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Post by jojobo on Sept 21, 2017 14:22:49 GMT -9
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Post by oldschooldm on Sept 21, 2017 14:30:20 GMT -9
Wonderful! Don't miss the awesome fire effects, everyone!
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Post by jojobo on Sept 21, 2017 14:35:09 GMT -9
Thanks, oldschooldm! You are my hero. 😀
Fire effects: flickering tealight, paint the base red and orange, cover the base with hot glue, attach poly-fil stuffing (carefully so as not to burn your fingers!), stretch it out to make it look smoky, spray with black spray paint. Done!
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Post by oldschooldm on Sept 21, 2017 14:54:50 GMT -9
Thanks, oldschooldm! You are my hero. 😀 Everything you like that I do, I learned here. Welcome! Now *you* taught me an awesome technique I will put into play next week! "Fireball!"
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 21, 2017 15:18:10 GMT -9
Wow! It is so great to see my little creations in use and blending in so well. Thanks for sharing and thank you for letting me see those buildings in use.
And super-double-wow on the fire effect
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Post by jojobo on Sept 21, 2017 15:45:24 GMT -9
Vermin King, your buildings are great! Thank you for making them. I wish I had uploaded the pics to be a little larger because you can't see enough detail at this size. I should take a closeup of your buildings and get that posted. Will try to do that later tonight.
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Post by coreyhaim8mydog on Sept 21, 2017 15:48:51 GMT -9
That's awesome.
Where is the fire effect tutorial on here?
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 21, 2017 15:50:27 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Sept 21, 2017 16:10:55 GMT -9
So wonderful!
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Post by jojobo on Sept 21, 2017 18:07:24 GMT -9
Vermin King, here are the close ups! I didn't go with the single roof for the White Hart Inn because I wasn't totally sure how I was going to end up using the carriage house in the layout and wanted to keep them separated. I also skipped the dormers because I ran out of time. Kept meaning to get back to them. I still might!
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Post by jojobo on Sept 21, 2017 18:09:42 GMT -9
The other kind of interesting thing I did was a kitbash of DG's Country House. I needed a large manor house, so I improvised.
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 22, 2017 4:42:54 GMT -9
Thanks for posting your photos. I really like the kitbash on the manor house. One of these days I intend to do a kitbash on Dave's village church with the steeple at the front, actually two, one on each side of the entrance
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Post by missileer on Sept 24, 2017 9:19:11 GMT -9
Really a wonderful assembly! You have inspired me to think larger about the diorama I am currently building with Vermin King's Inn and Guild Hall as the center piece. My wife will probably not consider that a good thing.
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Post by oldschooldm on Sept 24, 2017 9:23:24 GMT -9
Really a wonderful assembly! You have inspired me to think larger about the diorama I am currently building with Vermin King's Inn and Guild Hall as the center piece. My wife will probably not consider that a good thing. Make some of them fold-flat and the space issue will be minimized. :-)
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Post by missileer on Sept 24, 2017 9:33:26 GMT -9
Really a wonderful assembly! You have inspired me to think larger about the diorama I am currently building with Vermin King's Inn and Guild Hall as the center piece. My wife will probably not consider that a good thing. Make some of them fold-flat and the space issue will be minimized. :-) Oldschooldm, Thank you for that thought. Truthfully, I have never thought of storing things and rotating displays. In the past, I just gave things away to create space. I will have to experiment with the fold flat technique; maybe I can keep more of my models.
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Post by jeffgeorge on Sept 27, 2017 5:16:56 GMT -9
jojobo, this town is amazing! I'm especially curious where you found the stone keep and tower--the ones with the bonfires. I've got a ton of Dave Graffam houses, but I really need some castley-keepy terrain for a Frostgrave board, and those would probably work great!
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 27, 2017 5:30:20 GMT -9
The tower looks like the Winterhawk watch tower at FatDragonGames, but I didn't know there was a ruined version Nevermind, the ruined cap is included with the set. www.fatdragongames.com/fdgfiles/?page_id=357The gate house may also be from the Winterhawk series
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Post by jeffgeorge on Sept 27, 2017 11:28:01 GMT -9
The tower looks like the Winterhawk watch tower at FatDragonGames, but I didn't know there was a ruined version Nevermind, the ruined cap is included with the set. www.fatdragongames.com/fdgfiles/?page_id=357The gate house may also be from the Winterhawk series. Thanks! According to DTRPG, I already have that, so...sweet! I tried building a tower from Lord ZseZse Works a few nights ago, but it was more complicated than I had patience for. It had interior textures, which I don't need for wargame terrain, and the kit actually assembled into pieces that would be held together with an assortment of cardstock tabs and hairpins, which again, I didn't need. I think the Winterhawk tower will work much better for me. Update: Found the Watchtower on my harddrive. I wonder what else I have that I've forgotten? I notice it does have interiors, but it doesn't look nearly as fiddly as the ZseZse tower (no offense to Lord ZseZse...that kit is just for more advanced modelers than me at the moment), so I'll give it a try soon.
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Post by jojobo on Sept 28, 2017 4:46:54 GMT -9
Thanks, jeffgeorge! The Watchtower is somewhat time consuming to build, but not actually difficult, and it is really sturdy and stable once assembled--no hairpins needed! I added an extra layer to the regular tower to get a little more height. The other thing is I combined the regular Watchtower and the Orc Watchtower and played with the layers a lot to get the effect I was looking for. I wanted the ruins but not the orc stuff...there was something on the orc tower that I liked better than the regular tower for my purposes, but I don't remember exactly what it was. I'm not sure, but I think I used the orc tower for the base layers and just the ruined top from the main watchtower set.
The other building with the fire is, indeed, pieces from the Fat Dragon Winterhawk keep. I had to make a few adjustments to that one, too, in order to get what I wanted. I think mainly that involved being somewhat clever altering crenelations to make the corner pieces I needed.
In related news, even though we have already started this combat, I can't seem to stop building for this town. I think I'm obsessed. We can't play every weekend, so I think it will be up in my basement for awhile. We shall see how much the town grows before we are done!
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Post by missileer on Sept 28, 2017 18:27:12 GMT -9
Thanks for the information on the buildings. I need a relic for my current project and the keep will work perfectly.
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Post by jeffgeorge on Sept 30, 2017 18:19:56 GMT -9
Extra-double bonus on that Winterhawk Watchtower, for my purposes, at least. I started building it this evening, and tripped over the fact that it has snow and icicles as options in the layers menu...perfect for Frostgrave, which is what I'm building terrain for. jojobo, I just finished the bottom layer, with the thick outer wall and eight buttresses, which took me a couple or three hours to do. So you're right, it's a complicated model, but so far at least, the parts--though many--are all big and pretty easy to handle, and the instructions are absolutely crystal clear. Clear instructions really help with a complex model; I gave up (for now at least) on another publisher's tower, largely because it was a little bit tricksy, and the instructions were really not adequate. I was having to guess often on what to do next, and I'm not at all confident that the last couple of guesses I made before putting it aside were correct. I gotta give Fat Dragon props on its step-by-step instructions for each model.
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Post by jojobo on Oct 2, 2017 3:48:22 GMT -9
Totally agree. I don't mind time-consuming if it's understandable. I'm struggling with a building from another publisher right now, and I've set it aside multiple times because it's so complicated to figure out.
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Post by jojobo on Oct 2, 2017 3:48:56 GMT -9
And thumbs up for the snow/icicle layers for Frostgrave!
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Post by jeffgeorge on Oct 7, 2017 20:34:58 GMT -9
And thumbs up for the snow/icicle layers for Frostgrave! My watchtower is finished, at least the undamaged-top version, and it looks great. I'm going to do the ruined top as well, if not a whole second tower. (Because each story is a separate piece, you could just make the alternate ruined top section and switch it out on the rest of the model, which is kind of cool.) It took a few evenings to finish, because it has lots of parts, but the instructions were clear and there was nothing fiddly about it, so the assembly went smoothly throughout. And it's really sturdy for a cardstock model, because every wall is either double-layer cardstock, or made of multiple 3D wall sections. Definitely worth the time that went into it. When I get a bit more of this Frostgrave project done, I'll post some pics. I hope to have it ready for the table in a couple or three more weeks.
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Post by thehobbybox on Jul 1, 2021 14:15:51 GMT -9
such a nice layout
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Post by thehobbybox on Jul 25, 2022 21:51:57 GMT -9
love it!
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