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Post by Vermin King on Jan 4, 2016 16:41:53 GMT -9
The theme for this months HOARD is All Things Irish This can be any sort of miniature figure or model on the above theme or feel free to submit miniatures off theme. If you submit a figure, they must include both front and rear art, have a proper trimming outline, and include instructions for multi-part models. Recolors and figure mods are encouraged, and even uncolored designs are welcome. No nudity or sexuality, but bloody gory and horrifying is encouraged. If you have questions about how to design your entries, like formats, resolution, and stuff like that, see the HOARD GUIDELINES in this forum category. Entries for the Hoard will be accepted until the last day of February, 2016. I'm really glad this was suggested. Gaelic, Celtic, Whimsy (and even Pub Crawls). Have fun
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Post by Vermin King on Jan 4, 2016 18:41:40 GMT -9
Wish me luck. I'm working on a burial mound similar to those in these photos Or maybe the Gallarus Oratory
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Post by cowboyleland on Jan 5, 2016 14:51:48 GMT -9
OK, good luck!
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Post by Vermin King on Jan 5, 2016 17:47:25 GMT -9
Good progress on mound. It won't be very large, but it seems like there were several sites that had multiple smaller mounds, so what the heck.
Now, Gallarus Oratory I think will be fairly easy, but it confuses me. No one really 'knows' about it. Some say it was built in 8th century, some a bit later. I'm no archeologist, but there are many references to the east window pointing to a 1200 or later date. And it wasn't discovered until 1758??? How can a mostly pristine dry stone structure go unnoticed for 500 to 800 years? Especially since it supposedly overlooks a harbor. I can't find any photos of the structure from a harbor or a view of the harbor from the structure.
There is also a standing flat stone with a diagram that does not seem similar to anything experts have seen elsewhere. My gut tells me that this is either a fraud or misinterpreted, or there's a story that isn't exactly the one that is being told to tourists.
But it is certainly an oddity and looks megalithic, so I will probably do it, but other than giving it the name it is known by, I'm not going to call it an early church or memorial chapel, etc. Use it as you see it useful. By the way, it isn't large, only 10' X 15'. I think I'm done exploring the history of the building, now.
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Post by Vermin King on Jan 7, 2016 19:07:38 GMT -9
Hey, you can see the harbor from there!
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Post by squirmydad on Jan 8, 2016 7:09:48 GMT -9
Fun to see you getting into more design work.
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Post by Vermin King on Jan 8, 2016 9:51:53 GMT -9
I caught the design bug with the Harvard House and Garrick Inn.
On these two projects I am cheating. With his permission, I'm using the top of Bruno Vanhecke's minion for the dome of the barrow. I also enlisted Tinkering Tom to do a white model of the oratory. Thank you, sir.
I've got to start working with Blender or SketchUp or something, though.
Either that or get back to speaking Mathematics as a second language. I've mentioned Bruno's models more than once here, and also Dave Winfield's models. Neither of them use a 3d design program. I'm gobsmacked that they can do all their models in 2d and have them come out so beautifully
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Jan 8, 2016 11:55:03 GMT -9
The only thing I can think of is Stone Hinge.
Not gonna do it.
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Post by Vermin King on Jan 8, 2016 12:20:54 GMT -9
Have there been any leprechauns or pots of gold? I know there have been fairies and sprites. But I don't remember anyone doing a gigantic beer keg, yet
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Post by cowboyleland on Jan 8, 2016 17:12:13 GMT -9
Damn! I found an image from the 12th century of an Irish Axman. I was done fixing up the front and about to start the back and GIMP crashed. Things like that change projects from fun to a chore.
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Post by cowboyleland on Jan 8, 2016 19:23:17 GMT -9
Two hours later. Edit: I just wanted to make clear the changes that I made from the original image found in Topographia Hibernica. The head and arms seemed a bit large so I lengthened his torso to improve the proportions then I moved his left leg down to get both feet on the ground. I added flesh tone and cleaned up some of the other colours and then I did the back. Now if you are thinking about medieval art you know which parts of this figure to ignore.
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Post by Vermin King on Jan 8, 2016 19:36:41 GMT -9
I just remembered... Deloreans were Irish, weren't they?
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Post by cowboyleland on Jan 8, 2016 19:40:36 GMT -9
Wikipedia says American company.
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Post by berneart76 on Jan 8, 2016 19:45:46 GMT -9
I just remembered... Deloreans were Irish, weren't they? From Wikipedia "The manufacturing plant to build the new car was built in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, with substantial financial incentives from the Northern Ireland Development Agency"
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Post by berneart76 on Jan 9, 2016 3:22:35 GMT -9
How about a Large Wood Fired Copper Still? Inspiration from one outside of the Jameson Distillery... Of Course you'd need something to build the fire in underneath it......
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Post by Vermin King on Jan 9, 2016 4:30:24 GMT -9
Holy Sheep Dip! That is extremely cool
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Post by berneart76 on Jan 9, 2016 6:54:53 GMT -9
Holy Sheep Dip! That is extremely cool Thanks-- My original idea was to make the still to match the size of that one, which would make it about 8 inches tall! On consideration, I can reduce it a bit, and make it so that it will fit in the Tall main section of Dave Graffam's Country brewery, which would put it at around 5 1/4 inches tall by about 4 1/8 inches square for the base... There Might be Mash Tubs and Collection vats and walkways to go with this....
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Post by squirmydad on Jan 9, 2016 10:23:51 GMT -9
Holy Sheep Dip! That is extremely cool Thanks-- My original idea was to make the still to match the size of that one, which would make it about 8 inches tall! On consideration, I can reduce it a bit, and make it so that it will fit in the Tall main section of Dave Graffam's Country brewery, which would put it at around 5 1/4 inches tall by about 4 1/8 inches square for the base... There Might be Mash Tubs and Collection vats and walkways to go with this.... You don't do anything small do you? Beautiful idea.
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Post by cowboyleland on Jan 9, 2016 18:19:35 GMT -9
Country Brewery becomes a Country Distillery? That sounds cool. It has a really nice Victorian look to it.
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Post by Vermin King on Jan 9, 2016 20:36:36 GMT -9
Well, the concept works on the Barrow, but the dimensions are all messed up. I'm not even going to share photos ... yet
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Post by Vermin King on Jan 10, 2016 17:25:53 GMT -9
Botched barrow version two, too. But learned a very important lesson. On test builds, don't go to the trouble of texturing before the test build, and certainly don't print on 'Best' setting.
I think version 3 will be considerably better. I'll know more after I print it out 'greyscale' on thinner cardstock
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Post by Vermin King on Jan 14, 2016 18:07:28 GMT -9
I actually think that this build worked well enough that I should have printed in color and finished the texturing The exterior wall will have large stones surrounding it, like the Knowth Mounds above and an entrance. The wall needs to be taller, as does the sloped two levels. I doubt I can wrap my head around it tonight, keeping the edge diameters the same, but increasing the slope. Anyone want to play with this for the geometry challenge and then allow me to texture? I don't want it to get as messed up as my first two tries.
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Post by berneart76 on Jan 14, 2016 18:14:21 GMT -9
Anyone want to play with this for the geometry challenge and then allow me to texture? I can take a look at it for you, I'm guessing you'd like it to be a bit taller? so increasing the height of the two slope levels? Let me know, I can work with just about any image format, as long as I know what the overall dimensions are... send me a message if you want!
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Post by oldschooldm on Jan 14, 2016 19:33:25 GMT -9
I actually think that this build worked well enough that I should have printed in color and finished the texturing Ooh. That geometry could be used for a cool mound. I need one of those! :-)
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Post by Vermin King on Jan 14, 2016 20:17:06 GMT -9
Well, I had a nice post on how I envisioned this, but the Angry Bear jinxed the site when I tried to post.
Maybe that's fate telling me I didn't need to post it.
The walls at the Knowth Mounds above are just over knee high, less than hip high, but I want this to be waist high. The mounds should stand two inches tall. I had it worked out for a more rounded top, but I figured that most gamers, when they see a rise, they want to stand on it.
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Post by wyvern on Jan 16, 2016 6:04:42 GMT -9
Vermin King: You do realise you also have the makings of a nifty-looking UFO in this basic mound structure, I hope?
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Post by Vermin King on Jan 16, 2016 7:03:16 GMT -9
Vermin King: You do realise you also have the makings of a nifty-looking UFO in this basic mound structure, I hope? Printing it grey-scale, definitely shows possibility in that direction. Version 1 and 2 of this were based off a model by Bruno Vanhecke, but they failed horribly. I will probably go back and make another ancillary mound out of my second version of it, but Bruno was excited that I was wanting to use part of one of his templates, so I'll probably do something with it. I feel like I have to get it to work in some fashion. Version 3 is much more successful. It is based off Tektonten's Captain America shield template. Chris also is excited about this, but not as much as Bruno. Version 3 was originally thought of as 'the big mound', and I planned on enlarging it more and tweaking heights. Then Tinkering Tom volunteered to do the modifications to just raise the height. I'll be working on texturing the new template today, if my bug lets me. If you google 'Knowth', you will see that there are several sizes and shapes to these mounds, so I think I am currently thinking about doing three versions: Tom's mod (which really looks like what I want), an enlarged version of this one, and Bruno's version which is more dome-shaped. Bruno's just needs to be a little bit truncated with a larger top surface. I'm really hoping someone does some standing stones. I am going to do the small one by the Gallarus Oratory. Yes, Tom, I plan on getting to it soon. Tom volunteered to do the 3d model on it, too. Thank you Another interesting site: megalithicmonumentsofireland.com/Sites_By_County.html
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Post by Vermin King on Jan 17, 2016 13:17:23 GMT -9
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Post by squirmydad on Jan 18, 2016 14:42:28 GMT -9
Standing stones...say, I have an old unfinished project that should fit in here.
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Post by Vermin King on Jan 19, 2016 17:43:44 GMT -9
First of the High Crosses almost done with clean up. Most of the images are looking up at them, so looking down at the table, yet looking up at the cross seemed like it would be less than great, so I tried to get most of the perspective out of it.
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