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Offline Mr. Peabody

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Peabody's bamboo huts for Vietnam gaming
« on: June 09, 2009, 06:25:37 PM »
Moving on with this project at last (I am sooo very slow to make things...) and I'm excited that I can begin playing with something other than proxy-huts. Working on the actual terrain next! Whoo-hoo!
I put these together using bamboo place-mats & teddy bear fur. The shells are styrene (plasticard). The photos are too warm & yellow, they don't catch the grey sun-bleached, washed-out look of the thatch, but I'm no photographer.






These were built with my 20mm Hut Templates; if you think they would be helpful to you I'll gladly share them. Send me a PM.
Painted with Golden Airbrush colours, Liquitex & Daler Rowney Inks, powdered chalk Pastels, Matte Medium, Future Floor Finish & Tamiya Flat.

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« Last Edit: June 10, 2009, 04:23:30 PM by Mr. Peabody »
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Re: Peabody's bamboo huts for Vietnam gaming
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2009, 08:09:04 PM »
You seem to have linked to the thumbnails - clicking just gets a photo the same size as the ones above.

They look great in the small pics anyway!

For the colour balance (or even color balance, for the Yanks present  ;) ) see if your camera has an internal colour-correction or white balance setting for shooting under incandesant lights - these are noticably (to a camera, anyway) more yellow than sunlight or flourescent bulbs, but most cameras have an "indoor" mode or something to help correct.

Offline Mr. Peabody

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Re: Peabody's bamboo huts for Vietnam gaming
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2009, 08:33:48 PM »
Huh. Don't know why it's doing that... The same links work just fine over at Fields of Fire. I've edited the post and added some additional links that seem to work ok. I must be missing something obvious. Usually do. o_o

Thanks for that Wirelizard!

Offline Wirelizard

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Re: Peabody's bamboo huts for Vietnam gaming
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2009, 08:52:53 PM »
Testing...

(pulled the actual image because they're Mr. Peabody's, not mine, and he's gotten them working in the original post now!)  :)

Seems to work. If you use the Forum code in Imageshack's "Embed This Image" block - to the right and below the image - that works. Links back to your Imageshack page too.
« Last Edit: June 09, 2009, 09:45:42 PM by Wirelizard »

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Re: Peabody's bamboo huts for Vietnam gaming
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2009, 08:55:56 PM »
Cracking! I love those.
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Re: Peabody's bamboo huts for Vietnam gaming
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2009, 09:19:47 PM »
OK! I live, I learn. Once again thanks Wirelizard. That took a slightly different approach, but it works like 90!

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Re: Peabody's bamboo huts for Vietnam gaming
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2009, 07:26:40 AM »
Cracking! I love those.

I second that, superb stuff. beautifully made. ;D
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Offline Dan

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Re: Peabody's bamboo huts for Vietnam gaming
« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2009, 10:11:19 AM »
I really like those too , I'm going to scale the idea up for 28mm for my next project.

Offline Doomhippie

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Re: Peabody's bamboo huts for Vietnam gaming
« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2009, 10:22:34 AM »
Really great stuff.

Gosh, this forum is making me feel so useless...  ;)
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Offline gamer Mac

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Re: Peabody's bamboo huts for Vietnam gaming
« Reply #9 on: June 10, 2009, 10:22:43 AM »
Very nice :-*
Great idea.
I can see an upturn in the bamboo place-mats business, in the near future. lol

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Re: Peabody's bamboo huts for Vietnam gaming
« Reply #10 on: June 10, 2009, 02:25:11 PM »
very clever !! must copy that  :D
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Re: Peabody's bamboo huts for Vietnam gaming
« Reply #11 on: June 10, 2009, 02:55:09 PM »
Superb work and it looks absoluty fantastic. Itīs a great idea and I think I will copy it to.
Great job !

Offline Hitman

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Re: Peabody's bamboo huts for Vietnam gaming
« Reply #12 on: June 11, 2009, 12:00:48 AM »
Those huts are awesome. I just saw them for the first time today, and was wondering what manufacturer made them until I read that you had made them from scratch. Excellent work...very realistic!! Thanks for sharing..
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Re: Peabody's bamboo huts for Vietnam gaming
« Reply #13 on: June 11, 2009, 06:49:38 PM »
Wow, these look fantastic.  8)

It's a brilliant texture for them.
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