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Thinking BIG - going at it with foamboard; Learning a new trick
Topic Started: Jan 13 2016, 12:04 AM (1,109 Views)
Gunbird
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New year, new ideas, trying out new things.

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Well, 5 sheets of A4 foamboard and about 7 hours of planning, cutting and glueing later I have this:
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1 evening and 1 afternoons worth of time, 4,5 sheets of A4 foamboard, about 50 toothpicks and a handfull of coffee stirrers, and a small strip of blue foam with plenty of woodglue and some scrap cereal box. I know sort of know what can be done and can't be done, what to look at when planning something big like this and how I have to make the open areas, though the right side first floor is harder to reach then I had planned, I'll find a way to paint it. This is also the max size my cupboard can hold (base was 1 A4 sheet of plasticcard, cut down to fit snugly around the base.

Next step is to use thinned down wall filler and cover all of the exposed foam, cut out 3 cardboard doors to stick in the openings, fill the corners with bigger stones and debris, give everything another coating with thinned down wall filler and sand/rubble the base.

The template I made was a godsent and thanks to it the rest of the large buildings will fit with eachother to create 1 long or closed structure.....or it should be by the time I'm done with it!

Now to review the tutorial about using the thinned down wallfiller......
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Deagle
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Sweet Nuka cola!
Awesome!
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Mr. Clean
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That's going to be a awesome piece of terrain!
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tinker
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Sweet mother of Pearl! Fantastic piece!!
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mattblackgod
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Really brilliant work. Great work.
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Crazy Joe
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Liking where this is going!
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Inkwell
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Excellent , good stuff!
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Gunbird
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Feck me, I have not held my concentration like this in a long while. This is a good thing.

I've stuccoed the ruin all over(well, except the ceilings I just noticed) and started rubbling them up a bit.
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Problem is that I ran out of rubble almost straight after I started. I only have a kilogram box of normal basing sand with some coarser elements, but nothing like big grain and small chunks of rock. A quick check of the online stores pulled up tabs around 15 euros including shiping for just a single bag of stuff, and at the second hand Marktplaats they still charged me 6 euros for small rough gravel, 100 grams, shipping included. Well, that dog don't hunt, so I set the building aside.

I had to report at work this morning, to discuss getting back in the saddle (starting again on monday, 4 hours a day - funny thing, my boss is on crutches cause he broke his leg 4 weeks ago....and he is coming to work every day) and after that I decided to park up in the city to have my walking excercise there. I ran into a discount shop full of, well, crap, but in the back was a big table with discounted stuff and Buy 2 get 1 free. And what do I spy with my spectacled eye?

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My wife tells me they use this for adding to potted plants and candles to make it look rustic...something? Whatever, I just bagged 3 pots for a total of 1 kilo of grit and coarse bits of ghastly coloured rock. I'll paint them over anyway so who cares. Grand total, 1,70 euro. Happy camper, problem solved.

A few weeks ago I put out a request to the kit trading post for surplus 1:35 scale ammo cans, and found the replies to be most unhelpful ("Go buy aftermarket resin stuff" was the main comment) but 1 chap offered me 2 sets of 1:35 Italeri Modern Battle Gear for a tenner or a 2 engined bomber. Well, better then nothing I thought. So I got two sets of these:

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Next to 8 useful ammo cans, there are also a load of boxes and cans of various types, and 1 oild can, on its side and with a circle added in the middle is a dead ringer for a Fallout safe so yes, very happy with these. The 1:35 tank shells I'll try and trade to a 40K IG player. The gas canisters are nice too.

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While making a feeble attempt to clear my desk (failed that) I found my mines again, so I glued tose to my painting sticks and basecoated them.

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Also made some more progress on some Cars cars.

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Final highlight of the week was trading these online for some Cars cars that I had spare.

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I just need 1, so 2 of them I'll offer up for trade. Not sure if I wil do that before or after giving them new Nuka Cola labels. They are about 8 cm's tall and will work perfectly standing in front of a building I think. They are actually glass and 2 of them contain liquid!

That's it for today, I'm off to fysio for some knee work.
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tinker
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Phenomenal work!
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Deagle
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Some cracking stuff there!
Cheap and easy rubble... Cat litter!
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Some cracking stuff there!
Cheap and easy rubble... Cat litter!
I wish! The stuff my wife gets for the cat will not soak up PVA glue and falls off at the nearest breeze - I tried everything from normal PVA to industrial PVA and various types of glue. I'm not sure what that stuff is made of (does a terrible job of collecting cat feces too but she refuses to buy another brand as "thee cat is used to this" )

Thus ending all logic. :jaw:
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Gunbird,

Go out and buy some Kitty Litter for your projects, not you cat's emissions! :lol:
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Cheap Wilkinsons brand works ;-)
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mattblackgod
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Great additions for your work pile.

We buy cheap clay litter for about £1 from the supermarket. I pinch the (clean) litter. The clay clumps okay.
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Hehe, maybe, for now I'll make due with neon orange rocks and pink salmon sand. Got enough to last me for several tables worth of scenery (so a good 3 years at current speed)

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Finished doing all of the rubble, when it has dried tomorrow I'll go over with thinned down filler (almost a wash) to tie it all in and then she is ready for primer I think. Can't decide whether to add extra 0.2mm plastic floorplates on the open areas or just cover it with thinned down filler and be done with it. Choices, choices.
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Looks good as it is...
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mattblackgod
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Fabulous work.
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irishserb
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Absolutely fantastic build. Looking forward to more progress.
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So, how about this then?

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Have 2 loose tiles left that I'll place somewhere. Next time I will remember to raise the lower parts of the doors somewhat so tiles can fit underneath.
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:drool: :drool:
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