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Post by ogrestamp on Nov 12, 2015 8:32:19 GMT
Update. I ran out of poinsetta leaves for my palm trees so I had to make a trek back to the Dollar Tree (darn!). I bought one more gold set and I also bought a silver set (silver glitter could come in handy, you know). After scraping off 6 poinsettas worth of glitter I came up with this much. That's a lot of glitter. Oh yeah, I also bought those small holders at the store as well (they come in packs of 8).
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Nov 12, 2015 10:03:32 GMT
How are you scraping the glitter off?
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Post by halloweenville on Nov 12, 2015 11:55:09 GMT
Cool Stuff Thanks For sharing!
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Post by ogrestamp on Nov 13, 2015 7:58:45 GMT
How are you scraping the glitter off? A combination of fingers and a small scissors. It really comes apart quite easily and the scissors are used for those hard to reach places.
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Nov 13, 2015 15:52:01 GMT
Noted.
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Post by ogrestamp on Dec 3, 2015 20:38:38 GMT
Awhile back I found that my son had thrown out an old keyboard and mouse (I showed the pics of the rubber pads that I collected from those keyboards). Here are the rest, I almost forgot to post them. The base of this mouse screams boat to me. The top of this mouse screams beetle carapace. Sprues! The mouse wheel and tracker. Resistors for potions and this really cool metallic thing which looks like it could be some obelisk or some SF object.
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Post by ogrestamp on Dec 3, 2015 20:42:24 GMT
This is the inner workings of a lotion bottle that had a pump on it. A veritable gold mine of materials. Any hand lotion, soap bottle has these materials in them.
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Post by ogrestamp on Dec 3, 2015 21:14:23 GMT
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Post by ogrestamp on Dec 3, 2015 21:33:02 GMT
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Post by Draklith on Dec 4, 2015 1:31:49 GMT
this is a pretty cool thread ogrestamp, thx for taking the time to post it...when I saw that mouse disassembled, my head screamed curufins' landspeeder of some sort
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Post by ogrestamp on Dec 4, 2015 6:48:52 GMT
Rouseau, I might try that just to see how it works. I did look up the screwdriver and supposedly my local Ace Hardware has them for under two dollars. I've been under the weather the past few days or I would have already been down there and bought the thing.
As for the burning of plastic. I've bought one of those click n' flame lighters that you usually use for BBQ's at the dollar store. If I ever use it, it will be outside (I don't need to explain to my wife how I burned down the house trying to create a temporary screwdriver).
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Post by ogrestamp on Dec 4, 2015 6:50:14 GMT
this is a pretty cool thread ogrestamp, thx for taking the time to post it...when I saw that mouse disassembled, my head screamed curufins' landspeeder of some sort I bought some plastic plants that were too big for what I had in mind. The leaves on it are long enough that I could probably use them as the sides a boat and make an elven boat (a la LOTR).
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Post by DnDPaladin on Dec 4, 2015 12:52:34 GMT
by the components, thats not at all old, at least i think. its late 90ies then. numeric cameras didn't appear until like the end of the 90ies ! i'll show you my cameras from the 80ies and the 90ies... now those are old !
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Post by ogrestamp on Dec 5, 2015 8:17:46 GMT
I am not talking old in terms of years but in terms of usage. Nobody would use this stuff anymore. Therefore it's old.
And I still have my old Minolta X-100 that I bartered from my friend back in the late 80's early 90's. It's from the early 80's and there is nothing on it that is automatic. But it takes some of the best pictures I've ever seen. But the early digital stuff, nobody can use it since the memory card, that 3.5 disc, isn't used anymore. I didn't feel bad vivisecting it.
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Post by ogrestamp on Dec 5, 2015 8:48:37 GMT
About two months ago I was at the Dollar Tree and came across a box of crayons. I have been wondering how to make pools of water and other liquid types for cheap and crayons came to mind. I bought a pack. Tonight I made a small experiment. Took a cardboard test piece and tore out the corrugation. Sorry for the OOF shot, didn't see that until now. And here are my other tools. One purple crayon and a lighter you use for BBQs. Basically, I took the lighter and held the flame under the crayon so it would melt. As it dripped, I guided it into the "pool" on the cardboard. This is what it came out as. A close up It does create a stain on the back, so be careful. On the whole, I don't think I have found a good water medium. Perhaps if you were to make a dark still pool in the Underdark somewhere, this might suffice. I haven't tried it for other colors yet, so not sure how the red will simulate blood. However, purple looks awesome if you have some tar pits to create (or some other viscous material).
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Post by sotf on Dec 6, 2015 4:02:00 GMT
The major problem with crayons is that the wax doesn't take paint well, and it isn't intended to take any abuse...meaning that your minis and terrain that goes near it will get it all over it.
It is also far to soft to really work well
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Post by ogrestamp on Dec 6, 2015 4:42:49 GMT
Yeah, I was wondering how some varnish would work. I would only think to use it for stationary things like pools or tar pits. Something that characters wouldn't really want to go into in the first place. And it would have to be small as well. Something large would only crack under the strain.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Dec 6, 2015 5:20:31 GMT
you could this with modpodge, as long as the container is fillable and have no holes in it. you can even color the modpodge a bit with the acrylic paint.
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Post by ogrestamp on Dec 11, 2015 1:15:30 GMT
Oh, Tauster, look what I found in my recycle bin the other day! Foolish mortals.
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Post by ogrestamp on Dec 11, 2015 1:25:05 GMT
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