Weekender XLBS: DUST Adventures & Custom Hero Forge Minis!
December 21, 2014 by dignity
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Whoa? First reply on Weekender XLBS? I knew there was a reason I stayed up late! 😀
Happy Sunday!!
Death to Ming the Myopic!
I thought that the TAG crate was being released as part of Antenocities Forward Base Kickstarter?
It is, but they probably won’t have it on their site until they have shipped the majority of backer rewards. They said in the KS the new items won’t be available for retail until the backer orders are completed. It sounded like mid 2015-ish but we will see.
Really looking forward to the PDF’s for converting household stuff into scenery. I saw that done for the first time in the 1990’s when a can had been converted in to a Space Marine drop pod. Back in those days GW did not have a model for drop pod, so we just had to come up with something and besides no one really knew what a drop pod might look like. So I also started making 40K scenery from “junk”, some of it looked pretty cool as I quickly realized that you must do something to break the shape and… Read more »
Terrain from food containers takes me back to the olden days too. Other options, Take 2 litre pop bottle, slice the bottom off and flip it over. A lot of food packaging, particularly things like frozen desserts, can make for nice buildings when flipped over and sprayed.
Just dug out my old copy of rogue trader and on page 256 there’s a whole bit on modeling with household packaging. There’s even a bit about the problems of the hoarder impulse and how you have to develop an iron will to control the urge to save that new piece of polystyrene packaging. With crimbo around the corner, me thinks Lloyd (spelt correctly) could be living in the shed come Boxing Day?!?!? Rogue Trader top tip of the day (especially for Lloyd and they are small so I can’t be blamed for any relationship break up!): Save your plastic… Read more »
I’m a Hobby Hoarder too 🙂
Hey Lloyd, I also collect bean tins, you not alone.
I used to cut up cardboard boxes in different sizes and shapes and layered them to make hills and then covered them with poly filler. Once dried painted them and then flocked then. Cereal boxes I turned into movement trays and for the bits on the front and sides I cut up the foam you used to get in GW minis – paint it green and super glue it to the cardboard lol very effective – I even used dried spaghetti if I had no foam long enough 🙂
The hero forge app seems like a brilliant idea, just hope they bring in options to get the prints at different scales!
Hobby Hoarder and loving it. Check out my Ventilator using cassette tape, pegs, travel size shampoo bottles and some plumbing supplies.
http://aureliuslegion.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/terrain-40k-ventilator-completed.html
That’s really cool, and a good example of how disguising the shape of the component(s) allows you to use simple bits to create something really atmospheric.
The Hero Forge thing is a lot of fun to play around with and the only thing it is really missing right now is a way to assign both hands to the same weapon (this is particularly true of the rifles / shotguns etc). Hopefully they will add more material options soon because they are actually doing the printing through Shapeways and they certainly offer more than two types.
Nice idea with the bean tins Lloyd.
I would cut a Ork face out of the tin and put those plastic glowing candles in them for Orky glow face.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Hero Forge is the way to go! Whats Warrens take on Hero Forge? Seem to remember him talking about this a few episodes ago.
Happy Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas all, All i want for Christmas is to be invited to a tournament at the BOW studios.
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Merry xmas and a happy new year to all at BoW and to all of us who love the weekenders.
Poor Justin he just doesn’t understand the concept of terrain making and material hoarding bless his little cotton socks 😛 i hoard loads of stuff too as you never know when you might need a bake bean tin or cereal box or a tonne of other bits and pieces, i have a whole room full of stuff for making terrain its awesome 🙂 The Hero Forge create your own mini looks amazing there is a lot of potential in there from making rpg minis to your general of your army in warhammer or Kings of War and so on. 🙂… Read more »
@Lloyd Iagree with you! Hoarding “junk” is great. It’s making use of it that is difficult, but like you say, breaking up the shape makes it less recognisable! I’m currently working on a tonne of infinity terrain using cereal box card and other random odds and sods! I don’t know if you would like some pics, I don’t have a blog or anything to link.
Also, worst thing is, I don’t even have room for a gaming table, but I seem to have just gone off at a tangent with my hobby lately with a love of terrain making….funnily it coincided with about the first hobby lab I watched!
I still remember the coke bottle eldar vehicles white dwarf gave instructions for back in the day. How things change.
I like the various oddly shaped yogurt tubs you get these days, they are always useful for something.
Thanks for a great backstage weekender. That Hero Forge stuff seems really nice. Will create something that might be used in fantasy skirmish/rpg setting.
My dad used to make train set terrain from cereal boxes, but he glued 3 or 4 sets together to make thicker card. Throwing a cereal box out was time spent on the naughty step.
Clothing Catalogues were poured through, and suitable bits were cut out for curtains in said terrain.
Clear plastic was kept for windows and skylights.
These days, I prefer to spend my time painting models than building terrain from coke cans but with time and effort you can make some great looking things.
Merry Christmas guys! Love your work and show. I was watching most of your shows etc. through my X Box/You Tube link, however, for Christmas I have equipped the houses flat screens with the new Amazon Fire TV and the kids, wife and I with the Fire Tablets. Totally amazing! Now I can always catch your videos anytime anywhere. This also raises the point you guys previously raised about the I Books and E Books for wargamming rules etc. This is the future but Games Workshop only has the 40k books and the Fantasy rules I have put on my… Read more »
Lloyd sounded like a crazy bean can collector, lol, but he’s right. You need to imagine what your cans and whatnot could become with a bit of creative thinking. I’m looking forward to the Dust RPG stuff for the extra background too, as I’ve just got the new Dust rulebook and after reading the short intro of the war, I’m trying to glean more background from the description of the platoons further on in the book. There are Dust comics available, but a fully fledged book that contains a lot more info is much better. That Hero Forge creator looked… Read more »
They do currently print prototypes of models during the design process.
Don’t be a hater, Justin. 😀 @lloyd is totally on the right track when it comes to building great pieces of terrain and buildings out of “junk.” Back during our Star Wars Pocket Models run, we wanted to do a Battle of Endor. Naturally we wanted that huge shield generator featured in Return of the Jedi. So I built one in about two hours, out of . . . Paper coffee cup and smaller cappuccino cup for the base Paper Towel roll for the main pillar. Plastic snack plate (5″) for the main dish Plastic lid to a paper soft… Read more »
And it’s fun to build stuff.