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Post by tauster on Mar 29, 2015 21:28:55 GMT
   - tentacles - the ghost of a giant darkmantle - a giant flower (chronolily, anyone?) - ... what else? Wouldn't it look cool whith a color-cycling LED in the center? |
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Post by tauster on Apr 9, 2015 17:35:59 GMT
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Post by daveyjones on Apr 9, 2015 17:41:37 GMT
looks like she's been down the rabbit hole a few times.
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Post by tauster on Apr 13, 2015 17:02:47 GMT
Two terrain pieces I recently stumbled over on ebay that look very cool. Maybe I'll try that myself some day... Skulls below the water. Might also work as 'skulls behind the ghostly veil' or somesuch.  Large lava bubbles, intact and plopped. Paint it sickly green & yellow and you have an ugly acid effect. *shudders* 
I'm probably not going to craft that, but I love the idea of a humungous hermit crab carrying a friggin' city or castle on it's back! This idea practically begs on it's knees to be converted into a wildspace location for a Spelljammer game. www.spoon-tamago.com/2014/08/11/3d-printed-architectural-hermit-crab-shells-by-aki-inomata/(more pics in the articel)   |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2015 23:47:30 GMT
The skull pool is super cool. I'd like to see your take on it.
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Post by dragon722 on Apr 15, 2015 5:32:51 GMT
The skull pool is super cool. I'd like to see your take on it. Me too  |
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Post by tauster on Apr 15, 2015 14:30:47 GMT
The skull pool is super cool. I'd like to see your take on it. Me too I don't have this skull pool on my top priorities list, but if you both make one, I'll make one too. So let's have a pool party!  |
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Post by deadmousefetish on Apr 15, 2015 22:01:07 GMT
Me too I don't have this skull pool on my top priorities list, but if you both make one, I'll make one too. So let's have a pool party! Can anybody come to the pool party? |
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Post by dragon722 on Apr 16, 2015 4:31:41 GMT
I don't have this skull pool on my top priorities list, but if you both make one, I'll make one too. So let's have a pool party! Can anybody come to the pool party? The more the merrier!!! |
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Post by tauster on Apr 16, 2015 17:09:33 GMT
I've made some more molds: - a LEGO bionicles(?) thingie (looks like a power sword, or whatever these things are called) - two rumbia fruits (like the one I used for the beholder's body) - another technical-looking part from a Star Wars collectible - a gear from a Warhammer tool - and one my my pencil-made basalt pillar formations  The pencil basalt pillars will get a special treatment: I want to see how they look if I paint them in lurid colors and put a LED inside. Yellow-green glowing crystals - my players will naturally want to investigate. And a few minutes later their characters will feel a throbbing headache, plus catch some skin blisters. I can already see the player's wide-eyed faces. Hey, nobody said terrain features in the deep underdark are always harmless!  First try: I don't want to glue the LED in (I want to be able to take it out easily), so pushing it in and gluing over isn't an option. Instead I simply glue in a dummy cap of the same size that I take out after the glue is hardened and ush the LED in. Or that's the plan...  Second try: The plan was stupid, and fortunately I realized that right after I begun. Of course the glue will stick to the dummy cap, so I won't be able to remove it. But since I've grown up on the smart half of live (*ahem*), it's quite easy to fix that: Simply wrap some baking parchment around the cap!  [10 minutes later] ...yeah, that didn't work. The paper comes lose every time I stick it in. No way this is going to work.  Third try: So I let the gluegun cool down a bit and then pile glue rings atop each other, building up (or down) until I have the right length.  ...works! Maybe I even leave that texture as is. The alternative would be to rubbleflock it later. A little dark green washing, just to see some first effect. Me likes!  Painted with bright yellow and green, intentionally leaving some gaps for the light to shine through later.  |
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Post by tauster on Apr 19, 2015 13:49:16 GMT
Another quick side project... started yesterday evening, finished this afternoon: Necron Monoliths. I'll use the necron theme in my campaign for the Aboleth. The party is trying to take on a whole city of these abominations, so I'll need lots and lots of the weirdest architecture known to GMs... I'll do two variants: One version with foamcore that's true to what Jay did ( he's the one gave me the general idea), and one with chips from old stonework piping.   Basepaint black  First drybrushing with a darker green  Second drabrushing with a very light green for the glowing effect  Looks already good...  I bought some sheets of Necron decals. Never tried those before, let's see how they behave...  To seal the whole thing, I covered everything (including the decals) with matte acrylic varnish.  The result. The decals really stand out as much as on the fotos. When they were still wet, they blended in really good, but this... not what I was hoping for.  Maybe the varnish was a mistake, or do I need some special decal stuff to paint over?   Overall I'm quite happy, but I will have to work on the decals to have them blend in better. |
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Post by tauster on Apr 23, 2015 17:54:25 GMT
Another little distraction side project... As soon as I saw this magma dragon egg (this week's Throne of Night Kickstarter newsletter), I wanted to make my own:  I still have a bunch of styrofoam eggs that I bought 2 yrs ago.  So I tortured texturized it, first with a ballpen, then with a wooden clay sculpting tool.  ...and the spraypainted it so that the spray color eats away some of the styrofoam. The goal is to get rid of the obivous styrofoam texture. The spraypaint usually eats a bit away and leaves you with a more rock-like, porous texture. Tomorrow I'll see if that worked. Since my black is empty, I used brown.  |
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Post by tauster on Apr 23, 2015 17:59:03 GMT
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Post by SpielMeisterKev! on Apr 24, 2015 0:50:40 GMT
Howdy, here's something I made way back in 1998 Er...wait...am I to understand...there...is... no... cure... for this crafting affliction? Kev! |
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Post by tauster on Apr 24, 2015 6:11:42 GMT
Cure? No. Only ever deeper levels of the rabbit hole. Or if you prefer looking at it in a positive way: Ever higher strata of elevation. |
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Post by michka on Apr 24, 2015 8:02:00 GMT
You are a machine! How in hell do you get so much done? The egg is coming along quite nicely.
Have you noticed that your Beholders have been playing peekaboo in your photos lately?
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Post by tauster on Apr 24, 2015 9:30:42 GMT
I didn't have the heart to cut them off the pics. Cool that someone notices!  How I get so much don? I simply sit down and do something. Not playing any computer games (and haven't for about 15 yrs, although this will probably change with Torment:Numenera) and rarely watching TV leaves you with quite a lot of time. And many projects are not really very time-consuming. The egg for example took me about 10 minutes, plus 5 min. for going through the garden to the workshop, spraying it, taking some pics and returning back to the house. Documentation (working on the pics, uploading and posting) tok almost longer. Although my crafting time will be serverly limited, starting in a few weeks when I start the largest craft project I'll probably ever do in my live: Building a home.
Spaypainting the egg to get rid of the styrofoam texture worked ...not. If anything, it's even more pronounces now. Hmpf...  At least the cracks got widened by the spray eating into the foam, which looks better now than before.  |
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Post by tauster on Apr 25, 2015 7:23:30 GMT
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Post by tauster on Apr 25, 2015 10:55:40 GMT
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Post by tauster on Apr 25, 2015 19:07:25 GMT
Another simple project I started today while waiting for colors on other projects to dry: A heap of sand. It will go to my son's play farm, but I might borrow it from time to time on game nights.  Covered with hotglue. Next is putting it on the bottle caps and generously covering it with whiteglue to put on construction sand. The bottlecaps raise it from the ground, so it won't glue itself down.   I have never before painted sand to look like, well..., sand, so this will double as a test piece. |
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