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Post by johnp on Sept 13, 2015 18:21:49 GMT
Wow, Tauster, that's totally amazing. I have a hard time believing this is for a 3,5 year old and not yourself;-)
It is definitely awesome enough for my gaming table, no doubt about that. Didn't look like much until it was painted, but it ended up on my top 5 tower list:-)
Great work, and you've just inspired me towards my upcoming Kashyyyk scenario. By upcoming, I mean, within a year:-) Too many other projects needing my attention first.
Consider this an exalt...
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Sept 14, 2015 3:45:47 GMT
I myself would have gone black primer, base-coat burnt umber or bark-brown, heavy dry brush brown mixed with a little bit of the previous color (or done while the base coat was slightly wet to blend), light drybrush tan mixed with a little bit of brown (or done while the brown was slightly wet to blend), maybe a VERY light drybrush of tan to highlight, and used some flock for moss.
But it still looks good!
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Post by michka on Sept 14, 2015 12:26:55 GMT
Haven't checked out your thread in a while, so here is some catching up. The Lava terrain strips turned out great. I can see them being very useful in the future. The final painting on Totoro is splendid! You really captured that look perfectly.
And the damn teahouse... If I ever hoped to avoid making an Endor Village, you've shot that all to hell. Looks like I need to find some Pringles cans soon.
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Sept 14, 2015 17:26:53 GMT
Haven't checked out your thread in a while, so here is some catching up. The Lava terrain strips turned out great. I can see them being very useful in the future. The final painting on Totoro is splendid! You really captured that look perfectly. And the damn teahouse... If I ever hoped to avoid making an Endor Village, you've shot that all to hell. Looks like I need to find some Pringles cans soon. You can probably buy pre-cut cardboard circles from a cake shop, or depending upon where you live I could send you some (I have a box of 200 of them with a 10" diameter that there was no wax layer put on the cardboard so we couldn't use them). Layer those babies up three deep (with Chris-crossing corrugation) and the bottom layer has a hole for the pringels can to nest, the center layer has magnets set it in for the bridges) and there you go. |
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Post by Akrid on Sept 15, 2015 3:33:36 GMT
Not something I'll try out soon, for several reasons, the two most important are - total waste of a perfectly fine water melon (but coming from a guy who builds terrain with pasta, not a very convincing argument) - I don't have a sufficiently hot heatsource. But still, I'm really fascinated with those shapes, so... can we come up with less complex ways to achieve something similar? <How to make a tiny outdoor safe forge, although I recommend a large water source at all times because better to have it and not need it. |
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Post by tauster on Sept 19, 2015 15:43:35 GMT
Started with the twisted roof of the tree tower/house. I want it to to be non-permanent, so I (er... I mean my boy) can use it as a tree and as a house. I used a twist-off cap as the base, glued a stone in for weight...  ...and 'sculpted' the basic shape out of aluminum foil and hotglue.   Cardstock shingles:  The top of a dishwasher bottle wil become the chimney. They come in slightly different shapes, so it pays to save each of them from the garbage and select coolest.  Basepainted black  [update] Glued on shingles and chimney.     |
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Sept 20, 2015 4:55:06 GMT
That is one crazy roof...
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Post by tauster on Sept 26, 2015 17:37:10 GMT
Some new materials added to the pile: Translucent parts of pens:  Materials from the carpenters: Huge and heavy washers, handfuls of screws of all kinds and sizes, plus some evil-looking toothed washers (no clue how they're called, but they will go into builds that will do a lot of hurt on the battlefield *evil DM grin*)  |
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Post by tauster on Sept 27, 2015 18:10:39 GMT
Primed with metallic black  Added several metallic colors (chainmail, boltgun metal, warplock bronze), plus some macharius solar orange for rust  ...and that's where my ideas of what to do with them ran out. Since these thingies are magnetic, I'll leave them as is at the moment. I'm sure I'll come up with some evil use for them later on.  Traps? Wheels? Boring bits? Spell marker? |
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Sept 28, 2015 2:21:47 GMT
Siege engine wheels
Weapons for a golem
Tree harvester
Earth mover parts
Dwarven tunneling machine
Thought of this just after posting: buzz saw traps
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Post by sotf on Sept 28, 2015 19:06:06 GMT
Gears in some ancient (possibly infernal) machine
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Post by tauster on Oct 4, 2015 8:13:16 GMT
I played around with lava bases made out of eggshells a while back (too lazy to search for the posting, but it should be somewhere in this thread), and since I glued a magnet on the bottom of the fire elemental, I needed to magnetize the base as well...   The scrap metal fits in the optic of the cracked tiles quite well (although you still see that it when you know were to look), and it occurred to me that instead of using cracked eggshells, these could be made completely out of metal (I'm using twist-off caps). That way the whole base could be used for magnetised stuff. That idea goes straight to my to-do list. Which means that it might take some months to be done - if anyone beats me to it, please share! |
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Post by tauster on Oct 4, 2015 8:17:17 GMT
If you need crafting materials for industrial/modern/scifi stuff, take a closer look at kitchen and bath supply stuff!  All of that came out of oil bottles, juice bags, shower gel plastic bottles, etc. |
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Post by curufin on Oct 4, 2015 14:02:10 GMT
If you need crafting materials for industrial/modern/scifi stuff, take a closer look at kitchen and bath supply stuff! All of that came out of oil bottles, juice bags, shower gel plastic bottles, etc. Wow! Those are great! What is the black one with the red on it on the far left? |
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Post by tauster on Oct 4, 2015 15:53:35 GMT
Wow! Those are great! What is the black one with the red on it on the far left? That's from a 5 litre bag of juice you get when you bring your fruits (apples, in my case) to a local juicer who makes, well juice out of your apples. Some three years ago I made a small steampunk balloon with that stuff and an old lightbulb. *goes searching for a pic* [update] Found the pic... I did the steampunk ballon in summer 2012, well before my terrain-crafting period. In hindsight, I could have textured the black plastic way more, but so what.  |
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Post by tauster on Oct 4, 2015 17:42:44 GMT
Against all odds, I got that magnetic lava-base finished this weekend.    I really like the result. It doesn't look very different from the eggshell versions - and I can place magnetised stuff anywhere on the base. |
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Post by ogrestamp on Oct 6, 2015 8:36:06 GMT
Primed with metallic black Added several metallic colors (chainmail, boltgun metal, warplock bronze), plus some macharius solar orange for rust ...and that's where my ideas of what to do with them ran out. Since these thingies are magnetic, I'll leave them as is at the moment. I'm sure I'll come up with some evil use for them later on. Traps? Wheels? Boring bits? Spell marker? Tauster, this just came to me. Have a small room, maybe five feet wide, almost like a closet. The door you entered is in the middle of the long axis with another door opposite. Just take one step and you will reach the other door. Only problem, once you enter the room, the door behind you locks. At the end of both alcoves have one of those metal things with the bits facing out. The trap activates maybe when the party tries to open the other door. Those metal thingies start rotating and start moving towards one another. In the hole of one of those metal grinders have a lever that must be pulled to stop the trap. But that means someone is going to have to be brave enough to reach their arm into the middle of a metallic grinder that is active. |
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Post by tauster on Oct 6, 2015 19:06:59 GMT
Not a terrain, not a monster but certainly roleplaying-related: I just stumbled over this awesome etsy shop: www.etsy.com/de/shop/abbotshollowstudios?page=1Books that look back at you:  Light switch cover youÄd think twice to touch:  ...and lots of other items. My gut feeling keeps telling me that what he does shouldn't be too hard to make. I have done a bit leatherworking before (my father is an interior decorator, a craft I learned too years ago), so maybe... The least thing I can do is putting this on my to-do list.  |
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Post by ogrestamp on Oct 6, 2015 19:12:24 GMT
Maybe a mimic that mimics a couch. That would be cool.
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Oct 6, 2015 19:53:57 GMT
Those book covers and switch plates would give my kid nightmares.
And I have to remember the mimic couch idea.
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