dmzane
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Post by dmzane on Aug 6, 2014 4:46:23 GMT
Im about to start a project that is basically a Large Temple. I want the floors to look like white marble with black veins, and perhaps gold flecks.Also i want the floor to be in large tiles, not for grids but perhaps it would look nice. If anyone could be so kind as to explain how I could pull off such a look or perhaps point me in the right direction I would be very thankful. Im going to start building the temple tomorrow (since i have the day off yay) and Im afraid to do anything with the floors until i can get a solid way of the doing them. Also how could I seperate the white floors from walls? (2.5 D...thanks DM scotty).
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Post by DMScotty on Aug 6, 2014 5:25:42 GMT
I do marble by using a grey as a base. I then drybush cream and then draw the lines in with a thin brush. I use gunmetal for the marble lines. If you want to use black wet it down so it is thin.
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dmzane
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Post by dmzane on Aug 6, 2014 6:14:39 GMT
Wow thank you sir. I wonder if i could use card stock for the tiles, paint the marble effect, and then outline the tiles with some black. Just want to get it all nailed down before i start working on it.
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Post by Brainbot on Aug 6, 2014 6:34:39 GMT
Here's the technique I used for a craftwar competition.
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dmzane
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Post by dmzane on Aug 6, 2014 6:57:36 GMT
Omg that's a wealth of info thank you both so much.
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Post by Cyan Wisp on Aug 6, 2014 8:59:30 GMT
One quick way is to paint your first colour quite wet, then drag your second colour through the still wet first coat kind of randomly. Marble pillars
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Post by beetlewing on Aug 6, 2014 16:49:44 GMT
You could also do a google image search for "seamless marble texture", and set image size to large while searching. This will provide images used by 3d graphic artists, which they wrap around 3d objects. Simply print the image onto card stock and spray with a high gloss clear coat.
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Post by gnomezrule on Aug 6, 2014 17:30:52 GMT
Google Christopher Lowell marble.
He is a designer that has a very simple technique.
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dmzane
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Post by dmzane on Aug 6, 2014 18:31:28 GMT
Wow guys ! You really jump to help out and its very refreshing. I started building the main chamber of my temple today and ive got pics under Vanquisher's Temple Project, in General Crafting. I intend to update as i can...don't be to hard on me im still learning lol.
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valas
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Post by valas on Aug 6, 2014 21:21:25 GMT
NM... already linked in a previous post.
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Post by DMScotty on Aug 7, 2014 3:11:37 GMT
dmzane, looking forward to see the result.
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dmzane
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Post by dmzane on Aug 7, 2014 17:59:36 GMT
Okay here is the attempt. Its not the best but I'm sort of happy with it and it will serve its purpose. imageshack.com/a/kAIz/1
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DM Michael
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Post by DM Michael on Aug 7, 2014 21:51:16 GMT
When I am doing big projects of "serious" crafting (= stuff that I need for sessions that I have already planned), I like to do a small scale prototype first. That way if things go wrong I haven't destroyed/wasted a lot of work.
Once I made an Inn. It took me more than 100 hours to make it. (I was unemployed at the time.) When I was nearing completion, I had some doubts about some of the techniques. So I decided to make a small prototype and try out variations first. That saved me a lot of grief. So now I have a small farm house with many different kinds of windows and doors, and a crooked roof in addition to my inn.
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sotf
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Post by sotf on Aug 15, 2014 2:55:50 GMT
White marble is rather easy for larger surfaces if you have a sponge. Other marbles are workable as well, but white is the easiest.
Base white, give a heavy black wash, then take a black paint pen with a fine tip (Extremely useful for painting eyes on minis and a lot of similar things anyway) to draw a few random veins, don't go insanely overboard, but you can easily use a lot of them. Then take some cream or bone paint and stipple it on over the rest, after that dries repeat with white. When stippling, try to leave some veins there to keep the right look. Then hit it with a semi-gloss layer and done.
It works for minis as well, but it's a little harder to keep the veins directly intact.
An easy tool that you can make to help with this is to take an older brush with a metal binder for the bristles that's losing bristles, remove the bristles (You can save the bristles in clumps for tall grass clumps with basing and terrain if you want) and cut a piece of sponge that you can cram into it while expanding the metal...before assembly, put a drop of a non-water based glue inside the handle and then put the sponge piece in place before bending the metal back in to seal it up...you can also do this with one of the wooden pencils if you can handle the eraser, but it tends to be a bit on the more difficult side.
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