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^Owning this, I can attest to its brilliance and beauty.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
^Owning this, I can attest to its brilliance and beauty.

And second to me, you can get a lot of helpful hints and tips from it's construction...

...For everyone else, the construction is detailed in my "money making" blog.

Well you have had a weekend to think on it, so how about showing some ideas peeps!

Not what I originally planned, but then saw these as we were decorating for xmas and thought ooooh giant industrial spools.

My opening concept and materials can be found here, at the bottom of page 3:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/60/474587.page#9072968

so....after about four earlier tries going poo shaped in a hurry i finally decided...again on a project...

for this i will go not old school but even older....or rather ancient... cardboard rocks from layers of card...pics later on...


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up to here 100% cardboard (different qualities) and PVA...




now tissue paper and latex paint added...


went done altogether smoothly...
will make quite some more...and my missus will be pleased to see lots of packaging material too be "gone" in the end...^^

Tissue paper! Brilliant. That looks like a really good start!

Thx mate!

Fantastic start gentlepeeps, great to see some activity.

Those reels look excellent really nice large scale for an industrial feel.

Welcome Maniac_nmt, having skipped through your blog really looking forward to seeing what you produce.

And Vik as always brilliant sir, very old school and very cool.

I'm in this round. Need to show you kids how this is done. Really glad for the "back to basic" theme too. Fundamentals are....well....fundamental. Be it Reading, writing, making music, or terrain.

now the kids gloves are off, eh?

Vik, I rely on YOU to keep me motivated and in check!

Kick his ass, Vik. Oh wait, I'm judging... Give us your best work, both of you. Yeah, that's what I meant to say... I blame auto-correct.

And a good thing that I'll be helping to judge instead of participating. I would hate to think someone would have the audacity to refer to me as a 'kid'. I might have to put my foot someplace... now where could I put it... I am, of course, kidding. I do want to see some quality stuff from you guys. from everyone, really.

Folks, what can be done with cardboard and/or cardstock?

Very nice Red, love the colors, having trouble seeing the rivets though?

Was this for a game of just a project?

Rivets are on the inside. This was for a tournament, the NOVA Open. Several of us -- NOVA staffers at the time--built terrain that represented certain landmark buildings and memorials here in Washington. They were to be used in a narrative tournament. It is the National Museum of the American Indian, FYI.

Ah here it is, the post I was referencing in my previous post. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/5880/500202.page#8919988
Although I have more hair. For the moment anyway.

Hey Vik, have you seen the way some people do hills, like in this photo? Reminds me of your piece before you applied the tissuepaper + latex paint.

Exactly red, but I picture the rocks I make like these sand and wind and water eroded rocks from the grand canyon and similar, so I make them a bit look like balancing pebbles too...carving them up a bit...

And I got that reference immediately, as I am watching in the background that 70th show each night...and well , what can you do red Forman is the center figure for that show!!!

And to Dave...cheeky!

I'm kind of new to this, can we do whatever we want as long as it follow the theme?

Couldn't have put it any better... you're spot on, let your imagination run wild

Dammit. Just saw the Seasonal scoring. And now I have a new idea...

Hmm have a thought, will see how it plays out.

Very very busy of late, trying to finish last minute stuffs to clean off my desk and also get stuff ready for Christmas. I love how while the kids are all out of school (almost), their extra curricular activities continue sigh.

Anyway, other than an exacto knife does anyone have a good method for cutting cardboard (by which I mean the corrugated, box kind) - I'm wanting to make pretty regular, longish strips so I'd like to keep them as straight and level as possible.

What about just tearing apart the lot? Or am I having difficulties here to understand what you meant? Working currently on a new piece for my overall entry and there I need cardboard "bricks" so to say...and cutting everything just unnerved me...so I went full monster on the cardboard and ripped my way through boxes of packages...

Red'. I am tempted to try out some curved, laminated card, multi-layer shapes like you have. Lends itself to large buildings though, and I want to keep it small so that I get something done in time... Will have to cogitate on what (relatively) small things can be built that incorporate those shapes.

Guilden'. I would (and have) use(d) a sharp blade of the scalpel/exacto variety for card. Metal ruler and multiple light passes; while you can cut all the way through card in one go it can deform the edge of the card along the cut. This is minimised by taking it slower and cutting one side and then a second pass to get through the other side, for example.

Card is good for damaged shapes by tearing, like Vik mentions. Although, once layered up with PVA it's as tough as plastic and you can use a saw; like I did on Graven's tower.

Also...that cutting machines...the ones you find also in copy shops...guillotine style...for non curogated cardboard it's the best...tho like Dr H said, it too ruins the edges a bit...

How overt does the holiday theme have to be?

The clan I choose to use for my Ronin force is the Otomo clan. They were one of the few Christian Samurai clans after contact with the Portugese. As they were later absorbed into another clan, choosing them risked little and it gave me a credible reason to have teppos in my force.

Since I don't want to have the piece be snowy or directly Christmas, I thought of taking a simple Christmas related saying, and putting it in Kanji on some banners. 99.9% of people would just see a Kanji parchment, but I/the contest, would know what it says.

Wasn't aware there was some Christmas related themed rule/expectations included in this comp....?
I wanted to skip on the whole holy an merry stuff...hmmm

I've made some reasonable progress on the trees and framing.

Cutting the planking out of card instead of balsa is a royal pita. I hope it paints up okay.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/60/474587.page#9083007

Excellent work, really coming on. Sorry for delay in response to your earlier question, yes you would get something for the signs, but as it is subtle, maybe not all available points. I would add that this seasonal bonus does not require snowy landscaping or glitter, after all even on this planet Xmas in Oz is a beach BBQ.

Excellent to see some traffic here thank you, keep it up.

Guildenstern, this is what I would use, do use, to cut the corrugated stuff

A decent box cutter, a carpenter's square, a fence-- the strip of wood at the top of the photo-- and for making the same measurement repeatedly, like for cutting strips, the combination square.

Doc, you'll need to set aside time and space. It is a time consuming process because of the drying times for the glue, and space consuming because you'll want to do something else while waiting for the glue to cure.

I do like Cardboard and it think it is underestimated as a material, mostly because it is so easy to use.

These guys are armored in cardboard, one's rifle is part Cardboard (with a hot glue helmet).



I might try out some cardboard roads or walkways I've been thinking of.

Those are fantastic Kestral. Can't wait to see your work. Welcome aboard.

When I cut corrugated card, just use sharp blade, and go through with a toothpick after to straighten up the edge.