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Post by sgtslag on Sept 16, 2014 13:39:11 GMT
The "H" shaped pieces could be used to top off castle wall sections, which would avoid them being handled too much. Just make sure the 3-D walls have a strong base, to avoid falling over and breaking. You could also break some on purpose, to make destroyed wall sections. They could also be used to make up ancient ruins from a more advanced, but now extinct, race of creatures from your world's distant past. Cheers!
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Post by tauster on Sept 16, 2014 21:14:14 GMT
Sawed the first wooden undersides out of an old MDF plate I had lying around. Grinding it into shape took ages (30 min I guess) and I really have to buy a filter mask! That dust can't be healthy... I hotglued 'em together, the small one got GW water effects and the large one the cheaper acrylic gloss varnish - which seems to be almost as good as the expensive stuff from games workshop, but I'll judge that after two or three layers... 
'nother mushroom project - hurray!  I had sculpted these ages ago; they're sitting on my crafting table for longer than I can remember. It must have been at least a year ago, early fall 2013 I think. In other words: High time to finish them!  As you can see, I made some stems from clay but not nearly enough. The simplest solution is rumpled aluminum foil and some hotglue:  Just take care not to burn yourself - aluminum is a great heat conductor (I know I've written that a couple of times, but I manage to burn myself every so often, so I guess I can repeat it a few more times *g*)  So now I have the same problem I always encounter at this stage: How in Zuggtmoy's hellish realm shall I paint them?!¿? I guess its time for a bit of online research...  |
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Post by tauster on Sept 18, 2014 19:32:20 GMT
Another day, another way of making mushrooms: crownhilldaybyday.blogspot.de/2012/01/diy-cement-mushroom.html  I'm currently searching for mushrooms colorations, and during the google search all kinds of other stuff turns up. Like this one:  Probably the coolest dice I've ever seen. No, scratch that 'probably'. Now I'm itching to sharpen my sculpting skills! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 1:36:02 GMT
Another day, another way of making mushrooms: crownhilldaybyday.blogspot.de/2012/01/diy-cement-mushroom.html I'm currently searching for mushrooms colorations, and during the google search all kinds of other stuff turns up. Like this one: Probably the coolest dice I've ever seen. No, scratch that 'probably'. Now I'm itching to sharpen my sculpting skills! Wow. That has got to throw off the balance though. They look awesome enough that it might not matter! |
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Post by sotf on Sept 19, 2014 2:14:56 GMT
Another day, another way of making mushrooms: crownhilldaybyday.blogspot.de/2012/01/diy-cement-mushroom.html I'm currently searching for mushrooms colorations, and during the google search all kinds of other stuff turns up. Like this one: Probably the coolest dice I've ever seen. No, scratch that 'probably'. Now I'm itching to sharpen my sculpting skills! Wow. That has got to throw off the balance though. They look awesome enough that it might not matter! If nothing else, the imbalance seems to be towards 1's...though, these would also work well if the void would be filled in with clear resin |
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Post by tauster on Sept 19, 2014 5:21:54 GMT
I know. 'Balance!' was my 2nd thought after 'wow!'. But as danceswithhippos said, the awesomeness balances the imbalances out.  |
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Post by tauster on Sept 19, 2014 17:47:57 GMT
The Brave posted a gormiti conversion, which prompted me to try to shamelessly copy that inspired me to begin a similar artful endeavor. I have a box of those gormiti somewhere among my crafting stuff... A few months back I was looking for very cheap action figures or similar toys that I can frankenstein and cannibalize when I want to make figures but don't want to sculpt the whole thing myself (which I'm not very good at... yet). So after a while I got my greedy hands on a bunch of gormity:  Some glue...  ...and then buried in deco sand:  I never used that kind of decoration sand/pebbles before, so I'm curious how this turns out...
In july I made a basalt 'diorama' made of pencils (see here and here). I always wanted that thing to be used in the game as a flying platform, most probably over a lava sea. That's why I want something hanging from the underside that fits into this lava/glowing rock theme... I cut a cylinder from styrofoam with the hotwire saw, made a more ot less straight hole from one end to the other and 'sculpted' it until I was happy with the shape. I was aiming for lots of sharp edges and flowing shapes:  I then gave it a generous whiteglue coating and left it drying for a day. The next day it got a yellow priming and again a day of drying. After that I stippled some orange and later dark-ish red on.  When this is dry, I'll give it another whiteglue layer and rubbleflock it which will be basepainted black, so that only on some places the yellow/orange/red will 'glow' through the cracks, similar to the Crematoria rock formations. When finished, I turn it upside down, put it under the basalt disc and on a flying base. At least that's the plan...
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Post by The Brave on Sept 19, 2014 18:34:35 GMT
I'm really curious to see the result. Btw the Gormita (singular for Gormiti  ) was already texturized as rock, so it was basically only a paintjob, but a couple of them looks alredy like d&d creatures. Also if you can find some Huntik you will be pleased. |
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Post by tauster on Sept 19, 2014 21:11:12 GMT
Couldn't wait until the glue was dry, so I gave two gormiti a premature second whiteglue layer. Of course, since the glue wasn't set, many stones fell off or adhered on the brush...  Sometimes patience is not my strengths. Like today...  |
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Post by The Brave on Sept 19, 2014 21:37:24 GMT
The one showing its back looks promising, well, the other one too, but with that bug head it's a shame it was not converted into an umber hulk  |
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Post by beetlewing on Sept 19, 2014 23:01:38 GMT
tauster your deco sand looks like bacon bits.
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Post by tauster on Sept 20, 2014 6:55:49 GMT
The one showing its back looks promising, well, the other one too, but with that bug head it's a shame it was not converted into an umber hulk Of course this will become an umber hulk, it is practically begging for that kind of kafkaesque transformation. |
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Post by tauster on Sept 20, 2014 18:24:57 GMT
Seems like my umber hulks tunneled the wrong way and bumbled through a portal to the inner plane of elemental earth, where they aquired some ...crystal thingies:  The crystals were carved from a hotglue stick and hotglued to wherever they seem to look good. Easy as cake. Important advice: When rubbleflocking miniatures, always add a second layer of whiteglue! Otherwise most of the stones will flake away, either immediately or later during storage or in game. |
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Post by tauster on Sept 21, 2014 14:21:39 GMT
Colors are not my strong side, but I dragged myself today to put some color on the newest mushrooms. I have some Valllejo and Citadel colors that I got cheap from a auction but never used so far. Turns out I really like'em! I still have to try some of the color combinations, but even with the results below, I can do some funny underdark / feydark mushrooms! The opper picture is taken under neon light, the lower one with cloudy daylight.  The stems made of crumpled aluminum foil are a real winner. The pictures don't really show it, but their contours look great when basepainted and drybrushed with two different colors. |
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Post by beetlewing on Sept 21, 2014 15:49:52 GMT
tauster... You're always talking about your difficulty in picking color schemes, especially for your mushrooms and fungi... Try playing around with this... great for inspiration: kuler.adobe.com/explore/newest/You can explore color sets made by other users, and make your own.
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Post by tauster on Sept 21, 2014 16:59:44 GMT
Bingo! Thanks a million beetlewing. If I had known that such color set collections s exist, I would have searched myself. |
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Post by tauster on Sept 26, 2014 20:32:58 GMT
Today was a very good day for the crafter in me... My Gormiti collection has expanded. Considerably. For next to nothing: 4,70 € (shipping already included) got me 75 new figures! Lesson learned: It pays to scan ebay patiently for a few days, or weeks.  I don't want to advertise for them, but for roleplaying they are simply perfect: Granted, some look a bit too over the top, but if you leaf through the countless DND monstrous manuals that got published thoughout the decades, they absolutely don't have to hide. They come in different elemental themes (fire/lava, rock, air, water, forest/plant), various sizes and different postures (all of them very active - none of them is passively standing around) In short: DMs will love them, even without converting/frankensteining/pimping them. Here's a quick overview, ordered by elemental family: Forest and plants are perfect treants and plant monsters. Lead the party to the feywild and let the flora go after them! hi res picture Rock and elemental earth  Elemental air: I asolutely love how they are derived from birds and insects! hi res pic The same goes for the water elementals: They look like awakened aquatic creatures or animals who were touched by the elemental plane of water. Some of the water elementals are even partially translucent.  These guys come from different elemental families. I'll convert the upper two into umber hulks, and the lower three can almost stay as is - they're perfect illithid-themed monsters. 
I found that in the neighborhood of my new company there's one of those cheap stores (probably similar to Micheal's in the US, I guess). They were just changing the sortiment, so lots of empty shelves, but I still found a few nice things: Wooden dowels, some acrylic colors (my burned umber is almost gone) and new pasta types. 
Last year I bought a bunch of styrofoam shapes but never came around to crafting with them. There were three giant mushrooms among them, plus a giant beetle. Guess what's next on my list!   |
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Post by The Brave on Sept 27, 2014 8:23:17 GMT
Lucky find, also, if you are one of that crazy guys who speculate on ebay, you can sell some gormiti on ebay for a nice price.
And we want to see the fire tribe too!
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Post by tauster on Sept 27, 2014 9:41:42 GMT
No time for speculating. The risk is to large, even more compared to the potential wins and considering the time going into that.
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Post by tauster on Sept 27, 2014 9:57:37 GMT
I finally continued with the construction foam stuff I did in June ( see here), at least with one of them.   
...and there's some lessons learned from the water effects experiement: Game Workshop water effects produces the least attractive effect. What you see below are 3 (in words: three!) layers. Even after weeks it isn't completely cured - when I touch it, I leave fingerprints.  Compare that to the acrylic gloss varnish:  Thats also three (or maybe four?) layers, but those are very clear, even if I wasn't able to make a uniform surface. To me it looks much better than GW's stuff - and it's much less expensive. Lesson learned. |
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) was already texturized as rock, so it was basically only a paintjob, but a couple of them looks alredy like d&d creatures.
Cheers!