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Would a speaker that size emit enough of a vibration for the non-neutonian corn starch thing?

I've seen a few videos on youtube and the like, and they all seem to be pretty big in comparison to that one?

It's a good idea though.

Actually, Yes! It happens because the cornstarch/water mix becomes more like a solid when vibrations rock through it.

To quote the common misconception, but is actually true in this specific instance, "Size doesn't matter".

It will work on a smaller speaker, just... well, on a smaller scale. What matters is speaker power, which I assure you my thing has.
The specific reason it WONT work on mine anymore is because I have angled the speaker 45 degrees. I scrapped that idea and didn't tell anyone about it, just posted pics where it was clear that it would in no way work like intended. This change came about from the realization that the GW manager would slap the gak out of me, and rightly so, for getting the drippings on his tables.
See below for how cool but messy this stuff is.


Maybe I will use the other speakers to do this if I can figure out a better containment system.

ahhhhh i confused size with power. my bad.

The stuff is pretty cool, seen a few vids before.

Could you not have created some sort of collection pond around the speaker itself? liek a 1cm gap or some sort?

Thats really cool. I'm imagining a break dancing posse.

@Matrim I could, and am most likely going to.
I've got a few other speakers I no longer like, and may just submerge them under a terrain feature lake of this goo.
Though it wouldn't be all that hard to put a sloped spillway for it to run down and collect into a pool of tyranid goo, so it could serve dual purpose... That will maybe come once I move on to doing the terrain section in a few months.
Thanks for the feedback, its nice knowing someone wants tyranid tentacles to rise up out of the muck as much as I do.

Edited out personal argument. Please keep it polite and friendly in the thread, folks.-Mannahnin

To be honest doomthumbs, that was a joke. -Edited for sarcasm. -The Mgmt.

see, its harmless really, and doesnt mean anything!!!
no, i was not insulting your fanbase doomthumbs, i was supporting them, and simply stating my amusment about how thread arguments can become so involved. personally, i believe i am part of that fanbase, as i read this thread avidly, and check it everytime i come on dakka. I'll even add the "i ride for doomthumbs" onto my thread, if you really need me to. I'm sure that no one else on this thread took offense from my comment, and i hope they can all forgive me. ;( so i dont see any reason why i would flame your work, just because you have had unpleasent comments in the past, doesnt mean i would carry on that trend, I am not stupid enough to do so, seeing as the moderators have given wwarnings. no, i was not trying to insult you, and i am sorry i have caused offense.

oh, and the thing about the slaanesh thread. no i was not saying it was better. if again, YOU READ IT PROPERLY, i was actually defending you from the mob, hence, i was part of the "fanbase". i was simply stating "you guys houldnt be flaming this thread, why not flame this thread instead?"
i was hoping for the response
"because that threads art" so that i could retaliate
"no, both these threads are art, it just depends how you percieve the term art"
it didnt work, but ah well thats that.
now, i will say again, that i am deeply sorry for offending you, even if it was by accident, and i will try to be clearer that what i am posting is, in fact, a joke. now why dont you be the bigger person here and admit also that you made a mistake, and we are both at fault?

As a great disney character once said "if you can't say nuffin nice don't say nuffin at all" or words to that effect. Guys what I'm saying is this is about the hilariously un-politicaly correct little alien thingies could we leave the personal attacks/mocking/flamming and such out of it I want more model pics please?

exactly, MORE PICS!!!!!
On a more friendly note than my last post, pity you couldnt do the fire throwing pyrovore, i would have liked to have seen it. just as a question, coz it wasnt clear, does it actually flame? and by flame, a flaming gun barrel, or actual jets of flame?
oh, and doomy (can i call you doomy???lol, sorry, another joke) any chance you can check out my latest work (now in my sig) and tell me what you actually think of this one?

Doomthumbs wrote:How irresponsible of me not to post one where he's holding the boombox.
I'm going to be redoing a lot of the electronic components of this build because I want to add bluetooth connectivity.
Long story short, I paid about $5 for this old carnifex on ebay, and I'm going to put about $350 worth of tech into this model.
Mmm, thats some good consumer whorin'!

This.... Is.... Epic....
All I can say.

This speaker is the most creative yet funniest thing I have seen in a while.

Doomthumbs wrote:@Matrim I could, and am most likely going to.
I've got a few other speakers I no longer like, and may just submerge them under a terrain feature lake of this goo.
Though it wouldn't be all that hard to put a sloped spillway for it to run down and collect into a pool of tyranid goo, so it could serve dual purpose... That will maybe come once I move on to doing the terrain section in a few months.
Thanks for the feedback, its nice knowing someone wants tyranid tentacles to rise up out of the muck as much as I do.

How about having pits of that goo.....with the hanging guardsman(men/skeletons?) in cages above it?

that would be awesome

If you want, I could find music that will go for the army... but I am afraid to post them as I might get banned!

How about disturbed indestructable/Master of war... Love that tune.

No, I think Black Ram has something more kinky than that.
Something that makes Disturbed look like droopy eyed little children. See, they play that song on the radio.
If you hear it, you think "Man, I love that tune!" Because it is a great tune.
What ABR is suggesting is something that will never be broadcast over a Clearchannel radio station. Its something that when you hear it, you cry to your mother to save you from the bad men.

That said, Im not sure the army needs any more augmentation of the weird. Needs more speakers hidden in lakes of Goo. Sadly, I don't need music for this. I need hardcore vibration frequencies, no really music by any standard except hippy scientist standards.

So after a trip to Radioshack I return home triumphant with a fairly powerful portable speaker.
Since I needed "More power", in electronics, this means "More wattage".

So I says to the nice gentleman "Sell me a set of speakers with the best ratio of Watts to Dollars spent".
And its like a chicken looking at a card trick.

Sighing, I do it myself, and come up with the speakers pictured below. They're pretty nice, and the price was right. (I wont say, thats garish and tacky)
Now, I go to destroy them for fun, and I see they need a Torx head screwdriver. YES! This is going to be fun. To the specialty tools box!
I get all 8 of the screws out, even the two hidden ones. Thing won't open. Hmmmmm.....

Turns out, I have to physically break the damn thing to discover... the industrial glue holding the two halves together.
Wtf? Why use fancy screwdriver bits? Did they think I didn't have a Torx head? Was it a bet against me just randomly taking it apart?

I was gonna post the guts of my new terrain piece! Gonna have to be tommorrow, Matrim et al. Tonight I owe Lady Doom a nice dinner.

Alright...you asked for it. (I like it, so perhaps this is a warning)

WARNING: Click at your own risk. NSFW NSFW NSFW but it is a music video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovlO-zvMe40

Doomthumbs wrote:Turns out, I have to physically break the damn thing to discover... the industrial glue holding the two halves together.
Wtf? Why use fancy screwdriver bits? Did they think I didn't have a Torx head? Was it a bet against me just randomly taking it apart?

Yeah...I've had that problem a couple of times. I don't know what the logic behind that is, but I always assumed it was a 'design by committee' flaw. Nice job on the electronics, by the way. And that non-neutonian business just begs to be used for some kind of spawning pool-terrain piece. I like the choice of music for the fig, by the way. Very Tyranid-y.

Im not sure that's safe for anywhere.
I actually liked the beat and was mentally substituting "skinheads" for "guardsmen" by the end of the first hook.
I won't lie and say I watched the video but I the audio was pretty good.

Next project; Ms Lush (red haired girl) hive tyrant.

Rammstein: Pussy. Yeah, definitely NSFW, and NSFKids, but it would work very, very well.


And yes, you definitely need to make Nid Digestion pools out of non-Newtonian fluid-sound.

any way of dying the goo red?

walker90234 wrote:any way of dying the goo red?

The BLOOD that has been spilt from trying to open these speakers, sealed by warlocks sequestered in the depths of some twisted JBL speaker hellhole.
I tryed prying it open with successively larger, then multiple screwdrivers. Damn thing bit me!
So now we go the Jack Nicholson route.


Please don't attach non-wargaming images to Dakka.-Mannahnin

Boombox fex completed minus some detail painting like the teeth, retouching the parts where I slopped wash everywhere like a careless douche.
I also need to fix a lot of other painting problems, but its at least 3 colors, what I like to call "Lazy man's TTQ".
I also added some turtles going about their turtley business (of getting it on).

Updates to the pool of vibrating goo concept as well. I'm mounting the speaker in the lid of a 10 pack of DVDs I just bought.
As soon as I can finish trimming off the plastic on the other speakers (Seriously a 3 day project, they did NOT want me having those), I'm going to mount these speakers in a very similar fashion, only slightly different. I'll put them in at a 25 degree angle behind the other speaker, mickey mouse head style.
This way, the more powerful center speaker will have more material pushed UP and INTO the path of its vibrations, as well as giving the effect of the tentacles of red goo of lurching forward before falling back into the reclamation pit. Should look pretty cool when I'm done.

TrollPie wrote:FIRE BREATHING????????
Gaunt orgies, guardsmen rape, broodlord penises, giant babycannons, multiple breasts, beating small children and soon flamethrowers-doomthumbs, you are a GOD.

I concur with all the above.

Thanks! I enjoy your glue rivets and might finish the Boombox like that.

The Boombox Carnifex looks awesome. The spawning pool piece is going to be great, too. As a side note, your bits vacuum attachment was so awesome I forced my wife to bear witness to it's majesty.

I like seeing the 'above and beyond' conversions you do. The modeled stuff (like the basketball playing Tyranids) is cool, but fire breathing models, figs with speakers in them, and writhing spawning pools are beyond the normal level of cool.

It also helps me along, because I'm like 'well, this guy has moved on to making models that play music, maybe I should actually finish painting some models for once.' So, off to do some actual work.

The non-newtonian fluid idea may just be one of the best ideas I've seen on Dakka. I've never really seen anyone try to add something like this to a model in any way (the closest thing would be LEDs but they are no where near as kick ass as this). And, with my love of music, I think I'm going to have to make my own Boom-Fex. I'd like to see it in action.

NNF needs to go into the Dakka lexicon

I'm wishing I had the electronic know-wotz to make a NNF pool, now.

Doomthumbs, cornstarch goo gets pretty stinky after a few days; how are you approaching the issue of making the model cleanable? I'd be inclined to gloss varnish it, and maybe even coat that with vaseline so as to make it a very simple rinse job.

lindsay40k wrote: cornstarch goo gets pretty stinky after a few days; how are you approaching the issue of making the model cleanable? I'd be inclined to gloss varnish it, and maybe even coat that with vaseline so as to make it a very simple rinse job.

Being a chef in training i can help here! You basically have to wait for the cornstarch mix to completely harden (maybe an hour and a half of no movement), then you can just pluck away at it with a knife (my personal choice)/ spoon/ fork/ anything with a sharp pointyness to it which will get rid of it all (unless for some unknown reason its seeped into a crack....then your F ed)

Is this the first use of the word 'crack' in this thread?

Regardless, it's mostly for this reason I'm advocating a layer of vaseline; it'd go a long way to keeping crevices free of potentially rotting goo.

It's all going to be contained in the cd lid. Worst case scenario I have to lose $4 of electronics parts and throw the whole thing out.
Tazz's idea is spot on. I only hope that once it dries it doesn't harm the speaker membrane to pop it out. I might just have to wash it out after every use.