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Post by grym247 on May 31, 2014 3:28:14 GMT
Awesome looking Trees
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Post by Cyan Wisp on Jun 1, 2014 20:49:32 GMT
The foliage is a great find, but the bark...that bark is amazing. The finished product looks very professional!
AJ, I have lichen stuff everywhere, too. It seems to last indefinitely.
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Post by dragon722 on Jun 9, 2014 7:17:43 GMT
Boy these trees take alot of glue for sure. have almost a few done so hope to get these couple completed tomorrow and see how they come out. got different colors of the reindeer moss to mix and blend the trees. Hopefully I will be able to get them posted on here to see what u think....
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Post by yebittendog on Jun 9, 2014 21:04:38 GMT
Nice job. I have trouble getting trees I like as well.
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Post by gnomezrule on Jun 10, 2014 1:22:47 GMT
Those are fantastic.
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Post by gnomezrule on Jun 10, 2014 1:23:16 GMT
Those are fantastic.
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Post by wildagreenbough on Jun 10, 2014 4:28:45 GMT
I'm very impressed with how well your trees turned out, - the bark texture is amazingly realistic.
Good trees are hard to find and for a while there I used trees intended for railway modellers, but these are are often too small and aren't entirely convincing.
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Post by voodoo on Apr 3, 2015 9:11:04 GMT
Those look really great!
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Post by MrDungeonMaster on Aug 17, 2018 15:43:07 GMT
Update: The diluted PVA glue does NOT prevent the parsley from discoloring over time. I took almost a year for t to happen, but they eventually "yellowed". Than't not necessarily a bad thing, though. Over time it began to look like dead leaf litter. More realistic, but not the aesthetic I was looking for. I re-covered the bases with "painted pencil shavings" and they look better than ever.
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Post by erho on Aug 17, 2018 15:58:43 GMT
Maybe a green drybrushing every couple years?
On a side note, if you ever used Mod Podge as a sealer, how does it look 4 years or so down the line?
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Post by sgtslag on Aug 17, 2018 17:14:34 GMT
I used lichen as ground cover, to imply thorn bushes growing over sharpened wooden stakes, angled out, away from guard towers, at their bases. The idea was to limit where an enemy could approach the towers. They suited my needs beautifully... A year later, they were dried out, and they shattered with a light touch. I love how lichen looks, but if they dry out and become brittle... Watch out! I've read that they need to be refreshed with an application of glycerin, periodically, but I'd rather use something I don't need to refresh... Ever. Still searching for the magical, mystical replacement. Ground up, painted/stained foam sounds great, but can't really find what I'm looking for. Yet. I believe the method of rejuvenating lichen is to apply glycerin with an eye dropper, and let the lichen absorb it, over time. It is supposed to make it soft and crushable, again. Never tried it, but there you go. Hope it helps. This photo demonstrates why I abandoned using vinyl floor tiles for bases, as well. They warp, after 6-12 months, from the white PVA glue I used to attach the sand texture to it. Haven't found a way to avoid that, really. Switched to MDF, which seems to be immune to this problem. " Yaaay! And there was much rejoicing!..." I've re-based all of these towers, but I still need to add back in the sharpened stakes, and the thorn bushes. These are an old project, from 3+ years ago. Used pumpkin stems, for those wondering. Any gourd stem should work. The straighter the stem is, the better, however. If you have a garden, and you grow gourds, or any vine type of plant, you might want to arrange a stick and a string, to lift them up as they grow, to get straight stems. There seems to actually be a market for such, on e-Bay... Cheers!
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Post by erho on Aug 17, 2018 17:28:47 GMT
Good info!!
Nice tower BTW, the toothpick stairs are functional. Thats a +1 to dex checks on them?
I'm disappointed in the floor tiles!
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Post by sgtslag on Aug 18, 2018 1:44:08 GMT
Here is the image which I built my towers from: I modified it a little bit, to make it more realistic. I read about a particular type of thorn bush, where the thorns grow around 4"-6" long! If you get pricked by them, you will likely get a life-threatening infection!... That's real-world stuff, not fantasy. I figured if I were a Hobgoblin, I would build these Towers planting such thorn bushes growing in between the sharpened sticks, thrusting out from the trunks. I've got a scenario where Dwarves attack a Hobgoblin wooden palisade, in a forest. These seem like a perfect set of Towers to ring the palisade with. Got the palisade, got the Towers; got the Hobgoblin army of figures ready to fight, got Dwarves, and Ram Cavalry. Need to put it together on the table... I love my 2e BattleSystem games! Cheers!
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Post by erho on Aug 21, 2018 21:36:22 GMT
Death by normie plant? Thats some evil DMing there!
I'll have to use it in my games!
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Post by DnDPaladin on Aug 26, 2018 7:26:25 GMT
Interesting to note, pipe cleaners are great for doing these things, but hot glue has a hard time pooling like it usually does. so its a bit of a hassle to make hotglue stick correctly on those.
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Post by MrDungeonMaster on Aug 27, 2018 0:39:57 GMT
...but hot glue has a hard time pooling like it usually does. so its a bit of a hassle to make hotglue stick correctly on those. The PVA glue helps to allow the hot glue to hold with minimal pooling. If necessary, you can add it in thin layers, but I've never had to worry about it. The hot glue does try to smooth itself out as it cools, but you can use the tip to melt/sculpt texture after it sets up the first time. Just make sure that it's on and up to temp when you do.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Aug 27, 2018 3:32:31 GMT
What i meant was that gravity cannot be used the way you hope it works when you do the hot glue coating.
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