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Post by niksantsurvivedendor on Sept 18, 2014 11:44:15 GMT -9
Am I the only one who`s thickest cardboard printable is 200g\m² ? And am I the only one who likes his minis Thicker? I inserted an additional step in my working progress. I cut a row of minis and fold them so I can glue a piece of cardboard between the front of the back of the mini. So ...what are your thoughts about this? Anyone else doing this?
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 18, 2014 13:16:13 GMT -9
I've done that in the past. I've also used 'shims' between the two sides to make figures rounder. for some of the floating figures I glued the sides together leaving a line down the center unglued. I then made thin strips of clear plastic that I ran up into the figure and attached the plastic to the base.
I've gotten lazy since then.
I still put an extra layer of card between the two sides on taller figures
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Post by niksantsurvivedendor on Sept 18, 2014 20:16:11 GMT -9
I found that especially the black Basebar often needs reinforcements. Yesterday, while gluing toegether some Treemen, I realised that this method is very glueconsuming, since you need to put glue on both sides of the minis. In case of Monsters, that is alot!
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Post by hackbarth on Sept 19, 2014 4:29:36 GMT -9
I think that the tutorial that comes with Reivaj minis use this method exactly.
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Post by niksantsurvivedendor on Sept 19, 2014 23:23:44 GMT -9
reivajminis.blogia.com/temas/instrucciones-de-armado.phpWell he does three things I don`t do: 1. He glues the unfolded mini on another piece of cardboard. I put on between both. 2. He cuts and edges the minis unfolded. That seems like its double the work. 3. He cuts both halfs of the mini in two and then glues them toegether. seems very neet but I think that would overstress my patience
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Post by Sirrob01 on Sept 21, 2014 22:19:27 GMT -9
the super cheap garbage bag ties work for reinforcing - thin, paper wrapped wire basically Insert 2 vertically between the two halves and glue together. provides added support to prevent sag/bend . Does nil for thickness however.
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Post by niksantsurvivedendor on Sept 23, 2014 4:05:26 GMT -9
Don`t think I know what you mean? My Garbage bags have their own ties. I think of the little thingies my Bread bags are tied up with.
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 23, 2014 4:25:49 GMT -9
That should work just as well.
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Post by Sirrob01 on Sept 23, 2014 12:25:05 GMT -9
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Post by hackbarth on Sept 24, 2014 4:42:50 GMT -9
I noticed that the thing we tie bread bags, garbage bags and other plastic film bags are very country-specific.
Here the occlupanid (search for it. go on!) is unknown, and these metal-wire core plastic tie are used, but in a format that remember more electric wire, too wide to put inside paper minis.
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Post by sunraven01 on Sept 24, 2014 9:47:23 GMT -9
I was thinking about this post today as I cut out some minis. I find my photo paper and glue stick sandwich to be plenty rigid, but sometimes long skinny pieces (like polearms or swords) feel like they could benefit from reinforcement.
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Post by cherno on Sept 24, 2014 10:06:48 GMT -9
I don't like the flimsy paper standees either so I print both sides to 1.5mm "Finn Cardboard", a sort of woodfibre-based cardboard that's relaitvely easy to cut and very leightweight.
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Post by flockofthese on Oct 4, 2014 12:10:56 GMT -9
Nice Ideas people. It never crossed my mind to do stuff like that. I really didn't think the flimsiness was a problem, but after reading this I don't know anymore. Its probably going to start bugging me now.
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