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Post by drathirbarrastudios on Feb 1, 2014 16:48:37 GMT
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Post by adamantinedragon on Feb 1, 2014 18:07:58 GMT
OMG! Did you see the miniature houses on that site? I am totally not worthy.
But this is a good idea, if you buy eggs in that sort of carton. We purchase eggs in styrofoam packages.
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Post by tauster on Feb 1, 2014 18:44:14 GMT
awesome idea. thanks for sharing!
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Post by grym247 on Feb 1, 2014 19:52:16 GMT
Great idea indeed thanks muchly
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Post by jinxx on Feb 1, 2014 19:59:01 GMT
Awesome idea. I'll expect a large bag of finished bricks when I see you, sis!
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Post by Sleepy Hollow Mike on Feb 1, 2014 20:10:11 GMT
That dude has some serious roofing mojo! He has every detail perfect. Even the flashing around the chimney! Wow!
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Post by rifken on Feb 1, 2014 20:25:31 GMT
Thats a great method. The textures on them is spot on. I also like the stipling technique over brushing them
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Post by dmbrad on Feb 1, 2014 22:57:02 GMT
Nice!
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Post by thedmg on Feb 2, 2014 11:11:36 GMT
INCREDIBLE!
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Post by sgtslag on Feb 2, 2014 14:45:51 GMT
Impressive! A lot of work to cut out individual bricks, but beautiful, nonetheless! That texture has other potential uses, as well. Never occurred to me to use it for crafting -- until now. Thanks!
Be sure to check out his other work: Baslow Ranch, and Walnut Bay Lighthouse... Some of the photos of Walnut Bay appeared to be of a real lighthouse, not a model! I've toured a number of them, and his model appears to be sooo real. Astounding work. The person must be a professional modeler? Cheers!
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Post by pedrodevaca on Feb 2, 2014 17:03:13 GMT
Such talent wasted on dolls ;-)
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Post by onethatwas on Feb 2, 2014 19:38:43 GMT
Impressive! A lot of work to cut out individual bricks, but beautiful, nonetheless! That texture has other potential uses, as well. Never occurred to me to use it for crafting -- until now. Thanks! Be sure to check out his other work: Baslow Ranch, and Walnut Bay Lighthouse... Some of the photos of Walnut Bay appeared to be of a real lighthouse, not a model! I've toured a number of them, and his model appears to be sooo real. Astounding work. The person must be a professional modeler? Cheers! The same painstaking process goes into other projects that alot of us do. While "cheap" and "easy" are common preferences for crafting, the process of making wall strips is one of those processes. It least from my perspective. It seems easy, but I'm very frequently surprised by hpw much time is consumed in that part of crafting. Making books. Little, tiny, book shelf books. One of my friends says they're cute. But for me they're almost a nightmare, because it seems easy to make a lot of them. But they consume so much time in crafting especially when doing 30 only fills one book case. Half that much if you only want a partial bookcase. And then there's painting them. And painting miniatures. Blagh! So yeah, alot of work to make fake bricks, but its another thing to add to the craft skill set, in case anyone needs quality looking bricks
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Post by tauster on Feb 2, 2014 19:58:42 GMT
I found that it's hugely important to not only consider the costs of a project in terms of money, but also the other aspects. I'm surely not super rich, but for me it's almost more important how much time I 'have to' put in a project than what how much money (if any) I had to shell out for the raw materials. And nowadays there's a third aspect that becomes more and more important, often topping money and time: Storage space. This is the real shortage for me. From zthe beginning I tried to create all terrain stuff as modular as possible, going so far as to magnetise my giant mushrooms (~ 10 cm high) so that stem and head can be separated. But after a while, even with clever storage you simply have no more space left without totally cluttering your room. I'm already past the 'uncluttered room' stage and still adding more pieces avery few days or weeks... I just had to admit to myself that this is an addictive hobby. [off topic] We plan to build a house this year, but have to tear down two wooden sheds before that. Both were full with stuff that accumulated over 30+X years. Much of it goes to recycling, a little bit to the landfill, some can be given away, but there is still some stuff that we want to keep, and all other storage space in the garden are now crammed full as much as possible. Same problem here: storage space... [/off topic]
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Post by adamantinedragon on Feb 2, 2014 20:04:23 GMT
One, I know exactly what you mean. I decided to do a "quick" exercise yesterday to complete some doors. Just doors. These were a mix of Hirst Arts molds and some doors I had made custom clay molds quite a while ago, I just hadn't painted them. So I figured I'd paint them. I fished through all my plastic bins and found thirty doors that were cast and ready to go. I figured it would take a couple hours.
But first I had to assemble them. All but a few of them were a single side and had to be placed back-to-back with another side to make a front and back for the door. That meant getting the glue out, gluing them together and wrapping them up with rubber bands to hold them while the glue set. Then off with the rubber bands...
Then I had to seal them with Future floor wax. That meant "painting" them with the Future on one side, letting them dry, then flipping them and doing the other side. Then letting them dry again.
Then I had to base coat them, which I did with my airbrush. Same dance, do one side, wait for them to dry, clean my airbrush so the paint didn't dry in the airbrush, do the other side, let them dry and clean the airbrush...
Then I had to do the main color. Most of the doors were wood, but I had a few iron/steel doors too. So that meant doing two colors, and again meant doing both sides, which meant cleaning out the brush while one side was drying.
Then I had to do the detail, which for these doors meant two colors to do details like doorknobs, hinges, bars, etc.
Then came the drybrushing....
Finally, after all that, I had to seal them.
End result: 5 hours for 30 doors. So roughly ten minutes per door.
Oh, and since some of them don't stand up so well, I still need to get some clear plastic rectangles and glue them down so they stand up better...
But now I have them anyway.
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Post by sgtslag on Feb 2, 2014 22:54:46 GMT
Agreed: time is very expensive. I have around 200 figures in various stages of painting, along with numerous crafting projects [I'm near completion of 24 mounted, extra-heavy cavalry, full plate barding on the horses (90% finished), along with 11 scratch-built guard towers (80% completed)]. I, too, use the assembly line technique for both painting, and crafting, which means going a lonnnggg time between completion, but when I finish a project, I finish them in lots, sometimes smaller numerical lots (11 guard towers), other times the lots consist of 25-100+ figures in a group. Every once in a while, I do a quick project to actually finish something... It spurs me on to continue with the longer projects. YMMV.
Storage is one of the limiting factors in what I craft, as well. I only craft objects/projects which I can use multiple times (or I try to sell them off on e-Bay afterwards). For one-off projects, I tend to avoid them, unless they are extremely fun, and worth the huge 'expenditure' to build. Cheers!
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Post by drathirbarrastudios on Feb 3, 2014 14:02:46 GMT
If your local stores sell in Styrofoam cartons check and see if you have a local feed store or farm supply. They usually have the cardboard ones around 10 cents each depending on your area. Most of them start putting em out around the same time they get their spring chicks and ducklings in.
I know that house is just OMG wow!!
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Post by adamantinedragon on Feb 4, 2014 0:59:58 GMT
By the way, here's the result of about eight hours of work this weekend on those doors I mentioned:
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Post by rifken on Feb 4, 2014 3:06:55 GMT
Good Lord.....those are bad ass doors. Now i feel guilty for just using a strip painted brown.
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Post by thedmg on Feb 4, 2014 12:02:57 GMT
I was about to go bed to get some much needed rest when I saw an egg carton on the kitchen counter... Oh no, here we go again!
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Post by miltonmurphy on Feb 4, 2014 14:09:04 GMT
I was about to go bed to get some much needed rest when I saw an egg carton on the kitchen counter... Oh no, here we go again! Right on thedmg. I had the same feeling when my wife used the last egg from the carton this morning. But while I wasn't looking my daughter took the carton and ripped it in half (not a big deal for my purposes but the slow motion "noooooooooooooo" went through my mind. ) Love the paint jobs on the doors adamantinedragon. Those Hirst moulds seem very nice. I'm trying to track down some Hydrostone locally to give casting a whirl. Cheers, MM
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