Mixing crafts is fun!
Aug. 26th, 2013 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janewilliams20I'm making armies again, preparing for an event in the autumn, and currently working on the last bits of the Denizens of the Zola Fel in 40mm frontage, 10mm scale figures. The next part is the Temple Barge, to be the Stronghold - a large boat, moored at the side of the river.
So I start with a clear acrylic coaster intended for mounting embroidery (I no longer do that sort of embroidery, but I've got all the bits).
In the space for embroidery, I put some of my nice textured hand-made paper from the card-making stash - that looks like the river bottom, and has a layer of thick clear acrylic over it to represent the water. The paper isn't quite flat, so we have some undulations on the river bed.
Above that, where the coffee-cup would normally go, I cut out some cork tile from a completely different project to be riverbank - the thickness of the tile is just about perfect for the height of the bank, and the cork visible looks about right for the soil there with no extra work needed. A waterline model boat (intended as a 25mm canoe for two, but in this smaller scale, a large ship) also sits where the mug would go, on the "water". I've painted the top of the cork in sand, and will push in some plastic model palm trees, glue on some fine gravel/sand from the garden and add a few spare figures. Well, when I say spare figures... there's some giant dragonflies going in. They're from the bead-working stash (little silver charms). They're on flying stands made from dressmaking pins. So that's four different unrelated crafts providing bits for my wargaming here, plus DIY scraps.
While that's drying, I get my Water Elemental models and give them their first coat of paint. I get their bases, glue the same textured paper to that, and then a layer of clear plastic that came as part of the packaging from a cutting die. I'll be sealing the edges with clear varnish, I think, to be sure it all stays together.
There will be pictures later, yes.
Next after that is the Watchdog of Corflu, and I think I may have to scratch-build it - or perhaps find a suitable cheap plastic toy and take a knife to it. There's a car boot fair down the road. I wonder if my leg is up to it?
So I start with a clear acrylic coaster intended for mounting embroidery (I no longer do that sort of embroidery, but I've got all the bits).
In the space for embroidery, I put some of my nice textured hand-made paper from the card-making stash - that looks like the river bottom, and has a layer of thick clear acrylic over it to represent the water. The paper isn't quite flat, so we have some undulations on the river bed.
Above that, where the coffee-cup would normally go, I cut out some cork tile from a completely different project to be riverbank - the thickness of the tile is just about perfect for the height of the bank, and the cork visible looks about right for the soil there with no extra work needed. A waterline model boat (intended as a 25mm canoe for two, but in this smaller scale, a large ship) also sits where the mug would go, on the "water". I've painted the top of the cork in sand, and will push in some plastic model palm trees, glue on some fine gravel/sand from the garden and add a few spare figures. Well, when I say spare figures... there's some giant dragonflies going in. They're from the bead-working stash (little silver charms). They're on flying stands made from dressmaking pins. So that's four different unrelated crafts providing bits for my wargaming here, plus DIY scraps.
While that's drying, I get my Water Elemental models and give them their first coat of paint. I get their bases, glue the same textured paper to that, and then a layer of clear plastic that came as part of the packaging from a cutting die. I'll be sealing the edges with clear varnish, I think, to be sure it all stays together.
There will be pictures later, yes.
Next after that is the Watchdog of Corflu, and I think I may have to scratch-build it - or perhaps find a suitable cheap plastic toy and take a knife to it. There's a car boot fair down the road. I wonder if my leg is up to it?