Converting - Beer cans Squiggoth - Feb 18, 2003 - 02:27 AM Post subject: Beer cans
Does anybody have a good idea how to make BloodBowl scale beer cans? Without using putty that is...Redfang - Feb 18, 2003 - 05:41 AM Post subject:
Maybe you could cut small pieces of a thick piece of (metal) wire?
Not very detailed though...Squiggoth - Feb 18, 2003 - 06:03 AM Post subject:
Well, details can be greenstuffed I guess, it's more the basic shape I'm looking for - I want squashed cans on some of my bases (with Orcy Cola print off course )Redfang - Feb 18, 2003 - 06:08 AM Post subject:
You might try to take a piece of rod the right diameter and Aluminium foil. Wrap a strip of the foil as broad as a can (in BB) around the rod, glue it stuck on itself (not on the rod, so you create a ring of foil around the rod) paint the picture you want on it and then take it off the rod and squish it between your thumb and finger; maybe that would give a realistic result (at least it is created in a realistic way...)
It is a lot of annoying work though, I'd think.
Never tried it myself, and I don't feel like trying that myself either.
RIndigo - Feb 18, 2003 - 06:14 AM Post subject:
try thing wood dowl, you can get it at many hobby shops,particularly the kind that sell the wooden boats people build.
It can't be crushed though
useful if you were making a six-pack for example
it is easy to do in GS tho, just roll a big sausage (*ahem*) then chop bits off...Grumbledook - Feb 18, 2003 - 07:10 AM Post subject:
A hollow metal tube in the right scale thats crushed in a vice would be the best thing to use no?Redfang - Feb 18, 2003 - 07:15 AM Post subject:
That sounds similar to, but a lot easier than my suggestion.
RAnthonyTBBF - Feb 18, 2003 - 11:24 AM Post subject:
I would wrap some tin foil around a dowel a few times and crush it.Poul_Piepgrass - Feb 18, 2003 - 02:41 PM Post subject:
For whole cans i would use a piece of round plastic, details could then be made with Greenstuff. The plastic is available from sprues of minis and bases.
I know not all of them are round, but some are.
PoulSquiggoth - Feb 19, 2003 - 03:28 AM Post subject:
Thanks for the tips so far, I think I'll start trying out that aluminium/tin foil round a rod-method first... Anyone knows what a can of Orcy Cola looks like? (The only food-related thing I can remember having seen in a BloodBowl pic is Pop Khorne... )
cheers,
Martijnohiohuskies - Feb 20, 2003 - 10:26 AM Post subject:
i would use the round plastic bits you find on sprues...
...and a sharp knife.(make sure a grown up uses the knife though )
oops sorry , poul just said that... Squiggoth - Feb 24, 2003 - 03:55 AM Post subject:
ohiohuskies wrote:
make sure a grown up uses the knife though
You don't want to know how much scar tissue I've developed in the process of building my Orc team... Traveller - Mar 13, 2003 - 06:54 AM Post subject:
Do you need this orca cola logo as JPG ? I got this one lying around somewhere because i used it also for my GD BB stand .
TravellerSquiggoth - Mar 14, 2003 - 03:15 AM Post subject:
That'd be nice - can you mail it to me?
Martijn-Q- - Mar 14, 2003 - 09:18 AM Post subject:
Hmm, why don't you want to use putty? A bit of the "stuff" seems like the best and quickest way to get these done.Squiggoth - Mar 17, 2003 - 03:26 AM Post subject:
Naaah, I've tried it, but it looks too smooth - I can't get the creases and folds right (we're talking empty beer cans here)
MartijnXtreme - Apr 11, 2003 - 01:50 PM Post subject:
Have you had any luck yet? I'm anxious to see what you have come up with, I was thinking of littering the ground in my custom dugout with cans.
though I'm not near as good as you are with modeling I was hoping to get some tips on what worked best for you.Squiggoth - Apr 14, 2003 - 01:27 AM Post subject:
Nope, haven't tried it yet, but I'm working on two BB teams at the moment so I'll be giving it a shot soon. Beer cans look great on erupting volcanic pitches, right?
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