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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2015 23:47:50 GMT
Tauster continues to overwhelm me with the scope of his creativity.
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Post by tauster on Jul 5, 2015 17:35:15 GMT
More flames. Because you can never have enough firewalls.    It's made exactly as the ones before, so I didn't take WIP shots. I can't recommend the flexible modelling paste enough - for flames, this stuff is a dream to work with. I now have quite a lot flaming walls, pillars and spheres. What I don't have is lava terrain pieces. I'm undecided between going quick & dirty (simply paint cork mats) or elaborate (there's a ton of different lava terrain techniques out there, and I'm itching to try them all)... ...oh, and blue / green flames! Always wanted to do flames in weird colors!  |
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Post by lordbryon on Jul 9, 2015 16:16:04 GMT
would love to see some purple flames.
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Post by tauster on Jul 11, 2015 7:13:46 GMT
I'm a huge fan of Monte Cook's Numenera. For me, it's a perfect blend of SciFi and fantasy worlds. Here's a new illustration, one that (again!) makes me drop whatever I'm doing and start crafting. Now.  HiRes version |
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Post by tauster on Jul 11, 2015 14:13:12 GMT
would love to see some purple flames. ...me too. And blue, and green! So I need more flaming stuff to paint... I always loved Warhammer's Tzeentch beasties for their crazy flaming goodness. When I recently saw this flying, flaming disc, it made 'click':  Simply take a disc and stipple on flexible modeling paste until you're satisfied. It can't get much easier than that... I got me some bottlecaps and a twist-off cap, took my trusty Liquitex Flexible Modeling Paste and stippled away. I built up several layers and left it to harden between the stippling sessions, at least enough until I could apply the next layer (one to two hours). To get the flames all in one direction, I hung them vertically during the drying with magnets. For the final application I put them horizontally on fly stands, so I could mask the area where the magnet was, plus textured the surface a bit more. I'm pretty happy with the result:  Close-up of the large twist-off cap...  ...and the small ones:  So far it has been almost ridiculously easy and pretty fast. I guess all the build up-session (four or five, haven't counted) combined took me about 1 hour, maybe less. |
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Post by tauster on Jul 12, 2015 9:19:32 GMT
Playing around with colors... So far I haven't found a killer combo, so the search goes on. Going from bright priming towards successively darker colors.   I'm not convinced, so I reverse it and start with the darkest blue and work my way towards the brighter shades. In direct comparison, I like this version (on the left) a bit better. But overall, both blue versions don't really sell 'hot fire' to me...  ...so green's next. For some unknown reason and despite what I just learned with the blues, my gut feeling says that starting with bright and getting successively darker is the way to go.   Not bad, but not really fantastic... |
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Post by tauster on Jul 12, 2015 17:03:22 GMT
While painting the purple I realized that the crappy result of the blue and green flyers isn't due to the color scheme but because I used the wrong painting technique: Instead of drybrushing with a bristly brush, I should have taken a smaller brush and carefully highlighted the raised areas. At least at the purple one, the pinkish highlights look much better than the blue and greens... Primed with Necron Abyss (a very dark blue) and drybrushed with Liche Purple. I already like it at this stage and was tempted to stop right here.  But then I added Warlock Purple, carefully highlighted with Tentacle Pink and came up with this result:  I have a dark purple that has a more gel-like thickness and with less color pigments. When applying it thinly it acts a bit like a thick, gel-like wash. It takes a long time to dry where it pools (several hours), but the effects are nice.See both in comparison:  |
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Post by lordbryon on Jul 13, 2015 13:42:39 GMT
Exalt for the purple. I love it.
Are you going to put wizards or sorcs on the flaming disks?
I think that airborne arcanists floating around on flaming disks of destruction would make for a deadly encounter.
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Post by tauster on Jul 13, 2015 21:05:47 GMT
Glad you like it.  Yes, some of them will be used by 'riders' - especially the large one. I envisioned the smaller ones as freely flying flame elementals who can be summoned(*) and asked (nicely... that's what charisma is for! *g*) to attack the enemies. (*) there's a priest of Kossuth, the elemental lord of flames joining the party soon, and boy will his player be spoiled with tailor-made minis and terrain! I'm likely to make some spherical ones, now that I know how to make flame trails. Making flame balls without trails was one of my very first projects, so this feels a bit like coming full circle... |
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Post by tauster on Jul 15, 2015 19:46:23 GMT
Finally got around to paint the large fire flyer! I couldn't bring it over myself paint it in one of the experimental color schemes (which was the reason I made this batch, originally...), so I used what I know works: The classic yellow-orange-red-dark red-even darker red-black combination. Only that this time I used a slightly more orange-tinted yellow, which makes the whole thing better, imho. But judge yourself: Lady Forscale looks a bit sceptical...  Sure it's hot, smokin' hot even. But is it hostile?  Hmmm, it turns around and wags it's tail...  So let's already mount it and go for a ride!  And that's how it looks underneath. I leave the bottom of most things I do unpainted, so people can see what's underneath. Plus it saves some work.  I really like these critters! I'll probably do a few more, a fe flat screw cap models and some with spherical specimen with cotton balls underneath. I wonder if you can make the tail not only straight but swooping, similar to the swooping ghosts? Hmmm.... |
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Post by tauster on Jul 19, 2015 12:02:35 GMT
Turns out that making great balls of fire is easy, as is giving them a tail. What I didn't succeed in was making the tail swoop, i.e. givng it a curve that implies a change in the ball's flying direction. My guess is that I should use a skeleton beneath the modelling paste to achieve that swoop, but that's something I might try in a next batch. First I want to complete this batch: I drove a nail through the cotton balls to have a proper hold, and to hang the balls upside down from magnets to give the flames a proper shape (let gravity work for you not against you!)  Then I primed them yellow. I knew I'd have to go over some parts of the paint when I have to hide the nail's holes, but I wanted to use the nail's better hold (better when compared with the thin needle I'll use later) because when basepainting, you have to really press your brush into the tiny crevices, and a needle sticking in the cotton ball wouldn't give me a secure enough hold.   [update] ...getting there: All nail holes blended in. Painting commences tomorrow, after all has hardened.  |
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Post by tauster on Jul 20, 2015 18:05:20 GMT
...about one happy hour of firepainting later:   Sorry for the crappy shots. Due to the weight of the large beasties, I need to make new and more stable fly stands. When that's done, I'll throw all flame and fire-related stuff on the game tabel and share some hot pics. Other than having no fly stands for the, I'm totally happy with how they came out. Modelling them is really easy - everyone who can hold a brush can do that. Painting is not one bit harder. Generally spoken, fire effects are extremely easy to make. I can't wait to see how effective they are in the game! |
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Post by tauster on Jul 23, 2015 17:15:57 GMT
In case you ever need some truly huge animals, or just the heads of even larger animals, take a look at these cheesy floatig pond decorations.  10 to 15 Euro give you heads that are between 20 and 30 cm long, shipping included. Not bad when compared with miniature prices! Now simple heads of regular animals aren't teribly useful in a game, even huge ones. But think of them as the basis for monsters: It shouldn't be too hard to modify them into something truly terrifying.  |
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Post by tauster on Jul 23, 2015 18:46:42 GMT
I recently saw a cool terrain idea featuring a flying temple: A sky-blue game mat (it should be simple to find a large poster with clouds, or paint something yourself) and some terrain pieces scattered here and there. Add a bit of wool around them for clouds and you're done with a rather stunning 'castle/temple in the clouds' encounter! So I decided to make me some floating roads, or at least broken pieces of a ruined, flying road... I have gathered a few precious pieces of green insulation foam that I desperately wanted to experiment with but had no cool ideas what to do with, plus the texture rods need to see some action again ( here and here).  Rubbleflocked on one side  ...and that's it already. The flocking will have to dry overnight, tomorrow I'm going to do the other side, after that the protective coat of whiteglue. If all goes well, I can paint them on sunday. |
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Post by tauster on Jul 26, 2015 16:37:55 GMT
Another modular fly stand: You can put a small acrylic rod with a neodym magnet on top in and take it out after the game for easier storage. Filled with whiteglue-sand mix (takes several weeks to dry - next time I'll do that in layers!), then put a bit of crumpled, whiteglue-soaked TP around it.   Let it dry for a day or two, basepaint it black, then a grey drybrush and some white drybrush highlights, done.  |
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Post by tauster on Jul 26, 2015 17:57:28 GMT
Here's all my fire-related stuff in one flaming heap. I really need to do some more lava tiles...       All the WIP postings are somewhere in this thread... The flames and spherical flame elementals are on pages 33-34 of Flotsam & Jetsam, some older stuff from the pic is here: - the large flame elemental: here and here- the large round flame: here - the magma egg: here, here, here and here- the fly stands- the molten rocks: here, here, here, here and here |
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Post by curufin on Jul 27, 2015 13:28:58 GMT
Wow!!! ...must...do...flame....pillar...
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Post by tauster on Jul 27, 2015 17:14:47 GMT
Wow!!! ...must...do...flame....pillar... flame pillars are dead easy: take a roll of TP and sculpt the cone out of polystyrene, aluminum foil or paper maché, apply flames by stippling on a modelling paste (liqutex flexible modelling paste works well, but there's probably a ton of cheaper stuff out there). paint and have fun. |
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Post by SpielMeisterKev! on Jul 27, 2015 18:10:32 GMT
Howdy, Out of the night and out of the dark Into the fire and into the fight Well that's the way the heroes go, Ho! Ho! Ho! -- Dance on a Volcano by Genesis Just sayin', Kev! |
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Post by michka on Jul 28, 2015 0:02:08 GMT
I've been distracted for a little while, so I hadn't been checking up on this thread. While I was gone, Tauster went insane with making fire. It looks like your work area is burning out of control man. You are an animal sir. A wild animal. Bravo!!!
And since I didn't get around to saying it before, the Forest Spirit sculpture is fantastic.
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