PW builds... furniture?

puddingwrestler · May 23, 2010, 12:37:53 AM

No, I have not gone and blown flipping great wodges of cash at Ikea, I'm building 28mm furniture for my modular RPG dungeon (more on which in TFH soon).
And in order to save time (and make flipping great wodges of cash selling them off on ebay) I'm casting things. So far I have made the masteres for tweo different sets of book spines (which will be inserted into shelves) and a wooden cupboard. I'm using plasticard and a scriber for the woodgrain.
I intend to make severl sizes of cupboard and shelf, and I also have various other plans, although they may not be things I cast, a lot of them are one-off things like thrones of undead doom and the well squid.

Weaver · May 23, 2010, 02:15:05 AM

Pity they're not 15mm, I could have used some a few months back........

puddingwrestler · May 23, 2010, 04:01:50 AM

Apart from Traveller I cannot think of an RPG which uses 15mm minis...

Gondor · May 23, 2010, 09:29:30 AM

Traveller uses 15mm figures........... I never knew that and never used figures when playing

now I feel all left out

Gondor

Green Dragon · May 23, 2010, 11:22:35 AM

Laserburn was 15mm too. Haven't a clue where I got them from but I seem to have a couple of hundred figures and two Glaive helicopter thingies and a tilt engine flying wotsit around here somewhere.
Love the Terrain For Hippo's stuff PW!

Paul Harrison

puddingwrestler · May 24, 2010, 12:11:50 AM

This is where I was up to last night. I started on a sideboard sort of thing after these, but no pics yet.

Here are the book spines. If I can find the lego, I'll pour the mold tonight. Probably.

Here are the cabinets with a mini for scale reference. That's one of the modular dungeon tiles they are sitting on. One of the boring ones.

Here you can see the sides. It's hard to see but there is wood grain scribed on there.

Weaver · May 24, 2010, 12:46:35 AM

Like it PW - this kind of stuff must make all the difference in figure RPG playing.

Green Dragon: Laserburn and it's figures were originally made by Tabletop Games in Nottingham (as was the Starforce 3000 1/300th armour game). Somebody else has taken over Laserburn, but I can't recall who.

Gondor: figures wern't essential to Traveller (I never used them for straight RPGing either). RPG figures were produced in 28mm (Grenadier?) and wargaming figures in 15mm however.

puddingwrestler · May 24, 2010, 03:37:01 AM

Mold poured and more work on the sideboard done.
I'll be making some more books to go in the sideboard shelves.

puddingwrestler · May 25, 2010, 02:47:21 AM

Here's a pic of the sideboard thingee.

I'll be cracking the book mold open later tonight and casting from it on the morrow.
The cupboards etc. need a bit of gap filling and some smoothing, then I need to work out handles for them and they are done.
I'll porbably make two different book shelf masters and then make a mold from these as a set.
And while I wait for the molds etc. I should really start on Ishoo Twentee...

puddingwrestler · May 25, 2010, 03:39:02 AM

Well, the mold looks pretty sweet, but I can't seem to get a decent photo of it. You'll just have to wait to see casts tommorow, eh?

puddingwrestler · May 26, 2010, 11:21:05 PM

The mold worked fairly well, btu I think I took the resin out too soon - it was really soft and flexible even though it'd had long enough. It's gone hard now. I'll try to mix properly next time. I also need to mix a little more, I under estimated the capacity of the mold.
Pics tonight probably.