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Post by alloydog on Sept 22, 2017 6:01:05 GMT -9
Thanks for the suggestion, but yes, I've looked at them and hollow punches, but you need to hammer those, not something I want to be doing late in the evening, as I don't have any 'workshop' type area. I really want the quiet hand squeezy type.
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Post by alloydog on Sept 22, 2017 1:26:48 GMT -9
I've been trying to find a 20 mm round hole punch. I have searched and asked around shops and have found various shapes, but none which are just round. I want to make movement trays and I have 20 mm bases. I have also found 3/4" ones, but they are 1 mm too small and 7/8" is over 2 mm too big and the figures will most likely fall out.
Any ideas?
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Post by alloydog on Sept 21, 2017 9:56:53 GMT -9
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Post by alloydog on Sept 21, 2017 9:38:11 GMT -9
I've used both PosteRazor and Adobe Reader. As I seem to recall, PosteRazor took a bit of mucking about to get a good result. Now, when at a Windows PC, I just use GIMP, or Word or LibreOffice to export the image to PDF format and in Adobe Reader, select ''Poster'' as the print option. I still need to use PosteRazor.
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Updates
Sept 20, 2017 6:57:40 GMT -9
Post by alloydog on Sept 20, 2017 6:57:40 GMT -9
it's just a light-box, right? Yes, just a light box, but as Dominic said his homemade one didn't seem to give an even light distribution, I thought he might be interested, as it's doesn't seem too expensive.
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Updates
Sept 19, 2017 9:41:34 GMT -9
Post by alloydog on Sept 19, 2017 9:41:34 GMT -9
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Post by alloydog on Sept 14, 2017 8:26:39 GMT -9
I find it hard to imagine what a professional can get out of a tablet, especiallly compared to old-school media. My mate Iain is a professional graphic artist/designer and all his work now is digital and done with his tablet - which going by the size of it, should be called a /table/ You can find some of his work here: 1000words.fi/en/My daughter, on the other hand, is doing it as a hobby. She's just uploaded a couplef pieces to Deviantart: deiakats.deviantart.com/
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Post by alloydog on Sept 14, 2017 4:58:43 GMT -9
Here's my model of the Orville (primed but not painted)... Woogie like!
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Post by alloydog on Sept 14, 2017 1:12:17 GMT -9
She does mostly sketches of people (made up, not real life), I'll ask her if she wouldn't mind if I put a link to some of her stuff online. m One other benefit of digital is the cost. Her tablet cost EUR 50. We've spent well over that on art suplies!
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Post by alloydog on Sept 13, 2017 17:47:41 GMT -9
She is good with both digital and real-life media, that I admit, but what I was getting at, is that the drawing tablet helps helps cross-over from real world to digital. I gather you are more comfortable creating on paper, then transferring it to digital. Because a tablet can give the same effects you get with pens, pencils, brushes and so, plus you get two big benefits of digital media you don't really have in real life: layers and UNDO, you might find you can create more. But, it isn't for everyone, that is why I suggest finding a cheap secondhand one first.
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Post by alloydog on Sept 13, 2017 9:46:39 GMT -9
I think the problem is the swords. At Halloween in schools around here pirates can't have swords and cowboys have empty holsters. Dumb, just dumb. Luckily, my kids' school is in the real world: My son's class all made swords and shields in woodwork a few months back.
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Post by alloydog on Sept 13, 2017 9:41:57 GMT -9
Dominic I would seriously recommend getting a drawing tablet, even a secondhand one. My daughter was really good when she just had a mouse, but then we got her a small Wacom Intuos, it's about the size or a regular mouse mat. Now she can use the pressure effect as well as other bonuses. Her work has always been bl**dy good, but she can get stuff much quicker, because she doesn't have to create effects like the way a brush stroke trails off towrds the end. My mate has one which is over 40 cm corner to corner and is also the screen! But that's a different story...
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Post by alloydog on Sept 13, 2017 7:08:05 GMT -9
There's a spiral staircase with a handrail. Also from the trailers, you could probably guestimate the height of the ceiling from the floor and so come up with something.
With my trusty metal rule hovering over my tablet screen, I'll have a pitch at 1mm per metre, sooooo: 121 × 32 × 26 metres (l x w x h)
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Post by alloydog on Sept 9, 2017 22:09:44 GMT -9
For light snow, using a glue or varnish that doesn't dry too shiney, paint iton the areas you want the snow, then sprinkle something like talcum power or a white plaster of paris/wall-filer. For heavier snow, mix the powder in with white paint. And for the really heavy stuff you can get in central and northern Europe, you can eithe just paint to whole roof white, but leave a dark adge around sticking up things like chimneys, or, if you want to show the depth of the snow, just get thick whit card and cut it to fit over the roof, with cutouts for chimneys.
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Post by alloydog on Sept 9, 2017 21:47:54 GMT -9
I've got a bunch of caveman figures, got them from a guy through the now defunct miniaturewargaming.com forum, but they're <whisper>plastic</whisper>.
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Post by alloydog on Sept 9, 2017 9:09:00 GMT -9
Here's my kitbash of the OP model: (It was parked at our local shopping centre early this year)
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Post by alloydog on Sept 9, 2017 9:03:12 GMT -9
I guess that here in Finland we're rather spoilt when it comes to digital connectivity: I pay about EUR 10 per month for my phone connection which gives me unlimited data within Finland. The twisted thing is we have growing queues at the food hand-out places, because so many folk can hardly afford to buy food and pay their utility bills, but the Government makes a big deal about keeping phone and internet prices as low as possible... :/
But, as I said, for hobby level stuff, for me at least, home hosting works, like when your websites rarely gets more than ten visitors a week. But, if I was running a business, I wouldn't rely on a free solution anyway, even one hosted from home.
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Post by alloydog on Sept 4, 2017 3:42:22 GMT -9
I'm interested in what you mean by this... Put the kettle on and pull up a sandbag, good sirs. OK, maybe I was a bit sparse on details, but I was posting from my tablet and typing isn't that easy on it. Before I start, I just want to point out that I do appreciate that when you're running a commercial concern, the main order of the day is reliablity - you want oyur customers to be able to reach you and buy your products/services without any problems. So, in my book, you shouldn't rely on free services, as you usually get what you pay for, and in the case of Photobucket, are at risk of being held to ransom. If you have high visitor volume and need 24/7/365 service and back-up should it all go to pot, then you need to pay for it. Having said that... If you're feeling a little adventurous, it isn't too dificult to set up your own server at home. You don't need much tech-savvy, just the ability to read and follow instructions and maybe use google if (when) you need help. Also, I'm not talking about running your entire business from the home server, rather using it as a file-share, such as images. For example, for several years, I had the domain name for a website. Unfortunately, due to the email service I used going offline for a few months (and yes, it was paid-for service as well!), I missed the warnings about the domain name expiring. Getting it back after the experiation period was way too expensive. But, I was already running it from my own server. Now for the time being, I use a free hosting website to redirect visitors to my server's IP address. Afterall, if you have internet access, you have an IP address and in most cases, even though the IP address is probably listed as *dynamic*, it's very rare that it will change - my home IP address never changed in six years and only did so recently when I got a different service. So, what do you need? You'll need a spare computer. It can be virtually anything, such as old laptop/desktop. I ran my website from an old IBM ThinkPad from the early 2000s - from 2012 to 2015, when it then died. It ran virtually non-stop for those three years. The website has now been on an early version Raspberry Pi and has been running for nearly two years. You can find a million-and-one HOWTOs out there that say what to do. Then, when you have that up and running, you just need to set your modem/router to allow external HTTP traffic to and from that PC. I can even help. To me, the benefit of running my own server is that I have been let down so many times by free service providers - such as them switching from allowing editting your site with HTML to having to use their own templates, slapping obtrusive adverts all over it and in some cases, just going bust. I have also used it to host images which I then link to in forums that have not had image hosting services or share files with family and friends. It is easy to keep backed up, so should it crash and and worse case, I need to change hardware, then the entire site is just a copy/paste away. Also, because it is run off of donated hardware, it is virtually free. It takes next-to-bugger-all electricity and because my site visitors number in the tens per week, bandwidth requirements are pretty low. Works for me.
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Post by alloydog on Sept 3, 2017 0:53:09 GMT -9
You know, if you have all your images still saved locally, that is, not on teh interwebs, then there are several ways to make them accessible to the outside world which are pretty easy? It puts everything under your control and not held to ransom by some web hosting service.
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Post by alloydog on Sept 2, 2017 12:37:59 GMT -9
For figures I print onto either general art paper, like 180 or 200 gramme or onto normal paper and glue it to thinnish card, such as cereal box card. For models, where there is a box structure, I stick paper onto corragated card. Makes for a nice solid model: Yes,it's Airdave's M113. My boy felt one of them neededs some spikes and a gun, so he modded it
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Post by alloydog on Sept 1, 2017 23:28:26 GMT -9
I've got a set like that, but handles are wooden. Other things I've found that work pretty well include a regular dinner knife (no sharp edge) and a penknife turned around - using the /back of the blade/, not the handle
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Post by alloydog on Aug 28, 2017 7:39:33 GMT -9
I tried my first paper model that wasn't just a foldover (or series of connected foldovers) in over six months... it did not end well. Simple A-frame Celt/Viking home, I made many errors. Fortunately I printed two, so the next one will be better. This was just embarrassing... Post photos! That way, we can point and laugh as we brush our own disasters into the recycle bin...
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Post by alloydog on Aug 18, 2017 6:46:54 GMT -9
We seem to have opposite prblems! I found most of the figures from this site andones I've bought from several of the artists here print, without modification, to about 35 mm - I thought it was my laptop/OS/printer combination. I prefer my figures to be 28 to 30 mm and so, when printing, set the scaling to about 80%.
When you click Print, befor clicking OK, look through the print options/settings for one called Scaling. Play around with the print quality set to B&W draft (so you don't waste too much ink), until you get the right scaling. That's what I do.
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Post by alloydog on Jul 23, 2017 23:46:38 GMT -9
In the past, I found laser printed stuff to be too shiney for my taste and yes, they could also crack/flake. As like the others, I too found that gluesticks dry and seperate too quickly. I use white PVA glue.
As for protective coating, many years ago I had a tin of boat hull varnish. It brushed on very smoothly, didn't cause the ink to spread and didn't add much of a shine to the prints either. However, you really had to use it outdoors as, when wet, it smelled really bad.
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Post by alloydog on Jul 17, 2017 22:15:06 GMT -9
I stopped using Photobucket to host or just store new images ages ago, because the site became slow and awkward to use and riddled with intrusive adverts. I don't mind adverts, as the host service has to generate revenue to cover its costs, but these ads, for my pc/internet connection, make the site very difficult to use. Here's a screenshot of what I have to go through just to get to my account: And it isn't just those pop-ups, there are pop-ups under those pop-ups and when you close them, about 30 seconds to a minute later, more appear. AND! if that isn't enough, they don't just "pop-up", they fade in, meaning that you go to click on something and suddenly another browser tap opens and you're visiting the advertiser! AAAGH! Like I said, I don't mind adverts, the service has to be paid for, but when the adverts make the service unusable, no, that's just wrong. If you are going to offer a free service, you have to plan from the beginning how it will be funded. If you want users to pay money, you have to offer them something better than the regular service. Running for so long, then hijacking users with obtrusive adverts and cutting services is plain wrong. Bad business plan. I am in the process of downloading my folders and deleting them. Photobucket can go make sweet, sweeeeet, lurve to themselves for all I care.
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40k Fun
Jul 13, 2017 5:17:02 GMT -9
Post by alloydog on Jul 13, 2017 5:17:02 GMT -9
That's pretty neat. Would you consider putting the file up for others to use?
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Post by alloydog on Jul 10, 2017 10:42:26 GMT -9
I just noticed some of the images on my website are on Photobucket, so now I have gaping holes! Time to download it all and kill the account.
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Post by alloydog on Jul 4, 2017 18:17:36 GMT -9
I stopped using Photobucket to host or just store new images ages ago, because the site became slow and awkward to use and riddled with intrusive adverts. I don't mind adverts, as the host service has to generate revenue to cover its costs, but these ads, for my pc/internet connection, make the site very difficult to use.
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Post by alloydog on May 29, 2017 6:42:19 GMT -9
Its Saturday knight and the lads are away up the toon. Add a couple of hand cannon and you'll have some gooners...
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Post by alloydog on May 3, 2017 18:20:39 GMT -9
It's like watching three day test cricket...
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