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Post by tauster on Oct 4, 2015 17:49:27 GMT
Here's a quick fungus-build... Q: What do you get if you throw together a lightbulb, a large hexnut and an Warhammer ogre head?  A: A giant fungus...  ...with a weird or horrific twist:  The tone of this encounter depends on how you want to use this thing in your game: It can be a smart aleck that coughts up the much-needed information when the players do it some favour, or it can beg to be killed (think Alien movies). It might be able to cast spells at them, spit slime or pollen at them. As usual, I haven't made up my mind how to paint this thing... |
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Post by birdskull on Oct 5, 2015 14:43:18 GMT
Great idea! Saw some lightbulbs in one of my kitchen cabinets earlier today!
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Oct 5, 2015 18:55:06 GMT
I did a few big shrooms, about as tall as a mini. Easy and cheap way. Take a sqaure or two of toilet paper, do the water and glue dip. I slipped it over the tip of my finger to get the dome shape and set them down on a cutting board to dry. Tight spin on another few peices for the stalks and let them dry. Good variety on the sizes you can make. You can leave it the way it is after drying or texture with sand or hot glue, or however you want. Other option is that you can paint them before or after hot gluing them to the stems and base. Thats my go to method. Pics or it didn't happen. |
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Post by tauster on Oct 17, 2015 11:56:16 GMT
Q: What's better than cool mushrooms?
A: Cool mushrooms that glow!
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Post by nvdberg on Oct 17, 2015 12:40:40 GMT
Brilliant use of materials It might be good thing I don't have any smd's lying around or I would have foregone on the home improvement I should be doing right now.  EXALT! This will be bouncing around in my mind for a while. |
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Post by curufin on Oct 17, 2015 13:19:55 GMT
Wow! Great vid! Not only was the project cool, but there were tons of little tip and tricks within it. I might just mess around with some glowing mushrooms.... Lightupus Fungus Curufinus
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Post by tauster on Oct 17, 2015 13:33:51 GMT
I imagine a large number of glowing mushrooms, colored in all kinds, all over my crafting area in the new house. It wouldn't provide any useful light but boy would it look cool!
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Post by nvdberg on Oct 17, 2015 13:38:41 GMT
I might make a bunch of them just to decorate the garden, solar powered if I find the stuff cheaply enough.
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Post by tauster on Oct 18, 2015 11:20:04 GMT
Of cours I couldn't wait...  I'll use a battery-powerd LED light chain instead of soldering stuff together. I'm losing some flexibility that way (although I could extend some of the wire where required) but it frees up a lot of time.  If it looks like an unholy mess, that's because it is. I totally overestimated the amount of color required, so the first batch (a reddish brown) didn't let any light through. I had to add more silicone to 'thin it down'. The next batches I made with considerably less color and it worked well.  Twenty mushroom heads are hardening right now:    I made only the caps, because I didn't want to commit myself to how I want to arrange the colors (in color groups, probably). Now I need to find an old driftwood board, make some holes and finally get my act together and do the stems... |
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Post by curufin on Oct 18, 2015 13:16:19 GMT
Hahahah! I knew you wouldn't be able to wait with this one... this is awesome! I cant wait to see them all done and lit up.
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Post by tauster on Oct 18, 2015 14:19:48 GMT
Just got the OK for a great weathered board of driftwood from my father... Jay! |
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Post by nvdberg on Oct 18, 2015 14:40:26 GMT
Just bought a solar powered led string with flowers that either blink or burn solid during the darker hours of the day for up to 10 hrs. Found it on e-bay and couldn't resist... damn you Tauster  |
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Post by tauster on Oct 18, 2015 15:31:59 GMT
- grabbed a driftwood plank - placed all LED's - drilled 20 holes (and killed a drill... which is bad, but even wors is that it wasn't my own drill  ) - undid the clingfoil so that the silicone can cure properly, and lose some of it's stink I hope that I can do the stems soon, so that this doesn't become one of the countless unfinished projects...    |
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Post by ogrestamp on Oct 27, 2015 20:12:54 GMT
That was a very cool video. Lots of cool ideas. I did like the stems and how pliable they were.
I had a cool idea to add to this. You could do an underwater theme with jellyfish using this technique. That would be cool.
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Post by eldong on Oct 28, 2015 4:09:04 GMT
New here, but I just had to register to say how cool an Underdark mushroom forest with glowing mushrooms would be!
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Post by tauster on Oct 28, 2015 6:16:05 GMT
New here, but I just had to register to say how cool an Underdark mushroom forest with glowing mushrooms would be! That would awesome indeed. A (flickering) LED tea-light could be used as a base for a silicone mushroom. Have to think about that one... ...oh, and welcome on board! |
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Post by eldong on Oct 28, 2015 6:46:44 GMT
Thanks a ton. Imagine your players coming into a dark room - much like the Underdark - then hitting switches one by one!  |
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Post by Draklith on Oct 28, 2015 14:59:56 GMT
yup, I think I'm in on this one too. I blame tauster  fantastic idea |
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Post by ogrestamp on Oct 29, 2015 7:07:57 GMT
yup, I think I'm in on this one too. I blame tauster fantastic idea I try to blame Tauster but ultimately my wife blames me. I get over ruled, undaunted, but over ruled. |
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Post by SpielMeisterKev! on Nov 5, 2015 12:58:47 GMT
Howdy, I saw this and thought of you, tauster...  Click through for the tutorial, Kev! |
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fantastic idea 
Cheers!
Cheers!