dmgreg8
Cardboard Collector
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Post by dmgreg8 on Jul 16, 2015 3:19:39 GMT
Dear Dm Scotty and other fellow crafters.
My question is how do you craft pots, scrolls and sacks? I've been thinking on using the hot glue gun for the pots, and for scrolls just roll up tiny rolls of paper wet it put white glue on it along with glut gun texture for the rope, for the sacks I might just use the hot glue gun.
For gold pieces I got the idea from Dm Scotty's wood debris pile. Cut thin card stock into tiny round pieces glue them over lapping each other. Then painting them yellow, finishing them off with gold glitter. Add a Dm Scotty crafted type treasure chest or two, but this is where I want to add a pot a couple of scrolls or even a sack.
Another idea of mine is to 3d model these items and use the 3d printer.. lol
Anyone got other ideas?
Cheer's dmgreg!
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sotf
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Post by sotf on Jul 16, 2015 6:37:53 GMT
For sacks, the easiest thing is to take a roll of TP and one of paper towel. Make some balls of wet TP, not perfectly round, but close and while it's still damp take a piece of the paper towel that is also moist to fold around it, pinch the top.
Put a small blob of hot glue inside just as you close it up and give it a slight twist, then place it while the bundle is still damp and malleable. Otherwise you aren't getting it placed right, though it can work as a piece for a mini to be carrying.
Now, you can go fancy and take a piece of thin wire (tear the paper or plastic off of some twist ties for some of the right thickness) and wrap it around the neck, clipping it with a little bit visible (If you want it being carried, use a bit longer and you can make a hanger shape that can let you hang it over a minis shoulder to represent that they're carrying it.
Pots are easy to do, just look at the wooden beads section, they're pretty damn cheap and you can make a few hundred out of rather little there.
Scrolls, just roll up some printer paper cut to the right size, add a bit of white glue as you roll it up, and it'll hold the shape. Get a bit of thread and you can wrap it easily.
For gold pieces, just use the large piece glitter, same for silver ones. To make a larger pile, bulk it up with some hot glue, and you can embed other "treasures" such as the jewel beads or bits and pieces from your bitz collection like swords. Let that dry and then use white glue to hook down the glitter in a few layers. Once the glitter is dry, HEAVILY water down some black paint into a wash and give it a thin layer to add some definition, wipe most of it off even then, but you have a very good looking treasure pile.
For combining things, if you take the paper towel like described earlier and the wire, shape the wire into a small hoop like an open bag with a bit trailing down. Take the paper towel and get it wet then drape it over the hoop and use the back of a brush to work it through until you have a good sized sack, then put a smaller ball of the toilet paper in (Remember to shape this up against something flat to give you the flat base for it) then some hot glue to just below the wire.
Pick your base, or sit it ontop of something like a silicon mat that easily releases hot glue and add a few mounds of the hot glue around it as if piles of things that fell out.
When it's dry, paint it up as the sack. Give the interior a dark color or leave it black from base painting, same with the surrounding piles. Then use white glue on the interior and the piles before pouring the large piece glitter over it, do a couple layers like that, and the wash.
You can also go back to the painting point to do something else (meaning no glitter) and use either a fine seed (mustard seeds or large grain sand) looking thing to glue over it. Or things looking like the hardier veggies or fruit. Paint them up as you do the rest.
One thing that is very useful to do here is to base this on either transparent plasticard or hack up some clear packaging such as from blister packs, letting you place it anywhere from on/around stalls at a bazaar/store or as scenery in a store room, or with the gold, putting it on tables in some back room or as part of treasure piles.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Jul 16, 2015 16:05:49 GMT
TheDMG - Scrolls
TheDMG - Bags
potions is not really having videos of it. but but i think we all have the same methods. we use beads. one for the bottom part and one for the top part. we just buy bags of beads little ones for necklaces and wrist bands. and we just glue the top beads to the bottom one and voila we have potions bottles.
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