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Post by grandmasterwang on Apr 23, 2020 0:43:51 GMT
Exquisite!!
Living that hobby dream.
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Tubis
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Post by Tubis on Apr 23, 2020 9:22:37 GMT
A wonderful piece! By adding the plants you have really livened it up - great job, looks like a real diorama.
Moving away from the hirst art blocks is a sound idea, despite the authentic look. Building an entire city's worth of fortifications like this would crush a man's soul. Then again...you did paint almost a hundred reiksguard with sculpted sashes, so what do I know!
If you want to go back to the expanded foam walls, I think you will need to figure out a way how to seal them. I can't deny it's a very pleasant material to work with, but I truly hate how it chips and scratches from sometimes even the lightest touch. I did try covering it with thin plaster once, but this is a no-go as the plaster is too brittle and falls right off. The sealer needs to retain a bit of elasticity I assume, since the foam does not provide a very firm support. I will be doing some experiments of my own soon, using wood filler/pva so I will see how that goes.
Again, looking forward to future updates, Volganof is shaping to be a fancy town!
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Post by Naitsabes on Apr 23, 2020 19:19:30 GMT
cheers guys. Thanks for the words of appreciation.
Tubis, for the foam walls, couldn't we just seal that with spray varnish? Should be safe from melting once painted? I don't think we've noticed foam pieces to be extra sensitive to the touch but, I will pass your comment on to my partner-in-crime, Master of Foamcraft.
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Post by tileag on Apr 23, 2020 21:10:41 GMT
Rob Hawkins blog is great for a number of reasons but especially his terrain and hobby tutorials. In one he talks about making a foam tower and this is what he used to protect it "All of the structures were painted with a layer of thinned wood glue to seal and protect the foam. Then it got a layer of black latex paint for further protection and a solid undercoat" Check out his blog if you havent robhawkinshobby.blogspot.com/?m=0
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Post by arraboy on Apr 24, 2020 6:03:18 GMT
Amazing stuff. You could have a great game of Skirmish over that town.
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Post by Tubis on Apr 24, 2020 9:08:01 GMT
cheers guys. Thanks for the words of appreciation. Tubis, for the foam walls, couldn't we just seal that with spray varnish? Should be safe from melting once painted? I don't think we've noticed foam pieces to be extra sensitive to the touch but, I will pass your comment on to my partner-in-crime, Master of Foamcraft. Technically it should...but there may be a bit of melting involved too! It really depends on the thickness of the paint layer, the solvent in the can... it's hard to say. Best make a test, if you decide to go that route. The damage to the foam is something that happnes over time, just a little chip here and there where the original pink or beige colour starts to show through. Really drives me nutts! As tileag have said, a thinned down layer of PVA should be ok, just to give that surfice a little extra durability.
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Post by knoffles on Apr 29, 2020 6:03:25 GMT
Please feel free to keep ‘yapping on’ about that piece and all the others. Amazing stuff!
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Post by Naitsabes on May 13, 2020 17:45:48 GMT
tileag, thanks for that link. I had read up on that guy's famous undead legion before but not really looked into the terrain side of things. well and with knoffles' blessing, here is some more yapping. You may think I have a razor-sharp focus in my terrain work on getting Volganof on the table but you'd be under (or over?)-estimating me. Is this d'Waldo inspecting a dog house? Nope. He is just there to show the scale. A friend of mine wanted some warmaster terrain and I was interested in trying out how scaling works in this brave new 3d-print world. The smithie (which you can find in 28mm scale further up in this log) worked out well. One post was missing but easily fixable with old-fashioned hobby techniques involving a matchstick. Another building I tried did not pan out. Walls missing and worse. Since I am a simple man, I just hit 'scale down' and expect magic to happen. But, I think if e.g. the walls are thin to begin with, they become unprintably thin when scaling down. So, this would take some finagling with maintaining a minimum thickness on the software side that is beyond my capabilities. At least that's my story and I am sticking with it.
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Post by kaltheras on Sept 15, 2020 0:17:56 GMT
The doom of Volganof approaches.
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Post by Darnok on Sept 15, 2020 7:56:14 GMT
This Plog is all levels of epic, and then some. So awesome, keep it going!
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Post by kaltheras on Sept 17, 2020 10:42:35 GMT
The doom of Volganof itself will wait for more pictures until it has been fully painted, for now though I have an update on the walls of the city. We're going with the scribed pink foam method and I've just finished prepping a full sheet of it. This will then be fed through a tabletop hot wire cutter (currently on order), to be split into its individual pieces. On this sheet there are 4 breached wall pieces, the front and back of a full wall piece, 2 sides of a tower, a strip of battlement, and the four pieces to make the Griffon Gate. By my estimation I'll need to do between 15 and 20 sheets this size to make all the walls for the city.
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Post by thekeep on Sept 17, 2020 11:10:13 GMT
Looks great! Just an idea: I use a band saw to cut big sheets like this. I find the hot wire table saw, to flexible and I can get cuts that are not at right angles to the top face. I think I can speak for all, this project rocks!!!!!
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Post by mottdon on Sept 17, 2020 15:16:45 GMT
Looks great! Just an idea: I use a band saw to cut big sheets like this. I find the hot wire table saw, to flexible and I can get cuts that are not at right angles to the top face. I think I can speak for all, this project rocks!!!!! Does the band saw not rip the foam too much? I would figure it'd break huge chunks out.
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Post by thekeep on Sept 17, 2020 15:53:00 GMT
Looks great! Just an idea: I use a band saw to cut big sheets like this. I find the hot wire table saw, to flexible and I can get cuts that are not at right angles to the top face. I think I can speak for all, this project rocks!!!!! Does the band saw not rip the foam too much? I would figure it'd break huge chunks out. Cuts like a hot knife through butter. Leaves some detritus to clean up, but other than that I like it better for square cuts.
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Post by kaltheras on Sept 18, 2020 7:42:54 GMT
Looks great! Just an idea: I use a band saw to cut big sheets like this. I find the hot wire table saw, to flexible and I can get cuts that are not at right angles to the top face. I think I can speak for all, this project rocks!!!!! Thanks for the suggestion. Sadly, I do not have access to a band saw during the pandemic. ☹️ So wire cutter it'll be, I'll go slow and use the guide rails.
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