Not my work BUT WOW
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tomusannonymous
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oh wow, that is awesome, that must have taken forever. i know when i\'m building that even small things take ages.
Hands of blue
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Sure, may take a few days tho.
Hands of blue
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Originally posted by Arma
No problems
I\'ve started building Terrain for gaming tables, but only built one building to date which is put to shame by the stuff in this guys article. There\'s so many good ideas from his tutorials though and I wanna try them.
I wouldn´t call that a poor effort especially if it´s your first building. How have you textured the walls? I like the effect.
Farin
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hand of blues is right, the house looks nice.
you used the GW terrain book, right ?
got the same book and always wanted to build something, but my first house and my first hill i build as a test looked so crappy that i threw everything away and concentrated in painting
By the way i just remembered another article from the german confrontation forum (can´t find it anymore ) . the buildings where just as impressive, but that guy had a different approach for the round parts. he made bricks from thick plasticcard ( i guess Styrodul would work too) and build the tower by using the bricks like legobricks, gluing them together to walls, again with toothpicks as a help to make it more solid. In this way he didn´t have to bend stuff.
maybe thats help you just in case you can find exactly the same stuff that guy used.
Personally i guess the stuff is always the same. maybe different names, colours and patents, but since all this stuff has the same purpose and the same characteristics they can´t be so different.
you used the GW terrain book, right ?
got the same book and always wanted to build something, but my first house and my first hill i build as a test looked so crappy that i threw everything away and concentrated in painting
By the way i just remembered another article from the german confrontation forum (can´t find it anymore ) . the buildings where just as impressive, but that guy had a different approach for the round parts. he made bricks from thick plasticcard ( i guess Styrodul would work too) and build the tower by using the bricks like legobricks, gluing them together to walls, again with toothpicks as a help to make it more solid. In this way he didn´t have to bend stuff.
maybe thats help you just in case you can find exactly the same stuff that guy used.
Personally i guess the stuff is always the same. maybe different names, colours and patents, but since all this stuff has the same purpose and the same characteristics they can´t be so different.
Originally posted by Hands of blue
Originally posted by Arma
No problems
I\'ve started building Terrain for gaming tables, but only built one building to date which is put to shame by the stuff in this guys article. There\'s so many good ideas from his tutorials though and I wanna try them.
I wouldn´t call that a poor effort especially if it´s your first building. How have you textured the walls? I like the effect.
I used filler (for walls etc) or spackle I think it\'s called (the one I used in Japan is called Wall Putty). I just applied it to the foamcore wall them stabbed at it with an old brush.
I don\'t like the brown I used too much but I based it with that orangey brown then drybrushed the creamy colour over the top (very heavy), then a touch of white. I use cheap craft paints (Delta colour) when painting terrain but I guess the closest GW colours are Vomit Brown, Bleached Bone and Skull White respectively to those colours.
Hands of blue
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Today I finally got a sheet of 6mm thick Depron and made some tests.
I first tried to bend it like in the tutorial pressing it with fingers from other side and bending at the same time. It did not work. I don´t know if the problem is in my technique or in the material. Next I tried to bend it using heat. Hair dryer didn\'t have much impact but after sinking the piece in hot water it was quite easy to bend. I used as hot water as I could get from the tap. So the answer is yes, it can be bent.
I also tried to create a stonewall effect and I think it did come out quite well for the first quick test.
What do you think?
I first tried to bend it like in the tutorial pressing it with fingers from other side and bending at the same time. It did not work. I don´t know if the problem is in my technique or in the material. Next I tried to bend it using heat. Hair dryer didn\'t have much impact but after sinking the piece in hot water it was quite easy to bend. I used as hot water as I could get from the tap. So the answer is yes, it can be bent.
I also tried to create a stonewall effect and I think it did come out quite well for the first quick test.
What do you think?
Oh... thank you for quoting the Vampire Castle! Glad to hear you like it.
@Farin - what a work to translate the complete text! Thanks! For further request, it could be easier: We\'ve got an \"english board\" in our forum for international visitors. Feel free to join if you need any advice for terrain building.
http://gidian-gelaende.de/phpBB/Forum/index.php
Cheers from Germany!
Wolfgang
@Farin - what a work to translate the complete text!
Thanks! For further request, it could be easier: We\'ve got an \"english board\" in our forum for international visitors. Feel free to join if you need any advice for terrain building.http://gidian-gelaende.de/phpBB/Forum/index.php
Cheers from Germany!
Wolfgang
Farin
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@Wolfgang: welcome to the forum. i allready asked myself if you would find out about this and i really hoped you don´t mind that i took the liberty to translate it
And yeah, it took me a few hours to translate the whole stuff. But it was one of the most interesting articles i´ve read in years and i did it for the reason i mentioned on the first page : because i know how frustrating it is to see a great article in a language you don´t understand . ( in my case it´s french - it´s hard for me to visit french painting sites for exactly that reason)
Plus i think on this way a lot of people who normally would never find your side or your articles will get to know about your work - and hopefully we get to see more great terrrain.
...and hey, over 1500 people read my translation ... so i think it was worth the work
so thanks again for your article and maybe i´ll visit your forum in the future
And yeah, it took me a few hours to translate the whole stuff. But it was one of the most interesting articles i´ve read in years and i did it for the reason i mentioned on the first page : because i know how frustrating it is to see a great article in a language you don´t understand . ( in my case it´s french - it´s hard for me to visit french painting sites for exactly that reason)
Plus i think on this way a lot of people who normally would never find your side or your articles will get to know about your work - and hopefully we get to see more great terrrain.
...and hey, over 1500 people read my translation ... so i think it was worth the work
so thanks again for your article and maybe i´ll visit your forum in the future
Great work indeed, Farin. The translation is very accurate (at least much better than my english... lol) It took you several hours? Well, I think I owe you a favor (--right word?)
May I post my whole gallery link here?
http://gidian-gelaende.de/03c19899280940b01/03c19899c4139102b/03c198995a14eed01/index.php
May I post my whole gallery link here?
http://gidian-gelaende.de/03c19899280940b01/03c19899c4139102b/03c198995a14eed01/index.php
Hands of blue
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I´m speechless. Very inspiring work, now I just hope I had the time to build some terrain myself.
Now when you have found your way here I hope you don´t mind answering some questions.
1. How do you do the water effect (in elf haven and some other pieces)?
2. What paints do you use when painting terrain?
Thanks in advance.
Farin
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@ hands of blues :
sorry i didn´t reply earlier but again work and i looked alot trough wolfgangs forum .they got a english subforum so you can ask your questions there if you want ( just follow wolfgangs link )
the water is even more simple than i thought... no water effects stuff here. it´s just styrodul again , but this time wolfgang used the back side of a pen to make round recesses into the foam then it was painted black , drybrushed with blue and green and finally sealed with glossy varnish. the spume /spray was made out of transparent sillicone
transparent silicone is sometimes sold by roleplayinfg shops in bottles - they use it to build this faked weapons for LARP´s. don´t ask me how expensivew, all i know is that you need a well ventilated room - that stuff contains amonia
sorry i didn´t reply earlier but again work and i looked alot trough wolfgangs forum .they got a english subforum so you can ask your questions there if you want ( just follow wolfgangs link )
the water is even more simple than i thought... no water effects stuff here. it´s just styrodul again , but this time wolfgang used the back side of a pen to make round recesses into the foam then it was painted black , drybrushed with blue and green and finally sealed with glossy varnish. the spume /spray was made out of transparent sillicone
transparent silicone is sometimes sold by roleplayinfg shops in bottles - they use it to build this faked weapons for LARP´s. don´t ask me how expensivew, all i know is that you need a well ventilated room - that stuff contains amonia
freakinacage
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@hob - nice little piece there. is looks soft - is it? also, where in finland are you? (i\'ve just come back from tampere)
@arma - nice work! i like the texture. have never managed to get that myself - do you wait for the filler to dry a bit before stippling it?
@wolfgang - inspiring stuff!
@arma - nice work! i like the texture. have never managed to get that myself - do you wait for the filler to dry a bit before stippling it?
@wolfgang - inspiring stuff!
Hands of blue
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It´s actually quite stiff. Easy to carve and flexible but still durable.
I live in Turku. This is the city that the university students from Tampere are trying to sink to the ocean. Once a year they swarm here, get wasted and jump up and down in the market square.
@Farin: Thanks again. :beer:
freakinacage
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i know. a friend traveled up from there with his g/f. he\'s studying medicine and she\'s doing maths/chem. small world eh?
HandsOfBlue,
as to the water effects, Farin has explained it much better than I could myself.
The colours are various: Some are acrylic, but most are cheap water-soluble wallpaper colours from a building centre. I always try to use only simple, cheap and non-toxic materials, especially paperboard and plywood. No moulds, no precast pieces, no epoxide for water etc. - not even a mechanical fretsaw or professional polystyrene cutter. (May be that Germans have some spleen for handcraft...?)
Sorry, but I cannot be here very often - for questions, would you use the english board in our forum? Thanks,
http://gidian-gelaende.de/phpBB/index.php
as to the water effects, Farin has explained it much better than I could myself.
The colours are various: Some are acrylic, but most are cheap water-soluble wallpaper colours from a building centre. I always try to use only simple, cheap and non-toxic materials, especially paperboard and plywood. No moulds, no precast pieces, no epoxide for water etc. - not even a mechanical fretsaw or professional polystyrene cutter. (May be that Germans have some spleen for handcraft...?
)Sorry, but I cannot be here very often - for questions, would you use the english board in our forum? Thanks,
http://gidian-gelaende.de/phpBB/index.php
