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A foam cutter you say? Very nice, pictures please - just so I can look on with envy and desire...

 dsteingass wrote:
That looks GREAT Vik! I have to pay some big bucks to have a REALLY old Silver Maple tree on my property cut down, before it falls on the house. ...

This was me last year with a 50 year old red maple. Took a crew of 5 men over 6 hours to down it. That is a lot of man- hours for 1 tree. Yes, expensive. I sleep better knowing it won't guillotine my house during one of the frickin' windstorms we keep getting these days.

Vik, a Proxxon? Sweet. Do have fun with it.

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
Hello lads and laddies,

well the first building was just the beginning....

look what i am currently working on...
what you here see is a tavern /inn medieval style...it is a bit big...but that´s how i fly^^



/snip/

well...hope you like...

yours truly vik^^

I really like it! The only thing that distracts me a little is the roof tiling. It is almost never so orderly and rectangular, as one tile should be covering the joining point of two tiles below it. Otherwise - great little building! Both thumbs up, sir!

I've just watched a few videos about those foam-cutter thingies. Something to get into once I've cleared out some of the piles of junk I have.

Let us know how it goes, interested in the learning curve.

Congratulations Vik! those hot wire foam cutting tables are great. My brother bought me one as a gift, it's a pain to pull out of storage, but when I'm willing to it makes amazing work of foam

Gratz on the foam cutter, and excellent work on that inn.

Ruglud wrote:A foam cutter you say? Very nice, pictures please - just so I can look on with envy and desire...

upcomming...

Red Harvest wrote:

 dsteingass wrote:
That looks GREAT Vik! I have to pay some big bucks to have a REALLY old Silver Maple tree on my property cut down, before it falls on the house. ...

This was me last year with a 50 year old red maple. Took a crew of 5 men over 6 hours to down it. That is a lot of man- hours for 1 tree. Yes, expensive. I sleep better knowing it won't guillotine my house during one of the frickin' windstorms we keep getting these days.

Vik, a Proxxon? Sweet. Do have fun with it.

fun is such a small word mate! that thing is pure awesomness! it really gives a feeling of achievment when you cut stuff up in neat and small and easy to do portions!!! really everybody go for these^^

Wirecat wrote:

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
Hello lads and laddies,

well the first building was just the beginning....

look what i am currently working on...
what you here see is a tavern /inn medieval style...it is a bit big...but that´s how i fly^^



/snip/

well...hope you like...

yours truly vik^^

I really like it! The only thing that distracts me a little is the roof tiling. It is almost never so orderly and rectangular, as one tile should be covering the joining point of two tiles below it. Otherwise - great little building! Both thumbs up, sir!

you are totally right... the main weak point of the build is the pattern of the shingles... but it is still a learning curve here...and i have made more than one mental note...believe me! (because i see my error every damn second i have to paint that monster...

Dr H wrote:I've just watched a few videos about those foam-cutter thingies. Something to get into once I've cleared out some of the piles of junk I have.

Let us know how it goes, interested in the learning curve.

learning curve is fast! as you litterally race through the stuff you cut, so you cut some more...and then some...materials are competitively cheap...wood or plastic card are way more expensive...when you compare the amount of products you can cut and build with one board of foam... as for now i am rather firm with cutting up straight stuff...what still is a bit of a challenge is free handing cuts....and then round shapes...ive build guides on my own...so i saved up money even here... but these shapes still mainly make up my learning curve...oh and heat management of the wire... that is what you have to master... and there is no second way around it as in the beginning the wire tore quite often^^...but not any more that often^^

Syro_ wrote:Congratulations Vik! those hot wire foam cutting tables are great. My brother bought me one as a gift, it's a pain to pull out of storage, but when I'm willing to it makes amazing work of foam

i currently have it free and out in the open in our apartment as i continously work on it...also...it is totally quiet...really...a mere whisper of a sound does it produce...! so i would recommend putting it back...because then you would have to dismantle it each time...and that hassle is tiresome!

CommissarKhaine wrote:Gratz on the foam cutter, and excellent work on that inn.

thanks mate!


well...now here are the news....the league is sporting the next terrain competition dear audience...and here you can find it
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/763930.page
...hosted this time by monkeytroll...
theme is "Sweet like chocolate"
so you have to use sweets packing material to build...something...anything^^...

well i choose this:

got me sweets packaging...in hex shape!



the chocolate chips are already all gone

then with my handy hot wire cutter table i made the surfaces...the foam board i use comes with a detailed surface...at first i hated that... now i see billions of uses^^...



process of building towers for `munda...




two towers for my entry... i will add later on some straps and then some mad amount of rivets of course...


but since the production time of workable materials is so fast... i made more even...just for other themes i am currently interested in...
i am thinking about building a cemetery worth of buildings and terrain pieces...
build already a mausoleum




and a "small" chapel...



in time a small well will follow and then i am open to suggestions regarding the theme cemetery...mortheim style of course...


cheers, vik
theme is

Fantastic work bud, and really like that texture on the board for the towers. The cemetery work is great. Some nice monolithic monuments, plinths with broken statues etc. all come to mind.

The mad Man now has mad tools to create with. I see only great things in the future....including a long awaited blimp...... especially if it has sides made out of that foam as I could see it painted up as stealth camouflage.

Thx Cam!

@theo...the blimp idea is also cruising through my mind...foam as a building material allows so much more madness...

With the right jugs, the proxxon should make cutting the sections for the blimp quite easy.

Making the jigs may be a small PITA.

Give it a try.

Oh, add a belfry to the chapel.

Great stuff coming from that foam Vik. Going to be fun seeing what you come up with now.

I´ve built already two jigs...the straight edge is quite handy already...and while a bit brute in looks still trusty... the circle cutting jig is something i have to master its use...

(and to be honest... somehow i am too dumb to cut at an angle...so if i want to create trapeze shaped stuff...i feel like being born yesterday... my geometry teach must rotate in his grave...:( )

Get yourself an angled T-Bevel... or a protractor that looks like this https://www.amazon.com/General-Tools-Square-Metal-Protractor/dp/B00004T7TB/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1537918317&sr=8-14&keywords=angle+finder+for+woodworking This looks useful https://www.amazon.com/ANY-ANGLE-MULTI-ANGLE-Measuring-Ruler-book/dp/B071DY99R4/ref=sr_1_7/135-2580547-5137100?ie=UTF8&qid=1537918208&sr=8-7&keywords=angle++t+square I may get/make one for myself.

The other thing you could do is create something like a table saw miter fence for the actual cutting.

Looks like the new toy is pretty effective

Just get it close and then add strips of card and rivets . That’s how us dumbies do it. My geometry teacher probably wanted to be buried at an angle, he probably left a formula for the gravedigger to figure out what angle it is.

Greeting folks,
a long quiet on my part always means i was busy on my own...
well...to prove this to you i finally am in a position to show you a bit of progress on what i can achieve with foam and the carving of...:

i have two major projects i am working atm, one is a cemetery i am building consisting of some rather different looking fantasy stoneworks...chapels and monuments...
the other project is that of a small fantasy village, lots of small cottage like buildings, a windmill and a smithery...

well...some peices you have seen in various stages already...but here they are as they are now:

the cemetry:

small chapel

bigger chapel

bridge

Monument with steps
Tealight monument
fenced wall
[/spoiler]

the village


building 1

building 2

building 3

building 4

building 5

smithery

the watchtower

the windmill



note...everything is still not finished...some need washes, some need drybrushing...small details even might get added still...

in case of the windmill all other parts are already made, they still are not ready to be presented to you as i need to figure out a way/ means to put it together...

in case of the watchtower i might change all windows still... by the way...these parts are all magnetised so that the whole tower is a put together- pull apart piece....for ease of storage and transport...

which brings me also to point out that everything is meant to be sold...so should anyone be interested in buying something...drop me a line!


oh....and forgot to mention...i am building longboats too...:




i hope i have redeemed myself from the long silence here^^

cheers, vik

Your meer presence redeems you Vik , glad to see you haven’t completely disappeared. What I’ve seen so far looks great, but just started back to back double shifts at work, so I won’t be able to look at everything in detail till later. (8:30am this morning till midnight Sunday night , good thing is I get paid to sleep 8 hours in there somewhere .

Nice work, Victor!

--B.

Wow, so much stuff! The fenced area is beautiful, and I also like lot's of other things, especially the village smithy. I'm sorry to hear you are selling all this stuff, it looks like it's for D&D so I was hoping you had found a group to play with and were crafting all this for your own gaming.

Fantastic Vik, lots of great work in there, back with a bang I would say. It all looks quite brilliant and usable. Best wishes for the sale of much Vik goodness.

Those longboats are not clinker built. What kind of viking are you anyway, Vik?

That's a cool little village you've got. When can we see it all together? Your hot wire skills are improving nicely.

Prithee, do continue.

And yes, thou art redeemed.

@ red
:bows: thanks red....and as i´ve said it probably before....you´re a regular teach... now i know the difference between clinker built and carvel built! (the latter i´ve done...if i had done the build in another way i might have done it proper viking way! ^^

soon....soon... my wife wants me to finish them but i need to do this at my own pace...well...also...i think a nice cobblestone board the size of a market square would help sell the lot...in my head at least...

@ cam... thanks mate... much appreciated

@ syro... yes...it is a shame...i want to at least play with my wife and kids a game ...but they lack the certain imagination skills to play and have fun... at least from my perspective...you might think otherwise...there are so many styles of playing D&D....

@ Briancj... thanks mate!

@ Theo... never will i leave my dakka freinds!
double shifts??? you sure not burning too brightly? steady pace mate! money is good and all but family needs a dad more than a wallet...(sorry if that is too much out of place talk from me...)
take a good look....i need the odd hint here and there to make these "rough hewn pebbles" into diamonds...

I'm sorry to hear that Vik. There are many ways to play D&D, so true. I play with a more wargaming feel, with full boards, terrain, and minis. The children I play with seem to enjoy that way the most. They look forward to combat and talk about how much they like the set-ups on the board. You could do the same thing with your crafting skills, so it might be worth trying again. The kids I'm playing with are between 9 and 12 years old mostly, I don't know how that compares to your family.
Good luck!

Busy boy! I love Buildings 2, 5, the smithy and the watchtower especially, though the fenced wall is great too, really clever, and the window details on the chapels shine also. Mighty productive!

Oh, my! What a neat little Stoneburg You've got! Very lively, texturing is really good.

Okay sleep happened, so I could see more .

Love the mausoleum and chapels, really liked their roofs.

The Tea light thing is great, reminds me of JFKs eternal flame, just with a roof, it was a strong memory from visiting as a child.

Great start on the windmill base, it looks really top notch, and I like how it has a finished top part so it could be used without the fan blade parts.

The building got better with each one you did, I like the black smith and number 5 the best of the lot.

Only critique I have is the yellow , it just doesn’t do it for me. Might be a picture didn’t grab it right, but to me (and my wife always critiques my color choices so take it with a pinch os salt) I think it’s too bright. Maybe a more earthy beige/yellow could fit it and make it look more like straw roofing and plaster.

The fence walls are great , maybe a second arch or one more section so you can have it all together in a big square.

Save your off cuts to make some tombstones and above ground coffins .

Nice work all round, Vik'. Fine looking constructions.

thanks doc!

@wirecat : thanks mate!

@ inmygravenimage : thanks mate... of course the pics show that i went through a try and error phase...thus your favorite buildings are the ones that i made more recently...my next aim is to make builds that look more lopsided...the hunched and shifted look you get after age and sloppy building processes make the parts settle in an unvuluntary way...
probably tomorrow i will be able to show some good progress...

@ theo: you are spot on with the memorial tealight! that was the idea behind it^^
and even more spot on on the windmill base... i wanted to leave no surface untextured as you never know when someone picks the stuff up and look beneath the "hem"
as for the yellow... just as you stated for your dark elf blood bowlers...it is a mere basecoat to be later serve for a more muted and warmer and calmer hue!
as for the fence...i am reaching again the language barrier...you´re onto something...but i need more (easier to understand for me ^^) hints as to how to better them!!! please... that fenced wall system was something on my mind for years....i really want to do that as good as can be!

also... tombstones and all related stuff already happened... no pics yet... but i want to make some open graves too...also...i have the urge to make it look for the whole cemetery that no actual RL religious "corporate identity" show through... so no crescents or crosses or stars for that matter...more temple than church...which i can tell you is really mind boggling to avoid in a build....cause the hands have a kind of memory and come up with designs we all are accustomed with... but more to this soon!

@ syro: fear not matey, cause i haven´t given up just yet... i have started paint a nice group of skeletons and other undead...so that i have something to populate the cemetery with...in my mind i want to have a mix between frostgrave and D&D to happen on that graveyard....

and my kids are exactly in that age span, Felix, the older one is now 13 and Oskar his younger is 11...and in essence both are quite interested in my endeavours...just lack the needed patience to help me paint ...

Sorry for not being to coherent in my thoughts there, still not fully recovered from the past weeks work.

I just meant that in the group shot of the fence parts you had a square area and one fence section left over behind it all. I just felt you needed to make one more section so the box could be larger, or make another archway like you have for a second entrance into the graveyard square.

Other ideas for your graveyard might be a fallen tree that has busted some tombstones on the way down, disturbing someone’s sleep.
Big spooky tree , because graveyards always have huge trees and b moonlight they get scary.
A little piece of upturned ground and a tipped over headstone (you know where the zombie clawed it’s way out of the grave to seek vengeance).
A fresh burial plot with shovels to fill the whole.