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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: tin shed gamer on February 27, 2020, 03:40:28 PM
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I'm double busy with commissions (which I'm not complaining about in the slightest lol)
But I've been totally stuffed for motivation with my hobby.So it's time for butterfly mode.
So here's the choices of topic(as I'll have a use for each one.)
With the exception of the castle they should all will take around the same sort of time.
Which if any would like to see me tackle?
Mark.
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I vote for the steam launch.
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Steam launch :)
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The iron age hillfort and farmstead. Definitely. :)
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Steam launch pls.
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Haha, I am conflicted. Homestead please :)
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Steam Launch sounds interesting.
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Safe the frarfing about just start at the top and work down :D
You know you want too
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Motte & Bailey :)
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Yeah, I can't pick one...
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Incidentally, that's some nice drawing Mark!
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Hill fort or marsh homestead :)
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+1 to the (very) nice drawings. You could start a thread on your idea drawings alone.
IF I had to choose, it would be the steam launch.
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To make the choice easier: I'm all for the Marsh Fort :D
And I'm genuinly confused as to whether that Warhammer castle is an actual photograph or a shot from one or another videogame... ???
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+1 start at the top
and keep going...
They will all be great to see you do, and that way you don't feel bad for having to choose one over another
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If you wanted I can send you my MGB302 that I never finished.
Plasticard (and filler) mostly - I'll never finish it...
About 2ft long and 6" wide from memory
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lol I should have known better than to ask a bunch of butterflies a divided camp always .
I'll start with the steam launch. As its quite a quick build.
Then I'll build one of the other's.(I simply don't have the space for all of them.)you might all agree on one.You never know .
Rich , that's a very kind offer I simply couldn't store another model that big.( besides your already sending something for me to tweak. ;)).
Has been / Matt. I'm glad you like my doodles it's not something I give much thought too. As they're just how I note idea's down. They're nothing more than visual prompts in a couple of note books dumped in my bag when I'm meetings (or more often than not jotted down during coffee breaks.)
No one really sees that much of them,other than myself of course.
I suppose I could post a couple more if your interested? (but they are just quick sketches with a biro)
Mark.
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I suppose I could post a couple more if your interested? (but they are just quick sketches with a biro)
Mark.
I would certainly be interested in your sketches :)
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+1 to the 'interested' in your drawings.
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Another +1 for the drawings
And if it helps the Marsh fort looks cool
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Since no one's ever asked to see any(In true Rich.H fashion) ,I may have gotten slightly carried away if you include the sketches posted on this thread I've take photos of 71 sketches I won't get shouted at for posting.Thats not including pictures of any thing I made based on the sketches.
So how many would you like to see, Before it feels like 'the ego has landed'? I'm not even sure where such a thread would belong on here?
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I want to see all of them, though you could tease us & put a few on each day,
& may I suggest you place them on the workshop section. I think that would
be the best place, though others may disagree.
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Pictures 2,3 and 6 are very good.
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Get them posted ;)
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Get them posted ;)
Yep
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I've managed to paint myself into a corner(everything I'm sculpting has something drying on it.)
So I'm going to take a break and see how much of the Steam launch can be done in 45 minutes.
It'll be roughly 42cm long Simply because that's how long an A3 piece of grey board is :D and roughly 12cm wide. Which will give me room to move figures around(25mm bases).
It'll have modular superstructures. Because it's more useful to me that way as I can combine the superstructures of the mini steamer with launch .
As the picture shows I can already use the steamer to come up with a pseudo launch but its a lame.
And the steamer is a little too small to represent a tramp steamer. So it makes sense to be able to combine the two of them.
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Here's a rough idea of the overall size .Buy shifting the deck backwards over the base. I'll get a similar bow profile to the sketch and it adds around another 2cm to its length .
This is about one and half hours in.As I've done a little more this evening.(I thought a picture might be useful before I get carried away .)
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Looking forward to this one, your builds are always fascinating. Insane, and needing way more storage than I have, but fascinating.
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Very good so far :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Blimey you work fast!
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I really do work out how to build the model and what parts I need whilst sketching. Thats how I knew that the basic hull dolly could be knocked up from a single A3 sheet of grey board. Experience means I was pretty confident that an A5 piece of card cut into roughly 3mm wide strips would be enough to make decking planks .
So you just bomb through cutting 3mm strips until you run out of card..
The dolly is easy length(cant be more than the length of the card for speed.) The width is simply defined by the amount of figures bases I think will look right on it .So one either side and two in the middle.plus 5mm per base (allows for build detailing) and the largest single figure base I'm likely to use.(25mm) so it's. 4 × 30mm.
The centre line is key to the speed of the build.
The bow and stern are marked out with at 1/2 template .then the deck hole is marked and cut.
The base is marked at 1" intervals along it's length.
Both shapes are then cut out..
The deck plate is placed over the base plate and move backed to where it forms the bow slope. I draw round the bow and stern onto the base board.and mark the hole in the deck on the base plate.
The card rectangle cut from the deck is the glued onto its marked space on the base plate.
All the information required to build the deck supports has been marked onto the base plate.
So I just bomb out some 15mm high strips of card the width of the hull. Put them aside and add the deck strips starting with the rectangle on the base plate working both sides of the centre line.
Then assemble the supports starting around the deck hole base plate then the centre lines to the bow and stern finihing with the ribs and gluing on the deck plate.Thats literally an hour and a half.
Mind you I only put around half an hour more last night.
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I managed sneak the rest of the basic hull in over lunch today ( Mrs would not be happy if she knew I'd been playing with super glue on the. Kitchen worktops .I only fitted them in February. Especially when I've a workshop. lol)
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very quick and good work :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Very, very cool
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Not yet .
But I've a cunning plan ;)
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LOVE :-* the motor launch man, and those sketches are amazing!!.....I would lose my mind over Kreuzenstein castle too!!!Was one of the castles from the Witcher series.
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Damn that was quick!
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Not so speedy of late,as real work keeps eating up my spare time.
But here's a little progress to muse over.
I half expected the castle to be the favorite. I may still make it, or something very similar .tbh it's no were near as complicated as looks to make a Castle with this kind of architecture.As hoardings are much faster and easier than walls with out them.If you used a textured 'brick paper ' and dry brushed the hoardings(cardboard doesn't need undercoating) you could easily knock out a Warhammer fortress size castle in a day, and be gaming with it the next.