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Post by margaret on Mar 5, 2016 4:31:59 GMT
Can't see the archer's draw hand. Maybe he's using a thumb-ring draw. Although I have never used anything but the split-finger draw myself, so arrow on the left for a right-handed person is what looks best to me, too.
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Post by margaret on Mar 4, 2016 6:19:55 GMT
Nice job on the scrolls! You and your aunt are certainly going to have an impressive array of terrain and miniatures for that game.
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Post by margaret on Mar 3, 2016 4:00:22 GMT
argiope, I think that dmgoblin means did you make a formcore stamp for the "floorboards" in that last picture with the chalk marks on the floor, or did you make them some other way?
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Post by margaret on Mar 3, 2016 0:05:03 GMT
The bear from a woodland animals set should be OK if you see one at the flea market. I have a bin of those plastic play animals to entertain grandkids and visiting neighbor kids, so I could just fish one out when I need one. From the description in the Frostgrave book, it's not a polar bear, so it doesn't even have to be painted white.
Something like this - they look like the same mold as mine, although I don't know the actual size of these. [http://www.target.com/p/terra-miniature-wild-animal-collection-by-battat/-/A-15842685#prodSlot=_1_18]
I have some blue spiders in with a mix of spiders I picked up at Dollar Tree, but they are really too large for the Frostgrave spiders. I was thinking about these, since they are 1 inch in length and the price is reasonable: [http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Spiders-Plastic-Assorted-Approx/dp/B00KYB5D48/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1436247316&sr=8-4&keywords=mini+plastic+spiders&pebp=1436247358232&perid=0ES2BD6PVS91YYFZW782]. I expect I will need spiders for various purposes in the future.
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Post by margaret on Mar 2, 2016 16:45:41 GMT
I have used all of these methods. The advantage to the pin/string/pencil method is that after you tie the pencil to one end of the string, it's easy to make your radius any length you want, without having an extra, unneeded length swinging around. The advantage to a yardstick or other piece of wood - either with Sleepy Hollow Mike's method or with the trammel points, is that you don't have to maintain tension on the radial guide to keep the length even. String, particularly if you have a long radius, can buckle a bit and make your arc uneven. Works well for shorter radii, though. And if you need a 5-foot or larger radius to cut a half-circle cloak, string is the simplest way, even with the tension issue.
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Post by margaret on Mar 2, 2016 14:29:04 GMT
Thanks for showing the scale.
I agree about the height issue for playability. When I read that scenario, I wondered if the author had calculated how many linear feet of shelves it called for and how the teams would maneuver in the maze.
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Post by margaret on Mar 2, 2016 7:20:47 GMT
Black is better unless you want greenish paper for some reason. 3 or 4 bags per 2 cups of water or the equivalent amount of loose tea. Steep it a while - you want a pretty dark tea - then remove the bags or strain it if you used loose tea.
You can dip the paper if the pieces are small enough or put the sheet in a jelly roll pan [flat baking sheet with a rim all around] and pour the tea over it. Leave the paper in the tea until it is as dark as you like. Various ways to dry - on a cake rack over waxed paper or paper towels, on a cheap plastic tablecloth, or cover your ironing board with something that is expendable or cleanable and iron the paper dry. Depending on the drying method, you can get anything from a flat piece of dyed paper to a pretty crinkly piece of dyed paper.
If you are hand dipping, remember that the tea is pretty hot at first.
I have heard you can get an orangish color from some herbal teas. I never wanted that shade, so I haven't tried it and don't know which would work.
You can do the same with coffee, but I find it easier to get the shades I want with tea.
Forgot to say that you boil the water and make the tea just as usual, only darker than I usually drink it
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Post by margaret on Mar 2, 2016 5:59:55 GMT
I've seen that video, but I am making scrolls using onionskin paper I have saved from long ago. Don't even know if you can get it these days. And I still prefer the tea method for aging paper.
How big are your minis? They look as tall or taller than the 2-inch bookshelves - or is that a perspective issue?
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Post by margaret on Mar 2, 2016 3:26:33 GMT
I like how you added the brown kelpish seaweed to the rock and made his hair [and is that a beard?] into green seaweed
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Post by margaret on Mar 1, 2016 22:29:34 GMT
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Post by margaret on Mar 1, 2016 17:25:10 GMT
nice sculpt!. I liked the cats-eye marbles for the tentacle eyes, but I admit they aren't as scary as the eyes you painted over them.
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Post by margaret on Feb 29, 2016 22:33:27 GMT
You can download a paper model of a bookcase with rows of books you could print to use on your shelves at [http://www.d4d6d8d10d12d20.com/2010/09/free-bookcase-paper-model.html]. And there should be plenty you can scale on sites for other modeling.
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Post by margaret on Feb 29, 2016 22:21:39 GMT
Mine were made quite a few years ago - long before the days of cheap and easy to find foamcore - so I used chunks of Sculpey. But I think your top crease for the edge of the spine works very well.
Sculpey lets you do a bit more modeling on the top side for the pages and covers effect, but I wouldn't use it these days. Too expensive for this purpose and rather heavy for tall shelves with a narrow base.
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Post by margaret on Feb 29, 2016 22:08:28 GMT
That should work well. I have made rows of books like that in the past. You can paint the spines various colors or do runs of a single color for a set of volumes - the complete works of Arglebargle the Atlantean Sage. If you want to vary this with shallower shelves, Michaels sells a narrower popsicle stick and Smart & Final has a wooden coffee stirrer equivalent.
However, since you need a LOT of shelves, it would be easiest to proceed with the type you have and mass-produce the shelves and books.
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Post by margaret on Feb 29, 2016 19:10:48 GMT
Nail polish and perler beads - now that would never have occurred to me. Maybe because I never wear nail polish, but I certainly have various perler bead gifts made for me around the house. Thanks for posting this, voodoo. I always liked marbling paper, so marbled bases sound pretty cool.
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Post by margaret on Feb 29, 2016 4:37:53 GMT
Beautiful work! But..but..but you broke the angel!!! And how did that beholder sneak in?
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Post by margaret on Feb 29, 2016 4:29:13 GMT
The reddish orange color is the more stable form of oxidized iron, but you could go with an almost-black color for the other common form.
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Post by margaret on Feb 27, 2016 6:19:54 GMT
Superb! I am going to need a magnifying lamp to even come close to that kind of paint job. And it still won't be very close...
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Post by margaret on Feb 25, 2016 8:12:15 GMT
Sorry you are having to deal with this. Hope all your stuff survived OK.
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Post by margaret on Feb 24, 2016 21:31:45 GMT
Great list your daughter has! Good to see that she has reading in there along with D&D - and plenty of exercise!
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