A Few Teasers On Present Projects

Hexy Roads

Kit-bashed Dice Tray - nearly done

Grey Inlay

 

Pick n' Mix

Old Mechs - New Practice

The Origin of The Dice Bowl

Armor Grid Games and Miniatures

One Monk Miniatures

Dice Bowl (AliasQTip)

Colonel's Cardstocking Compendium !!! (Part 18)

Section (Pc): WorldWorksGames' Dwarven 'Diorama' - Dressing the 'Big Wall'

Starting to 'Dress' the 'Big Wall' ...

Dressings on foamcore (3 mm, 2 levels) ...

Section (Pb): WorldWorksGames' Dwarven 'Diorama' - base tiles

Went for a few more tiles .. all final drying and 'settling' (not 'edged') ...

Cyan-balancing, at printing, for the correct grey ...

Section (Pa): WorldWorksGames' Dwarven 'Diorama' - Introduction

Something I have been wanting to do, for a while ... 'Dwarven Diorama' - Sci-Fi and Fantasy.

I managed to pick-up a cheap, nearly full, sprue, of Mantic's, Forge Fathers Steel Warriors (2 figures), from my LFGS ...

Plus, I will 'build' and paint a fantasy dwarf from Games Workshop's Battle For Skull Pass, and complete the Dwarf Lord from SSS.

I will produce one tile, with props, from WWG's ...

LOST HALLS OF THE DWARVEN KINGS
LOST HALLS: VAULT OF THE ANCIENTS
LOST HALLS: TREASURES & TOMBS

Much of the project will be the content, for the promised tutorial videos.

Very nice build tutorial, here ...

Super Dungeon Explore: Dungeon 6
Super Dungeon Explore Demo!!!
Balls to the ...
Floored!
Going Post-al
Dungeon Week Day 1
Stairway to....
Dungeon X
Lost Halls of the Dwarven Kings (part 7)
Lost Halls of the Dwarven Kings (part 6)
Lost Halls of Dwarven Kings (part 5)
Lost Halls of the Dwarven Kings (intermission-or what I learned so far)
Lost Halls of the Dwarven Kings (part 3)
Lost Halls of the Dwarven Kings (part2)
Lost Halls of the Dwarven Kings

More to follow.

Paper, Steel And Blood - Update

Paper, Steel and Blood - Gaming Papercraft > G+
Paper, Steel and Blood - Gaming Papercraft > FB

WIPpies ...

Paper, Steel And Blood - Update

Paper, Steel and Blood - Gaming Papercraft > G+
Paper, Steel and Blood - Gaming Papercraft > FB

WIPpy ...

Paper, Steel And Blood - Update

Paper, Steel and Blood - Gaming Papercraft > G+
Paper, Steel and Blood - Gaming Papercraft > FB

WIPpies ...

Colonel's Cardstocking Compendium !!! (Part 17)

Section (Oc): Fat Dragon Games' Castle Winterhawk Church, With Enhancements - Transparencies

Part (ii):Sealing

More text to follow (clicky-for-biggy) ...

The sealants, at this time
(1 - Hair spray, 2 - Vallejo satin varnish, 3 - MP gloss varnish, 4 - MP matt varnish)

The test piece

Surface - brushed (2 coats), other than laquer (3 coats),

all dried with hair dryer, between coats - flash

Surface - brushed (2 coats), other than laquer (3 coats),

all dried with hair dryer, between coats - no flash

Scratch (S), water (W) and IPA (I) test

Part (i): Printing

Yup, first surprise ... we are going to have see-through windows and internal illumination :)

More text to follow (clicky-for-biggy) ...

 

All the experiments

Plain paper (P) vs glossy (G) paper settings

Up we go

Up we go - Left: best for 'arched' windows, Right: best for 'round' window


Before and after

Earlier, Worldworksgames, experiments

Kit: FDG WINTERHAWK: Church

Reduction: 50% (not for WWG).

Printer: Canon Pixma MP280
Inks: Cheap, refill, inks.

Transparencies: www.madaboutink.co.uk: www.stores.ebay.co.uk/madaboutink

The Colonel

Colonel's Cardstocking Compendium !!! (Part 17)

Fat Dragon Games' Castle Winterhawk Church, With Enhancements 

A little teaser, of the experiments, for one of the enhancements ;)

Colonel's Cardstocking Compendium !!! (Part 17)

Section (Ob): Fat Dragon Games' Castle Winterhawk Church, With Enhancements - Update

There we go ... all printed and mounted, and ready for cutting and scoring ...

A couple of vidcaps, from the video ...

Now to take some more video :)

The Colonel

Colonel's Cardstocking Compendium !!! (Part 17)

Section (Oa): Fat Dragon Games' Castle Winterhawk Church, With Enhancements - Introduction

I have been working, for sometime, on how I should create my video tutorials, on gaming papercraft. After many attempts, fine-tunings and failures, it is clear, that my present PC (bless her) cannot cope with direct recording etc, at the quality I would like; neither can my present cameras.

So, fortunately, a couple of weeks ago, I was doing my weekly shopping, and I saw this little beauty, reduced to £30 (specs here, for the technobods) ...

Nikon Coolpix S6100

I am delighted with it, and it is the perfect camera, for me, at this time, for these projects.

As my time is precious ( ;) ), I have decided to combine many of my techniques, in one project. I will then be able to draw upon this project, to complete some of the basic sections, in the compendium.

Recently, I purchased Fat Dragon Games' Castle Winterhawk Church, and this will be the foundation kit, of this project ...

The church is a '28 mm flatpack', but, I will be creating it at 50% size ('15 mm') and as a rigid piece. There will be a few surprise enhancements, along-the-way ;)

Time to take some pics ...

The Colonel

Colonel's Cardstocking Compendium !!! (Part 14)

Section (L): Kitbashing Caelum Calauticum for Warhammer 40k

WIPpy ...

Paper, Steel And Blood - Update

Paper, Steel and Blood - Gaming Papercraft

WIPpy ...

Paper, Steel And Blood - Update

Paper, Steel and Blood - Gaming Papercraft

WIPpies ...

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Paper, Steel and Blood - Gaming Papercraft: When Metal, Plastic And Resin Are Too Feeble For You

Do It Now

Colonel's Cardstocking Compendium !!! (Part 4c)

(Cc) Walls - From Floppy To Firm

Walls without 'anti-warp ledges' will flop - it is the nature of cardstock.

So, needing a cheap and easy method, so as to assist those wobblers (and use the printouts up), I went for a burger (clicky for biggy) ...

Courtesy of a leading, fast-food, outlet, I selected a pack of coffee stirrers, went home, clipped them down to ca. 133 mm, in length, and sandwiched a stirrer between a wall's, inside, surfaces. It took these stages ...

(1) Glue stirrer to a wall (inside, top),
(2) Glue wall faces together,
(3) Burnish all surfaces,
(4) Clamp wall faces, onto stirrer, with a 'beam' across the length of the wall,
(5) Snip, at the line, through the tab ...

(6) Superglue the top 'square' down ... all other surfaces were glued with my normal glues (Pritt Stick/equivalent or Matt Mod Podge).

There you have it (this prototype was edged with black). You could sand it down (before or after), if you really wanted to, but that is up to you) ...

No 'bulge' to speak of, at all ...

No more flaccid walls :) - Enjoy !!!

Oh, and a little teaser, of a few of the projects, that I am working on ...

Keep on cutting !!!