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Post by wyvern on Feb 20, 2016 12:41:08 GMT -9
With this being a short month, I'm going to have to buckle down. At least it's longer than most Februarys And I love that Round Tower.
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 21, 2016 15:07:13 GMT -9
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Post by wyvern on Feb 22, 2016 4:08:15 GMT -9
Thanks Vermin King! I did have a hunt around on the CWF intending to add one myself, but couldn't find it; never thought to check Papermakeit...
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 22, 2016 6:18:11 GMT -9
And we have a week left. I really need to buckle down on this. Anyone considered doing an Irish Wolfhound, a bog pony or the Irish Elk (or Irish Giant Deer, if you prefer)?
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 24, 2016 15:44:28 GMT -9
As I was hunting down the actual dimensions of the Gallarus Oratory, I found a really cool site www.3dicons.ie/I have yet to figure out how to acquire the 3d models, but I did get the dimensions that I wanted I hope there are other projects like this around the world, especially in those areas where ancient treasures are endangered
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 24, 2016 20:24:45 GMT -9
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Post by cowboyleland on Feb 25, 2016 4:57:44 GMT -9
It looks like a very good resemblance to me. You say: "whole thing needs enlarged" but I think you should leave the door the same size. The photo seems to show the door about 1/3 the height while the sketch is closer to 1/2. Enlarging might give you the chance to emphasize the curve in the roof a bit more, but I'm nit picking.
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 25, 2016 9:32:28 GMT -9
The door height on the model is pretty close to the 5.5 ft. mark, but needs to be wider. I also want to work at emphasizing the curvature of the corners.
It is odd that only by chance last night did I find exterior dimensions (from the site listed above). Interior dimensions are all over the internet. Just odd.
I'm also going to have the slab cross from the Oratory and the St. Mary's High Cross on this template.
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 26, 2016 19:02:52 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 28, 2016 16:27:41 GMT -9
Well, we have one more day on this ... And here is the Oratory
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 29, 2016 8:04:55 GMT -9
Gonna try and finish Old Finn McCool here I'm hoping that Old Finn McCool is still working, and speaking of 'still', I hope the Tom's still is still working. We've got the Irish Axe man, the Celtic Warrior, several versions of Barrow Mounds, Standing Stones, the Gallarus Oratory. It's gonna be a tremendous Hoard. I still wish someone would have done the Giant Irish Deer/Elk or a leprechaun, or a Delorean or a bog pony or Irish Wolfhound. But it is a pretty sweet hoard. We are gonna have some work to do to outshine this one for the March Hoard.
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Post by gilius on Feb 29, 2016 13:19:47 GMT -9
Aaaaand here it is, Balor and a warrior at 15mm scale. Warrior is 15mm tall to eye level, Balor is 41mm tall to his regular eyes. This time should be formatted according to the forum hoard standards (centered on an 8.5"x11" page with transparent background, using the 4mm tall tabs from the production package.) [EDIT] Ugh, it seems Postimg removed the transparent background. Here is a link to the correct image posted on Flickr. I tried downloading it at original size and it seems OK. flic.kr/p/ED2133
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 29, 2016 18:54:18 GMT -9
Time is clicking down...
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 1, 2016 4:51:22 GMT -9
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Mar 4, 2016 3:49:46 GMT -9
OK. So, I am going to start getting things together for this hoard finally. I didn't get the head start I had last time... We've got:
Terrain! Celtic stones - three base tiles, three stone styles, two lid styles and instructions. Minionth Mound More mounds Tektonic mounds Oratory
Minis! 15mm Balor and Warrior Celtic Warrior Irish Axeman Kobopolite Wally
The challenge for the terrain might be reformatting it all to fit within the safe cutting area. Otherwise, this should be a pretty straight-forward exercise. Thanks for all the submissions everyone!!!
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Post by cowboyleland on Mar 4, 2016 3:57:08 GMT -9
mproteau (Paper Realms) I pulled the Kobopolite because the symbol on the shield is copyrighted. I actually ended up making a whole kobold army. When I change the shields I will post them as a group. Cheers!
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Mar 4, 2016 5:46:22 GMT -9
Less work for me! Sweet! And, I'm the owner of a rare, limited-edition, black market kobold mini. I feel like the value of my mini collection just skyrocketed! It's like finding a misprinted penny.
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Mar 4, 2016 7:51:42 GMT -9
Easy part is done - getting the pages all laid out. This is gonna be several PDF files, which might make downloads easier. I'll do minis in one PDF, and terrain in three or four PDFs. The hard part will be building it all. I don't plan on inventing instructions for building things, but some of these mounds deserve some step-by-step assembly pictures.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 4, 2016 8:40:54 GMT -9
I tried to throw in several in the thread here. Here is an exerpt from Bruno's 'Help' pdf on how to handle his tabs. He has a unique method on tabs, but it works very well on his planes, etc. because it allows for a very smooth join on curved surfaces. Razzum, Frazzum, I don't know if that came through
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Mar 5, 2016 8:11:31 GMT -9
Printed and cut the standees - we've got five minis spanning four styles and three scales. lol I managed to fat-finger the confirmation dialog in Studio though and closed it without saving. -_- Before I make them again, I'm printing and cutting the oratory to see how it goes together. Fingers crossed!
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 5, 2016 9:31:21 GMT -9
On the oratory, start at the bottom and work your way up. Make the cap piece and slide it in between the cap rock sides, but slide the ends over the east and west walls. glue the cap piece tabs to the inside of the roof and then glue the cap sides from the roof to the cap piece.
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Mar 5, 2016 10:06:14 GMT -9
Read this message after finishing the oratory. The sides went on just fine, though the top was a little wonky. I assumed that the top piece was supposed to have the textured sides reverse-folded upwards. I removed the tabs from the sides since I didn't see their value. With the piece simplified, I slipped it between the top bits. One side was much taller than the other, and much taller, and I just trimmed it with scissors when it was dry. I didn't make the 3d entrance. I just left the flat one in place. I think I could update it if I feel ambitious, since the bottom is open. All in all, it went together pretty quickly and smoothly.
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Mar 5, 2016 10:11:07 GMT -9
What's the scoop with Bruno's mound - there's a funny outlined thing - is that just a guide for building it? Is it meant to be a support piece that's attached to something? It's not clear what to do with this.
I'm going to build the three mounds next. I think I'll start with the Tektonic Mound. Your pics... it looks like you have a base on Bruno's mound - did you use the same circular base for them all?
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 5, 2016 11:24:51 GMT -9
The outline is only to show the profile that you should end up with. I really didn't think you would include all the mounds. I mostly included them as curiosities that people could grab from the hoard thread. Most of the mounds do not have bases
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Mar 5, 2016 12:01:00 GMT -9
The outline is only to show the profile that you should end up with. I really didn't think you would include all the mounds. I mostly included them as curiosities that people could grab from the hoard thread. Most of the mounds do not have bases I included what people posted to the thread. If I had to infer what was meant for the hoard and what wasn't, I'd be confused more than usual. :-P I cut out the template, and made a second one by hand, and slotted them together in a cross so I could rest my model on it to ensure I'm not way out of whack. I'm still fighting my way through my first mound. Making cutfiles means I have to understand what exactly I'm supposed to be cutting and scoring, and I'll be honest it's not always obvious to me - I consider myself a newbie with respect to the modelling techniques this uses. Here's an example of how things usually go with me. It's not huge knock against the model or the designer. Just illustrative of how one particular end-user ends up working with the model... I started by cutting out the stone base. It's three long pieces. I had it cut out each piece without slicing up the tabs on the top into tiny flaps, though in hindsight I could have. I also had the cutter score the top tab. This worked out OK. I glued the three pieces together and got a nice right. Then for the next layer. I had the cutter slice out the two pieces that make up the first grassy roof layer. I glued them together and made a nice sloped ring. Now to attach it to the base... I started in one spot and glued some tabs down, then did some more glue and some more tabs. When I finally got most of the way around I could see that it wasn't going to line up at all. The circumference of the grassy ring was much larger than the stone base. I ended up slicing the grassy layer in half so that it could overlap itself, and when the base was attached to it, I glued the grassy layer to itself. Seems OK, but I probably would have preferred just not gluing the ends together until I had to. Now I see I didn't have the cutter score the top tab like I did on the base. I'm not sure how well that'll go, but I should probably make the cutfiles score it. I didn't do it because I saw it was totally textured, and figured "why would it be completely textured if it's going to be completely hidden? The rock wall part didn't use a rock texture on its flaps..." I'm about getting ready to cut out the final two layers, and I'm looking at the topmost piece. It LOOKS like I'm to carve out the topmost circle - separate it from the layer around it (I assume this because it's got white all around it) but then what would it attach to once cut out? There are no tabs. But even if I leave it attached a little bit, it's got nothing to attach to. Maybe I leave it attached completely? I'll try it, I guess. Maybe score around it? I hate having to think this much about a model. Am I just not terribly bright and this should be obvious? Did I miss an explanation in the thread somewhere? I will admit to being part daft and part lazy. Anyway, I will continue to plug away and see how things turn out. Hopefully I'll be able to capture the spirit of the hand-modifications I have to make in the cutfiles.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 5, 2016 12:37:32 GMT -9
I believe you are doing the flatter mound, right? 1st page is the base, second page has the top piece and the top ring. Page 3 is the stonework and lowest ring. I started out gluing the stone ring together and gluing it to the base. I next made the grass rings. On one model I glued lowest ring first, and on the other, I glued the top to the top ring first, it doesn't seem to matter. For ease of construction, I'd probably work bottom-up. Easiest way to be able to press the glue tabs to the parts. The top piece just glues onto the inner tabs of top ring.
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Post by squirmydad on Mar 5, 2016 14:55:03 GMT -9
Easy part is done - getting the pages all laid out. This is gonna be several PDF files, which might make downloads easier. I'll do minis in one PDF, and terrain in three or four PDFs. The hard part will be building it all. I don't plan on inventing instructions for building things, but some of these mounds deserve some step-by-step assembly pictures. You could make a different picture for each download, or, if that's too much work, one big group shot and I'll create individual download links for each packet. This is why I included the publicity shots with my submission so as to spare you some construction this month.
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Post by squirmydad on Apr 24, 2016 19:59:31 GMT -9
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Post by wyvern on Apr 25, 2016 3:38:40 GMT -9
Is this actually the Hoard with the most models (rather than minis) in? Or am I simply being fooled by the helpful way this set has been split up into manageable links?
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Post by wyvern on May 13, 2016 14:26:25 GMT -9
I've been trawling through the Papermau website lately, and came across a model of an Irish chapel, St Kevin's of Glendalough, County Wicklow (Wikipedia link). The Papermau blog post is this one from September 2011. What caught my attention, other than the architecture, was the fact the small sacristy annexe building looked initially rather like the Gallarus Oratory: (Paper model)(Wikimedia Commons image of the real place)That's the Glendalough Round Tower in the background of the Wikimedia photo, incidentally. See the Glendalough Wikipedia page for more on this. Unfortunately, the link to Pepachal's paper models is defunct - it goes to a link page for a "new" site, but that newer site has gone as well. Thankfully however, thanks to the WaybackMachine, I eventually managed to track it down to this preserved webpage (it's a direct-link to the PDF). Seemed in-keeping with this Hoard thread to mention it here.
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