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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: blacksoilbill on April 16, 2015, 02:00:41 PM
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I've just built some terrain tiles for my Pulp Alley meets Rogue Trader project. There's a tutorial over on my blog if you'd like to see how. http://preacherbyday.blogspot.com/2015/04/sci-fi-terrain-tile-tutorial.html (http://preacherbyday.blogspot.com/2015/04/sci-fi-terrain-tile-tutorial.html)
(http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo233/blacksoilbill/IMG_7782.jpg)
(http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo233/blacksoilbill/IMG_7778.jpg)
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This looks great. Thanks for the turorial.
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Damn that look nice.
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Thanks. They do come up well for a very simple technique.
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They look great.
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Great work! Thanks for sharing.
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That is nice work.
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Excellent work, Bill! I'm looking forward to seeing the tiles in action. ;)
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They DO look good! 8)
Are you just painting the lines on the cork? I believe cork is fairly soft, why not inscribe them first before painting?
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Thanks. The lines are just painted on. In my experience at least, cork doesn't scribe all that well. It tends to pull up all the little cork bits and leaves a pretty ragged line.
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Most impressive, indeed. At first glance, it looks remarkably 3D. I wonder if you could do the black lines with a fine pen, but the following white highlights would possibly smudge the ink...
I'm also fascinated by the surface effect. All the cork stuff I've found so far seem to have a rather prominent pattern (due to the growth patterns, obviously) which bleeds through all my attemps to disguise it other than textured paint.
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Yes, the effect is quite convincing. When I showed my kids, they all ran their fingers over the tile, expecting to feel the lines.
I'd love to see a photo of the cork you've used. It sounds quite different but I'm having trouble picturing what it looks like. This stuff has a pattern based on the granules of cork compressed together, but it's flat enough to give you a bit of texture without being too bumpy. That's one of the reasons I love it compared to foam core - the texture is already there. It also cuts so much better.