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Post by Meph on Feb 6, 2015 15:50:37 GMT
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Post by runningwolf on Feb 6, 2015 16:15:23 GMT
All of it looks good. Good thing about dollar store stuff, if you screw up like you did it's not like it cost you big bucks  |
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Post by sgtslag on Feb 6, 2015 16:42:18 GMT
Too bad about the snake -- looks great aside from the cracks. The fly really came out nice, as did the Centipede. Great work. Cheers!
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Post by runningwolf on Feb 6, 2015 17:16:05 GMT
The snake cracks? Battle scars from previous adventurers that it swallowed up |
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Post by teaman on Feb 6, 2015 19:53:40 GMT
If only they would carry little bags of army men sized adventurers, we be set.
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Post by teaman on Feb 6, 2015 19:56:27 GMT
I saw a bag of LARGE army men (4 of them). I keep thinking about repurposing them as giants. Have to see if I get to the dollar store or not this weekend. Want to pick up some foam core anyway.
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Post by tauster on Feb 6, 2015 20:04:23 GMT
nice loot! About that cracked snake: Why not making it a cracked zombie snake? Everything gets better if you add a little 'zombie' to it!  |
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Post by DnDPaladin on Feb 6, 2015 20:11:20 GMT
i must agree that there must be something you can do about that snake.
zombie could really work well considering the cracks. thats a nice idea from tauster.
overall nice job dude.
but always wondered where you guys get your bases for those stuff ?
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Post by Meph on Feb 6, 2015 22:25:41 GMT
My bases in those pictures are cardboard for the fly, cardboard for the snake with card stock wrapped over the corrugation, and a 1" square piece of laminate flooring for the centipede. I need to go out on the table saw and cut myself up a crap load of different sized bases. The laminate floor is excellent and I can get a LOT of based from one piece.
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Post by Meph on Feb 6, 2015 22:27:05 GMT
Oh and as for the snake, some kind of process happened with that snake because now its head feels more like foam than rubber. If anyone has any good idea how to permanently seal it then it should be fine. I could grey it up and make it a zombie snake, but I need a way to protect it.
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Post by Admin on Feb 7, 2015 0:10:16 GMT
Dab some red around the cracks, battle scars as runningwolf suggests!
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Post by runningwolf on Feb 7, 2015 14:35:09 GMT
nice loot! About that cracked snake: Why not making it a cracked zombie snake? Everything gets better if you add a little 'zombie' to it! battle scars or zombies work I picked up a big (maybe 50+) tub of Army Men at Toys R Us for under $20. Not really the same scale but they will do for some purposes. A while ago someone posted some instructions on how to turn Army Men into Swamp Beasts. Well worth looking for. |
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Post by sgtslag on Feb 8, 2015 5:05:59 GMT
I use two peel-n-stick vinyl floor tiles, glued to each other. They average around $0.60 per square-foot tile. They can be cut with kitchen scissors, or a table saw, to any size needed. I then apply PVA, and sand, to texture them. Cheap, fully customizable, easy to work with. Cheers!
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Post by DnDPaladin on Feb 9, 2015 21:15:14 GMT
White glue all over works great as a seeler, same for modpodge. at least thats what i use for sealing.
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Post by sgtslag on Feb 10, 2015 15:56:42 GMT
Visited the Dollar Store last night. Picked up a couple of bags of insects, but I only really will use the two Giant Bees (rarely used these in my game, over the past 35 years, but...), along with two beetles, which I will use for Giant Beetles of whatever type is needed at that time.
I also picked up a bag of courser, darker green sand, as well as a bag of smaller-than-pea-gravel, white crystal rocks. I added the courser green sand, to my lighter, finer green sand, which I use for texturing bases. It gives it a mottled green look (add to taste), which really makes the bases more interesting, visually. The white rock crystals are being glued to my white floor tile bases, for my Frost Giants, Winter Wolves, and Giant Polar Bears. I started out adding a few, to make them look like snow chunks, on a smoother snowy field, but then I tried adding lots of them, nearly covering the base, to represent rougher snow fields. I really like that effect. Being crystals, they have some shimmer to them, which is a good approximation to snow. I used PVA Glue to attach them. I will try to post photo's of the new basing tonight. Cheers!
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Post by Meph on Feb 10, 2015 16:05:08 GMT
I really need to stay away from those stores. There is a Real Deals just outside of town that I have never been to so I figured I would check it out. GOLDMINE! I ended up picking up everything here for $12 total. The bags of insects are all one type. 2 bags of spiders and 1 bag of crabs. They had more stuff so I imagine I will be back there next week. =) Had to grab a dragon to make one of the Dragon Thrones. Probably go back for a few more to throw in a bin for another day.  |
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Post by Meph on Feb 10, 2015 16:30:33 GMT
THese things have some pretty nice detail to them and they seem to take paint well. I sprayed the undersides black because they are white but other than that I am just going to paint them.  |
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Post by DnDPaladin on Feb 10, 2015 18:53:11 GMT
my dollar store nearby is too small... but they do get some stuf once in a while.
great find there. my biggest problem is my spray paint which is easily getting empty.
12$ a can is not something i'd pay often. wish there was cheaper stuff around.
those spiders looks nice.
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Post by Meph on Feb 10, 2015 19:09:33 GMT
I paid $1 each for those cans at the dollar store. There has to be something cheaper near you.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 19:43:24 GMT
Thanks to the free trade agreement with China, my little country is awash with cheap dollar stores full of this sort of stuff, but more importantly, cheap hot glue sticks!
That snake would look great with blood coming out of the neck wounds and a pack of snarling gnolls or other beasts surrounding it, or, you could zombie it up, or, add some parasite worms breaking out of it in gory fashion, through the savage neck wounds!
Creepy parasites that might also infect the adventurers are always fun.
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Cheers!
Cheers!