MongrelFish
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Post by MongrelFish on Jan 30, 2005 10:17:10 GMT 12
Ooook now you've lost me... but about the circuit board, now theres an idea!
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jan 30, 2005 10:21:11 GMT 12
I had a look in my bits room, and that was the first thing came to mind, I'll keep thinking.
(Ahem, how about resin bases depicting tarmac, steel plates, bricks and paving slabs? I know where you can pick up some of them)
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Post by Aaron on Jan 30, 2005 12:02:55 GMT 12
suggestions on what you could take apart to make instant cityfight terrain on a base? I think the challange with urban terrain is that 90% of the time models would just be standing on concrete and rubble. It starts to look a bit unlikely if all your troops are standing on some interesting terrain feature. Having said that I cant think of anyway to be able to knock up instant bases of rubble. Probably Fantasychild's cork + normal sand basing would have to be the way to go. Not super quick tho. |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jan 30, 2005 12:12:03 GMT 12
I am adding more urban bases to my range, but one particular style has me stumped.
I want to do a sort of rubbley junkyard floor with odds and sods of trash. Problem is it's meant to look random, but everyone I cast will obviously be the same.
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Fatrix
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Post by Fatrix on Jan 30, 2005 12:25:31 GMT 12
make a few different base styles so that for a squad of 5 models each has a different base. Even two of each in a ten man squad shouldn't look out of place.
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jan 30, 2005 13:11:36 GMT 12
Yeah, I could probably do that, but mold making is the single biggest expenditure I have, and is also the only part of this job that I actively detest. It is physically hard, takes an age, you don't know if it's worked for a few days or not, and is really easy to mess up.
So fewer molds means happier PitYak!
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Pirate Wench
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Post by Pirate Wench on Jan 30, 2005 14:09:59 GMT 12
Hmmm I wonder what cork tile through a food processor would end up like
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jan 30, 2005 14:14:26 GMT 12
Well I know if I tried it, it would end up like one divorced guy getting kicked out on his bum.
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Pirate Wench
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Post by Pirate Wench on Jan 30, 2005 14:36:40 GMT 12
It's so lovely being the woman in charge of the processor. I'm going to go chomp up a cork or two now and report back on it
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Pirate Wench
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Post by Pirate Wench on Jan 30, 2005 14:47:08 GMT 12
Ok, I used up half a sheet of thise cork stuff I bought from the $2 shop, got two A4 2mm thick sheets of it for (you guessed it) $2
It's great, and no lasting damage to the blender, just be sure to clean it -really- well and choose a time when no one is home to do it. What I now have is a bowl full of rubbly looking stuff, would make nice volcanic terrain. The finer stuff would make a good gravel road surface (painted grey of course) you could sift it through a reasonable course sieve and whizz teh bigger chunks again to break them down more. Wish I could upload pics to this site so I can show you what it looks like
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Fatrix
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Post by Fatrix on Jan 30, 2005 15:01:04 GMT 12
so y are u getting this stuff from placemakers when u get more from the $2 shop.
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Pirate Wench
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Post by Pirate Wench on Jan 30, 2005 15:20:14 GMT 12
Different thickness, different applications, The stuff from the $2 shop is only 2mm thick, meaning for $2 i only get a piece 20x 30 and 4mm thick if I glue the pieces together, in order to get decent cracks and fissures and to have the depth needed in my field of lava landscape that I mentioned on the other threads I'd have to glue 3 sheets together, thats 2 packs of it and still only 20 x 30
the packs of cork tiles are definately way cheaper and more appropiate to that particular application of cork. This thinner cork is ok for making sedementary rock where you get the defined striping between layers, but wouldn't work for a volcanic landscape since it's not sedemntary type rock
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Fatrix
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Post by Fatrix on Jan 30, 2005 15:46:23 GMT 12
yea that makes sense. How do u make the board have a slope but be all rough like in that tutorial?
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jan 30, 2005 18:50:55 GMT 12
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Pirate Wench
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Post by Pirate Wench on Jan 30, 2005 22:05:35 GMT 12
wow those are just the thing!!
I've been developing my cork rubble further. I sifted the rubble through a fiarly wide sieve, holes about 2mm square, then I made up a very runny mix of dark grey paint and poured it over while stirring constantly. I added a few glops of black and mixed them in but not quite so well to add some flecks then dried the whole lot out in the oven in an old cake tin. Did I mention how cool it is being the one in charge of kitchen implements. Anyway I just pulled it out and the result is a fine graveltype stuff, it still has brown flecks through it as cork never takes a stain consistently but this just adds to the natural look. I'm going to make a base with it and add drifts of snow and some tussok
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