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Post by onethatwas on Dec 22, 2013 19:29:07 GMT
When it's awesome. Then you start another project, and it begins again...
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Post by adamantinedragon on Dec 22, 2013 19:43:11 GMT
Heh... "awesome" is a standard that I rarely reach, and only occasionally strive for... The vast majority of my crafting is functional and pragmatic, not an attempt to create anything of lasting intrinsic value. Every now and then I'll make an effort to do something special. But if I did all of my work that way, I'd have less than 1/10 of the stuff I've created.
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Post by bloodchoke on Dec 23, 2013 0:00:03 GMT
Very nice work with the foam core. Really love the way you did the rock floor especially. And the furniture is an awesome idea. Simple and looks great.
Also, great job on the castle adamantinedragon.
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Dec 23, 2013 0:23:53 GMT
Was working with some Foamcore sheets last night...Do all have sections inside them that are harder than the rest? Or did I have a bad sheet? It made it really hard to cut......
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Post by miltonmurphy on Dec 23, 2013 3:02:50 GMT
I considered cutting the coffee stirrers to random lengths, but it just would have taken forever. Next time I build a floor that way, I'll do random lengths. I think it will look much better. I might just score the sticks to create the illusion of random lengths though.... And, yeah, I still have a ton of things I could do to the fort, like put in stairs, ladders, railing on the inside of the parapet.... When does this stuff stop? It doesn't adamantinedragon. But that's the *good* news.
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Post by bloodchoke on Dec 23, 2013 4:37:02 GMT
I haven't had that problem myself, MWT. May just be a bad piece, or maybe I've just been lucky. I peal off both layers of plastic and mount it to cardboard, so that might help.
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Post by onethatwas on Dec 23, 2013 4:51:01 GMT
I haven't see foamcore havr sections of hard foam. It could very well be the piece you got, or the brand. However, foam can sometimes be finicky in general.
Hope you have less trouble with the next batch
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Dec 23, 2013 9:53:05 GMT
Thanks all..... All I know is that it was erratic on the first cut, almost as if there were "skewers" or something similar through it at certain intervals like ribbing....When I finished being cutting there weren't any, but there were these hard little bits of foam that popped out from parts along the cut.... I even changed blades and tried again and it still didn't cut smooth so my guess was possibly a bad piece...I'll have to get another and try it again....
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Post by robagd on Dec 23, 2013 22:12:44 GMT
Sounds almost like your knife is impacting the foam.
Not sure if it has been mentioned, but score the foam first, just deep enough to cut the top layer of stock, then slowly work the knife through in 2 or 3 passes the rest of the way through.
-R
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Post by onethatwas on Dec 24, 2013 3:02:27 GMT
Yeah, working with foam is a bit different than cardboard. Cardboard takes 2 or 3 passes while foamcore usually takes 4 or more. The more impatient you are with foamcore, the less it cooperates. Alot like kids. Or pets. Or people.
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Post by bloodchoke on Dec 24, 2013 4:51:49 GMT
Monkey, are using the regular foamcore or the dollar tree? I just ask because I've noticed a huge difference in how they cut. I find the stuff from the dollar tree cuts even easier than cardboard, but the kind with the waxier outside is terrible. Of course, if you plan to paint the foamcore without peeling the surface, the dollar tree stuff is all but useless.
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Dec 24, 2013 11:20:51 GMT
Monkey, are using the regular foamcore or the dollar tree? I just ask because I've noticed a huge difference in how they cut. I find the stuff from the dollar tree cuts even easier than cardboard, but the kind with the waxier outside is terrible. Of course, if you plan to paint the foamcore without peeling the surface, the dollar tree stuff is all but useless. I think it was walmart...I must say that it painted very well...I used cardstock to cover the open edges and had no problem spraying the primer coat at all...I'll post pics later....I did take my time and score it and cut it in multiple passes... thinking it just may have been bad foam inside....
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Post by Sleepy Hollow Mike on Jan 13, 2014 10:01:02 GMT
OK, here's Fort Pringles with a rough paint job and an inside floor made out of coffee stirrer sticks. It’s amazing what you don’t see until you take a photograph. Clearly I’ve got some touchup work to do. But not a terrible amount. Here are the things I’d still like to do to “finish” this project: 1. Get some lichen and/or moss and glue it around the base of the fort’s outside walls as shrubbery. 2. Line the road into and out of the fort with some bricks or maybe more shrubbery. 3. Do some ivy or vines climbing up the walls. 4. Do at least two more floors for the interior part. Still, it’s at a point now that I’d actually put it into a game. Now that friend is truly "Da BomB!" I love the coloring!It is much better than y own SS Maloxx! I love the wooden flooring! I like to do alot of that when I can. I admit scribing the coffee stirrers to make the planking seem a bit more in scale is a pain but after all I guess thats why its a hobby! Cheers!
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Post by grym247 on Jan 18, 2014 8:03:34 GMT
Genius in constructing the super easy tables. Gotta agree those are Awesome dude
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Post by onethatwas on Jan 18, 2014 8:08:26 GMT
Genius in constructing the super easy tables. Gotta agree those are Awesome dude I seem to get that response frequently. Thats the second time in less than 24 hours I've had that remark about my crafted tables. Granted, now they're painted, so that moght have something to do with it...
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