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Post by squirmydad on Oct 22, 2016 9:00:37 GMT -9
Ya know, I had a bunch of stuff I wanted to do for this month, and it fell beneath the power of Star Trek modelling. Looks like much of it will have to wait for the December Hoard. Perhaps a Medieval version of a Trek ship?
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 22, 2016 10:16:59 GMT -9
Well, there was Stone Trek, why not Steam Trek?
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Post by mesper on Oct 22, 2016 12:03:03 GMT -9
Hmm... Medieval and Star Trek? Well, everything is possible (vide science fiction novel by Poul Anderson: Wiki - The High Crusade) But... NO knights at all within submissions, c'mon?!? Anyway what about some real art MAYHEM? (I'm kinda tired with these black borders/outlines, sick with the same'n'lame perspective and poses, bored with cut-files restrictions etc.) So - What about some more DYNAMIC positioning/view?
- What about some more "dynamic" and diversified grounds?
- What about no more close-to-figurine outline "terror" - which is in many cases just forces some additional (and mostly artificial) lighter/white parts, just to mark the figurines border? - these black borders could be easily substituted just by thin line - vide preview?
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 22, 2016 12:59:34 GMT -9
I personally have no problem with white borders. I just open Gimp and fill with Black. It's easier to fill a white area with black then a black area with white.
Knights would be welcome
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Post by mesper on Oct 22, 2016 13:21:51 GMT -9
I personally have no problem with white borders. I just open Gimp and fill with Black. It's easier to fill a white area with black then a black area with white. Knights would be welcome You didn't understand - try to outline with black that blue-ish knight (of course assuming that the mini is BLACK not BLUE)...
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 22, 2016 14:21:58 GMT -9
Ah, now I get it
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Oct 22, 2016 14:30:22 GMT -9
Chris Roe made some Sausage Vikings In Zucchini Boats and I just loved them. So I made some infantry out of the boat riders, using my usual "dust cloud covering the missing bottom section" technique. I hope to scale them down smaller later on, as well as a reconfigured, rescaled zucchini boat with crew. It just doesn't get any more medieval than Sausage Vikings.
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Oct 22, 2016 19:32:43 GMT -9
As threatened, I have made Flying Sausage Vikings In Zucchini Boats:
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Oct 22, 2016 19:39:22 GMT -9
Personally I find the original Sausage Vikings In Zucchini Boats by Chris Roe to be on the rather largish side, so I reduced everything by 50% for my own use and decided to share them here for y'all:
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 23, 2016 17:12:40 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 23, 2016 17:20:39 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 26, 2016 11:49:34 GMT -9
Only a few days left on this. I hope to have the connecting building done this weekend
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Oct 26, 2016 12:55:04 GMT -9
I'm guessing these won't be machine cutter friendly, will they?
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 26, 2016 13:33:49 GMT -9
What do I need to do to make them machine cutter friendly?
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Oct 26, 2016 13:47:02 GMT -9
They need to fit within some safe cutting area. I've been floating a set of reusable layers for making things cutfiles safe. I'm on my phone right now so I can't track it down (helping with kids homework) but it might be found under the 'paper realms' forum.
If it doesn't fit, it's not the end of the world. But if they CAN fit, it would be cool if they DID fit within a safe cutting area.
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 26, 2016 14:51:40 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 26, 2016 15:40:11 GMT -9
The White Hart Inn itself was almost Cutter Friendly to start with, but it has been adjusted. Is it possible in Gimp to set the Cutting Area Friendly Template as a Template in Gimp? So, instead of opening a new letter-sized page, I can open a new Cutter Friendly page? EDIT --- Replaced the Front Back Chimney file
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Oct 26, 2016 16:44:34 GMT -9
In gimp I put the safe cutting area as a layer above what I work on. That way, I can see if I'm good, then I turn the layer off when I export my PNG image. Don't know about setting up a template, but you could always create an xcf file that you copy to start new projects in, yeah?
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Post by cowboyleland on Oct 27, 2016 13:40:53 GMT -9
You could adjust the "image size" to match the safe cutting area. Then you need to have the intestinal fortitude to draw right on the edge of your image.
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 27, 2016 13:50:39 GMT -9
I've been trying to save a template with those corners knocked out, but it seems to only like Rectangles. hmmm
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 27, 2016 15:57:46 GMT -9
Okay, it's buildable, but I've gotten a slight misalignment on the gables, and the Building 2 roof needs to be a tad wider, and, unfortunately, possibly an eighth of an inch longer. That could be from the alignment issue, but I have to consider that my experience is with a lot of vintage hand-drawn models that require tweaking. Most builders just want it to go together and look good and don't want to have to figure out fixes. Hopefully, I will have it all figured out this weekend, and it will be the type of model that goes together without having to figure out any issues.
I'll replace the files that I discover to have errors. Sorry about that.
Individual buildings should build just fine, but to do the complex, there needs to be a closer tolerance
EDIT -- Still need to fix the two roofs. Guildhall was fine, front of Inn (narrow face) and the two ends of Building 2 somehow ended up with a shear of -14 to correct and get the peak centered. Because they abut each other in the complex, they basically doubled the issue. But they are fixed now
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 28, 2016 14:59:45 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 29, 2016 4:12:12 GMT -9
Okay, not a submission, but hopefully inspiration. As mentioned elsewhere, I do at least one Ravensblight and One Ray Keim model for Halloween each year. This year's Ray Keim model is a modified and re-scaled Phantom Manor gate (I still need to do the walls and end posts). That bat got me thinking ... scary ... Medieval Batman. Wayne Manor would be simple, but Batman and the Batcoach could be fun
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Post by cowboyleland on Oct 29, 2016 6:06:23 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 29, 2016 6:54:41 GMT -9
I knew that I couldn't have been the first with this concept Chain mail and black leather. You are probably right about the horse, but he could probably signal Alfred to bring the coach if necessary
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Post by okumarts on Oct 29, 2016 13:39:57 GMT -9
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Post by okumarts on Oct 29, 2016 14:34:17 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 29, 2016 14:48:09 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 30, 2016 11:46:28 GMT -9
Tomorrow is the end of the month, does anyone have anything that will need an extension?
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Post by okumarts on Oct 30, 2016 18:13:43 GMT -9
I feel bad I wasn't able to get more peasants done. This ended up being a VERY BUSY couple of weeks.
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