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Offline Blackwolf

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Re: More Piraty Goodness(now with added sea monster!)......
« Reply #75 on: August 07, 2011, 08:20:08 AM »
The added sea monster is kraken (groan)! Smashing stuff :-*
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Re: More Piraty Goodness(now with added sea monster!)......
« Reply #76 on: December 20, 2011, 01:28:28 PM »
I haven't added to this thread for a while, but I thought it would be better to continue this than start a new.

With my brother and myselfs BLAM game out of the road and my Big ben finished(just waiting for clock faces!) I thought I would do some more pirate stuff. We were looking for some buildings for a pirate town and I fancied doing it in a fantasy style. A couple of guys have started something like this before......

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=27080.0

I really love their style so I'm going to try something similar. I've made a few drawings of stuff I want to make...







I started making the building that looks as if a ship has crashed through it...









....what do you think? Too fantasy?


For completeness I also made a dice tower. It's already been posted in another thread but I thought I'd leave some pictures here too...





.....probably to many rock skulls for one thread but anyway!

Cheers!!

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Re: More Piraty Goodness( starting a pirate town!)......
« Reply #77 on: December 20, 2011, 02:33:48 PM »
Wonderful stuff Andy. Your ability to turn concepts from your imagination into reality is astonishing. You are a truly talented G*T indvidual ;) :)
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Re: More Piraty Goodness( starting a pirate town!)......
« Reply #78 on: December 20, 2011, 02:45:13 PM »
 Really nice start to the piece.Love the concept drawings too.

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Re: More Piraty Goodness( starting a pirate town!)......
« Reply #79 on: December 20, 2011, 03:03:02 PM »
Oh, so many good ideas to borrow!

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Re: More Piraty Goodness( starting a pirate town!)......
« Reply #80 on: December 20, 2011, 03:11:54 PM »
Why did you score out git, Nick? Totally right  :D
Very,  very nice. Now you have to build the rest of the town because it won't fit on with mine.

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Re: More Piraty Goodness( starting a pirate town!)......
« Reply #81 on: December 20, 2011, 03:18:47 PM »
 :o
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Re: More Piraty Goodness( starting a pirate town!)......
« Reply #82 on: December 20, 2011, 03:39:07 PM »
You're going to die!

Man that is awesome.

Could you explain - fast - how to make those palm trees? In a really fiddly and detailed way?

How does your stockpile look? I mean what do you have lying around foam/balsa wise,..,. or do you shop for every idea?
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Re: More Piraty Goodness( starting a pirate town!)......
« Reply #83 on: December 21, 2011, 08:10:32 AM »
Cheers guys!!

You're going to die!

Man that is awesome.

Could you explain - fast - how to make those palm trees? In a really fiddly and detailed way?

How does your stockpile look? I mean what do you have lying around foam/balsa wise,..,. or do you shop for every idea?


Should I be worried about the death thing? ???

Stockpile consists mostly of cornflake packet card, mounting board and some blue foam. There is some bits of plastic rod and balsa left from other projects that do eventually see some use.

Palm trees-
1. Take some stiff wire and twist together. Leave some wire sticking out at angles                       at the top.

 2. Use tape and wrap around the trunk of the wire to bulk it out.

 3. Wind twine around, over the tape all the way up to your branches.

 4. Use thick tin foil or use PVA glue and double normal stuff over, and cut out leaf    
shapes.

5. Glue leafs in place.

6. Get a beer. Step back and admire work


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Re: More Piraty Goodness( starting a pirate town!)......
« Reply #84 on: December 21, 2011, 08:25:44 AM »

6. Get a beer. Step back and admire work



I like that part :D

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Re: More Piraty Goodness( starting a pirate town!)......
« Reply #85 on: December 21, 2011, 08:54:15 AM »
Talent, vision and execution.
AndyM for First Minister!  ;)
Great stuff.

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Re: More Piraty Goodness( starting a pirate town!)......
« Reply #86 on: December 21, 2011, 11:42:06 AM »
THANK YOU!

Although I must admit this bit puzzles me slightly:

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or use PVA glue and double normal stuff over, and cut out leaf     
shapes.

double normal stuff?!

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Re: More Piraty Goodness( starting a pirate town!)......
« Reply #87 on: December 21, 2011, 11:58:05 AM »
THANK YOU!

Although I must admit this bit puzzles me slightly:

double normal stuff?!

The tinfoil you get from most supermarkets is too flimsy and thin, so all I do is fold a wee bit of tinfoil in half and glue it together to give a sheet twice as thick. Then once that's dry I cut out my leaf shape. It makes the leafs more robust. I hope that helps......

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Re: More Piraty Goodness( starting a pirate town!)......
« Reply #88 on: December 23, 2011, 03:36:50 PM »
I think that's my first pirate building finished....









All I've got to do now is coat it with a thin lair of watered down polyfilla and paint it.

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Re: More Piraty Goodness (first pirate building finished!)......
« Reply #89 on: December 23, 2011, 05:17:18 PM »
 :o

The boat crash is very nice and melds with the building well.  Love the sketch of the grog shop - can't wait for that.

I have been banned from Pirates at the moment (well till a get a boat built for my wife from 20+ years ago) but I'll not stop peeking in from the corner if that's OK?

 

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