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Offline Christian

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Re: Static grass applicator?
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2013, 11:44:29 AM »
This is really interesting. When I first saw the thread title I honestly thought "pfft, pansies" but since then have had a fair bit of trouble with longer blades of static grass! Serves me right, but now I am really interested to see these devices in action.

With shorter varieties of grass I usually just press a large clump on to a small blob of glue and blow/tap the rest off and it stands up quite nice.

I'll be hitting YouTube for some examples, I think... thanks for getting this started!

Offline Za Zjurman

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Re: Static grass applicator?
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2013, 11:53:25 AM »
You can always try making one yourself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSr2ZNOn4yc

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Re: Static grass applicator?
« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2013, 01:47:16 PM »

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Re: Static grass applicator?
« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2013, 12:23:36 AM »
That is a really nifty tool. "She" goes on to show how to make tufts out of it, much like the ones sold by Mininatur etc. Excellent stuff!!

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Re: Static grass applicator?
« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2013, 12:29:44 AM »
what i can HEAVILY suggest is to force the field to be parallel by putting two plane faces, as in a capacitor. The polarization should work a little better for the turfts, avoiding the lateral fallen grass, that sometimes is... excessive!

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Re: Static grass applicator?
« Reply #20 on: February 18, 2013, 09:57:23 AM »
what i can HEAVILY suggest is to force the field to be parallel by putting two plane faces, as in a capacitor. The polarization should work a little better for the turfts, avoiding the lateral fallen grass, that sometimes is... excessive!

How would you do that without embedding a sheet of metal in your board?
So many projects..... so little time.......

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Re: Static grass applicator?
« Reply #21 on: February 21, 2013, 01:08:17 PM »
There's a third video in the series where the author goes into exactly that (as far as I can tell from your comments).

She places a bit of baking paper with dabs of glue on a piece of metal.

The charged grass falls on to the glue blobs upright and they dry, resulting in real "tufts" you can then apply to your gaming board, base etc.

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Re: Static grass applicator?
« Reply #22 on: February 21, 2013, 02:31:48 PM »
There's a third video in the series where the author goes into exactly that (as far as I can tell from your comments).

She places a bit of baking paper with dabs of glue on a piece of metal.

The charged grass falls on to the glue blobs upright and they dry, resulting in real "tufts" you can then apply to your gaming board, base etc.

Saw that, i was referring to this. But if instead of a spherical object above she used a flat one, it could have been different. When i will recieve my bug zapper i'll try both the configurations. Maybe it's just a theoretical idea, with no effective improvements!

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Re: Static grass applicator?
« Reply #23 on: March 08, 2013, 10:59:52 AM »
*bump* :D

so how's it going? ;)
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Re: Static grass applicator?
« Reply #24 on: March 08, 2013, 12:02:40 PM »
same question from me! i bough a bug zapper but for the moment i tried it once with mediocre results.  I've to study a better way of action! =)

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Re: Static grass applicator?
« Reply #25 on: March 09, 2013, 09:19:16 AM »
Apologies for not posting sooner, but with one thing and another I only got to test my applicator the other day.

I use coins to mount my figures on, and so I attached the clip directly to the edge of the coin, not sure if this increased the amount of static but the results were great. All the grass is standing up in a neat little bunch. I'm not sure the difference in results between my £14.99 applicator and the more expensive models, but to be honest, I can't see how you could get a better result, I'm really impressed.

I think out of interest I will try it out on a wood base later and see if the grass stands up as well as it does on the coin.

I had planned to post pictures but I can't get my camera to work, looks like the thing is knackered. If I do get it working, or if I can borrow a camera from someone, then I will post up some pics.

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Re: Static grass applicator?
« Reply #26 on: March 09, 2013, 12:34:28 PM »
I use coins to mount my figures on, and so I attached the clip directly to the edge of the coin, not sure if this increased the amount of static but the results were great.
brilliant news mate :)

 

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