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Post by grendelsmother64 on Sept 10, 2017 10:38:42 GMT -9
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Sept 3, 2017 8:34:48 GMT -9
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 30, 2017 7:21:54 GMT -9
Looks fine to me. I can do another test-build if you want to, but only after the Papercuts are done. Just one more thing I had wondered at - why did you put two glue tabs along the length of the barrel instead of one - just curious. I was thinking it would be easier to glue down by reaching in with a toothpick from either end. I guess it doesn't matter. You could always cut it as one piece.... GM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 29, 2017 19:08:00 GMT -9
Done: Royal Navy Cannons by grendels_mother64, on Flickr I think this solves the build issues. And I've up the texture a little as well. Thanks for the input. Here's the link to the printable one page PDF: Royal Navy CannonsGM64 EDIT: I decided to go back a texture version and add the cannon without a rope to the file....so now there are two versions on the one page....
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 29, 2017 7:29:24 GMT -9
If I might make another suggestion, which goes along with the previous comment about the tabs interfering with each other. I was planning on moving the barrel end tabs to the barrel, allowing the end caps to just glue onto the those tabs. I am on a time crunch or I'd show you what I meant. I should be able to work it up tomorrow night. EDIT-- Okay, not pretty, but try this. Should be easier to build I hope I am not overstepping in posting this, but it sometimes is easier to illustrate than to explain Duh.... Nope, you are exactly correct. This makes much more sense. Thanks for the input....on to the next revision.... GM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 28, 2017 14:51:04 GMT -9
I'm still quite busy with our other projects for the Papercuts 2017 but I couldn't resist trying my hand at this beauty. Let's have a look: The gun carriage was easy to assemble. The problem was the gun barrel. I use rather heavy cardstock for my builds (220 g/m²) and that makes rolling bits always a bit difficult, especially when they are not straight cylinders, but rather cones. The conical part at the end of the barrel was not a problem, but assembling the barrel as a whole was anything but easy. It felt like something between rolling a cigarette (ex-smoker here, thankfully clean for 5 years now) and amateur pottery. The problem wasn't only in rolling the barrel but also in keeping the tabs of the back cap and the muzzle plate inside the cylinder. I'm sure its easier with paper or light cardstock. Also, the glue tabs were so long and wide that it wasn't possible to get the capping pieces rounded smoothly. When we take a view at the bottom the source of the problem becomes apparent: the cyclinder isn't wide enough to accomodate all the glue tabs and the front and back pieces, at least when you use heavy cardstock. The conclusions from my experimental build would be the following: - widen the gun barrel piece a bit - don't design the barrel as a single piece: move the tabs from the cap and the round front piece to the barrel piece and have the cap and round piece separate from the barrel. This allows you to roll the barrel more easily and then add the front and back pieces once the glue has set on the barrel. Shorten the tabs and place more of them along the edge of the barrel piece in an saw-tooth pattern. - extend the texture into the glue tabs. This saves a lot of edging work. I hope you'll take my criticisms in the friendly manner they are meant to. I like the general look of the cannon a lot. Oh, I almost forgot to mention that it's really great you're back at designing papercraft models. I really like your older models, especially the viking ships, and I'm looking forward to your pirate ship models. Cool, I kinda knew the cannon itself would be pretty fiddly. I was thinking the tabs along the long edge would glue to the inside (a bit tricky, but should be do-able with toothpick or some long skinny pliers). Then the ends tabs could be folded inside...they wouldn't need too much to stick, as they aren't really structural. I think you're right though, they might be easier as separate pieces....and maybe a fraction smaller. I'd leave the tabs long though....better chance for something to stick when you shove them in the cylinder.... Great job though soaringraven. It's always cool to see my stuff get made. Thanks for the input...look for version 2.2 up soon.... GM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 28, 2017 8:04:36 GMT -9
Something like this base is what I had envisioned for an off-loading ramp for Eric's steamlaunch Like airplane stairs: ??
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 28, 2017 7:14:52 GMT -9
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 27, 2017 13:42:18 GMT -9
So here's the first little bit. One of the ship's cannons. cannon_test_01 by grendels_mother64, on Flickr It's not fully textured yet, but does anyone want to do a test build....make sure everything fits and isn't too small or fiddly...? Here's a PDF: Royal Navy Cannon Test. (link deleted.....upload the textured version a couple of posts below...) Any takers...? GM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 26, 2017 6:54:22 GMT -9
For use in massive naval battles or for use with 30mm minis? Was thinking 30mm. But if you check out Fist Full of Seamen....what they do is kind of a combination of both.... FIst Full of Seamen AdepticonGM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 25, 2017 11:10:48 GMT -9
I have been following this site for a while: Fist Full of SeamenThey do huge pirate themed games with great terrain and some really good ship models. So....I was thinking a few 1700-1800-ish paper model ships might be cool. A day of goofing around on sketchup gave me this (very) initial concept.... hms pickle04 by grendels_mother64, on Flickr hms pickle01 by grendels_mother64, on Flickr So who knows what might turn up in the near future....? GM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 22, 2017 10:12:07 GMT -9
I've been enjoying this model immensely. NEVER STAND UP IN A CANOE!!!!!!
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 22, 2017 10:10:12 GMT -9
I've sent Shawn an email. Volunteered to help put his downloads back in order, either at his site or post them here Hey verminking, Sorry i didn't get back to you on that...was kinda distracted with other stuff. I'm pretty sure everything is back up and running on my blog site now. I'm going to start putting more stuff up again...back in the mood for paper models... But if you want to back up my stuff here...just in case Google docs/drive decides to pull a dropbox and start declining public downloads, then I'm OK with that. GM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 22, 2017 8:23:05 GMT -9
Black Sails was pretty good.
GM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 21, 2017 20:15:24 GMT -9
Hey all,
I just spent the day cleaning up the links on my blog....damn you dropbox!!!!!
Sorry if I didn't reply much (or at all) to some of these requests...but I think I'm back now, and I have a few ideas for new stuff.
So....
Hope to be talking more at you fellas in the near future.
GM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 21, 2017 20:05:06 GMT -9
I finished up a couple fort sections today, and will be moving on to finishing up the hoard packaging for March! I ended up using paperclips (and lots of em) to hold the pieces together, and that's how I have the walls in place, too. Hey mproteau, I'm thinking about getting some of this old stuff back up on my blog. Mind if I borrow your photo to use as an image for this...? I don't have any of this thing actually assembled. GM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Nov 24, 2016 18:58:32 GMT -9
Here's a shot with my "Scale Monolith" in the background. With a two inch ruler image pasted on one side and a 30mm Captain Mal on another. It really helps make sure when I'm goofing around with ideas that I keep the scale in mind. GM64 Warning! Thread Necromancy Just wondering, do you still have the files for this? The art work of the reindeer is in the thread. They would just be mirror image figs. The sled...not sure. Would be on my last computer. I'll have a look when I get some time. GM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Sept 17, 2016 20:29:55 GMT -9
If you're looking for a translation for ambulance, I've heard that krankenwagon is a common German slang. (sick wagon)
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Sept 14, 2016 9:38:10 GMT -9
Hey dungeonmistress, I'm interested in doing some giants to add to the Norse Gods figs I did in the Pantheon showcase.
Maybe you could do a google image search and put up some examples of illustrations or figs you like of the different giant races...just to give me an idea of what you had in mind.
GM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Sept 9, 2016 9:26:28 GMT -9
Or...as my brother always says: "Measure once, cut once. Measure again, make your final cut. Repeat if necessary." GM64 BTW: Beautiful stuff VK And thanks.
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 12, 2016 12:50:22 GMT -9
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 12, 2016 12:41:48 GMT -9
I don't know if this was mentioned in the thread, but here's something I learned the hard way: JPGs use a form of compression that "fudges" the details to make a smaller file. If you work in JPGs, every time you save, you get a little bit blurrier image. I was working on an image...a long time ago...where I was adding fine detail to different parts of the picture. It was really time consuming. But whenever I was happy with one section, I'd zoom back in on one I had finished earlier to find that all that detail had turned to mush. Lesson learned...? Work in BMP or PNG....make your LAST save as a JPG. GM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 9, 2016 20:03:56 GMT -9
Here's a page of food carts on pinterest, There's a few Asian ones that might give you some ideas...
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 5, 2016 9:54:50 GMT -9
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 4, 2016 20:42:14 GMT -9
Those do look good Dave....much better than the ones I hamfistedly put together. Did he re-texture them I wonder...? Ask him to post a scan of those car stats cards to my blog comments will you? ...I'm not on FB and my fragile ego needs proof that I'm not just sending this stuff into the great void unnoticed. And thanks for the free advertising on your Eldritch release. I noticed a big uptick in my blog visits when you put those up. Hey, did I ever tell you that I bought your superhero drawing book...a long time ago... My middle daughter found it and won't give it back... GM64 Edit: when did he put up this pic? I usually get a couple of hundred hits a day, but Jul 29 was way over a thousand.
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 4, 2016 19:35:47 GMT -9
A little more messing around. The saddle's kinda big...but who knows, maybe the rider is really big...? jerba2 by grendels_mother64, on Flickr GM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 4, 2016 10:05:39 GMT -9
An hour of goofing off produced this (all from copyright free images): jerba by grendels_mother64, on Flickr If you can use it, then I leave the fig formatting up to you. GM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 3, 2016 21:48:02 GMT -9
I vaguely remember a middle eastern village set someone on the original forum here made years ago. The guy had a username with "vampire" in it I think. I seem to remember it had some domed buildings with it... Ah...here it is: www.drivethrurpg.com/product/20392/Desert-Village?hot60=0&src=hottest_filtered&it=1Anything like you had in mind? Although there are tons of dome templates out there that you could side and texture and put on top of what you have... GM64 Edit: or do you mean the furry thing? The only pic I could find online was from Wookiepedia. Nice drawing, but I don't know who the artist is or how protective Wookiepedia is about their content. You could always get creative and put a gerbil's head on a yak....
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 3, 2016 17:27:56 GMT -9
Here's a beautiful promo shot of Sideshow's 1/6 scale model dewback: I'm sure it could serve as an excellent inspiration for a dewback fig. GM64
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Jul 1, 2016 14:29:44 GMT -9
I was about halfway through Thor's chariot. If I get a chance tonight, I'll put some work into it and see if I can finish it....if it isn't too late.... GM64
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