oh.........i had thought that was a good idea... i have one atm in use... we wanted to use it for the knifes in the kitchen but i salvaged it for my desk... my wife didn´t complain...it tidies up a treat my desk... so not to anoy my wife... but i have to see if it will affect my tools...hmmmm
no no i do see the umlaugts vik, just being my nieve/blind american self, i was curious wether other countries that spoke different languages had different keyboards .. i know that is a horribly stupid thing to think, but since i speak english, shouldnt everyone?!?!
NO EVERYONE MUST HAVE ENGLISH KEYBOARDS!!! jk jk, and luckily for me, i learned english first (seeing as i've heard its a bit hard to learn) making learning german easier seeing as we came from that language
nope...definte english is a hell lot easier... try french or russian for that matter... your ears will bleed for that effort... trust me... but also on a related note... you use american...not english...ask a brit why^^
HEY people who speak english in england are actually speaking AMERICAN! why? because we came first! ... right?... right?.. no
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Sorry guys, I have really wanted to start a project, but my job has been sucking my soul out of me lately, And the intolerant, hateful, fascist bigots in the US news every day has been sucking my will. It is the weekend however, and that raises my spirits greatly!
Dave take that tension anger and hatred and turn it into passion and then create …….. Yes, easily said then done I know ….
If it helps I had a gak few weeks at work (to the point of nearly walking) then I got really bad case of man flu ( nearly dyeing ) then My mum phoned and told me that Pete (her other half ) had been to the hospital and they had found a tumour.
Suddenly all my problems seemed less important at least I had my health, so sometimes when you look around things even though as gak as they may be they are not as a bad as they could be.
Now go and build some cool stuff as I need cheering up and something to look at
such news are very hard to cope with LDD... may that cup stay away from me...
dave ona very serious note... have you ever considered a change of worklife? maybe you and your sweet and understanding keeper could do something on your own? i don´t know...but if worklife is so frustrating...
well of course with our great unemployment scheme here it is always easier to think those thoughts... but if it all gets so damned then you have to keep your eyes focused on your health and your lovelife...and that can both affected by bad work quite substantial...
by the way... on a lighter note... i have collected some tomatopuree caps... they would make excellent turbines for your FO3 inspired cars...:
yeah i know how that looks... no fun about red poo here ...
HAHA, I will Vik, I'm just relaxing atm, and getting a bit of inspiration from Portal2
Railings Vik...Railings
Everything is so nonsensical and unlike anything in RL, it is PERFECT for Necromunda!
OMG! That is so, so,,,so,,,,,organized! I mean sick, Er, well, I tend to be knowing that my supplies are at such a depth beneath a few layers in a certain pile,,,or was it that pile over there?
Yo just wanted to say, your work is awesome! I saw this plog what feels like a short time ago when you hadn't painted any of the necromunda terrain yet.
AND NOW.
Havn't even got through it yet, I'm up to page 70, but wow dude fantastic work, just everything, so so inspired man and glad to see that the rest of dakka has been supporting you throughout.
Ok dont tell me anything it could alter the future, I'm heading back into the past to try and catch up!
I love Rawson's pic! However I will give you the basics of the game:
1. You have a gun, which can shoot an orange portal, and a blue portal. When complete, a portal can transport you, or any of the game's objects (companion cube, laser beam, gel, light bridge, etc)
2. Only certain suface textures accept portals.
3. Objects entering a portal retain their velocity when exiting another portal.
And you solve puzzles, and listen to silly but well done voice acting! That's about it.
Thanks TwoSpartan! ..And Welcome to the nuthouse!
Nice use of the MB HALO figures in your sig BTW!
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HAH!!! sorting is for OCD´s... i need a big box full of everything and get balllistic on my creativity... how else do you think i came up with ...well...everything? rumaging around is part of the fun of my hobby...sorting... what´s next? should i start painting my stuff as well...er...
ok...if it makes your feng fly shui...(reads better in german actually )
aye caramba... that is a nicely filled shelf... the klingon lego mini is just priceless... and it is resting on the same shelf like your famous nuka cola machine...
^lol ( hmm miniature posters to be posted in munda terrain dave??)
D: dave got the zombie dragon!!! i want one! what do you plan on using it for, might i ask?
I got it just because I liked it, not really to game with.
He deserves to have a raised base from which he is issuing this menacing pose though...I'll finish it later
Yep Rogue, I've been printing those on terrain for awhile now, these are in 1/72 scale
dsteingass wrote:Thanks Shas and RW!
The painting bench got reworked too
My Inner Sanctum, my Holiest of Holies.
I think we are ready for our production orders now!
ok.... one day i need a place to really work on my stuff like that as well...boy...awsome is not even telling the half of it...
oh and i think that motivational poster will help you see through lots of darker days now! ^^...which brings me to an idea....just you wait^^
oh and the dragon... i think it needs a small ruin, i picture him siting on it...watching his prey... like a nazgul...shame i didn´t find a suitable pic...
Thanks Vik! Our parents generation will be sucking the Social Security system dry, so this is the closest to any kind of retirement plan I can hope for
man... now you again ruined my monday... latley i have been thinking too much of these down to earth problems...everything around one self crumbles and i begin to think it was a bit inresposible to bring kids into this world...
Well, that is EXACTLY what happens when you put snake oil salesmen in charge of both the government and businesses, they sell snake oil to everyone. And when the snake oil doesn't work, they don't care, they all have our money already!
The blue thing on the dremel, turns the dremel into a drill press or holds the dremel when you attach a flex shaft on it. Everyone with more than one dremel needs at least one of these.
Vik, it's CDO, please, alphabetize it so as not to set off my disorder.....
now this makes me feel really depressed now...*sobs*
Well, that is EXACTLY what happens when you put snake oil salesmen in charge of both the government and businesses, they sell snake oil to everyone. And when the snake oil doesn't work, they don't care, they all have our money already!
man you are so true to the point it is hurting...
ok...now i sound very depressed...but actually i am not depressed at all... sun is shining, and i just did a good deed for my wife...we are building a seat/ rack thingy for our balcony and i had to paint/ seal the boards that we build it from in the cellar... i think the wife will be pleased^^
Your newly tidied Nerd lair is simply put... Beautiful, nothing gets the creative juices flowing than finding something to make organized chaos with all over your cleanliness!
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To be sure, I am starting off by using pre-riveted material, over which I will add MOAR rivets
@Max- I'm not sure..How tall is your Warlord(s)?
Al lI have is a 12" GI Joe for scale..And he has to duck to get in under it and not mess up his fro.
LOL no brickwork- those are the wooden walkway bits from the train bridges
@Max- they are just cheap Life-Like HO scale train bridges, should be able to pick them up cheap on ebay- would make great servicing gantries for them!!
@LDD- not really- I picked up these re-pop 70's Adventure Team guys back when Wal Mart sold them.
dsteingass wrote:@Max- they are just cheap Life-Like HO scale train bridges, should be able to pick them up cheap on ebay- would make great servicing gantries for them!!
@LDD- not really- I picked up these re-pop 70's Adventure Team guys back when Wal Mart sold them.
I used to collect the Dragon 12inch figures but the cost got out of hand, I must sell the dam things to be honest shame they are just put away in boxes.
A bolt of an idea hit me!
One of my "I'll finish it later" projects from a couple of years ago...
The idea is that the elevated roadway is a seperate unattached piece.
Making it mudular, easier to store, and provides me with more versatility terrain-wise:
If I want a section of highway overpass a-la-Fallout- add the ruined road deck, if I want a ruined elevated railway, BAM! add the track deck
Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse.
Why/How?
I dunno, I just sat down and decided to glue stuff together. You guys think it'll be cool with some more details and stuff? Maybe some stairs and walkways on the blank back side?
i am loving all of these modivational posters.. plus that is turning out to be an amazing looking building! thanks FO, you stole him from us.. and sent him back on a mission from the rivet god to bring us greatness!
oh and also, out of the dozens of old GIJoes i have... not a single one is black, i dont like those odds
Rogue Wolves wrote:i am loving all of these modivational posters.. plus that is turning out to be an amazing looking building! thanks FO, you stole him from us.. and sent him back on a mission from the rivet god to bring us greatness!
oh and also, out of the dozens of old GIJoes i have... not a single one is black, i dont like those odds
No, it doesnt work that way unfortunately- my job is to go to the stupid place every morning and deal with the stupid people all day, you can't fix stupid, so I just have to swim with the stupid. It's a lot like trying to teach sharks not to bite off their own tails. No amount of rubbing will do the trick I'm afraid.
DSteingass wrote: you can't fix stupid, so I just have to swim with the stupid. It's a lot like trying to teach sharks not to bite off their own tails. No amount of rubbing will do the trick I'm afraid.
1 'Stupidity should be painful to the bearer."
or
2 Stupid people should have a warning tattoo on their forehead, as a warning to the rest of us. Kinda like how MMA Tapout shirts have been distributed to the douchebags.
No..here, the Stupidity is rewarded! Hell, here the more incompetent you are, the more you are promoted! Not too dissimilar to that Monty Python "twit" sketch (just without the funny hats)
...Amd unfortunately they do not shoot each other or themselves.
Of course, there are different flavors of Dbags. In the insurance business, Actuaries have an indiginous dbag garb as well, especially those whose mommies and daddies could afford to send them to Purdue (the premier Dbag State College of the midwest!)
I really try hard not to be hateful, I really do....but I must admit I have always been a "rich boy" hater...And guys with perfect hairlines too ..But that is just me hating my parents for giving me the worst possible genes
At lunch, I was cutting some rivets with my Chop-it, but for some reason they all have a bevel to them (even after I re-set it up with a square). I guess I will need to replace the blade and see if that is what is causing the bevel problem. I can't have my rivet maker down at a time like this!
i had that bevel issue too... and for now i was too lazy to change the blade...hmmm... seems to me i was a fool...
and yep...stupid peeps... we could do much better without them... who knows we could already fly to the stars in big riveted starships if it weren´t for them...
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Viktor von Domm wrote:goosebumbs are just rivets made by nature...
true story bro!
ah yes... i see that this would make it a bit more straighter...also i have thought about making a guide for the blade...after all you don´t cut that thick stuff with it anyways... and how often do you really want to cut at angles anyway?
I used the 45 degree angles for the floor masters for Galorn, I'll definately be using that technique again!
It sure beats doing mass productin of parts all by hand though, you have to admit that!
dsteingass wrote:No, it doesnt work that way unfortunately- my job is to go to the stupid place every morning and deal with the stupid people all day, you can't fix stupid, so I just have to swim with the stupid. It's a lot like trying to teach sharks not to bite off their own tails. No amount of rubbing will do the trick I'm afraid.
I did not realise we work at the same place
Thats what my chopper was doing beveled edges, I must get some new blades
Thanks Weety! I have worked a long time for that space, lots of scheming and collecting..And a lot of time spent here at this bench and the verious predecessors of that bench!
Vik, it's all about the gentle, simple Genius of the late, great Jim Henson! They don't all yell.
yep...you are right on the not yelling for all part...^^
and yes...jim henson was a genius... if it wasn´t for him most kids wuldn´t know where front or backside is..or for that matter up and down
I saw MOST of the new Muppets movie...I had the kids, and they can be...let's say "distracting". I mean, I just wanted to watch the Muppets! Can't they settle down for 10 minutes!?!?!?!
Anyway, love the Swedish Chef! He was my inspiration to be a chef! I never made it though, for some reason, trying to cook a live chicken will get you kicked out of cooking school. Throwing wooden spoons at the teacher also didn't help.
My favortive muppet movie of all time though is the Dark Crystal! Love it! 'Salutamar!"
Dark crystal is awesome - you hardly see the strings at all - the skexies and the gelflings are fantastic- Now you've mentioned that I'm going to have to find it on DVD
They were innovaters in Remote Control by the point of The Dark Crystal! Their hands were moving in remote controls and the actual muppets were animatronic! Henson invented it and Disney learned from him!
Ok, so yesterday (12 pages ago I think ) I thought my beveled rivet problem was fixed by changing the blade on my Chop-it right?
I was wrong...
My misuse of the tool caused a large gouge in the particleboard base where the blade meets the board.
My crude illustration here shows that the blade chops down onto the plastic rod, which meets no resistance, and bends until the force from the blade slices through, thereby causing the beveled cuts in the Rivets!
My Solution....
I filled the gouge in the wood with Elmer's Wood Filler (wood putty).
And then I cut a strip of a flexible plastic kitchen cutting mat (the kind you chop your veggies on, then roll up the mat into a funnel to dump them into the skillet or pot.)
*whew*! I am so glad that the problem has been resolved! I was actually up late last night worrying about the beveled rivet epidemic!
Not really, last night I actually went to bed early! Didn't help me though, youngest did not like her pureed green beens and had bad gass all night. I think I actually saw her diaper (nappy for you across the pond) expand after one particulary hard push! At least the rivets I put on her diaper/nappy held, and there was no leakage.
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dsteingass wrote:Ok, so yesterday (12 pages ago I think ) I thought my beveled rivet problem was fixed by changing the blade on my Chop-it right?
I was wrong...
My misuse of the tool caused a large gouge in the particleboard base where the blade meets the board.
My crude illustration here shows that the blade chops down onto the plastic rod, which meets no resistance, and bends until the force from the blade slices through, thereby causing the beveled cuts in the Rivets!
My Solution....
I filled the gouge in the wood with Elmer's Wood Filler (wood putty).
And then I cut a strip of a flexible plastic kitchen cutting mat (the kind you chop your veggies on, then roll up the mat into a funnel to dump them into the skillet or pot.)
The results:
PERFECT RIVETS!!
had to quote all that again... mate!!! what an insight! i have that gauge happen to me too! no wonder all wnet pooshaped what i cut recently...hopefully i can adapt your solution too for my own needs... i am thinking of buying me a piece of metal plate rather for that job tho... to make it...wait for it...everlast^^
the new building...well no wonder you are making such progress now that you´ve solved the chop-it issue... the thingies with hexbolts...sexy thingies no argueing allowed!
and you even managed to spiece up that building even more... that is the way to go mate!
and viktor von rivetstein...hmmmm....somehow reminds me a bit of:
Thanks Max! After I attach all the hardware to the foam building, I am going to mix up a batch of textured paint to seal it and give it the reinforced concrete look.
had to quote all that again... mate!!! what an insight! i have that gauge happen to me too! no wonder all wnet pooshaped what i cut recently...hopefully i can adapt your solution too for my own needs... i am thinking of buying me a piece of metal plate rather for that job tho... to make it...wait for it...everlast^^
the new building...well no wonder you are making such progress now that you´ve solved the chop-it issue... the thingies with hexbolts...sexy thingies no argueing allowed! and you even managed to spiece up that building even more... that is the way to go mate!
and viktor von rivetstein...hmmmm....somehow reminds me a bit of:
but i rather want to be seen more like:
i think i make a new avatar from this one^^
Be careful If you go the metal plate route as depending on clearances and such you might cause a curl in your blade rendering it dull early.
will on that platform be an embossed plate? (sorry couldn´t get the right sentence done^^)
that looks really good... and i am not afraid to say it...but i think you need to make mooooaaaaarrrr building like that... with these you get closer to your dream of a complete FO3 board...
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Be careful If you go the metal plate route as depending on clearances and such you might cause a curl in your blade rendering it dull early.
you have a point there galorn...do you have any other ideas? or should i use the same methode as dave and just lay a sort of cutting mat on the position?
well before you shiped that tool to me i was very close to actually build one on my own...after all the blades from razors for shaving gear might work too so i think you could make it on your own too...but for now i am set with the right thing^^
for that extra bit of energy you need for a job that might get out of hand or time^^ you should drink that nuka cola quantum... it gives you that much needed extra of action...^^
and putting the blame on me? ...well...i can bear with that...
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damn... and there i thought you´d do that quick and easy... just make a cut into an emossed treadplate and be done with it... but no...you did a substructure...man it does look sweet already...
How did I live before I got these mastercrafted clamps??
Thanks! - Do you think I should trim out some of the bars in the railing?
Gotta finish the ladder
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Briancj wrote:I will note that the Mircomark chopper is <opinion> a cheap knock-off of the original NWSL chopper (and Chopper 2), which are here </opinion>:
Better Railings?
Naturally, the safety Railings will all be painted bright yellow as per regulations These Old Men have come too far to slip and fall now into a bottomless industrial pit!
i too feel like a jerk now having to say after all this hard work that i too liked the earlier railing more... but then one has to think about the hazard stripes you want to do... now it will be a lot easier...
also i just love that bended round ladder! that is so cool looking!
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dsteingass wrote:Yes, my riveting is over for the evening as well.
goodnite dakka. (-=]_,=- Anthem now plays solemly) ...Signing off.
actually that is a very old likeness of mine... i now look much more bald...or was that bold...
and darn... vid is broken...no music here... (kiddin...i knew it was just a pic...but i fooled ya here for a minute, eh)
and after such...wait for it... riveting work of yours...dismissed!
I've got a huge roll of the stuff, and I intend on putting a LOT of railing along the elevated train track, but I have to decide on one style and stick with it for the most part...
Okay, if you can get the numbs cleaned up. Third versio is what I meant when I said you should take some out, anyway. Just get it clean so we can see it good....
Have you considered sticking some varying plates on the bare railing sections
just two or three...lopsided even...with some more cruder looking washers and screws...
I'm sure I could do that no problem Vik, , but not on this particular platform. Perhaps these pics will show you what I am thinking of while working on this idea:
I really like this rivet pattern- but I digress Maintenance/emergency walkways along the elevated track- kind of like a roller coaster has
Have you considered sticking some varying plates on the bare railing sections
just two or three...lopsided even...with some more cruder looking washers and screws...
I'm sure I could do that no problem Vik, , but not on this particular platform. Perhaps these pics will show you what I am thinking of while working on this idea:
I really like this rivet pattern- but I digress Maintenance/emergency walkways along the elevated track- kind of like a roller coaster has
Those look interesting. Looking forward to seeing the resultant models.
speak for yourself...i am totally sane... i even got papers to proove it...i had them the other minute...wait...i find them for you...*wanders off...*
also if you like that rivet pattern... our civil transport system is made wall to wall ceiling to floor by this^^ where do yu think my great love for riveting comes from^^
oh...and i still say first version of the railing...because:
a)it looks better for me...
b)it will be done quicker
c) will be sturdier
d) would look good itf you snip just one side of a bar occaisionally and bend the rest...to give it that torn and ruined look again...
d) would hold even more hazardstripes that way^^
but against speaks:
by this you could really go overboard with all the taping it would need...
@Vik- I am not even willing to imagine painting hazard stripes on those railings, NO WAY dood! They will all be airbrushed solid yellow(and weathered/rusted) and attached ONLY once all the rest of the painting is done. I may be insane, but I'm not crazy!
Yep Silver! (and you are officially admired for reading the entire damn thread!! -I wouldn't even do that!
As much as I enjoy a good obsessive building experience, I am just not capable of being a perfectionist. Everything would take waaay too long to complete, and I would probably just abandon projects rather than be that anal about details no one but me would ever see or know about anyways.
I have worked in IT for 15 years, my mind is wired to "get things done" That means there must be ends to problems before I can feel that ever-so-important feeling of completion and be ready to attack the next project or idea.
Besides, my esteemed -=]_,=- Brothers relentlessly give me crap if I take a break from terrain too long
They are like addicts foaming at the mouth for their next fix sometimes
be that anal about details no one but me would ever see or know about anyways.
well actually i tend to be just the other way... if i see something that bothers me... than i fix it... if someone elsees think i should fix it because of blabla...we did that a million times since millenia agao... then i say f....o...
that excludes of course any given constructiuve criticism you fellas have given me over the course of the time i am here on dakka...that i take very seriously and to heart even!!!
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Besides, my esteemed -=]_,=- Brothers relentlessly give me crap if I take a break from terrain too long
They are like addicts foaming at the mouth for their next fix sometimes
except when they want me to make molds of a damn thing I haven't even finished yet
i try to keep the urge down to bring you to do just that atm...^^ tho it is still there...^^
i am all for "done"... but sometimes i see parts and i knew i didn´t give all i could...that bothers me to no end... a few years back then i tended to throw away stuff i created and deemed flawed... and started all over... but more to the learning curve process kind of way of thinking... rather than being too proud about my stuff...
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Okay after following this for long enough I couldn't resist posting.
For the railing, the 3rd version looks the best, but also the most work. The first one would obviously be the easiest and perhaps the most useful for odd sizes.
And, thanks for making me spend my hobby money on a chop it and 2 sets of brass clamps Such an inspiration I just had to make my own rivets.
He has a picture of it a few pages back. You can get them from micromark.
Its basically a papercutter, but with the cutter in the middle. Great for making straights cuts on smaller things. The blade is only a few inches long. He uses it to make rivets (amongst other things I am sure). I have wanted one for a few years, and finally jumped the gun.
I just have to add with the ladders, the rounded part at the top looks funny, because no industrial building (that I have seen) has that look. I think it would look better if the rungs were cut out, as the actual rails make a good hand rail once up.
Unless of course your hive is a jungle gym, which I suppose could be a lot of fun and keep the hivers in check.
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sparkywtf wrote:I just have to add with the ladders, the rounded part at the top looks funny, because no industrial building (that I have seen) has that look. I think it would look better if the rungs were cut out, as the actual rails make a good hand rail once up.
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Yep, I agree. I was thinking about that, but then I thought I'd best leave them in to help hold the shape until the glue cured completely.
if this is pertaining me.. dont worry, in a life and death situation, i will toss my wax sean connery {ONLY LIFE OR DEATH} and im sure i can run faster than that.. plus i packed some semtex in a certain place just in case
Well, making caps is easy, you gotta scrounge earley on, bottle s and unbent cans make some caps. weapons that you don't want will also bring in the caps, same with outfits and armor that you can't carry or don't want to use.
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Famished even!
add the track deck 
