Tuesday 19 May 2015
A Little Bit of Minecraft
We had a daughter's friend over for a day. He's really into Minecraft so I thought it would be fun to make him a little Minecrafty thing. I downloaded a papercraft print-out to put together. But knowing him, I wanted to make something he wouldn't squash or break right away. I got the idea to just cut a bunch of blocks and wrap them with the papercraft bits. Then I drilled some holes and cut some doweling for a better hold when gluing the joints. So here is the one they call Steve (next to Lego Batwoman for scale).
Joints don't move, though I initially wanted to, but the wood I used was a little soft and the hole not big enough for the doweling and I was afraid of splitting it, so I just glued it all.
Monday 4 May 2015
Painting Mister Hyde Pt. 2
I decided I wasn't happy with my repaint of a Mister Hyde HeroClix miniature (see pt. 1). There were really only two reasons:
1. too much brown
2. really don't like that cape-type thing on his shoulders
So, it was out with my knife and off with the cape, shaving it down a millimetre or two in the appropriate areas to look like it wasn't there any more. I shaved off some more areas of the overcoat, mainly to get the paint off, though a less bulky look was welcome. Then I tried to carve in new rumples where shaving had smoothed out the relief. I had already painted his hair yellow and it just seemed fitting to paint the coat grey. After that, I got an idea and looked up some American Civil War era Confederate States uniforms. Using the general look of the uniforms, I added some buttons and a (hard-to-see) chevron on each sleeve. I left the tie-strings (presumably what held the cape on) but shaped and painted them to look like a Southern-style tie. I may end up removing it eventually, as it's the only thing I'm still not sure I like.
I like this modification much better than before. And the paint went on to the bare plastic much better than many of the mod forums said it would. Now I just need to look into re-basing HeroClix sculpts; in a DIY sort of way of course.
Now, I know I haven't kept up a weekly post, but I didn't expect to. Since it's my blog about playing games or making things and I haven't done either one for a while, what could I do? I have been thinking about making things. More specifically, I have been thinking about building a playhouse kind of thing for the kids, but that's a story for another day.
1. too much brown
2. really don't like that cape-type thing on his shoulders
So, it was out with my knife and off with the cape, shaving it down a millimetre or two in the appropriate areas to look like it wasn't there any more. I shaved off some more areas of the overcoat, mainly to get the paint off, though a less bulky look was welcome. Then I tried to carve in new rumples where shaving had smoothed out the relief. I had already painted his hair yellow and it just seemed fitting to paint the coat grey. After that, I got an idea and looked up some American Civil War era Confederate States uniforms. Using the general look of the uniforms, I added some buttons and a (hard-to-see) chevron on each sleeve. I left the tie-strings (presumably what held the cape on) but shaped and painted them to look like a Southern-style tie. I may end up removing it eventually, as it's the only thing I'm still not sure I like.
I like this modification much better than before. And the paint went on to the bare plastic much better than many of the mod forums said it would. Now I just need to look into re-basing HeroClix sculpts; in a DIY sort of way of course.
Now, I know I haven't kept up a weekly post, but I didn't expect to. Since it's my blog about playing games or making things and I haven't done either one for a while, what could I do? I have been thinking about making things. More specifically, I have been thinking about building a playhouse kind of thing for the kids, but that's a story for another day.
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