Stupid Hobby Tricks - Black Gobbo

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 12:22 am

Theres actually some interesting and usable stuff here:

http://us.games-workshop.com/games/warh ... efault.htm

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:02 am

It's possible to make your own molds out of green stuff for replicating small details (for your own modeling only). Wet the area of the original model, such as the chest eagle on a Space Marine. Press a small wad of green stuff firmly onto the area and gently remove it. Allow the green stuff mold to dry. Wet your mold and press a little more green stuff into it to make new eagles to mount on standards, shoulder pads, vehicles, shields, or wherever. This trick also works for faces, shield icons, and other details.

this kind of surprised me.

Gandhi · Post by **Gandhi** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:41 am

Use old CDs as terrain bases. The ones internet service providers mail to you are perfect (your little sister's boy band discs can also be a good option – but only after she grows out of them). CDs won't warp, and they are a perfect, neat circle. CD bases are great for small buildings, trees, rock piles, brush, barrels, crates, and barricades.

OK who else had to read it twice to figure out what they mean with CDs

Ravage · Post by **Ravage** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:50 pm

me!

Thordallim · Post by **Thordallim** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:58 pm

Looking to make alot of banners around new years

using foils of champagne bottles

.....but honey its for the hobby making banners......really its on the net it must be true.... great excuse hehehe

longfang · Post by **longfang** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:05 pm

snotsngrots wrote:
It's possible to make your own molds out of green stuff for replicating small details (for your own modeling only). Wet the area of the original model, such as the chest eagle on a Space Marine. Press a small wad of green stuff firmly onto the area and gently remove it. Allow the green stuff mold to dry. Wet your mold and press a little more green stuff into it to make new eagles to mount on standards, shoulder pads, vehicles, shields, or wherever. This trick also works for faces, shield icons, and other details.
this kind of surprised me.

Did it for a skaven symbol on the hashrats Rat ogre. The good thing about greenstuff for this is that it is flexible and will shape nicely onto curved surfaces.

Thordallim · Post by **Thordallim** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:08 pm

how long should green stuff dry for the mould thingy

could really use this trick

Grumbledook · Post by **Grumbledook** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:31 pm

take it that you then just fill the greenstuff mould with fresh greenstuff and apply it to whatever

Weav · Post by **Weav** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:19 pm

You'll need a relase agent like vaseline between the mold and the product. If you don't do this you'll end up with two chunks of useless green stuff.

longfang · Post by **longfang** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:24 pm

Ok, what I did was put some greenstuff on my cutting board and flatten it out evenly to a size large enough to press the symbol into. Instead of water I used vaseline (petroleum Jelly). Leave the symbol in the greenstuff overnight whil the GS hardens then peel the GS mould off. Grease the GS mould ond push some fresh GS into the mould and leave that overnight to harden then just peel the two parts apart and you have a flexible symbol to fix to a curved surface. The two Rat symbols on the Shoulder pads were done in this way.

Emberbreeze · Post by **Emberbreeze** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:29 pm

I'm suprised this is on a GW site.

I vaguely remember a web site having to take this technique off it's site due to GW complaining about copyright breaches as a result.

Weav · Post by **Weav** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:00 am

I don't believe GW can complain because A) your not reproducing product that GW sells, your simply using a portion of a product that they cannot provide and that you couldn't easily cut off an existing bit; and most importantly B) your not selling the molds or output for personal profit. But hey, I could be wrong, they are money grubbing lousy so and so's

Grasshopper · Post by **Grasshopper** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:31 am

snotsngrots wrote:
It's possible to make your own molds out of green stuff for replicating small details (for your own modeling only). Wet the area of the original model, such as the chest eagle on a Space Marine. Press a small wad of green stuff firmly onto the area and gently remove it. Allow the green stuff mold to dry. Wet your mold and press a little more green stuff into it to make new eagles to mount on standards, shoulder pads, vehicles, shields, or wherever. This trick also works for faces, shield icons, and other details.
this kind of surprised me.

I did this with Sisters of Sigmar hammers to convert the Reaper battle sisters. Used a bit of petroleum jelly instead of water though.