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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Henrix on July 07, 2012, 09:24:41 PM
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As I'm in the process of making a Bushido* demo table I thought I's start a thread and show what I've done.
I did start a bit with my Tu-Torii-al (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=42655.0), wherein I made a torii.
My plan is to make an abandoned shrine in the forest. A little derelict and partially taken over by nature in that Japanese way.
It'll be separate terrain pieces on a mat, as I prefer being able to use them in other constellations and for ease of transport.
* That's the new-ish miniature game (http://www.bushido-thegame.com/), not the old FGU RPG, good though it was.
Well, enough preamble, on to the meat (fish? rice?):
Part 1: Instant bonsai tree - just add flock
Part 2: Gorintōs for the gods! (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=43592.msg509269#msg509269)
I bought this plastic bonsai cheaply a couple of years ago, but never got around to fixing it up. It was a pain to get loose from the pot, but otherwise was a treat. I based it on a big sturdy washer and made some stones from milliput. Drybrushed the tree a little, and glued some flock and stuff to it. That's it, really.
Wish I could find more of them plastic bonsai trees.
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/MossyTree_6x800.jpg)
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/MossyTree_6x800_1.jpg)
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/MossyTree_Detail_8x600.jpg)
(Ichiro (http://www.bushido-thegame.com/catalog/temple-ro-kan-starter) included as he a) likes trees and kodamas; and b) gives sense of scale to the whole. He's about 32mm tall.)
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Someone has been watching Ghibli films ;)
Looks good but I think it needs a coat of matt varnish to get rid of the leafy shine.
cheers
James
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What do you mean, Ghibli films? :D
But seriously, I really like the scenery in Mononoke Hime. Very suited to Bushido.
Some matte varnish seems like a good idea. Didn't even notice the shinyness till I took the pictures. (I also had the leaves detached while working on it.)
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Very nice.
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:-*
How about a gentle wash on the foliage? Or maybe the varnish might help to take away the shining (or "shajning" for us football interested swedes)?
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Yep, I'll fix up the sides of the base, some moss'll do, and spray the leaves with some dullcote (as jimb said above ;).
I need to make some serious plans of the demo board. Perhaps even playtest it.
Thankfully it's just 60x60cm.
One problem is that I can't decide how much I should make it easy to play tournament scenarios (http://bushido-thegame.com/rules/official-scenarios)* on, or just make it pretty and specific. Or go halfway and make it good for some scenarios but not all.
* Very much like, and indeed some of them the same as, the old Confrontation 3 scenarios. A little bland, board-gamy and generic, but fun to play.
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And here's a little teaser for what comes next. There are a few small pieces more than this, and some putty, but not much. One marble, for instance.
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/Pag_1.jpg)
Whoever guesses first what it'll be will receive one (1) bonus point.
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Some Japanese sculpture-thingy with blocks and round-thingys?
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That was rather... vague, SilverS. No bonus point for you, at most a honorarium-thingy.
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I was thinking, perhaps, a lantern thingy?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Japanese-lantern.jpg/800px-Japanese-lantern.jpg)
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Sorry, Skrap, no cigar!
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That was rather... vague, SilverS. No bonus point for you, at most a honorarium-thingy.
Bah!
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Part 2: Gorintōs for the gods!
Here's the next WIP. The other two have also gotten the dots filled, and the rightmost has lost the top as I wasn't happy with it.
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/Gorinto_2.jpg)
What I'm doing are gorintōs, a sort of Japanese stupa, sort of a memorial stone.
Like these:
(http://farm1.staticflickr.com/113/307291213_a4850c1535_z.jpg)
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2426/3578615734_0eb5b95ec8_z.jpg)
They come in a variety of shapes, but generally five shapes on top of each other. Mine are a bit atypical, as I've only found a fairly limited supply of easily accessible shapes to play with. I might make some more shapes later.
So both SilverSixx and Skrapwelder were pretty close, but not really there. I'll have to save the bonus point for later use.
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I, uh, seem to have sparked a Gorintō-off over at the Bushido forums (http://bushido-thegame.com/content/master-po-says-can-you). A competition with prizes and such. ;D
Anyone want to join in and try to out-gorintō me (and the others)?
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So, here's a bit of an update. Haven't done that much. Having a wisdom tooth ripped out really puts a damper on your creativity, as well as a hole in your mouth and wallet.
Being the madman I am I decided to make a load of little gorintōs. Like a whole graveyard full of them.
So I made some easy moulds in oyumaru. That stuff is really amazing, it took me no time to do them. I had to redo a couple, but that's no problem. And I got some more expertise in mouldmaking.
Here are some of them:
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/Gorinto_3.jpg)
And then I cast a couple in newly bought stone plaster.
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/Gorinto_4.jpg)
And when I say a couple I mean about two dozen. It was like eating crisps, I couldn't stop.
So, there I was, with two dozen gorintōs. My plan was at first to make them rather simply, basically just base them and paint them, but now that there's this gorintō-off (http://www.bushido-thegame.com/forum/henrix-131#comment-7003)going on, so I'll have to come up with something really clever. (Or, at least, something clever for being me.)
One reason I wanted to cast them was so that I could roughen up the texture a bit too look more like weathered stone. Good idea. Except that I used that newly bought stone plaster which turned out to be to hard. Hitting it with the business end of my steel brush didn't do much.
But I could maltreat it somewhat to get some sort of structure -except the topmost and middle bits. So, onto the next plan!
I decided that as the different pieces represent different elements (and/or Buddhist tenets), and those are represented by different colours (which seem not always to be the same in different sects/times/etc.) - why not build the thing out of different sorts of coloured stones!
Thus I tried to make different textures on the different pieces. Like this:
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/Gorinto_5.jpg)
Next I'll paint it. And start on the next, there's still four to go!
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Two weeks later and no update. ::)
Here are the five I like best. There's another dozen that just needs more stuff on them. (Not happy with the pictures, though. I might take better one later.)
(I gave up on the one above. The different stone textures didn't work out the way I wanted.)
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/GorintoOff_All_5.jpg)
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/GorintoOff_No1.jpg)
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/GorintoOff_No2.jpg)
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/GorintoOff_No3.jpg)
I tried being fancy here, writing the characters on it. Thank the spirits I'm not emulating real Japanese things.
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/GorintoOff_No4.jpg)
Lastly we have the over-the-top kitschy bling-bling gorintō.
A while now I've wanted to use an synthetic zirconium "diamond". As a friend puts it, there's something inherently cool with refractive indices that high.
And as the topmost bit on a gorintō is called 'jewel' this seemed like the time.
It was blasted hard to get any decent photos of it, so here's an indecent one. It looks a lot nicer in reality - quite eyecatching.
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/GorintoOff_No5.jpg)
Next up will probably be a shrine.
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It looks awesome, Henrix!
Hopefully I'll be able to try the game :)
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It was blasted hard to get any decent photos of it
:o Man, these look so good, I doubt you could take bad pictures of them... ;D
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What are you using for the larger flowers / greenery? They really complete the look I think.
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Thankee!
Silversixx, of course you will! Perhaps not at Gubbspel Galore, but then after.
Zizi, I really should try to get a good picture of that diamond.
And make a special scenario around it! Let's see; you carefully lift the diamond off the gorintō, a creaking is followed by a rumbling, and a big stone comes..... oh, never mind. ::)
Obsidian, the tufts and leafy greenery is from Tajima (http://www.tajima1.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=282517), the flowery stuff is MiniNatur. The ferns are my own, kinda.
(I have no idea where the flocking and static grass comes from. I've had it for a long time. That static grass must be older than some posters here! :o)
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Wohoo, I won the Gorintō-off! ;)
So, here come the last of my WIPs and pictures of all my gorintōs.
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/Gorinto_8.jpg)
The last masters. Most of the stuff is easy to see what it is. The pieces under the dice is plaster cast in moulds made by bigger dice. The middle pieces, the pyramids, are casts from a d10 and a d8.
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/Gorinto_9.jpg)
Casts of the above, after I've gone over them with a knife. The leftmost is the diamond gorintō, and the rightmost isn't finished yet.
The third from the left is the one with my attempts at characters. I simply draw them with a pencil and then used an ordinary pin to trace over and over. One of the nice things about working in plaster.
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/Gorinto_10_Bunch.jpg)
And here they all are. The diamond sutra gorintō stands out a little more like it does in reality, but not quite. Shifting light really does it.
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j296/henrix_here/Minis/Tutoriial/Gorinto_11_DiamondSutra.jpg)
And here's a better pic of it.
And now it's high time to get on with the terrain. I've barely got three weeks to finish in time for Gubbspel Galore!
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pretty cool
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Nice and simple but very effective will do similar for my fist full of kung fu board I reckon.
Thanks for sharing.
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lovely work! keep it coming :)
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Brilliant, really! I hope to be able to come over and see them at Gubbspel this year! And maybe have a game between these :)
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Thanks, guys!
Zafarelli, you have seen them - they aren't new. Can't remember if they were at the table we played at, though.
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Love it!