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Post by Vermin King on Jul 7, 2018 9:44:26 GMT -9
Trying to come up with an easier Papercuts project So, I am upscaling the Monkey Design French Second Empire House to become the Pike Funeral Home. Only had to scale it up 900%. Need to find appropriate double doors for 'deliveries'. Also going to have a fabric awning on the front. I've wanted to kitbash Ray O'Bannon's horse-drawn hearse from Ravensblight, and this gives me a reason. He does cemeteries and hearses, so why not a funeral parlor? As I picture this, it will sit on a lot with a few trees, with a drive out front and maybe a short wall. I'm going to add his undertaker from the hearse playset and maybe a few Victorian bystanders. At 900%, the textures don't hold up, so I will probably repaint rather than trying to fix what is there.
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 7, 2018 15:33:11 GMT -9
It seems that 53% is what I should rescale the hearse to. A little bit larger than printing at four pages per page. So I'll reduce to 53% and arrange three pages to a page.
After tweaking the textures on the funeral parlor, I think I'm going to repaint. I was also checking out Ray Keim's page, and found out that The Knoll is no longer linked from his pages. It's still there, but I doubt there will be new pieces ... razzum frazzum. I emailed him about it a while back and never got a response. But while I was considering the Phantom Manor or the Bates House as the base for this, I was very impressed with the textures. Phantom Manor has that round window in 3d. I can see using the New Orleans Square walls, windows and doors on this base model. Of course beyond sharing what I've already done, sharing these files won't be possible, but I plan on supplying explanations of what I do, so that if someone wants to try it, they can follow along
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Post by cowboyleland on Jul 7, 2018 15:46:46 GMT -9
Excuse my ignorance but I don't know what the "Pike Funeral Home" is. It did make me think of this right away: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkDnW5xAus8 Now I will probably be listening to Lyle Lovett all night. I am OK with that!
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 7, 2018 16:06:52 GMT -9
Actually, I was just looking for funeral parlor signs from the 1800s, and this one looked right. And I've wanted to do something with the Ravensblight Hearse Carriage for quite a while. You know I'll have to class up the wheels...
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Post by cowboyleland on Jul 7, 2018 16:11:58 GMT -9
So, Good news, (to me) I'm not that ignorant! I guess you will also thicken up the horses and get get rid of the blue between the legs?
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 7, 2018 17:03:26 GMT -9
One of the things I was toying with tonight was a couple methods for accomplishing that
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 8, 2018 12:50:21 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 8, 2018 17:01:00 GMT -9
The hearse is going to be tricky. I'm not taping in straws, etc. The horses are mirrored. There are pieces that should be sandwiches, that are designed as boxes. There are flat pieces that should be triangle tubes. The toothpick solution for holding the rear doors closed will not be suitable at the reduced size. A nifty little puzzle
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 12, 2018 14:14:11 GMT -9
I think I have the awning worked out now. I also need a chimney on this, so will have to work something out. Made a two-page template of the hearse at 53% and started swapping out my newly-designed parts for the shrunk parts, and I am now using the instructions to visualize what else needs to be changed. It has been some time since I did a Ravensblight model, and I had forgotten how obnoxious it is to have to scroll between the build photos and the written instructions. Hello, Gimp! Made an Instructions p1.pdf and Instructions p2.pdf, so now I can just flip between documents with the tabs. I'll have to remember that
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 19, 2018 5:03:38 GMT -9
Not a lot of free time these days, but last night I was trying to work on the hearse. Instead of the toothpick holder to keep the back doors closed, I'm going to have a bar that slides into slots where the toothpick holes are on the original. I'm not going to rework the springs, but the blue areas indicating being able to look through have all been changed to gray. Awning done except to indicate where the side of the awning needs split to accept the posts. Will have to adjust the chimney to the proper slant at the base after I build the funeral parlor. And working on turning some of Ray's monsters into figures. Going to include Mortimer, the undertaker, the Countess, and the Grim Reaper
Hope to work on the wheels tonight
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 21, 2018 17:39:56 GMT -9
I had planned on building this today. I believe that except for tweaking the base of the chimney, the funeral parlor is done. I think I have all the modifications done on the hearse and the three figures. But sorting out the new version of Gimp, trying to get a Malware threat off my Win10 computer and getting some files from the Win 7 to the Win 10 without blowing up DropBox has eaten up the whole blasted day.
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Post by cowboyleland on Jul 22, 2018 17:26:39 GMT -9
I had planned on building this today. I believe that except for tweaking the base of the chimney, the funeral parlor is done. I think I have all the modifications done on the hearse and the three figures. But sorting out the new version of Gimp, trying to get a Malware threat off my Win10 computer and getting some files from the Win 7 to the Win 10 without blowing up DropBox has eaten up the whole blasted day.
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 30, 2018 15:35:37 GMT -9
Originally thought I'd make the funeral home as a Halloween piece for use in Old West to Modern times, but I think I'd rather do it as a Haunted House now. As I was playing with textures, I glanced up and saw that 1916 house and thought how much that reminded me of the Ravensblight haunted houses. So, I'm going to reskin this building using my cleaned-up textures from the En Villa, giving it more gothic windows and doors. I thought about doing a ratty version like the Ravensblight houses, but then I thought 'Haunted Mansion isn't ratty, so haunted doesn't necessarily mean derelict'
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