flyboy
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Post by flyboy on Oct 23, 2015 0:58:24 GMT
Hit on a thread on the forum that shows "texture rods" in use to imprint foam core (not sure how to drop a photo in here). I could not locate any info in the thread as to source of these things. Anyone know? They appear to be made of clear acrylic or something similar. Cheers
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Post by sotf on Oct 23, 2015 2:28:05 GMT
Hit on a thread on the forum that shows "texture rods" in use to imprint foam core (not sure how to drop a photo in here). I could not locate any info in the thread as to source of these things. Anyone know? They appear to be made of clear acrylic or something similar. Cheers Not entirely sure what they mean, but you could try the larger hardware stores in the sections for wall and ceiling remodeling/repair, there are special rollers that exist for textures for plaster that I've seen. Some cake shops have similar things as well.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2015 3:42:49 GMT
If this is what you are looking for try searching for "textured rolling pins" roller
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Oct 23, 2015 4:40:22 GMT
You may be able to make some with cheap rolling pins and chicken wire. Probably wouldn't work for foam core but should work for super sculpey or green stuff.
If you are talented, maybe wrap a cheap rolling pin in green stuff and sculpt the texture you want.
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Post by belatucadras on Oct 23, 2015 7:06:38 GMT
I am certain I have seen similar items at Michaels. Try looking in the cake decorating area. There are many fondant manipulating items that should work just as well on clay, sculpey or chromatic-stuff.
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Post by grinningskull on Oct 23, 2015 18:38:00 GMT
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Post by flyboy on Oct 24, 2015 1:51:09 GMT
Yes those textured rolling pins are the ones I was curious about. Thanks for digging that up guys! And thanks for the article grinning skull. That Spanish outfit called Green Stuff World sells them; on their ebay store it *appears* that they ship to Canada. Looks like you can buy each pin seperately to the tune of $23.58 CDN each and with shipping, 30 bucks all in (about $8 more than quoted in the article. Hmmm). That's pretty steep for an experiment. If I was into clay or plaster at present, these things would no doubt work really well. My main interest at this time, however, lies in how it performs making good impressions into the cheap Dollar Tree foam core.
The photos posted in the thread I talked about earlier sure look like these perform well on that medium, but if any of you know more about this from experience or can reference others who have, I'd be grateful for the information!
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Oct 24, 2015 6:29:21 GMT
Foam Core is not difficult to texture by hand, just time consuming.
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Post by nvdberg on Oct 24, 2015 15:56:06 GMT
Worst case scenario, you can still use those rollers to convey ink onto the foamcore and indent them by hand
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Post by Achilles on Oct 24, 2015 20:22:21 GMT
So I had rushed out to purchase these rollers after seeing them on this site. I only bought the wood, stone, and cobble stone rollers. I did some test strips on Dollar Tree foamcore (the cheap stuff with the easily removed paper) and painted them. Very fast to produce the desired effect! the foamcore takes them well, however the wood one is almost too fine of a texture for the foamcore to really show well. You have to push pretty hard for the wood one to show up well enough to make it worth it. I think it's also worth noting that these rollers are not very long. They measure 5 1/2 inches across, and the texture itself only stretches 4 1/2 inches of that length. This may affect the usage you get out of it if you want to texture a large area. The inch of non-textured space will make it hard to overlap if you try. Also, I had to push fairly firmly which does cause some curling in the foamcore. However, you can counter this by first rolling the backside with a roller (without texture preferably but it doesn't matter really). This way it curls backwards, then when you roll the side you actually want, it should help even it out a bit. It's not too bad a curl, just play with the applied pressure to find what gives you the results you want both in texture and curl. Wood closeup: Wood with miniature for scale: Stone closeup: Stone with miniature for scale: Cobblestone closeup: Cobblestone with miniature for scale: I used the Wood and Cobblestone rollers to create the bases for these miniatures. The bases are made using Sculpey and not foamcore. Hope that helps! Also, I bought them on ebay from the seller Greenstuffworld and had no issues receiving them in the U.S.
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Oct 25, 2015 8:17:11 GMT
ME WANT!!!
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Post by tauster on Oct 25, 2015 10:49:38 GMT
Love the idea with tha bases!
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Oct 25, 2015 12:08:03 GMT
Love the idea with tha bases! IIRC, they were originally intended to use with green stuff for mini base texture.
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Post by curufin on Oct 25, 2015 12:58:00 GMT
Thanks for the info and the examples. Those look amazing....far far better than I would thought possible rolling over foamcore! And as others have said, brilliant bases!
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Post by dragon722 on Oct 25, 2015 15:22:45 GMT
So I had rushed out to purchase these rollers after seeing them on this site. I only bought the wood, stone, and cobble stone rollers. I did some test strips on Dollar Tree foamcore (the cheap stuff with the easily removed paper) and painted them. Very fast to produce the desired effect! the foamcore takes them well, however the wood one is almost too fine of a texture for the foamcore to really show well. You have to push pretty hard for the wood one to show up well enough to make it worth it. I think it's also worth noting that these rollers are not very long. They measure 5 1/2 inches across, and the texture itself only stretches 4 1/2 inches of that length. This may affect the usage you get out of it if you want to texture a large area. The inch of non-textured space will make it hard to overlap if you try. Also, I had to push fairly firmly which does cause some curling in the foamcore. However, you can counter this by first rolling the backside with a roller (without texture preferably but it doesn't matter really). This way it curls backwards, then when you roll the side you actually want, it should help even it out a bit. It's not too bad a curl, just play with the applied pressure to find what gives you the results you want both in texture and curl. Wood closeup: Wood with miniature for scale: Stone closeup: Stone with miniature for scale: Cobblestone closeup: Cobblestone with miniature for scale: I used the Wood and Cobblestone rollers to create the bases for these miniatures. The bases are made using Sculpey and not foamcore. Hope that helps! Also, I bought them on ebay from the seller Greenstuffworld and had no issues receiving them in the U.S. Where did you get these tentacles? These are super awesome
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Post by Achilles on Oct 25, 2015 15:36:57 GMT
Love the idea with tha bases! IIRC, they were originally intended to use with green stuff for mini base texture. You are 100% correct! These are in fact made for texturing greenstuff on bases for miniatures.
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Post by Achilles on Oct 25, 2015 15:55:36 GMT
So I had rushed out to purchase these rollers after seeing them on this site. I only bought the wood, stone, and cobble stone rollers. I did some test strips on Dollar Tree foamcore (the cheap stuff with the easily removed paper) and painted them. Very fast to produce the desired effect! the foamcore takes them well, however the wood one is almost too fine of a texture for the foamcore to really show well. You have to push pretty hard for the wood one to show up well enough to make it worth it. I think it's also worth noting that these rollers are not very long. They measure 5 1/2 inches across, and the texture itself only stretches 4 1/2 inches of that length. This may affect the usage you get out of it if you want to texture a large area. The inch of non-textured space will make it hard to overlap if you try. Also, I had to push fairly firmly which does cause some curling in the foamcore. However, you can counter this by first rolling the backside with a roller (without texture preferably but it doesn't matter really). This way it curls backwards, then when you roll the side you actually want, it should help even it out a bit. It's not too bad a curl, just play with the applied pressure to find what gives you the results you want both in texture and curl. Wood closeup: Wood with miniature for scale: Stone closeup: Stone with miniature for scale: Cobblestone closeup: Cobblestone with miniature for scale: I used the Wood and Cobblestone rollers to create the bases for these miniatures. The bases are made using Sculpey and not foamcore. Hope that helps! Also, I bought them on ebay from the seller Greenstuffworld and had no issues receiving them in the U.S. Where did you get these tentacles? These are super awesome They were created using the Roll Maker (also sold by the same seller as the texture rollers). I need to credit tauster for making both those things aware to me, and for his constant inspiration to me on his posts (at least I saw them on his posts first). Tauster, you love finding new things all the time and trying them out, and I never would have known about the Roll Maker and the Texture Rollers if it weren't for you! Thanks, and keep finding cool things!
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Post by tauster on Oct 25, 2015 16:40:53 GMT
You can make that Roll maker by yourself by glueing handles of plastic throwaway spoons/knives/forks on a plane suface (like a piece of plywood). See here (and here for all things tentacley)
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flyboy
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Post by flyboy on Oct 26, 2015 2:51:07 GMT
So I had rushed out to purchase these rollers after seeing them on this site. I only bought the wood, stone, and cobble stone rollers. I did some test strips on Dollar Tree foamcore (the cheap stuff with the easily removed paper) and painted them. Very fast to produce the desired effect! the foamcore takes them well, however the wood one is almost too fine of a texture for the foamcore to really show well. You have to push pretty hard for the wood one to show up well enough to make it worth it. I think it's also worth noting that these rollers are not very long. They measure 5 1/2 inches across, and the texture itself only stretches 4 1/2 inches of that length. This may affect the usage you get out of it if you want to texture a large area. The inch of non-textured space will make it hard to overlap if you try. Also, I had to push fairly firmly which does cause some curling in the foamcore. However, you can counter this by first rolling the backside with a roller (without texture preferably but it doesn't matter really). This way it curls backwards, then when you roll the side you actually want, it should help even it out a bit. It's not too bad a curl, just play with the applied pressure to find what gives you the results you want both in texture and curl. Hope that helps! Also, I bought them on ebay from the seller Greenstuffworld and had no issues receiving them in the U.S. Yes this sure does answer my questions! Thank you! For what I was looking at these for, the time saved would be huge I reckon. I don't anticipate the curling issue to be a problem as I plan to mount the foam core to a sturdier base, such as cardboard, MDF, etc. Perfect timing for my wife to purchase a Christmas gift! . Thanks for all who responded to this thread. Cheers!
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Post by Achilles on Oct 27, 2015 3:24:48 GMT
So I had rushed out to purchase these rollers after seeing them on this site. I only bought the wood, stone, and cobble stone rollers. I did some test strips on Dollar Tree foamcore (the cheap stuff with the easily removed paper) and painted them. Very fast to produce the desired effect! the foamcore takes them well, however the wood one is almost too fine of a texture for the foamcore to really show well. You have to push pretty hard for the wood one to show up well enough to make it worth it. I think it's also worth noting that these rollers are not very long. They measure 5 1/2 inches across, and the texture itself only stretches 4 1/2 inches of that length. This may affect the usage you get out of it if you want to texture a large area. The inch of non-textured space will make it hard to overlap if you try. Also, I had to push fairly firmly which does cause some curling in the foamcore. However, you can counter this by first rolling the backside with a roller (without texture preferably but it doesn't matter really). This way it curls backwards, then when you roll the side you actually want, it should help even it out a bit. It's not too bad a curl, just play with the applied pressure to find what gives you the results you want both in texture and curl. Hope that helps! Also, I bought them on ebay from the seller Greenstuffworld and had no issues receiving them in the U.S. Yes this sure does answer my questions! Thank you! For what I was looking at these for, the time saved would be huge I reckon. I don't anticipate the curling issue to be a problem as I plan to mount the foam core to a sturdier base, such as cardboard, MDF, etc. Perfect timing for my wife to purchase a Christmas gift! . Thanks for all who responded to this thread. Cheers! Glad I could help! I look forward to seeing what you do with them! Happy Crafting!
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