop where I have a small circular saw bench. Yes, I sawed noodles...   The result: Excellent!  Next I put them on baking paper (parchment) and filled one side with liquid hotglue to get it 'capped', cutting off any glue outside the pillar and then glueing each to a cardstock base.  At the moment I'm waiting for the white paint to dry:  I will use them in a 'ruined city' scenario, with strong semblance to the greek architecture: a ruined asteroid city (Spelljammer campaign) which four centuries was the capital of a chrystalsphere-spanning empire. Basically the 'Myth Drannor of Wildspace'... The city was/is called 'Mirror Prime' and was famous for her gleaming buildings. I already have glued together a few bricks to make ruin walls, painted them pure white and overcoated them with whiteglue. This gave the stones a small sheen, similar but not as strong as gloss varnish:  I will do something similar with the pasta pillars, but I will experiment with pearlescent over the white. Let's see how that turns out! |
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Post by skunkape on Dec 8, 2013 4:47:12 GMT
Those noodles do make very interesting looking columns!
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Post by gnomezrule on Dec 16, 2013 23:56:52 GMT
I used pieces of fake tree that the leaves had fallen off for the upper branches. The have wire core so are bend. The tree house shown here is almost two feet tall 120feet to scale. So just one branch can make a decent tree.  |
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Post by tauster on Dec 17, 2013 13:26:47 GMT
gnomezrule, I love that tree! I don't have fake tree/plant material lying around, but it's on my watchlist...
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Post by gnomezrule on Dec 17, 2013 14:35:42 GMT
Yeah we have a couple and my kids have pulled the leaves of several branches so I just cut the barren limbs off and walla bendy tree branch.
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Post by tauster on Jan 12, 2014 8:56:49 GMT
I was able to do again some experimentation with various stuff... 1) Convert a piece of bark to rock The bark i.imgur.com/YR9gXeP.jpgbasepainted black i.imgur.com/YR9gXeP.jpghighlighted grey i.imgur.com/zirv72J.jpgadditional white highlights i.imgur.com/5XyP8VH.jpgI'm not quite happy with it; I had thought to get better, more 'rocky' results. Instead it just looks like, well, painted bark...  I have several square meters of pine and spruce bark piled up, so I'm looking for uses of it. Next experiment: Turning a piece of cheese into lava! |
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Post by tauster on Jan 12, 2014 9:12:19 GMT
We recently had a grilled cheese which dribbled on the floor of the baking oven, leaving behind very hard and partially remains...  I liked the cratery texture of the remains and made a mould cast with play dough (or something similar to that), which I filled with modelling paste.  After a two days of hardening , I pried it out carefully, brushed away the cheese crumbs and painted it. i.imgur.com/K200z83.jpgi.imgur.com/pRmEMPc.jpgi.imgur.com/Iw153LP.jpgi.imgur.com/t8dwI94.jpg Please excuse the bad lighting. Without flash it's too dark, neon or other artificial light is even worse, but using a flash doesn't really help, as you can see... Maybe I'll take another shot in daylight. I think it still has too much yellow areas, but I'm not sure what exactly to change. What do you think? |
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Post by pedrodevaca on Jan 12, 2014 15:37:42 GMT
IMO, the Bark Rock needs context for it to work. They look convincing as a rock outcropping or even a cliff face, but it needs to be based with other elements that create the hill or cliff and the bark is only used to represent the exposed rock. I really like your baked cheese lava piece. The paint job came out nice, imo. I wouldn't mess with it. Looks super cool.
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