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HAHA Knife-wielding skills are useful cross-hobby, that's for sure,

But remember, not knowing how to cook, is like not knowing how to Frack

 dsteingass wrote:
HAHA Knife-wielding skills are useful cross-hobby, that's for sure,

But remember, not knowing how to cook, is like not knowing how to Frack

LOL. Well you sure have Wetter my Appetite. Too Bad atm i am Not able to have pork in the table Any more, my wife and the Kids are if at all only willing to chew chicken and other birds...
Tue waterfall/cave still makes me hope for a Fallout related context.

That's Beef Brisket Vik, the Breast Meat of the cow

Been meaning to ask you, Dave...

I've been working with packaging card a lot for Briancj's competition and it's giving me confidence to try plasticard again. I draw all of the pieces on the card before I cut them out but I'm not sure how I'd go about that on plastic. I've tried before and the plasticard just didn't take pencil very well. What do you use?

Use whatever marks it, pen, marker, pencil. A Harder lead (2H) will probably work best. With plasticard, you only need to score it and snap it.

Great, thank you. I might be using too hard a pencil actually, I've been using a 7H which barely marks card to be fair. I'll try a 2H and see how it goes, failing that I'll get myself a pen with a fine tip.

Those Sharpie pens are nice and fine if you've got one.

Making a Hobbits' feast again eh Dave?

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Making a Hobbits' feast again eh Dave?

Yes Sir! Afterwards I was as lazy as a Hobbit with a belly full too!

Today, I'm working on the ruins, stay tuned...

Well, after such a sumptous repast, no wonder you feel lazy, you got the Itis!

A fine tipped white board marker is good because the ink just wipes off after. Also the CD marker pens are good for a fine tipped pen.

Okay so if it doesn't work I should get a Sharpie, whiteboard marker or CD marker. Thanks guys. The Sharpie sounds like the best for the fine details I need but I'll see what I can find locally.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Okay so if it doesn't work I should get a Sharpie, whiteboard marker or CD marker. Thanks guys. The Sharpie sounds like the best for the fine details I need but I'll see what I can find locally.

Casey, kill two birds with one Hobbit and get a micron pen. that way you can mark more precisely, and also use it to write scroll work. otherwise I just use a ballpoint pen. Mine happens to be pink ink because I like pink, it shows up nicely on white, and blue/black ink hides on grey plastic.

I have a fine black ball-point pen, it carves nice brick lines in foam with slight pressure.

Gluing ruin sub-assemblies

Nice columns , i'm on my desktop, so I get a much nicer pic than even my ipad, couldn't see half the details before.

beef yeah... of course... silly me... but nevertheless all the same... my kids and wife are sadly not into good meat... in fact... my wife is a retired () vegetarian... and my son felix is not really into meat at all... very picky about his food... but there is still hope in form of my son oskar... he is a meathead like his father (pun inteded only soso^^)...

is that all casted by you??? looks like you are absolutly in control of your casting process...everything looks so perfect!

They look great! And thanks Theo, you're right, a micron pen is exactly what I need!

Thanks Vik!
Actually, my casting process isn't quite perfect yet, some bricks are a bit off, but I mix them in with others, the bubble parts will just look like weathering
-Yep all casted, it's a lot of work but....

Dam that looks pretty dam fantastic Dave I have to say those columns look great which set of moulds are those from if you don't mind sharing mate

On another note ordered some Aluminium sheet mesh of ebay, will check it against the stuff I have got and if it is the same I will send it on to you

If not I will send you the sheet of original I have or get some more, but if it is the same it is way cheaper and you can get it in longer lengths I believe

Ruins looking very cool.

Very nice ruins, Dave.

i hate to tell you but your current glue work looks slightly off center in places... the upper parts you just put on... in the front... the upper pillar arch...

also... what glue do you use for these?

Thanks Fellas!

@LDD-
I used

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@Vik- It's Aileen's Fast Grab tacky glue, you have like 15 minutes before it sets to square everything up.
besides, I'm taking pliers to the edges..it's a ruin, it's supposed to be amazing that it's still standing



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don't forget it''l be covered with vines and growing things of all sorts...

Dave did you want that mesh?

I know Aircav is on hold at mo.

Ruins look amazing. What will you use for the vines?

Thanks cam, LDD is shipping some. (Thanks btw LDD)

Probably wire and a mix of some other products.

That Hirst Arts stuff is great, wish is was more readily available over here, the fun I could have with some of the molds...

Still looking very Middle Earth Dave, reminds me of Elven ruins now...

Just went to the hirst website. I always thought he was from England. Not only is he from the u.s., but he's in my state I feel like an idiot, cause Ive checked his site before.

Mr. Bruce Hirst has heard your cries, and he has delivered!
http://www.hirst-arts.co.uk/
.>Well, he lets these guys sell em over there anyways.

Now all I need is a UK supplier of Ortho plaster.

Got to look into this. Someone on another blog suggested using Portland Cement, not sure how that would work. It would be cheap enough, but it's a nasty chemically thing to be playing around with. And Plaster of Paris is not quite up to the job. I think I will spend an evening looking for Ortho Plaster on the web.








(PS. Really sorry I managed to put you off the Aircav BTW. Did not suggest the comp. to put pressure on you, sorry.)

 Camkierhi wrote:
Now all I need is a UK supplier of Ortho plaster.

Got to look into this. Someone on another blog suggested using Portland Cement, not sure how that would work. It would be cheap enough, but it's a nasty chemically thing to be playing around with. And Plaster of Paris is not quite up to the job. I think I will spend an evening looking for Ortho Plaster on the web.
(PS. Really sorry I managed to put you off the Aircav BTW. Did not suggest the comp. to put pressure on you, sorry.)

These might be worth a try


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 dsteingass wrote:
Thanks cam, LDD is shipping some. (Thanks btw LDD)

Probably wire and a mix of some other products.

I still need you to send me your address though no probs