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Post by Grey Tower Games on Feb 22, 2016 17:54:03 GMT
Just a general question/thought of using the PVA to seal the piece. I would have thought that the foam board would warp pretty easily if PVA was liberally applied to it. I have some larger sheets of 1/2 MDF that are 2 foot x 4 foot in size. Even that thickness of very hard MDF wanted to warp slightly. It warped substantially when I tried to use 1/4 MDF instead. Maybe I should then coat the bottom of the foam board with pva first. let that dry and then adhere to mdf or chipboard or whatever.. then do the texturing. then coat with pva on the top. It should balance it self out? PUlling on each side. If it was me, I would mount it on the mdf first and then seal the top (foamboard only). I sugest making yourself a little test sheet (maybe 6" x 6") and try it on there first. If all is well, go ahead and replicate the process on your work.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Feb 22, 2016 17:41:41 GMT
Just a general question/thought of using the PVA to seal the piece. I would have thought that the foam board would warp pretty easily if PVA was liberally applied to it. I have some larger sheets of 1/2 MDF that are 2 foot x 4 foot in size. Even that thickness of very hard MDF wanted to warp slightly. It warped substantially when I tried to use 1/4 MDF instead.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Feb 22, 2016 17:35:36 GMT
Very cool! I wonder though, after watching your wood video, couldn't you do the same thing for your cobblestone? Create a square mold of cobblestone as a single sheet, then press it into the clay and cut it to the shapes you need. Then instead of placing a single stone at a time, you could just put the whole section at once. Hope that made sense, haha. That's a very good point. I am going to be making some modular city/castle walls in a bit and may consider doing something similar for them. The one thing that the wooden planks have that made them easier to do the stamp is that they were by design going to be sliced and diced to size. If you wanted to do a proper stamp for stones or cobblestones then you would need to make sure that the right and left edges (as well as the top and bottom) meshed perfectly so there wouldn't be any stamp lines. Because of this symmetry I think the pattern when viewed from a medium distance may be evident. The fact that I only needed about 30 stones per long wall also made it fairly quick and easy to do. Thanks for the idea/feedback. It is appreciated and I will be sure to share with the group anything I do that is similar.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Feb 21, 2016 21:46:29 GMT
As discussed, here is the simple method for making the clay stones.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Feb 21, 2016 13:53:28 GMT
It appears your artistic talents are not limited to terrain building. Bravo sir.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Feb 21, 2016 12:35:19 GMT
I remember my grandparents having a paint roller that had a pattern on it that made the wall look like it was wall papered.... actually making something like that would be a trick in itself. You can get textured rolling pins on ebay, see here for details. Cobble stones, bricks, frozen ice/baked earth, dwarven runes, scifi themes, etc... those guys have a bunch of cool motifs. Great link Tauster, thanks for posting. I had never stumbled across those before.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Feb 20, 2016 18:54:52 GMT
same day you posted this I was thinking of some sort of way to do stone walls with a stamp... Crafty Goblin has a good way to do individual bricks..... Still has me thinking of a way to have a "roller" type stamp for Wyloch type walls. Like your approach. Can see various uses (wood & stone to name 2) and wanting to see how your technique might work on foamcore and other media. Great idea and awesome way to try experimenting with your idea. I have another video that I am almost finished wrapping up post production on and that will be how I made the stones for the cottage project. I shot some other video on how I made a stamp for polymer clay stone walls. I used that as a backdrop for my first video finished product shot. Maybe I will go ahead and post that one as well. That one, like the stones video will probably be under 5 minutes as well. The wall in the background here is the one I did with a stamp and polymer clay
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Feb 20, 2016 14:34:05 GMT
Yo! What happened to the book shelves? You promised pics of the end product! I made a few bookcases in Google Sketchup to populate a library. My plan is to clean these up and then make silicone molds and then cast them out of resin to create a large library. This looks pretty cool to though, Kev! As requested, the tiny village's library. This was created from a mold I made of the original (3d printed version). I wasn't happy with the rubber I was using as the mold proved too brittle when extracting the various elements of the bookcase. I have since changed to a different rubber product and may give these another shot for mass production.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Feb 20, 2016 14:12:10 GMT
That is some excellent work. Can you post some higher resolution photos so we can ogle over the details as well?
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Feb 16, 2016 2:14:01 GMT
Yo! What happened to the book shelves? You promised pics of the end product! I made a few bookcases in Google Sketchup to populate a library. My plan is to clean these up and then make silicone molds and then cast them out of resin to create a large library. This looks pretty cool to though, Kev! You have a long memory! Let me see if I can wrestle up some picks of those bookcases.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Feb 16, 2016 0:32:17 GMT
This video details how to create a stamp to easily mass produce wooden planks of any length and width from clay. These planks can then be used in any of your fantasy table builds for either RPG games such as Pathfinder/D&D as well as tabletop war games. The next video will show how I made the stones and then the following series of videos will show how I crafted the modular cottage. I hope you enjoy. Any and all feedback is appreciated.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 27, 2015 16:47:50 GMT
Nicely done. I love the texture of the bark.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 26, 2015 23:24:25 GMT
This is the third part of the the 3 part set that shows how I made the modular dungeon/castle walls for the magnetic tiles. I hope you find in interesting.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 23, 2015 13:49:28 GMT
<middle school humor>
The correct wise guy response to the wife's comment would be, "that's no monstrosity, now THIS is a monstrosity."
</middle school humor>
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 22, 2015 19:44:18 GMT
nubaum, on the contrary its often when you are looking at it from afar that weaknesses appears the most. Unless your definition of close is the molecular level, I will respectfully disagree.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 21, 2015 19:49:55 GMT
I think it is very usable as is. Remember we are zoomed in on it here. From game table level, I am sure t would pas just fine.
If you wanted to tighten it up, it may be easiest to make in 2 or 3 parts that can then be fused together. The center piece of the 3 parts could even be a square or rectangular box. Just a thought.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 21, 2015 16:52:27 GMT
In any game I run, I require players to either devise a good "fear" for their character (Even Paladins...), or else I will devise one for them. It is good fodder for campaigns and plot ideas...it requires the players to imagine creative ways to work through scenarios. So, +1 for this idea. I will have my players roll percentile dice whenever they encounter a new possible phobia for the first time (spiders, heights, close environment, snakes, undead, etc.) Their target is rolling over 5 while adding their wisdom modifier to the roll. This being said, 01 always fails. If they fail the roll, they note it on their player card and will be adversely affected by these types of environments in the future. The players seem to like it and I think it adds a little bit of realism to tone down the invincible hero. Hell, Indiana Jones is even petrified by snakes!
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 21, 2015 2:06:47 GMT
Nice work. The big ones reminds me of myself when I get out of the shower in the morning.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 21, 2015 1:07:37 GMT
Bravo sir, Bravo. Some of the pictures make me think I am getting a behind the scenes look at a to be released industrial magic and light movie.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 20, 2015 22:23:17 GMT
I made an anvil that I am not happy about, but I am rarely happy about anything I make. Stupid self loathing artistic personality (shakes fist at self awkwardly). I think it looks pretty good. Ifd you decide to scrap it and build another, this might be the good start of a Star Wars walker to boot!
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