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Post by spidereyes on Nov 15, 2013 6:00:33 GMT
Just curious to know what was your very first inspiration to craft something for your games? Ya, you want to be economical, but what was the very first thing and very first moment that you said, "I am going to try and make my own thing" . I can say for me, that a loooong time ago, in the 80s, i made my own oozes and slimes by melting plastic fishing worms. I didn't see the point on wasting 6$ on preformed metal figures that pretty much all look alike. And now I am thinking, that if I did that now, and applied some of those mad glue gun skills that DMScotty has, I can do them better. What about you? What was your inspiration?
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Post by earlteagrey on Nov 15, 2013 13:17:39 GMT
When I was a kid I loved making things from cardboard and scraps. I also loved model railroads and especially the scenery. RPG Crafting gives me a fun excuse to do something I've loved to do since childhood, even though I'm all grown up now.
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Post by wilmanric on Nov 15, 2013 14:06:41 GMT
I've always made things. I think that drove my parents nuts. I used to cut up cardboard boxes and build structures for my action figures. I'd use up all my father's electrical tape in the process. (He was an electrician by trade.) I remember making spaceships for my action figures out of old bottles. The list goes on and on. The first big "gaming related" crafting project I made was a 3D terrain board for CopperCon many, many moons ago. I still have it. Maybe I'll do a post...
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Post by skunkape on Nov 15, 2013 14:30:31 GMT
I started off building scale models so a lot of my original skills come from that. I also built dioramas for some of my scale models and made home movies using those models and action figures. I started working on model railroad terrain during this time and took art/design classes both in high school and college.
Eventually, once I got into gaming during in high school, I started building terrain for gaming.
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Post by thorswulf on Nov 15, 2013 15:32:02 GMT
I have always built things from cardboard and paper in some form or another as a kid. I think it was really when I was in my teens that I started to build some basic gaming structures. I really couldn't afford wargames until I was out of college and since then I have built numerous things. Many of my old builds got donated to the game store for terrain to be used by gamers there. As my skills got better, my terrain looked nicer and I kept those.
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Post by ashrothedm on Nov 15, 2013 15:57:51 GMT
When I was a kid, my grandmother had no toys at her place. Cardboard made a lot of toys for me when I was there. I kind of wish I still had those things. Transformers, vehicles, castles, etc. Anyway, crafting was always supplemental to the other toys that I had at home, so I would say that I've always been interested. There was, of course, also this:
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Post by markd1733 on Nov 15, 2013 23:59:19 GMT
Zero Charisma!!!
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Post by adamantinedragon on Nov 26, 2013 6:00:33 GMT
I just make stuff. When I got interested in stargazing, I made a telescope. When I got interested in fishing, I tied my own flies. I wander around stores and flea markets looking at stuff to see what I can make out of them. Within a few months of playing D&D back in the late 70s I was making my own RPG rules...
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Post by markd1733 on Nov 26, 2013 6:09:29 GMT
In my case about 2 years ago. I basically didn't want to pay $40 for a behir figure, so I sculpted something from blue and metallic blue sculpy clay. Although it is lacking fine detail, it has shape, color, and texture and is more than accurate enough to be used in a game.
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Post by onethatwas on Nov 26, 2013 7:11:32 GMT
I made a house complete with to-scale furniture for a Gizmo doll I had. You know, from the movie "Gremlins"?
Gaming related, I made a sandstone rock formation for some Warhammer 40K terrain. I made it entirely from Foamcore board. Then I spray painted it. That was a disastrous decision...
I was able to save the tile, but it is a bit of a disappointment for me, despite being a really functional piece regardless of my mistake.
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Post by tauster on Nov 26, 2013 9:19:38 GMT
I made a house complete with to-scale furniture for a Gizmo doll I had. You know, from the movie "Gremlins"? G aming related, I made a sandstone rock formation for some Warhammer 40K terrain. I made it entirely from Foamcore board. Then I spray painted it. That was a disastrous decision...
I was able to save the tile, but it is a bit of a disappointment for me, despite being a really functional piece regardless of my mistake. If you spraypaint styrofpam very carefully (i.e. only a little), the solvents eat only a bit into the foam and give it a wonderful 'weathered rock' texture. After the whole mess has dried, you can paint it regularly with acrylic colors. Have a look at the rock pillars at the very back (nearest to the arm rest of the couch; sorry for the blurry picture...). They were cut & carved with a hotwire tool and then treated as described above. Of course some of the holes in the rock look hexagonal, but it's not as bad as the picture suggests.
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Post by dmdubbledee on Nov 26, 2013 12:39:56 GMT
I started about a month ago after seeing my first dmscotty video. All attempts at art/craft have been aborted in the past because of dismal results. Watching dmscotty's video (it was the fountain video--blew me away) made it seem like anyone could do it, even me. He is not just a great creative mind, he is also a brilliant teacher.
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Post by wilmanric on Nov 26, 2013 13:57:29 GMT
In my case about 2 years ago. I basically didn't want to pay $40 for a behir figure, so I sculpted something from blue and metallic blue sculpy clay. Although it is lacking fine detail, it has shape, color, and texture and is more than accurate enough to be used in a game. Yeah! The price for the behir is unbelievably high. I got lucky on eBay (I think it is because she misspelled the name and no one else found it) and got one for about $12, but I haven't been able to find another affordable one since. I'd love to see what you did with yours!
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Post by wilmanric on Nov 26, 2013 14:00:37 GMT
I made a house complete with to-scale furniture for a Gizmo doll I had. You know, from the movie "Gremlins"? G aming related, I made a sandstone rock formation for some Warhammer 40K terrain. I made it entirely from Foamcore board. Then I spray painted it. That was a disastrous decision...
I was able to save the tile, but it is a bit of a disappointment for me, despite being a really functional piece regardless of my mistake. If you spraypaint styrofpam very carefully (i.e. only a little), the solvents eat only a bit into the foam and give it a wonderful 'weathered rock' texture. After the whole mess has dried, you can paint it regularly with acrylic colors. Have a look at the rock pillars at the very back (nearest to the arm rest of the couch; sorry for the blurry picture...). They were cut & carved with a hotwire tool and then treated as described above. Of course some of the holes in the rock look hexagonal, but it's not as bad as the picture suggests. I bought a cheapie latex spray gun from Harbor Freight to facilitate the painting of large styro pieces quickly. Also, buying gallons of mis-mixed latex at the hardware store can be super cheap. $5 a gallon! I have black and tan and grey and... Well, you get the idea. As an aside, tauster, where did you get those seed pod things??
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Post by thorswulf on Nov 26, 2013 15:15:00 GMT
As far as visual inspiration goes, well just about anything can get me jazzed up. Currently I'm working on a retro sci fi city for some wargames. Think Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers crossed with 1960's comic book art. Domes, towers, funk whatsits, and so forth. To go with this I'm using a hot wire to form some typical rocky formations ala Alexander Raymonds' illustrations and pulp sci fi covers. Why? Because I love it. Now where did I put that rocket pack and atomic blaster.....
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Post by tauster on Nov 26, 2013 17:02:07 GMT
As an aside, tauster, where did you get those seed pod things?? Try searching for dried lotus pods on ebay. They are usually sold at prices where I'd buy them only if I really needed them for a specific project, but I once got lucky and grabbed a whole bunch of them prepainted (burgundy, a sort of red-brown) dirt cheap on ebay (12,50 € for 50 pods, shipping already included).
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Post by algardunraven on Nov 30, 2013 3:22:56 GMT
I tried building things when I was a kid but nothing came easy for me so I stuck to baseball and music which I was pretty good at. I liked to do lots of things but never was a master at anything. When I saw my first DMScotty video on making your own tiles (like dmdubbledee) about a month ago, I thought "I can do that" and the rest is history. He explained things in a way that I could understand and now I'm hooked. Thanks again Scotty!
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