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Post by hivefleetmanticore on May 2, 2024 1:14:13 GMT
What an awesome conversion! Looking forward to seeing it finished.
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Post by Luigino on May 2, 2024 14:07:19 GMT
Thank you HFM! making my own game pieces has been lots of fun. I haven’t gotten any painting done at all lately, but I have been particularly busy scratchbuilding. Seeing as my previous mortar is way too big for my dwarf to reload it by hand and, inspired by Padremack’s excellent campaign, I decided to build a loading crane. The body and loading arm is made of matches cut and glued together. I also used thin decorative strips of wood to hide seams and imperfections. I glued it to a base (off centre ) to keep it from warping too much. The swinging mechanisms is just a Qtip cut and glued to a groove that was filed off the arm. I added two beads on each side to better hide the pins used to reinforce the “crossbeam”. At the bottom I used small triangular steel cutoffs to give it a more stable look, a tiny shield was glued atop it to add more texture. I also added plastic greebles on the top corners; but I’m not too sure of those, I might go back and remove them. The spinning mechanism is made of a wheel, a metal “gear” a piece of Lego sprue for a lever and a screwcap, all drilled and rotating around an empty pen ink tube. The rope is just two teabag threads glued together. I then stuck a tiny lever bit from the dwarf cannon on the outside. The rope goes through a hole I drilled on the arm, to avoid having the rope bend at too steep an angle I used the ball ends from guitar strings. All it is missing now is a plate for projectiles to rest on and perhaps a few more bits to dwarfing it up further. All in all I’m actually really satisfied with how it came out. padre , you can see that I pretty much copied your idea, both the general shape and the winding mechanism. I liked yours so much that I just had to make my own version.
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Post by padre on May 2, 2024 15:08:51 GMT
It's great. I just replied on your Lead Adventure thread, then found this here too.
Wish I had the time to make one as good as yours rather than the rush jobs I put out. I think my mindset is often that it is just 'stage-set' scenery, and I just want to get on with the story.
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Post by thorpyuk on May 2, 2024 15:36:01 GMT
Now that's some fine Dwarf craftsmanship!
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Post by Luigino on May 2, 2024 15:58:52 GMT
Thank you both!
And no worries Padre, your sets and pictures are the envy of the whole hobby community
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Post by grandmasterwang on May 7, 2024 6:37:34 GMT
The custom dwarf mortar is really good. It actually reminds me of the Chaos Dwarf Earthshaker cannon a bit.
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Post by Luigino on May 7, 2024 14:58:06 GMT
The custom dwarf mortar is really good. It actually reminds me of the Chaos Dwarf Earthshaker cannon a bit. Well... they obviously got the design from somewhere else and the proceeded to corrupt it somehow. Thank you GMW
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Post by grandmasterwang on May 13, 2024 17:26:15 GMT
Your game pieces are awesome. The string dangle is captivating.
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