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Post by l7arkness on Oct 7, 2015 19:33:33 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. I would like to mention that if anyone intends to build a diy forge that they be very careful with melting temperatures. I personally built that forge and had a minor explosion that damn near killed me, but I'm very safety conscious which thankfully covered for my ignorance. |
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Post by Akrid on Oct 7, 2015 23:04:09 GMT
Mind if i ask what you did that lead to a explosion?
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Post by sotf on Oct 8, 2015 0:52:39 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.  Looks more like the cheap faux leather and the acrylic eyes that you can get at the craft store with minor sculpting underneath, possibly done with hot glue there. |
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Post by sgtslag on Oct 9, 2015 17:49:23 GMT
I agree on the materials likely used. Damn, they look good. Very impressed. Cheers!
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Post by dragon722 on Oct 11, 2015 6:50:12 GMT
ok I most definitely need to craft those light switch covers for my house lol
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Post by tauster on Oct 11, 2015 9:24:55 GMT
I got myself around to continuing to work on a few dust-gathering projects, because they were easy to go on with and I desperately want to whittle down my 'man you gotta end these things!"-list. I barely have free workspace on my craft desk...  Loofa spike scatter terrain
I never liked the purple color scheme,...  ...so I simply overcoated it with metalic black, to see how it looks. It's better now. Not great, but I would put it on the gametable without shame.  (better pic later) Clay mazesI made these back in June by simply impressing cheap plastic toys into clay. Now its time to make some ruin terrain with them.  If you want to glue paper maché to clay, take care to use plenty of whiteglue! It takes some time to dry (several days probably) but it is worth it. Rubbleflocked:  ...here I use a cut-off wheel instead of taking an old CD. The bottlecap in the middle closes the center hole of the wheel, and enables the whole thing to be used on magnetic fly stands. Nothing better than a flying ruin!   Cheap acrylic deco crystalsI wanted to use them as glowing rocks and washed them in a color similar to the acrylic, which ruined the whole thing. So I overpainted them and use them as regular rocks.  The usual color scheme: black primer, grey & white highlights.  As an experiment, I applied glue for the flocking only in some places and left others free. Normally , I rubbleflock the whole ground. I'll probably add grass to the remaining clear patches.  
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Oct 11, 2015 10:39:39 GMT
Beautiful work as always, Tauster.
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Post by tauster on Oct 11, 2015 12:23:42 GMT
Glad you like them!  Here's another quick project: A flying weapons platform. Think of Tenser's Levitating Disc ...of doom. Seems like this is a 'quick projects weekend.  I have a lot of small wooden discs left from the construction site. Most of them have one rough and one smooth side. I glued a bottlecap to the center of the underside and added a bunch of weapon sprues to the perimeter. The hole in the center can be used for some future addition.  I want the wood look like rough and rusted metal in the end, so I started with a black basecoat.  The second thing is just me playing with two half-discs. I like that shape, but still have to wait for an idea of what that might be. |
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Post by tauster on Oct 15, 2015 18:02:16 GMT
...now THAT was a fun little project!  after the black priming, I added a layer of metallic black. Then two different silver colors for the disc and the weapons, plus painting the wood (dark brown, light rown, white, agrax earthshade wash). Then a light orange drybrush over the metallics to give it a rusted look. That's all.     I wanted to write a short story about that Goblin with the whirling balls, finding a floating disc in an Eladrin ruin in the Feydark, modifying it with weapons and whatnots and making enough sense of the control module to ride this thing... but at the moment, I have neither the time nor the energy for that. Real lif keeps me occupied way too much. I might write it somewhere down the road, but sure as hell this guy will be a recurring enemy in a few combat room encounters!  |
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Post by l7arkness on Oct 16, 2015 12:42:56 GMT
Mind if i ask what you did that lead to a explosion? Sorry took me so long to reply i completely missed your post, the reason my forge exploded was due to me exceeding the melting point of my crucible which at the time contained a generous amount of molten aluminum. And when you mix molten aluminum with water or ANY other contaminates such as steel and coal it has a high chance of erupting. Luckily i was wearing protection and was able to safely back away before any damage was done to me. Just a fyi before I get called out for being dumb, my crucible was 3/8"thk steel cup that I had fabricated by a friend where I work, and it should not of failed at "normal" melting temp for aluminum (660+°C) but me being me i decided my airflow wasn't cutting it and hooked a mattress pump up to it and that pushed my temp well beyond the melting point of my crucible (1370+°C). So it was ignorance not poor design that lead to my accident |
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Post by Akrid on Oct 16, 2015 16:07:25 GMT
Mind if i ask what you did that lead to a explosion? Sorry took me so long to reply i completely missed your post, the reason my forge exploded was due to me exceeding the melting point of my crucible which at the time contained a generous amount of molten aluminum. And when you mix molten aluminum with water or ANY other contaminates such as steel and coal it has a high chance of erupting. Luckily i was wearing protection and was able to safely back away before any damage was done to me. Just a fyi before I get called out for being dumb, my crucible was 3/8"thk steel cup that I had fabricated by a friend where I work, and it should not of failed at "normal" melting temp for aluminum (660+°C) but me being me i decided my airflow wasn't cutting it and hooked a mattress pump up to it and that pushed my temp well beyond the melting point of my crucible (1370+°C). So it was ignorance not poor design that lead to my accident Honestly, that all sounds like a progression of events I would likely make. Even in the video I'm pretty sure what he is using is about the same as your 3/8 steel. And I do tend to be impatient when having to wait for water to boil so in short thank you for potentially saving me. Also did you find a crucible that worked? Would ceramic be applicable? |
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Post by tauster on Oct 16, 2015 17:40:13 GMT
If the band of a white-out mouse (dunno if that's the correct english term) rips, you can throw it away.  ...or disassemble it and have some cool crafing materials!  The parts of the blue cover look like robotic wings... |
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Post by l7arkness on Oct 16, 2015 17:56:05 GMT
Your welcome, and the steel will work I did about 4 to 6 melts and could not notice any deterioration in the crucible, i would feel comfortable using steel again if i could convince my wife to let me ;-), but i would suggest a graphite crucible you can find fair priced ones online and it will be far safer/cheaper than building your own, and then I would build my forge to fit the crucible so you know your being as safe as possible. Also slow spread out air flow that you can control. All in all its dangerous, but if you watch your temps stay focused and a bag of sand and bucket of water around you should be fine. Ill check for my aftermath video when I get home and ill post it so you can see what not to do |
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Post by tauster on Oct 16, 2015 18:00:13 GMT
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Post by l7arkness on Oct 16, 2015 20:12:33 GMT
Sorry took me so long to reply i completely missed your post, the reason my forge exploded was due to me exceeding the melting point of my crucible which at the time contained a generous amount of molten aluminum. And when you mix molten aluminum with water or ANY other contaminates such as steel and coal it has a high chance of erupting. Luckily i was wearing protection and was able to safely back away before any damage was done to me. Just a fyi before I get called out for being dumb, my crucible was 3/8"thk steel cup that I had fabricated by a friend where I work, and it should not of failed at "normal" melting temp for aluminum (660+°C) but me being me i decided my airflow wasn't cutting it and hooked a mattress pump up to it and that pushed my temp well beyond the melting point of my crucible (1370+°C). So it was ignorance not poor design that lead to my accident Honestly, that all sounds like a progression of events I would likely make. Even in the video I'm pretty sure what he is using is about the same as your 3/8 steel. And I do tend to be impatient when having to wait for water to boil so in short thank you for potentially saving me. Also did you find a crucible that worked? Would ceramic be applicable? This is the video after i put out the fire sorry its crappy camera work but i was a little hopped up on adrenaline vid.me/e/KFoY |
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Post by l7arkness on Oct 16, 2015 20:17:09 GMT
Don't know why that post came out so choppy sorry here is the video
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Post by tauster on Oct 17, 2015 17:18:01 GMT
I already linked to this guy's channel recently, but here's another great idea: A quick & easy way to make moulds for bases. He did it with a steampunk design but you can use all kinds of things.
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Oct 17, 2015 18:23:55 GMT
I already linked to this guy's channel recently, but here's another great idea: A quick & easy way to make moulds for bases. He did it with a steampunk design but you can use all kinds of things. Quick note on this, I asked him and he said he used pine for the wood for the mold. |
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Post by skunkape on Oct 19, 2015 17:30:19 GMT
Love the book and light switch plates!
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Post by tauster on Oct 21, 2015 17:07:42 GMT
Part of the joy of building a house is that you get your hands on lots of potential crafting materials: Like wood wool, which is used as air-injected insulation. This week I had a giant pile of that stuff on the construction site, but it takes only three days to pump it all in the walls and under the roof.  Which makes a huge mess, both outside and inside:   I guess I'll have some sweeping and sneezing to do over the weekend! But hey, the least thing I can do is trying to craft something with it.  The first thing that comes to mind is using it like paper maché, i.e. soaking it in watered-down whiteglue. I used half the wool in the cup and soaked in in 50:50 watered-down glue, using between 1/ and 1/2 of the smal bottle (120gr bottle to be exact). It's quite a lot of liquid, so I expect the drying to take several days.  Can't wait to see what kind of texture this will have. Another potential use might be grass flocking or clump foliage. |
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