Things I've made out of trash

[bobtheskull]

Ha. That's funny. Yeah, I've been thinking about making a couple more. They're pretty easy to find.

[sotf]

I'd suggest a bit more weathering of other types as a way to massively improve it.

The structure part of it is really good and making me think of making something similar for Legion, but it's in that odd mix of being both to weathered and not weathered enough at the same time. It looks like it's been left out, but never used.

Personally, I'd go with darkening the corrugated areas near the bottom without hitting the surrounding parts as a first step, possibly also the threading near the top of the plastic. The pole on top could also be brightened with a metallic. Then use some washes from areas to have other weathering and wear patterns around areas where you would have drainage or similar on it.

Another thing that might help would be to find a large washer or similar and either mount it directly under it, or find something to fit in the base part of it with some weights to make it less likely to be knocked over. I've had a lot of taller things end up batted across the table by accident.

[bobtheskull]

Apr 18, 2018 2:26:16 GMT sotf said:

I'd suggest a bit more weathering of other types as a way to massively improve it.

The structure part of it is really good and making me think of making something similar for Legion, but it's in that odd mix of being both to weathered and not weathered enough at the same time. It looks like it's been left out, but never used.

Personally, I'd go with darkening the corrugated areas near the bottom without hitting the surrounding parts as a first step, possibly also the threading near the top of the plastic. The pole on top could also be brightened with a metallic. Then use some washes from areas to have other weathering and wear patterns around areas where you would have drainage or similar on it.

Another thing that might help would be to find a large washer or similar and either mount it directly under it, or find something to fit in the base part of it with some weights to make it less likely to be knocked over. I've had a lot of taller things end up batted across the table by accident.

That's a really good point about it being knocked over. That tends to happen a lot at my table. I actually did do some light weathering with washes, but they were either too thin, or the plastic is a bit too water resist, because they didn't show up very well. I was considering doing more weathering with a careful dry brush to see if that would show up better. I would actually appreciate some tips and techniques for weathering, too. Kind of new territory for my painting skills.

[erho]

A sparay base coat usually works for me on smooth surfaces(those Russian Minotaurs most recently) or maybe some mod podge?

[bobtheskull]

Apr 18, 2018 14:27:17 GMT erho said:

A sparay base coat usually works for me on smooth surfaces(those Russian Minotaurs most recently) or maybe some mod podge?

Cool, thanks for the tip. Been needing to try a spray primer

[bobtheskull]

After tons of drying time, the Dune Sea finally has sand dunes. I built these on a cardstock base before flocking them with sand, but when I based them with a very wet nutmeg brown wash, they warped. Like, a lot. So, I let them harden again and they ended up with these kind of cool wavy shapes. Lucky accident, I guess.





I was pleased to discover that they provide enough traction for figures to stand on them easily.

[erho]

Really well done, I love the texture!

The sand on the base of the junk pile turned out great!

So the base coat the same, just drybrushes are various yellows and beiges?

[bobtheskull]

Thanks. Yeah, so I dry-brushed a dark yellow and then a light yellow, and then for the last one I just barely used an off white to hit highlights. I like the look a lot. Gonna have to make some more scatter terrain for this board 

[sotf]

Apr 18, 2018 4:48:07 GMT bobtheskull said:

Apr 18, 2018 2:26:16 GMT sotf said:

I'd suggest a bit more weathering of other types as a way to massively improve it.

The structure part of it is really good and making me think of making something similar for Legion, but it's in that odd mix of being both to weathered and not weathered enough at the same time. It looks like it's been left out, but never used.

Personally, I'd go with darkening the corrugated areas near the bottom without hitting the surrounding parts as a first step, possibly also the threading near the top of the plastic. The pole on top could also be brightened with a metallic. Then use some washes from areas to have other weathering and wear patterns around areas where you would have drainage or similar on it.

Another thing that might help would be to find a large washer or similar and either mount it directly under it, or find something to fit in the base part of it with some weights to make it less likely to be knocked over. I've had a lot of taller things end up batted across the table by accident.

That's a really good point about it being knocked over. That tends to happen a lot at my table. I actually did do some light weathering with washes, but they were either too thin, or the plastic is a bit too water resist, because they didn't show up very well. I was considering doing more weathering with a careful dry brush to see if that would show up better. I would actually appreciate some tips and techniques for weathering, too. Kind of new territory for my painting skills.

You might try acrylic inks for weathering with some of it rather than normal washes. Just thinned down a bit less than normal in their use

[bobtheskull]

Cool! Thanks,sotf. I'll give it a try

[erho]

Apr 11, 2018 18:48:31 GMT bobtheskull said:

Man, I am really enjoying the sci-fi crafting. There is so much cool stuff here to make. Today's project is a sci-fi barrel made with the standard bottle cap recipe. Had a hard time getting it to paint the first time, so I coated it with mod podge and it went grea

Youve got me inspired to try it out!

I used a mix of caps and the insides of a tea light for some kind of "Moisture-vaporator-dealy" in a decidedly Star Warsian style(as opposed to 40k!)

Had them assembled and painted all day saturday!



Cant wait to get the Legion boxed set early May!

Thanks for the inspiration!

[bobtheskull]

Just what every starcruiser fears, an infestation of space rats. These guys are a basic conversion of a set of dollar store rabbits. They were too big for use in D&D so they've sat on my shelf collecting dust.

All I did was shorten the ears down to rodent size, and replace the tail with horns from a goat toy. Went with green paint because--well, when am I ever going to paint a green rat?

[bobtheskull]

Great work, erho! I like the weathering a lot. Good choice of caps, too. Lots of texture.

[sgtslag]

Love the "space rats"! All I could think of was Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail, and Tim the Magician... LOL! Superb conversion! Love it -- and them! They do appear to have, "huge, nasty teeth!"  Cheers!

[bobtheskull]

Ha! Thank you I think they'll be a lot of fun when I actually start running the game