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Flames and smoke !; Cheap ways to make the effect
Topic Started: Mar 4 2013, 11:45 AM (365 Views)
William Grim
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I play alot with my nephews, the younger generation lacks a wee bit of imagination, they want to see smoke and fire ! well i cant let them take a can of hairspray and lighter to my mini's :X So i came up with this for now, just wanted some opinions on it, maybe how to improve it? I know for smoke alot of gamers like cotton or steel wool with tea lights, but i would have to wait to get those.I figured this was fast cheap and almost free.And no little switches to fiddle with and break :twitch:
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Fire from flame thrower!
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Smoke with a little fire from mortor round?
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If they look passable, i will make all sizes and shapes!
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Carrakon
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It probably is the camera but the flames from the flamethrower seem to have green-ish spotches - is that on purpose? Other than that I really like it - beats some boring template any time! The smoke I'm not so fond of, I think cotton looks way better for that.
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Finisterrae
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I fully agree with Carrakon.
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Inkwell
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The flame is great,really like it.The smoke is ok but needs something,looks too solid maybe?I would run a wire armature down it and carve out more of a swirling random pattern....maybe :P
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Crazy Joe
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Like the flame. For the fire and smoke I recommend steel wool with a redish orange base.
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William Grim
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Sweet, thx for the advice guys, ill go get some steel wool ;p, the green splotches is just some areas that needed thicker paint haha!

This is where i got the idea for it, maybe i need more pratice with the smoke too ;p

http://bcantwell.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/making-smoke-markers/
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mattblackgod
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Big boss warlord dude!
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Cool!
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