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Post by tauster on Dec 23, 2016 23:10:39 GMT
Love it. Not only the sculpt itself - which is great, but the fact that you give them a present like that, and spend time with them showing them how to do it.
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Post by tauster on Dec 21, 2016 21:52:42 GMT
The new craft corner is taking shape, thanks to a certain Swedish furniture store. 2x Kallax shelfes & a Linnmon table, 150 x 75 cm. The whole thing is now a bit high (80,4 cm), but that's OK because the surface is nearer to my eye level, so I don't have to stoop over when doing small stuff. Not finished, but on its way. *happy dance*
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Post by tauster on Dec 18, 2016 9:37:18 GMT
More stuff, some of it xmas related, some not... An underdark-inspired xmas pyramid. Our longterm campaign (going on for about 15 yars, even if we manage to play only once or twice a year nowadays) is centered on the 2E boxed set Night Below, and at the time Derro and Kuo Toa were the main enemies. I made this about 5 years ago and I'd do it quite different today, but it makes me smile eacht time I break it out. Some teenie-tiny xmas ornaments (the leaves are about 1 cm long) made from cheap jewellery from ym steampunk fever period. Now I need a equally small xmas tree... ...aaaand the first dandelion wooden sign/picture is done! *happy dance* I don't really like how the curvature of the stem turned out and I'd like it more if the brush strokes were a bit more delicate, but overall I like it, enough to hang it in the living room. The boards are linked with pocket holes, another technique I learned wathing DIY tutorials on youtube*. Kregg sponsors a lot of DIY channels, and their pocket hole jig is insanely useful for lots of woodwork. It allows you to leave out the crossboards on the backside, making the while thing a lot more flat. * Interesting channels: American Hacker, April Wilkerson, Awesome Wood Things, DIY Pete, Izzy Swan, Jimmy DiResta, John Peters Art & Home, Mathhias Wandel, I like to make stuff, Make Something, Laura Kampf, Nick Ferry, Steve Ramsey, The Samurai Carpenter, Wranglerstar, ... and some more. Warning: This DIY woodworking stuff is at least as addictive as terrainmaking!
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Post by tauster on Dec 17, 2016 21:42:01 GMT
(...) I could probably improve it, but I am limited in my artistic ability. Well I hope you like it. (...) Love the river, and the way you did it, and the way you shared how you did it so that we can do it too. And regarding the line quoted above: Yes you can improve it. Damn near everything can be improved. The questions are, as always: 1) How hard would it be to improve on it? 2) Does it need to be improved or is made well enough to fullfill its purpose (i.e. good enough to game with)? and 3) Is it made well enough to awe your friends. If I were to answer those three questions, I'd say 1) Quite hard. 2) The latter. 3) Yes. Yes, you are limited in your artistic ability. Deal with it. We all are limited in our abilities, some more, some less. Except Scotty who's quite obviously a craft god. What matters is not the limitation but how hard we try to push against it, how much effort we put into improving. Quite a few in this community have levelled up so much that my guess is they are near, or even past, apotheosis and becoming craft gods themselves. I won't name names but I'm damn sure you are among them. Do I like it? That was a rhethoric question, right? Of course I do!
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Post by tauster on Dec 13, 2016 18:07:25 GMT
Still marveling at how you can do such great work at such a small scale! Dito.This would be great stuff even at the regular mini scale, but this tiny... wow!
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Post by tauster on Dec 13, 2016 17:46:15 GMT
...reviving an old thread, and learning that you can craft withour having a craft corner. Last weekend I finally got myself to start a new non-roleplaying related project I had on my to-do list for months now. thanks to pinterest and th not-yet-existent craft corner, this list has outgrown my terrain- and roleplaying to-do list dangerously, whith no change in sight. At least not until said craft corner becomes a reality, or until projects suddenly and unexpectantly transmute into into roleplaying-projects, like this one. For a long time I wanted to make those concrete spheres. I absolutely love the way thay look, and my fingers are itching to try giving them an update from small LED tea lights to a real bright and remote-controlled dimmable LED lightsource. No idea how, but I'll think of something... You can find instructions on pinterest so I won't repeat those here. Long story short, you simply slap several layers of concrete over a balloon and paint it. Sounds easy. Before starting with concrete, I wanted to make a test run with paper maché, so I made quite a mess on saturday (my son loved helping me ripping the paper apart!). I must have made something wrong, either the wrong glue (wallpaper paste instead of woodglue because you need too much glue, which would have been too expensive) or giving the paper not enough time to soak, or I should have ripped the paper into smaller pieces. Whatever it was, the result was...somehow dissapointing, especially if you have the smooth surfaces of the concrete balls in mind. I made two balloon-spheres and used the rest of the maché to make several flower pot shaped ...shapes, all of them with quite thick walls (1 cm on average). I should have taken much less material, because they are even now quite wet and soft, and they have been drying on the warm oven for three and a half day. Lady Forscale is still missing; she's probably in one of the untouched packing cases. Introducing Nina the ninja, one of two PCs in my son's very first roleplaying campaign.
When I came home today and checked the drying progress, I suddenly realized that the open spheres look like ... beholder ships! The spheres are fare from finished, but suddenly I'm back into good old crafting, even without a craft corner. *happy dance*
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Post by tauster on Dec 7, 2016 18:22:29 GMT
I instantly fell in love with those stalagmites. As soon as I have a craft corner, I'll try to make similar ones without 3D printing. *rubs hands*
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Post by tauster on Nov 30, 2016 15:13:00 GMT
Wow... 'Awesome!!!' doesn't even begin to do it justice. You've come such a long way from playing around with your 3D printer to selling stuff that rivals the best. Hats off!
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Post by tauster on Nov 30, 2016 14:35:44 GMT
I'm continuing to rededice this thread for the time being and post some other terrain-unrelated stuff. This time: more xmas stuff. I just finished the advent calendar for my boy, and boy am I proud of the result! Here's the finished thing, and below some WIP pics. Although I don't think that's neccessary, as this wasn't a particularly difficult build. All you need is patience... [ hi res version] Fold the bags Cut out the circles and put the numbers on Use an old toothbrush to sprinkle some white color on. Be sure to let it dry thoroughly or it will smear. Fill the bags. We used about miniatures and mini-stamps and no sweets because he's got a chocolate-filled calender from grandma already. Get yourself a nice branch and hang the bags in different heights. I used birch because I love the looks (plus I had it around in the garden). I had lots of birch branches left, so I made us a xmas tree. Again, inspiration came from pinterest. Sorry for the crappy lighting, maybe I'll replace the pic later. I'll probably decorate it lightly, but at the moment I'll leave it as is.
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Post by tauster on Nov 28, 2016 14:23:49 GMT
Just a quick life sign: I'm in the last weeks of completing the new home and therefore don't have time for crafting. And since this evening, I wouldn't even have a place as I cleared out my beloved craft corner. [snip] ...but I guess that the craft stuff will leave the crates only in a few weeks. I still drop in from time to time here and check what's new, but contributing stuff will probably have to wait a little longer. ...boy was I wrong!
'...a few months' would have been more correct. I haven't been lazy though, crafting went on but with different stuff. I found pinterest is a huge source of inspiration and better yet: not many people around me seem to go there, so the stuff I copy from there I get my inspiration from looks original to most people. At least I hope so. Some stuff I did recently. Most of it, of course, xmas-related. Pinterest My stuff Pinterest My stuff (with glowing stars, yay!) Pinterest My stuff Most recent pinterest-inspired project is a scrap wood painting of a dandelion... ...so now I'm practicing dandelions. Still too small for the boards I've hammered together (I already use the finest and tiniest miniature brushes I have!) but I need to practice some more before doing the real deal. So lots of fluffy dandelions around the house soon.
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Post by tauster on Nov 23, 2016 19:31:42 GMT
I always wanted to DM junk yard encounters, and making scrap piles & debris scatter terrain was in the middle and lower reaches on my to-do list ever since that list started. Sadly that project never made it to the top... but just this week I took apart an old fax machine, salvaged a motor, a speaker and an RGB light strip, plus lots of other interesting bits. I plan to take apart some more tech and make me a collection of gears & sprockets, then start. Seems like finally te olde junk yard is going to be made! Btw: pinterest is brimming with stunning junk robots and other scrap art. Just do a little search - but be careful, this pinning-stuff seems to be highly addictive. I can stop whenever I want of course. I just don't seem to want to stop, right now...
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Post by tauster on Oct 23, 2016 18:12:41 GMT
Didn't think it could get any better. Wow! That fish even got something like an intelligence in those eyes. As a player, I wouldn't be surprised if it started talking suddenly. Awesome! Could we please get a non-blurred close-up of the base? I haven't done aquatic bases before and would like to take a closer look, or three.
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Post by tauster on Oct 23, 2016 12:13:55 GMT
beautiful!
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Post by tauster on Oct 12, 2016 9:21:14 GMT
Just stumbled over a already finished kickstarter project for miniature holders & grips. what really caught my eye was the metal bow/bracket that helps to stabilize the hand holding the brush and reduces trembling. I think the idea is pure genious. Maybe this is old news and done for years, but it's the first time I actually came across that bow/bracket. When I'm back in crafting business and start painting minis again (which may still take a few months, sadly), I'll try to craft such a thing myself. If in the meantime someone else gets it done, please post how it went! /description
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Post by tauster on Oct 9, 2016 7:29:29 GMT
love it all! - the shape really conveys the essence of slug-dom. - the color scheme is awesome. what's not to love with flesh-pink and vomit-greenbrown? - the eyes... almost make this creature look like it's more intelligent than it should be. *shivers*
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Post by tauster on Oct 1, 2016 16:56:49 GMT
Love the idea! I haven't had the time to recreate my old craft space after moving into the new house, so I haven't crafted anything terrain-specific for months now (yes, it hurts as bad as it sounds), but this will go right to my top ten list of things to try.
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Post by tauster on Aug 30, 2016 17:21:14 GMT
Oh that old thing? I like the idea of a cross between a caterpillar, maggot and a 'graboid' from Tremors. oh boy, the memories... That was my first 'real' horror movie as a kid!
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Post by tauster on Aug 8, 2016 20:20:39 GMT
...what the others said: hat-tippingly awesome! just curious: how long did it take from start to finish, more or less?
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Post by tauster on Jun 21, 2016 4:37:33 GMT
That gate... absolutely glorious goreyous!
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Post by tauster on Jun 13, 2016 15:06:36 GMT
Totally love both sculpts!
I'd paint the 'general rot' -clusters in a color scheme other than green though. Maybe more like the intestines, or in a sick yellow-red/brown?
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