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| Author: | Chabbernackle [ Sat Feb 04, 2017 11:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | The Pentagon |
After trying to secure a playmobil arena on eBay and failing to do so, I decided to try and make my own. Here are some current WIP photos. https://imgur.com/a/jbyjq |
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| Author: | Wishing [ Sun Feb 05, 2017 6:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Pentagon |
That looks really cool so far. Even though the playmobil arena would have been easier, I think it is much more satisfying to build your own terrain. I need to be able to transport my arena around without a car, so I just got the arena mat from the webstore, but I love seeing 3D arenas. The Pentagon shape is cool. I only work with Styrofoam myself, so I am impressed with the woodwork. Very manly. 
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| Author: | GonzoGarbanzo [ Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Pentagon |
That is a sweet job on the texturing; looks natural and the fluctuation between textured and smooth works perfectly. |
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| Author: | Chabbernackle [ Mon Feb 06, 2017 1:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Pentagon |
GonzoGarbanzo wrote: That is a sweet job on the texturing; looks natural and the fluctuation between textured and smooth works perfectly. Hah! Thanks. The texturing was sort of a happy accident. I'm having a hard time using milliput over a large surface... keeping it even at least. I'll post more pictures once I get the walls all finished and the structure permanently nailed together. I won't paint until after that. |
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| Author: | Gomez [ Mon Feb 06, 2017 10:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Pentagon |
GonzoGarbanzo wrote: That is a sweet job on the texturing; looks natural and the fluctuation between textured and smooth works perfectly. AGREED - that blend of what looks like stone and stucco is outstanding. Nice job. (And I'll second the call for a how-to ASAP.) |
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| Author: | MysteriousRacer_X [ Wed Feb 08, 2017 5:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Pentagon |
That looks awesome. Consider this a third request on how you did it. |
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| Author: | Shonsue [ Wed Feb 08, 2017 8:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Pentagon |
Yeah man, I'll jump on the "how'd you do dat? Bandwagon. Looks fantastic and beat up-appropriately. Great combination of perfect bricks and patched fixes. |
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| Author: | Chabbernackle [ Thu Feb 09, 2017 9:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Pentagon |
The requests will be answered!! The walls are a wood base. I used 5 3/8" H x 18" L x 3/4" W Each angle was cut at 36 degrees to make the pentagon shape. I went with these dimensions to get as close as I could to having the same playable surface area as a 28" diameter circle. I used hole saws to cut out the doors...nothing fancy. I think I used a 76mm saw for the big holes and a 40mm saw for the small holes. The texturing was done with a 50/50 mix of Milliput 2-part putty and plastalina, and some textured rolling pins from greenstuff world (located in Spain, they have a webstore). For anyone who hasn't used Milliput it can be found online and probably at most hobby stores (Hobby Lobby is where I got mine). It is awesome stuff. It dries in about 3-4 hours and it dries hard as a rock. Plastalina is just some cheap non-drying sculpting putty. I used this just to get more out of my milliput. It increased the drying time for the miliput to about 24 hours...but the mixture still dried hard as a rock. So I mixed half a stick of milliput and an equal amount of plastalina together and started to apply a thin layer onto the wood. This took the majority of my time. Milliput is hard to work with over a large area because it constantly wants to grab everything even with liberal use of water alllll over my fingers. Once I was happy with the base layer of the milliput mix, I applied quite a bit of water to the whole surface. Next I loaded up the brick textured roller with Vaseline and proceeded to slowly roll it across the surface. Patchy spots were more of a happy accident simply because the milliput would not spread out evenly across the wood. Sorry for the lengthy explanation for a pretty simple process. I'm hoping to work on it some more this weekend and following week. I'll post more pictures of how its coming along. |
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| Author: | Reece [ Thu Feb 09, 2017 10:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Pentagon |
Chab, do some WIP/progress photos too. |
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| Author: | Chabbernackle [ Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Pentagon |
Reece wrote: Chab, do some WIP/progress photos too. Ill try to remember. My fingers get so messy though 
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