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Post by sotf on Jun 17, 2018 1:52:35 GMT
If you want an easier way to do it paint the underneath as you want, you can even go over flock for the rest of this.
Then in the areas you want the water, use a few layers of gloss polyeurethane until you get a relatively level layer. You can use some heavy layers to do this. If you want darker water, you can add a tiny bit of a dark ink of the color you want into the gloss.
Then you want to get a good leaf litter option. I tend to prefer the cheapest green tea I can find at the grocery or dollar store. Instead of a normal flocking method, take some more polyeurethane and apply it then sprinkle the flock onto it while it's still wet. You can do a few layers of this if you want, don't tint this or later layers though because it will mess up the end look. Also for layers over, use a light dabbing of the gloss in order to keep the leaf litter from breaking up on you.
You probably want a few layers with very light additions of the leaf litter followed by at least one empty layer. You can increase the effect by putting a few bits of the leaf litter on top of everything else, but be very careful doing so as it can break off and is more on the fragile side of things.
As another tip, if you want more of a algae filled swampy look, replace the leaf litter with finely ground flock and don't put any on the top at all.
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Post by sotf on May 20, 2018 23:51:04 GMT
One thing that I've found that works rather well is to use sawdust flock, mix it with watered down white glue and work it into place where you want moss...at least if you want the thick moss on things. If you want the less well grown in moss, just use a thin green wash or watered down paint and stipple it in the area with a thick but small, stiff brush.
I'd try DM Scotty's way of using pencil shavings. Even if he uses them mostly for grass, moss should be OK as well. I've tried it myself several times and it works great.
Moss tends to be much finer and the pencil shavings tend to look more like the longer dead grass to me.
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Post by sotf on May 20, 2018 2:42:06 GMT
One thing that I've found that works rather well is to use sawdust flock, mix it with watered down white glue and work it into place where you want moss...at least if you want the thick moss on things.
If you want the less well grown in moss, just use a thin green wash or watered down paint and stipple it in the area with a thick but small, stiff brush.
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Post by sotf on May 8, 2018 1:46:48 GMT
Got some more speeder bikes and have them assembled as far as I'm taking them until I paint them up.
I'm thinking about attempting something different for the direction markers with this pair of them...
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Post by sotf on May 7, 2018 15:51:16 GMT
Thanks for the vid watched it. I think the paper towel and parchment paper squares should be cut smaller though, so they are both perfectly flat to avoid air bubles between the paper towel and parchment. You can get those even with smaller sections. Personally, I've found that a larger sponge works better than a paper towel anyway, but that's just me there. Using a tupperware container means that you can seal it up if you need to take longer breaks with only a little bit of added water from time to time.
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Post by sotf on May 7, 2018 2:42:33 GMT
They're pretty good for larger projects with complicated mixes.
They're not as useful for small ones or those with simple colors.
For a tutorial on setting one up, I'd suggest looking at the TTM video on them...
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Post by sotf on May 4, 2018 16:47:17 GMT
Very nice. Very nice, indeed! Those ferns are such a nice touch. They really add a great deal to the overall design. I am very surprised at how much they add. Cheers! Yeah, the ferns are pretty much what ties everything together with the terrain stuff.
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Post by sotf on May 4, 2018 1:08:55 GMT
Well, the trees finished drying and I painted General Veers while they finished up. Got a couple quick pics of things along with some other terrain while I pulled out my grass mat.
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Post by sotf on May 3, 2018 18:57:49 GMT
They look great...going to have to try that (adds to endless list of crafts to start) They're simple and easy to make, there is also the time which is great if you have short periods of time to work and don't mind leaving your crafting area set up. Not so good if you need to keep packing it up.
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Post by sotf on May 3, 2018 3:24:36 GMT
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Post by sotf on May 2, 2018 23:01:03 GMT
You make it look easy enough for an Ewok to do! Ewok construction techniques are pretty far along with log & rope technology considering what they've been shown doing. The 3 foot teddy bear things making things like the log traps with logs many times their dimensions for example, plus the tree village. Sure, as of the Ewok specific stuff, they have a lot of magic tossed in as well, but still that's no simple feat... And I've started flocking the trees, not fully dry yet for the second stage.
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Post by sotf on May 2, 2018 3:56:02 GMT
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Post by sotf on May 1, 2018 4:13:06 GMT
I know, I know. I'm angling for a real long shot... I would need to buy five sets, which drives the price of each Minesweeper up to $1.60/figure. I have another, ulterior motive, but that, too, is a long shot. I found 3D Shook, but they do not have the STL for the Minesweeper on their site. I used their contact link to ask. Waiting for a response back. Thanks for the replies, Gentlemen. Cheers! Local Dollar Tree has them in their military sets, 2/set since they're half green and half tan with one thing of each. There's also some of their terrain pieces in it as well.
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Post by sotf on May 1, 2018 2:06:30 GMT
Got the next step for the trees done. Trying a slight variation in my normal basing method due to a suggestion from a friend. She's always dampened sand when using it in basing with a spray bottle before spreading it over glue on the base. Trying it out and if it works better, I'll probably switch to it for most things. Won't work with my Rebel force since that's using superglue, but with white glue it looks like it's mixing a bit better with the sand.
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Post by sotf on Apr 30, 2018 23:04:58 GMT
Unless you're using the giant sized ones, you can probably still get them cheaper in packs from the dollar store...
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Post by sotf on Apr 30, 2018 21:30:58 GMT
So I was watching a legion vlog on you tube and they dropped SotF’s name and a shot of his troopers! We got another Celebrity out here! About 2:50 in Wow, I knew it had popped up on the Weekender one week on Beasts of War, didn't realize it went beyond that and their glance over the hobby thread live streams...
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Post by sotf on Apr 28, 2018 22:32:50 GMT
For those wondering, it's been almost 24 hours since I made them, and the logs are dry, but the rest are still to damp to work with.
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Post by sotf on Apr 28, 2018 1:05:13 GMT
The ferns are a superb touch! They really add to the trees nicely. Brilliantly executed. Cheers! The ferns were rather easy to do. With some of the plastic dinosaur/zoo/safari animal toy sets, there are some palm trees that aren't that good as palms, but there are two rings of 5 fronds each that you can clip the piece holding it in place and remove to use as great ferns with just a light brush of different green paints that take most of the plastic look out when in person, they still look a bit shinier in pictures though.
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