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Post by luckyjoe on Sept 26, 2017 22:43:37 GMT
Hi, Folks. A while ago I found some cheap acrylic fondant rollers on e-bay, ranging from $1.43 to 2.20. I bought a few and finally was able to try them out on xps foam and cheap foamcore. I also compared them to a Green Stuff World Cobblestone roller. Here's some pics: Three different cheap acrylic fondant rollers, a brick pattern, wood plank pattern and cobblestone pattern pictured near a Green Stuff World cobblestone roller. You can really see why the Green Stuff World roller costs more. It is a lot heavier. I hope the pics came out okay. Having to relearn a different imaging service.
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Post by guppy on Sept 27, 2017 6:08:22 GMT
Hi, Folks. A while ago I found some cheap acrylic fondant rollers on e-bay, ranging from $1.43 to 2.20. I bought a few and finally was able to try them out on xps foam and cheap foamcore. I also compared them to a Green Stuff World Cobblestone roller. Here's some pics: Three different cheap acrylic fondant rollers, a brick pattern, wood plank pattern and cobblestone pattern pictured near a Green Stuff World cobblestone roller. You can really see why the Green Stuff World roller costs more. It is a lot heavier. I hope the pics came out okay. Having to relearn a different imaging service. you need to put ".jpg" or ".png" at the end of the links for the forum to display them ( i fixed it for you in the quote above hence the pictures show )
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Post by luckyjoe on Sept 27, 2017 19:14:27 GMT
Thanks very much, Guppy. I appreciate your help.
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Post by luckyjoe on Sept 29, 2017 18:30:44 GMT
I am going to try to update this a little with some more pics, hopefully with Guppy's kind assistance I'll get them right this time. This was done on a thin piece of cheap dollar store foamcore using a cheap e-bay acrylic fondant roller (cost USD $1.43). It was a wood plank pattern. I think it came out pretty good. The pic above shows a D&D mini against a wall made using dollar store foamcore and a cheap ebay acrylic fondant roller with a cobblestone pattern. The pic above shows a piece of green xps imprinted with a Green Stuff World Cobblestone roller. The above image shows a D&D mini standing on a thin exp foam cobblestone floor imprinted with a Green Stuff World Cobblestone roller and with a cheap ebay acrylic fondant roller wood plank. I think scale is pretty good. You may notice where I didn't keep the roller straight on the wood plank wall. You have to watch for that when rolling. Slow and careful works best. Thanks for looking. C&C welcome. I think overall these roller work pretty well. The cheap ebay ones (less Than USD $2) work best on the dollar store foam core but don't do so well on xps foam. The nicer, more expensive Green Stuff World one worked great on both foams, but especially well on the cheap foamcore. I'll have to paint some up.
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Post by guppy on Sept 29, 2017 20:21:33 GMT
It's kind of hard to see the pattern in the photos - a wash and drybrush would make it a lot easier to see
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Post by luckyjoe on Oct 1, 2017 4:40:59 GMT
Okay, got some of these pieces painted. Here's pics Cheap acrylic wood plank roller on foamcore Green Stuff World Cobblestone on thin-cut xps Green Stuff World Cobblestone on foamcore Cheap acrylic cobblestone roller on foamcore I really like the Green Stuff World Cobblestone roller. I think I will get a lot of use from it. I'm surprised how well these cheap acrylic rollers did.
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