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 Camkierhi wrote:
sweet

couldn´t have put it better...!

looks awesome already!

I concur, the terrain is beautiful good job.

Thanks chaps.

Well I finally got it completed, gotta be a record for me as from start to end I did this in a week More pics posted in the competition thread...



http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/514654.page

My daughter also wanted to get involved so she made a start on this stone cairn. Has an expanded foam core surrounded with pebbles from the garden and a pice of slate stuck on top. All based on an old CD... Once the glue is dry she'll be painting it up. (ignore the round box underneath - that's just to make moving the piece easier...)





And that's me done. Got to get some shut eye as up at 5am (UK time), then off to the airport and flying to Poland... Back on Friday evening...

That's a beautiful stone paint job ruglud!

stone circle looks excellent and shows no mishaps at all... you fishing for compliments here

as for your daughters work... very inspiring! is it supposed to be something like a grave? like some peoples used to burry their fallen kings in? or will it have a statue on top?... the round box I think would support that idea quite well!

Your daughter has an eye for epic. Your work that is nice. More daughter. Plastic lawn is a sad lawn. Mowing is good for the soul vacuuming is self explanitory.

dsteingass wrote:That's a beautiful stone paint job ruglud!

Thanks Dave

Viktor von Domm wrote:stone circle looks excellent and shows no mishaps at all... you fishing for compliments here

as for your daughters work... very inspiring! is it supposed to be something like a grave? like some peoples used to burry their fallen kings in? or will it have a statue on top?... the round box I think would support that idea quite well!

Well, the flocking went a bit pear shaped at the start, but I was able to save it without having to redo...

Yes, it's a burial mound and is just a pile of stones placed over the body of whoever it was that died - most likely a Celtic king . Not planning on keeping the box underneath - was just using it so that the base didn't stick to the table...

cormadepanda wrote:Your daughter has an eye for epic. Your work that is nice. More daughter. Plastic lawn is a sad lawn. Mowing is good for the soul vacuuming is self explanitory.

Thanks Panda, she just read your comment and is very happy Plastic lawn is awesome - my neighbours are out every sunny weekend mowing, raking and mulching. Me, I just go out and vacuum up some leaves or walk round picking the odd one up, then I can relax back in a reclining garden chair with beer in hand while the mowers are still buzzing away

So... my daughter (13) finished the stone cairn and here it is...



I'm suitably impressed with her skills

I am very impressed, that's beautiful, well done girl.

I'm suitably impressed with her skills

and rightly so! the whole thing looks very good... the grass is looking very naturally and doesn´t look overdone in any way... and the drybrushing looks very professional... you can almost feel the rough surfaces!
i hope we see some more work of hers soon!... give her more work

So not an update - have had precious little time to do anything except lurk on Dakka over the past week and a bit - what with work going crazy busy and a stupid summer cold knocking me down over the weekend - but my Black Templar mini vignette made the Dakka Dakka front page That makes me very happy And it pushes up the views and votes - there's even a nice comment in there

Camkierhi wrote:I am very impressed, that's beautiful, well done girl.

Thanks Cam, I showed her your comment and she was beaming from ear to ear all day...

Viktor von Domm wrote:

I'm suitably impressed with her skills

and rightly so! the whole thing looks very good... the grass is looking very naturally and doesn´t look overdone in any way... and the drybrushing looks very professional... you can almost feel the rough surfaces!
i hope we see some more work of hers soon!... give her more work

Same for you Vik, you made her day with your positive critique. She's keen to try her hand at some more testing terrain work so watch this space...

tell you what... why not let her try herself out with some foam cutting to make some brick work? i bet that due to her drybrushing qualities she could do some very good looking small ruins

How about you just kinda.. have her endlessly make terrain for us? Its so nice anyway..

Perhaps... just perhaps if this becomes her thing she can make some money off of it. You know that saying, if your good at it dont do it for free.

Vik & Panda, I'll see what else she can whip up for us all, she's pretty keen to make more terrain for her old man's 'sad hobby' as she calls it Kids !

Alrighty, competition time, again...

This one is Briancj's Terrain Contest

It has a recycling theme to create a piece of terrain - visit the thread for more info...

Here's my ingredients: CD (for the base size); scrap pieces of 80gsm paper; cereal box card; coarse grit sandpaper; wire; paperclips; scouring pad (not sure if I'm going to use this); fine netting material (left over from a homemade kids halloween costume); leftover plastic sprue; small stones from the garden; tissue / kitchen towel (not shown)


I'm going to build a supply dump - oil/ fuel barrels and ammo crates - will be usuable for 40k, necromunda, and various other sci-fi and 20th century wargames

So first up, the sandpaper is cut to sizeand glued to the CD


While the glue is drying on the base, we move on to creating the barrels. Cut strips approx 20mm wide from the short width of the paper (ie 210mm long for A4). Simply using pritt stik type glue, a strip of paper is wrapped around a marker pen and glued (note: don't glue to the marker pen...). Repeat process until you have loads of paper tubes...


More updates to come tomorrow...

looking forward to that progressing...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
looking forward to that progressing...

Look no further...

Update from last post. Oil barrels dry, now to add the end caps - created a small spacer out of card and put the basic tube over this. Put a pre-sized end cap in, a bit of glue (superglue or wood / pva glue is effective), then using an AA battery (which is slightly smaller than the tube) pushed the cap down onto the spacer and allow the glue to do it's thing... For majority of barrels I'm only doing one end as they will be standing up right.




Next task is to add the mid rings on the barrels - a pencil and some blu-tack used to create guide lines at the same height of each barrel


Now, slight deviation from original plan - the wire I had to create the rings was too big, instead I found that sandwich bag ties was perfect, so glued these round each barrel. Damn fiddly though.


Last step, thin paper strip glued top and bottom...


Et voila, lots of barrels...



Next, making a pallet for ammo crates.
Cut equal lengths of scrap sprue


Double up some cereal box card to make thicker card, cut into strips and glue to sprue...


Ta da... One pallet



Nate that the last picture here shows ammo crates on the pallet, I need to make more of these and will document the steps in the next update (forgot to photo the build for these ones)... Also need to work some on the pallet to make it look more wood, less cardboard...

Ooooooh, very nice barrels. I'll be remembering that for a future use. (I was literally going "Oooh" with each picture).

Off to a good start there Ruglud.

those barrels are really good looking... and to use those sandwich bag ties is a really nice way to use household items! we all have these in abundace!

the pallete looks good too... tho a bit thicker card wouldn´t have hurt either

as for the amo crates... that is something very interesting!

Cheers guys. Vik, I'll take a look at the pallet tomorrow and see if it needs more work or not

So... Some more kidz work, this time by my lad (9yr old)

He's building a stone tower, WFB style. The roof will be romovable as he wants to use it as a pencil holder. BTW, he took all the pics as well...

Basic tower is a thick cardboard tube, approx 10" high. It's stuck to a shaped hardboard base. Door and windows cut out by me, but rest is all his own work


Worse part of the build is always roof tiles - he got a little bored so gave up and worked on the front door instead




Summer hols are nearly upon us so expect updates soon on this piece...

our summer holidays are almost over... ok... to be fair we have still two weks of ´em... but still... the end is nigh^^

the tower looks very cool... i know of the frustration the young ones so easily have to face... i wish my kids would be a bit more of a longer breath when trying to introduce them to the fun world of hobby work... (well they´re still only 7 and 5 years old... )

i think this will be a great looking tower... be sure to tell him that i too have way back then started with such projects... i once made a tower with PVA and small pebbles and actually stonewalled them pebble on pebble...that took literally ages...well it felt like that^^

i hope he wont loose interest in this... as i think the potential of a nice item is right there... and the best part is he will have fun with that even while doing his homework...
maybe add a note pad holder as some sort of wall with battlements ... i bet he would like a complete set of castel associated desktop utilities^^

Well, summer hols start end of July here, then 6 weeks of kid entertaining before I go to work (evening shifts for me). Hopefully I can peak his interest with some Necromunda builds - he likes the game anyway so you never know...

Ah yes, those heady days of youth and our crazy plans for awesome terrain. I once built a cardboard castle that looked like the old GW foam one, didn't totally finish it and it got destroyed in a house move

house moves are a totaly disaster zone... i can´t count how many cubboards or mirrors or cabinets got killed during these... once we lost all our christmas decoration stuff... later on... around two years later... our mother in law told us she had it stored in her garage´s attic... go figure... we already got us new stuff by then...

and necromunda is cool...and i like the campaign modus of it... skirmish games i think are also better than great scale wars...

The barrels are pure innovation Rug! I'm also anxious to see the detail of the ammo box build too!

Thanks Dave, now I feel pressure to deliver... Got to admit though, these particular ammo crates aren't working for me. I'm putting them to one side and going to create some new ones shortly. Will update soonish with the new look crates

Those barrels look sweet. Thanks for the tutorial on making those...just what i needed

why not? they look great in the pic?

Really epic! This terrain is smashing.

Chelnov wrote:Those barrels look sweet. Thanks for the tutorial on making those...just what i needed

Thanks Chelnov - it's a really simple and cheap way to create good looking barrels... Plus if you want they can be easily wrecked / squashed to look properly battle damaged...

dsteingass wrote:why not? they look great in the pic?

See below for the new version - these were just too basic looking for me, might come in handy thogh for other projects so going into my bitz box for now

cormadepanda wrote:Really epic! This terrain is smashing.

Thanks Panda

Update time... new ammo box test build. Made from cereal box card, glued together with PVA and piece of picture hanging wire 'borrowed' from my toolbox, glued in place with superglue





Scale shot...

That ammo box looks very cool. Good job.

Looking good! the carrying rope is essential to the look!

Ammo box looks awesome...........stealing that one.