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Len posted:I'll give that a check when I get home then. My favorite part of miniatures was always the building parts. Putting them together, making a thing to play on, and stuff like that. I'm not big on the actual painting side of things but this feels like the proper thread for homemade rough terrain. If you guys don't want me to poo poo it up I won't post things though. There is a terrain making thread that might be of interest.
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Len posted:I'll give that a check when I get home then. My favorite part of miniatures was always the building parts. Putting them together, making a thing to play on, and stuff like that. I'm not big on the actual painting side of things but this feels like the proper thread for homemade rough terrain. If you guys don't want me to poo poo it up I won't post things though. You're not making GBS threads it up. This thread is primarily for poasting awful things like poorly green stuffed breasts on pony space marines. While your terrain isn't award winning, it's perfectly serviceable and I don't think you'd want to be lumped in with what normally goes here.
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Cat Face Joe posted:You're not making GBS threads it up. This thread is primarily for poasting awful things like poorly green stuffed breasts on pony space marines. While your terrain isn't award winning, it's perfectly serviceable and I don't think you'd want to be lumped in with what normally goes here. If you are arguing that his efforts are too respectable for this thread, then technically he is making GBS threads it up by not posting something terrible enough to be here. Maybe next time include My Little Ponies to lower the level?
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Len posted:It's pretty rough but I'm trying to dip my toes back into the miniature hobby. Here's my first attempt at making some terrain. I want a whole board like this
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I don't, but my first game of hams was played with instaramen bowl buildings, so I understand thebwish to make things on the cheap. I guess you'll eventually find some papercraft crazies who'll give tutorials on how to spend 5 hours making each tree.
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Len posted:It's pretty rough but I'm trying to dip my toes back into the miniature hobby. Here's my first attempt at making some terrain. It looks like Runescape.
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Moola posted:I want a whole board like this Honestly, its very good for wargaming. Very clean defined lines, well represented water for difficult terrain, an acceptable amount of cover but space for larger units. There's nothing to complain about here.
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Kwyndig posted:Yeah, that's about the level of quality you get from mass-produced prepaints. I'm not surprised except for how terrible the sculpt is. Yeah, if you look at like, Mage Knight miniatures, the paint jobs are preeeeeeetty awful. Because its sweatshop labor painting in a hurry. Ugleb posted:People actually buy this over unpainted? Holy crap. As ugly as it is, it looks better than a field of solid grey plastic. From a distance it looks much more reasonable, and you can always paint over it again if you want.
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Ugleb posted:There is a terrain making thread that might be of interest. And go into a thread with quality things? That will ruin my self esteem. I want to at least try a few more things before I venture into a real thread.
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah, if you look at like, Mage Knight miniatures, the paint jobs are preeeeeeetty awful. Because its sweatshop labor painting in a hurry. My wife always plays the blood sorcerer lady and gets pissed off because it's like someone applied her makeup with the makeup shotgun from the simpsons. She's wanting to learn how to paint models just so she can fix it.
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Len posted:And go into a thread with quality things? That will ruin my self esteem. I want to at least try a few more things before I venture into a real thread. You'll honestly get better feedback and get pointed in the right direction if you go into a thread made for painting than going into the thread where we laugh at the depths of eBay and Dakka project logs.
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Len posted:And go into a thread with quality things? That will ruin my self esteem. I want to at least try a few more things before I venture into a real thread. Point taken, but you will probably get some sound advice on making stuff for next to nothing from scratch. Its like when I compare what I painted this month next to some of the gods that post to the oath thread. Times like that I know I wont be getting judges points!
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Len posted:And go into a thread with quality things? That will ruin my self esteem. I want to at least try a few more things before I venture into a real thread. You want to practice painting well, not practice painting poorly. Don't worry; there's TONS of lovely painters in the painting thread  I used to suck at painting but honestly if you learn a few tricks and the right approach it makes your stuff look 1,000x better. I'm not winning any golden demon awards or anything, but I'm happy with my dudes now, where the guys I painted when I was younger were just embarassingly ugly. Harvey Mantaco posted:My wife always plays the blood sorcerer lady and gets pissed off because it's like someone applied her makeup with the makeup shotgun from the simpsons. She's wanting to learn how to paint models just so she can fix it. So the story has a happy ending!
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Moola posted:I want a whole board like this  I am not creative enough to have figured that style on my own but that's pretty amazing. It certainly matches the more cartoony and clean style of cel shading I paint on my minis! You can probably put some manga/comic screentones to give it more depth.E: there's gotta be some papercraft style that's already been around for stuff like this. You can probably make some simple bushes by folding green paper in odd ways to make it stand.
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About maybe twelve or thirteen years ago a guy I knew did a really impressive board for a game store (that has now since closed, RIP) that commissioned him that was entirely made of cardboard. He built everything out of super simple shapes and polygons and then painted it black with bright blue, red or white lines along the edges TRON/vector graphics style. Very cheap, very effective and evocative and also very unique and eye catching.
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 from kickended.com a.k.a. broken dreams of $0 pledged kickstarters
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Len posted:And go into a thread with quality things? That will ruin my self esteem. I want to at least try a few more things before I venture into a real thread. Seriously, my first terrain pieces were made of just cardboard, painter's tape and straws. The terrain thread is chill AF and we'll happily give you ideas of how to make more terrain on the cheap, and then how to gradually make it more detailed as you get your feet wet. So don't be scared.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:About maybe twelve or thirteen years ago a guy I knew did a really impressive board for a game store (that has now since closed, RIP) that commissioned him that was entirely made of cardboard. He built everything out of super simple shapes and polygons and then painted it black with bright blue, red or white lines along the edges TRON/vector graphics style. Very cheap, very effective and evocative and also very unique and eye catching. That's basically how they did the wireframe New York in Escape From New York.
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Improbable Lobster posted:That's basically how they did the wireframe New York in Escape From New York. This is actually what inspired him to build that. Unfortunately stuff like glow in the dark paints, EL wire, and piped lighting were still really expensive and not widely available back in like 2003. Although it probably would have looked good under a blacklight.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:This is actually what inspired him to build that. Unfortunately stuff like glow in the dark paints, EL wire, and piped lighting were still really expensive and not widely available back in like 2003. Although it probably would have looked good under a blacklight. With nerds visiting the store? Yeah uh, probably really interesting results there 
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Slimnoid posted:With nerds visiting the store? Yeah uh, probably really interesting results there Please be referring to cheeto stains from touching the models, not something else touching the models.
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Reminder that r/cumonfigurines was a thing  http://m.imgur.com/gallery/wspPu Screenshots of posts from that subreddit.
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Came across this while browsing ebay for cheap Circle Orobos figs: Note the square bases and the interesting application of textured paint onto things like weapons. 2/3 of a sentry stone unit. Also what looks to be a Woldwyrd glued directly to the base.
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lokipunk posted:Came across this while browsing ebay for cheap Circle Orobos figs: Thankfully all in metal, so after a swim in chloroform they'll be as good as new!
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lokipunk posted:Came across this while browsing ebay for cheap Circle Orobos figs: This actually seems mostly fine? Like, it's clearly unfinished - there are unpainted models and some half painted ones - and it's not great, but I'd be happy to play against these any day. It just seems like a basic paint job to me 
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Cat-dick pattern chainsword is back!
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I'm the very cute skull on his hat
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The baby is teething
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i'm not one to make fun of someone who can't paint, but it amuses me that this went into a light box and got multiple camera angles
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Safety Factor posted:Seriously? I know it's played out, but come on. Wrong thread. This thread became best of the worst of the best and the best on like page 2.
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NOT ORK
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El Estrago Bonito posted:The best painting advice. This is the best
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ineptmule posted:NOT ORK SPES H MARINES
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