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Post by sotf on Oct 31, 2014 1:10:12 GMT
I think I've seen a couple dozen different techniques to make trees by now.... Most of them end up with very nice looking trees too. The big thing with trees is that there are several types and it's much more fun to mix and match them and have a variety if you want a forest for anything that isn't set in a christmas tree farm
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Post by sotf on Oct 30, 2014 19:24:06 GMT
A friend directed me to a tutorial she found online that I'm planning on using to make a few. Seems a bit less work than a lot of similar ones and seem to look rather good for both display and use.
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Post by sotf on Oct 28, 2014 10:27:41 GMT
Might work better with a little more for the lid to keep it from looking a bit smashed
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Post by sotf on Oct 28, 2014 10:24:35 GMT
Noticed poster sized sheets at Dollar Tree when I went looking for spiders recently, and I've been contemplating using it to try a Japanese Castle and filling the base with expanding foam to make it solid before building from there
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Post by sotf on Oct 21, 2014 20:23:45 GMT
Trying to get an aged concrete look, any suggestions? If you have the time to do it, and a disposable brush (The cheap brushes similar to the kids watercolor paint packs that you can get a dozen for a buck at walmart work) get some plaster of your favorite type (Plaster of Paris actually works here if you want it, as does watering down the patch plaster). You want it to be a bit thicker than you normally would want your paint. Brush it on. If you're using a LOT of it, such as seems here, put a drop of brown and black paint in for each plastic cups worth when mixing it up, the end result looks a lot like cement and is extremely cheap. Once it finishes drying, give it a light sand and then take a 50/50 mix of white glue and water to give it a coat to seal it up for easier painting and a bit of protection from accidents in moving it.
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Post by sotf on Oct 21, 2014 2:18:59 GMT
I think I'm going with he stone floor idea. I'm going to try and make some thin bricks with gray sculpty cook them then glue them on. An easy method for doing stone floors isn't sculpy, but stop at a hardware store and grab some of the plaster for patching walls. Tape the sides of the base and add a thin layer of plaster. Then use an unfolded paperclip to create the individual stones. Let it dry and a light sanding to remove any leftover fingerprints and it looks really good.
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Post by sotf on Oct 19, 2014 4:23:33 GMT
Just thought of this while laying in bed. Make a campfire where the guts of a tea light are inside a tent, and the actual light itself is strung outside the tent. Anyone ever disassembled one of these lamps know if that would be possible? It may require soldering. It would probably be easier to take a small bit of foam (about half the height of the base of the light) and cut it into a ring that slopes down from there away from it. Then use small rocks to make the basic campfire ring that rises just over the edge. Then take toothpicks and break them up, arrange around the light inside the ring. Add a bit of fine sand in with the toothpick pieces. Cover the light itself with masking tape and paint it up. For a bit of other interesting bit, if you have some of the larger glitter available (not quite the "coin" size that works for chests and other things needing treasure piles) use a tiny bit of gold and metallic red to add a bit more "embery" look when its on.
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Post by sotf on Oct 12, 2014 21:29:28 GMT
I think that was removed from the Tengu site for the time being...I had been looking for a few kappa myself a while back for Ronin and ended up with a few Genbu from Kensei because Tengu wasn't selling them at the time
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Post by sotf on Oct 12, 2014 21:27:43 GMT
Might work to make a sheet of it and then make a mold before making a rubber/silicone/latex casting to attach to a shirt to make the actual armor.
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Post by sotf on Oct 12, 2014 21:25:56 GMT
looks almost like it would work better using cardstock rather than cardboard.
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Post by sotf on Oct 9, 2014 9:05:25 GMT
There's one in the Kensei range
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Post by sotf on Sept 30, 2014 23:49:36 GMT
Seems like with the interior of the box, it might actually be a workable idea to grid out the interior for future interior planning so that you can work out mix & match pieces to fit inside. Possibly also paint/floor the entire thing a well to cover hallways when in use.
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Post by sotf on Sept 30, 2014 0:52:03 GMT
There's another method that I've used on a lot of things that I found from in vid a while back.
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Post by sotf on Sept 28, 2014 2:12:26 GMT
I've considered the exact same thing. Mainly because everytime I try to make one of DMScotty's cardboard ones, I ended up having to hot glue several individual strips of cardboard back to the corragation before I could assemble the barrel. Something about my cutting must be simply awful. But after seeing beetlewings stained barrels, I'm deffinately going to be picking up a couple of bags. Although I'm still gonna keep my old barrels. DMScotty's technique allows for me to use barrels with character. Not every carpenter in the world was perfect. Just makes things more real I think. One fun thing with Scotty's is to slice them in half and paint the interior to let you do things more like the Hobbit barrel ride, or then cover it with a flat surface for some of the barroom furniture that a lot of bars that still buy alcohol by the barrel as a cheap way to make tables that have character... As a side note, one interesting tool for improving both types of barrels is to snag a nice set of small, fantasy stamps for brewery marks on the barrels.
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Post by sotf on Sept 28, 2014 2:08:24 GMT
One thing that might work in upgrading your doors a bit is to take a core of corrugated cardboard and then nabbing cardstock to make the boards on each side and the bracings. Or even slot doors which tend to be rather easy, take two pieces of corrugated cardboard that you cut to be the outer edge of the doorframe and stonework there, a third piece that fits along the outer edges on the sides that space the sides out. Then take a piece of card stock that has your door done on it (You can either paint it on, print it on, or even just glue printer paper of it to each side) and make the total thing with a tab tall enough to raise over the center. When the door is open, you remove the door piece, when closed, insert it...
If you're doing a lot of things you want to look as if made of wood, the best tool to have is a wire brush that you can drag along it to simulate the grain if you want it.
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Post by sotf on Sept 27, 2014 0:01:56 GMT
unfortunately, it may or may not be accurate for what you have since GW does the idiotic thing of renaming and shifting colors around every few years...
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Post by sotf on Sept 25, 2014 6:31:44 GMT
Alas, the head was too large for the gnoll body. I'm going forward with the conversion anyway as I think it will be the best I can get for under $30. I'll have WIP pictures up in my painting blog by this weekend hopefully. If you don't mind a bit of work, and since you're already changing the head, you might take a look at either some of the wargods of aegyptus options, or even the wolfman thing Bombshell has which could probably be modified slightly and with the headswap work well enough as a werebear.
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Post by sotf on Sept 25, 2014 1:29:06 GMT
Appearance wise, yes they do the job.
You can improve the look with some minor work, drybrush a darker brown over the wooden areas and then a black wash over it after it dries.
Black and then dark green for the foliage areas before a bit of lighter green flocking would make the leaves areas appear a whole lot better than just paint.
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Post by sotf on Sept 24, 2014 19:27:11 GMT
sotf: yup i'm sure my archer will want a quiver of some sort as soon as he can hehehe, thank you The fun thing is to then take a glance at some of the quiver options that showed up in DDO ( Quiver of Alacrity, Quivering Quiver, Quiver of Poison [pick your favorite]) or things like a variation on the sanctified sheath for them to point out a few other options. I've been hunting the Quiver of Poison there for over a year now for my Ranger...hasn't dropped yet, but DDO has so many great things in it that can almost entirely be just dropped straight into 3.5 or (probably) Pathfinder without changing anything.
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Post by sotf on Sept 24, 2014 3:07:31 GMT
Yeah, Reaper also tends to include bonus samples as well. I've never had any trouble with them, and at times if you're ordering parts, they'll send the entire thing as well...
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