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Post by skunkape on Oct 20, 2015 15:05:44 GMT
That's some amazing terrain! I can see you've put a lot of time and effort into this and it looks so great! Can't wait to see some photos of the finished piece!
As an aside, I actually made the castle in MineCraft one time. Wasn't completely accurate, but looked really cool! Course I did it in the creative mode as to do it in normal game mode would eat up a lot of terrain!
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Post by milojaggerson on Oct 20, 2015 15:50:59 GMT
I would love to see a Minecraft version of the castle. Never thought to check to see if one exists. I bet yours was cool, skunkape!
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Post by skunkape on Oct 20, 2015 15:56:18 GMT
I would love to see a Minecraft version of the castle. Never thought to check to see if one exists. I bet yours was cool, skunkape! Thanks, it was but I have since deleted that map!  I have been toying with the idea of setting up a Realms server, if I do, I'll be sure to make another one so that people I invite to the server can explore it! If you Google for Minecraft Raveloft images there should be some out there. Not mine of course but some that others have done! |
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Post by sotf on Oct 20, 2015 17:37:48 GMT
Might be fun to work one off of Ravenloft and its surrounding area, probably more based off of the Expedition version, but would be interesting there.
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Post by eldong on Oct 28, 2015 18:11:45 GMT
This build is insane. The work shows incredible expertise, and the patience of a saint.
Kudos!
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Post by kgstanley81 on Oct 30, 2015 2:58:00 GMT
Awesome work can't wait to see it painted
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Post by milojaggerson on Nov 2, 2015 19:22:11 GMT
Apologies, friends. I haven't posted anything in a while, but the build is still rolling. I'm in between covering the various roofs of the castle and preparing to lay paint on the build. I picked up a compressor and airbrush set last week from Harbor Freight and played around "painting" cardboard with water to get used to the action. For purposes of terrain painting, I expect that the "cheap" airbrush will do at least an adequate job. Without having done any terrain painting in the past, but having watched several YouTube videos, I am convinced that the air brush is the best way to do the majority of the tile paint work.
Currently I am working on making stonework stencils for the tiles. Cereal box cardboard takes a little bit to cut when trying to make the stencils, but the effort will be worth it. It may be better to cut the stencils from ridged plastic sheets, but only experience will reveal the truth of that matter. Cereal box cardboard is inexpensive and abundant, semi-rigid plastic sheeting, not so much. Photos to come soon.
Furnishing and doors for the castle have taken a back seat for the moment. Regretfully I can only work on one thing at a time. Patience is key to success!
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Nov 2, 2015 19:29:14 GMT
Disposable plastic plates work great for stencils.
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Post by milojaggerson on Nov 3, 2015 19:24:36 GMT
Disposable plastic plates work great for stencils. This is why I love this board! I hadn't considered plastic plates as a solution. I'll have to try some tonight. Thank you, Bluecloud2k2! |
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Nov 3, 2015 19:36:47 GMT
Disposable plastic plates work great for stencils. This is why I love this board! I hadn't considered plastic plates as a solution. I'll have to try some tonight. Thank you, Bluecloud2k2! NP, I discovered this by accident when I was harvesting said plates for armor-plates for an attempt at scratch-building a 40k Rhino |
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Post by milojaggerson on Jan 25, 2016 17:25:52 GMT
I hate to say this, but you should maybe try painting a small portion of this epic project before you complete construction. It would be a real shame if you got all of this work done and found out that painting will ruin it. I'm not saying it will. I just know that painting on top of hot glue can be tricky. Maybe make a couple simple stair pieces or a quick out building to test the waters. I only say this out of love for the project, and experience. There's a 2.5D building tile downstairs that mocks me with it's curly-ness. I've just started preliminary paint work - using an airbrush to apply my primer first. I concur with your assessment of paint's interaction with hot glue. I am thinking of mixing in some watered down PVA glue to my primer to see how the hot glue will handle that. I have a rooftop piece I coated with watered down PVA and am anxious to see how the hot glue holds the black primer. It has taken a long time to get to this point - Fallout 4 has eaten a lot of my free time. I'll be posting pictures of the castle as it is primed for painting. I think I'm going to "cheat" on the castle's battlements for the time being. I plan to purchase Campaign Cartographer and print a floor plan outlining the battlements to the scale of the castle. That way I'll be able to drop the castle down inside the grounds boarded by the battlements - I don't expect much to take place in the battlements anyway. I'm really wanting to get the castle completed before Wizards releases the new world book Curse of Strahd. Less than two months away, isn't it? |
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Post by sgtslag on Jan 25, 2016 18:46:00 GMT
I typically prime Hot Glue with Gesso. I have not had issues with it thus far, and I have painted quite a bit of Hot Glue. I also paint Wood Glue, and PVA Glue over it, then swirl it in a mixture of three colored sands, for the bases. I've used it for quite a long time, to base my mini's on vinyl floor tile pieces cut to size -- the tiles make a fantastic basing material, as I can cut them to any custom size smaller than 12"-Square. I am interested to hear what issues you may encounter. Best of luck with the Strahd project -- I've been following it from the beginning. It is incredibly ambitious, and impressively massive. Cheers!
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Post by voodoo on Jan 25, 2016 23:48:22 GMT
Strahd comes out March 15th (along with the tarokka deck from gale force 9 I hope) also same as Game of Thrones (blu ray)
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Post by milojaggerson on Jan 27, 2016 18:24:21 GMT
Strahd comes out March 15th (along with the tarokka deck from gale force 9 I hope) also same as Game of Thrones (blu ray) It won't be long. I found a tarokka deck .PDF online. I like the looks of it, it has a few more cards than a standard playing pack. Making a deck should be a nice, short weekend project... Too much to do! |
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Post by voodoo on Jan 27, 2016 20:22:04 GMT
Strahd comes out March 15th (along with the tarokka deck from gale force 9 I hope) also same as Game of Thrones (blu ray) It won't be long. I found a tarokka deck .PDF online. I like the looks of it, it has a few more cards than a standard playing pack. Making a deck should be a nice, short weekend project... Too much to do! Also just read that GF9 will release a full size Tarokka deck after they release the regular black and white deck. (hopefully in colour) |
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Post by milojaggerson on Sept 18, 2016 12:34:50 GMT
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Post by margaret on Sept 19, 2016 16:42:36 GMT
Looks great! Your players should have a fantastic time. Looking forward to seeing the rest of it painted!
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Post by stroezie on Sept 19, 2016 16:59:25 GMT
Well that got an exalt out of me😎
Awesome build, takes some real dedication, your players should thank their lucky stars. I have to admit though, if I was one of your players, I would definatly be trying to pick a fight on those stairs, the visuals would just be to awesome for me to resist.
= Awesomesauce!!!
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Post by milojaggerson on Sept 19, 2016 17:40:31 GMT
I have a special plan for the main set of spiral stairs. I gotta dust off my electrical engineering notebook though, cause it involves blinking lights...
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Post by earlteagrey on Sept 25, 2016 1:29:37 GMT
JAW. DROPPED!!! Way to go!!
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". Perhaps it will be released as well? We can only hope!
Cheers!
Cheers!