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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Operator5 on February 25, 2010, 05:27:35 AM
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Took a break from painting Russians tonight to work on a terrain piece for the table.
This is a Chinese tower from the Michael's birdhouse.
I pulled the walls off the two upper levels, sanded them down, and added the detail work (where the white area is) using some balsa wood.
(http://www.rattrapproductions.com/Historical/CLA/Images/ChineseTower.jpg)
I did not have aChinese fan sitting around, so I pulled out the old standby, cross-stitch plastic grid. I clipped a simple pattern out and will glue that to a corner post.
(http://www.rattrapproductions.com/Historical/CLA/Images/LatticeRailing.jpg)
Still a bunch more to do with it, but this is the start.
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Picked up 2 of the towers myself today! Like the railing work :)
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Will the walkways now be wide enough?
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I measured the width of the walkways around the upper floors and found them to be about 3/4 of an inch overall, a bit of variance according to how well they were assembled. Im thinking of adding a small exstension piece around the top to allow for my 20mm square bases for most single character figures. Nice hand railings by the way :)
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Fantastic! How hard were the walls to remove!?
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With a dremel and a cutting blade, no problem at all. I originally tried just breaking them off, but that was useless. The wood is soft, but the glue is exceptionally strong. In the end, I took the dremel out and cut along the base, then used the sanding tool to get them flat.
And the walkways are not wide enough for most 28mm bases. With the railing out a little bit, though, I can now stand guys in the doorways easily enough. My snipers will have a field day up there. :)
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Well, I hurt my back this morning and that meant all the work I planned for the Russians got put on hold. Could only work on "big" things since I had to keep getting up from sitting.
Here is the latest work on the tower.
(http://www.rattrapproductions.com/Historical/CLA/Images/ChineseTower2.jpg)
I uses the same plastic grid that I did the railing with to create the roof pattern.
I also completed the detail work on the lower level. Now to finish painting that.
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looking really good so far :)like the railing ,I'll have to pick one of this things up myself ,Oh and I wish you a speedy recovery with your back ,I'm all too familuar with back problems
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And here is the beauty with my first finished Russian squad guarding her.
I still need to touch up a few spots, but that should be quick work.
(http://www.rattrapproductions.com/Historical/CLA/Images/ChineseTower3.jpg)
(http://www.rattrapproductions.com/Historical/CLA/Images/ChineseTower4.jpg)
(http://www.rattrapproductions.com/Historical/CLA/Images/ChineseTower5.jpg)
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Nice 8)
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Looks Great!!
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Very nice. I saw one of those and thought...too big. Now that I see yours...methinks I'll have to make a trip to Michael's with a coupon and pick one up as well. Great job. Thanks for the step-by-step as well.
Regards,
Hitman
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Pretty nice. I like your added architectural features. And the Ruskies look good as well.
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My favourite bit of this is the way you've clipped out some of the struts from the cross-stitch mesh to make the pattern for the fencing - it's really effective! I'm so stealing that idea, even though I don't have a lovely pagoda-y birdhouse tower thing to put it on... I might just have to make a Chinese restaurant or something!
A great looking terrain piece, from a DIY store bargain plus some clever applications of simple techniques - nice work!
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Looks great! Why don't we have stuff like that?
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Perhaps all European birds are racists, and woon't live in a Chinese-style house? All the birdhouses I can think of (in the UK) look a bit like cukoo-clocks.
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Because Europeans have not been convinced they need to buy worthless crap in multiple different styles so that their birdhouses can match their interior/exterior decorating style. lol
But you do have plenty of things that we can't get.
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My favourite bit of this is the way you've clipped out some of the struts from the cross-stitch mesh to make the pattern for the fencing - it's really effective! I'm so stealing that idea, even though I don't have a lovely pagoda-y birdhouse tower thing to put it on... I might just have to make a Chinese restaurant or something!
A great looking terrain piece, from a DIY store bargain plus some clever applications of simple techniques - nice work!
Thanks. I've used the plastic mesh for everything from fences, to windows to sci-fi/industrial flooring. I even used it once for the grate over a large pit on a dungeon board I built.
And it's the simple techniques that I like. Sure, I would love to build the beautiful terrain I see on here, but most of the time I don't have the time to spend on it. So, I make do with what I can get done quickly.
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That's my fave sort of terrain... obviously I'd love a fully-tectured architectural board, but in the real world, I like terrain pieces that look great, but are actually fairly easy to make... because I have neither the time nor the talent to do complex stuff! PLease don't think that by describing it as a bargain plus simple techniques I was knocking it all - it was meant as a compliment to your work that you took something basic and made it look great!
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Hmm, the Michael's here in town has these padoga-birdhouse-tower things too, tempting to wander down there this coming week... except I'm trying to save money for the convention in two weeks, dammit!
Reminds me of the Chinese School here in our Chinatown area, actually, built in 1909 with very Chinese styling - the curved tiled roof and details.
But I'm trying not to spend a cent on gaming before Trumpeter! >:(