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About a centimetre across I think will be a good size to detail and work in nicely for scale?

Dave, I really like the way you paint scenery!

Sorry Dave, think I will post it here. And please see if you can improve on it for Nerdfest09.

Would a lamp like this be any good.



Made from styrene tube and a BB pellet.

Please feel free to delete this if it offends.


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Oh and Dave .............Bloody amazing as always.

What do you mean delete if it offends? have you been on MY thread lately! :-) and that would work! what size tube/pellet do i need? and it sounds relatively cheap too which is good as i need a bunch!

thanks Cam, good help!!

LOL ..offends Never my friend!

That's a great idea Cam! I could form 1/4" chicken wire into a cage, but it would be too big. let me think of this. I am currently sweaty from building a steel shelving unit in the garage and will ponder this dilemma. I'm going to the store later on, maybe I can find some smaller mesh/chicken wire. Hang on Damo!

Storag- Thanks buddy! much appreciated!

I made mine with a 6mm BB (plastic ball) , 6mm styrene tube and a 7.6mm tube. Then used a square tube with one side cut off to form the holder. Just add rivets. I hope that Dave can convert that for you into usable language. And hopefully come up with a way of putting a grill on it.

I will put some pics on my ork blog to show how it was made. Its also on my latest adventure a demolisher.

Really sorry for plugging my stuff but just trying to help.

Don't apologize dude! that was a great help! and it may not even need a grill over ir if i can get it to sit right on my boards!

so I need to look for 6mm plastic balls *hehe* and 6mm styrene rod *hehe* and my balls go in the rod? *snicker* or do my balls only fit in the larger tube *Pffft *

I think for ease of painting, the cage needs to be a separately attachable bit. Cam may be onto something talking about square tubing, or rectangular tubing in this case. I'll set my Chopper up later and slice some shape rivets and see what I can come up with. All I have for 1/2 spheres are those plastic sequin gems like Vik used on his Eldar egg thing.

Cam, where do you get 6mm bbs?


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Would these work? http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1000-Budget-BB-Pellets-6mm-for-BB-Guns-/330953565823?pt=UK_SportingGoods_Hunting_ShootingSports_ET&hash=item4d0e5ea67f

Hmm..I'm gonna check out the sporting goods section of the store....

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/6mm-Clear-Plastic-PVC-Hose-Pipe-Tube-Air-Water-Windscreen-Washer-Food-Home-Pond-/271025776080?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item3f1a6525d0#ht_935wt_724

also... for the cage bit i would suggest fly mesh? the stuff you keep flys from flying in your house?... it is basically just loose cloth ... i think i have seen some using it here as a means to add texture to walkways and such...

dave... looks brilliant... when will you show us a look around via vid of your ´munda/ fallout table?...
oh... by the way... will this one stay mint weathered or will you wreck it some more with grafitti?

and cam... that looks lovley! and it is a great help for all of us... you are sharing treasures... no need to apologize one inch!

also... dave... nice review... a good read! and i like how you explained the grim dark take on this model!...by the way...do you ever get feedback from the site or some other readers?

cheers, vik

The fly mesh I have is vinyl, damn near impossible to glue, in a diamond pattern, and too flexible.

@Vik- I just cleaned the table off! Put things on shelves for that natural weathering process to begin

This one is done for now. I may add graffiti one day, who knows. But for now I'm just glad to be done with it.

@Vik- no, I never hear much from the reviews, just from other IPMS-USA guys occasionally. I consider it free practice But thanks buddy!

Well, the shopping trip produced this

As well as a restock of Windex and paper towels

ah... i now can sit back and enjoy the benefits of fatherhood... these lil airsoft balls i get for free... as my kids like to collect them for me... it is their very own treasure hunting in sandboxes... you wouldn´t believe how much my kids collected of these...

they used to "cook" with them in their wooden kitchen...

and too bad really that there is no further exchange through the IPMS-USA articles... but then... you get much more output/input and throughputhere on dakka anyways^^

on a totally not related note...

i killed off house...killed of the legions fort and destroyed all bots... and started anew... i felt it were the wrong decisions... now i am again a noob... hunting for pellets to throw at the baddies again^^

Haha You're truly wasted for the Wasteland eh Vik?

Yes that's it exactly. You got it.

I just took ages making a terrible tutorial teaching you guys how to suck eggs.... on my ork blog.

LOL.

Now Dave show us how it should be done.
Then you can get back to making truly epic stuff.

well... i shoove a big amount of night time into the mojave^^

also... that game is way less grim dark than the original... very much to my liking...the desert also gives me more oprtunities for sniper action and this helps me save my bum^^

oh and i really like the gunrunners arsenal...it took me a bit to realie that all the ADW updates tho only seem to work on the ADW guns... but once you understand that it is very cool to hunt for new guns...when i took out the tops...(yup... i am a killer^^) i came to love the silenced gun... do all the other silenced addons also work as hidden guns then? so if i silence a 5,56 gun... will this work too?

Great diorama Dave turned out another epic piece the tank was well fitting as well.

You have combined the GW pieces really quite well as they look as though they belong, now what are you going to do with all those bb pellets

I have seen some where on the net people using bb pellets for scratch building heads, more as a starting point though then GS over the top.

Thanks LDD!

I didn't have time to build it to scale or paint it.....

6mm bb in 7mm tube

This cross-connector may be hard to find

Because of the rarity, we only make thin rivets of it

Carefully file the corners down, and you've got the basic searchlight shape.

funnily i have that cross connector stuzff at home and haven´t yet found a use for it... i always thought of using it for walker legs tho...

looks good...but when it is fully cured i think sanding it down to a mm thickness is needed...

I have seen loads of this stuff at my local model railway shop, always wondered what it was for, now put to good use.

Although vik is right could do with thinning a little.

It was just a concept for Damo It's Cam's brilliant idea. The BBs were essential for my stockpiling needs I think the origial purpose of it is to slot plasticard sheets into the grooves.

That makes sense, like you need to stockpile more

I had no plastic balls LDD

How was I supposed to build things with plastic balls if I didn't have any plastic balls?

Dave....Never admit to having no balls, besides we all know you have the ............ Think I will stop there.

Nice balls though. And I can think of lots of things they can come in handy for.

Nice balls Dave. and a good lamp concept.

And good original concept Cam.

Thanks fellas My balls have never had so many compliments.

Well, I guess you can now say that you've glued everything together including your balls. Great review, but needed a few more in it to describe how much putty you had to use.

Hmmm, headlamps for vehicles! Tasty

You now can say your balls have been greatly appreciated dakka just gets weirder and weirder