Testing Craftsmart poly clay

Just a test of some cheaper alternative to Sculpey poly clay. I think it worked OK. The photo isn’t very good, but the critter is plenty solid and strong.

My first 3D printed object

No, I didn’t buy a 3D printer. Although that’s still on the list of things to get. Our local library has a Makerbot that they let people print to. I downloaded this from an online 3D model repository and printed it out. The library also has a 3D scanner, which I’m going to use to scan something a week from today. Anyway, here’s the first thing I created from a digital file:

Just a little troll…

Yeah, it’s not really game-worthy, but it’s designed as a fairy garden troll. I could use it in a game though.

Yeah, I’m still alive.

Just a little thing I did from a friend’s doodle.

Treasure chest

The left is the treasure chest as it came from Michaels. The right is the one I beat all up.

Dollar store beholder

Here’s another beholder, just a lark really, but I wanted to see how it would work:

The purchase:

Trimmed: (I ended up also trimming the arms and horns)

Assembled:

Painted:

Yeah, he’s still a little too happy looking. But for a buck? And I could try to do something about that grin on my next one.

Dollar store find…

On a tip from the DM’s Craft forums, I went to the Dollar Tree store and bought these for $18.

The real armored steamship

OK, I’ve finally gotten started on the “real thing” for the armored steamship.

Still very much in the formative stages, but this is what I’ve got:

For comparison, here’s the prototype in top of it.

 

Next I think I’ll work on the battlements…

 

Watercraft…

Just messing around again with Sculpey clay. I made some canoes a long time ago, but I made the mistake of making them look like … well, canoes. Which meant long and skinny. Too skinny to comfortably hold miniature bases. So I figured I’d try a design change and make canoes intended to accomodate miniature bases first, and look like a canoe second. This is what I came up with. Oh, and a prototype raft attempt too.

With minis:

Five gelatinous cubes

Here is the result of my recent gelatinous cube making binge. I made more than five, but only five are worth the effort.

One had a layer of resin that never cured, and ended up melting and ruining the cube.

One I had sent to another forum member as part of a trade, and it seems to have melted in the mail, so I sent a replacement.

But with the three I already had, I now have eight gelatinous cubes, and I think that’s enough gelatinous cubes for any GM. Anyway, I did three with nothing inside, and two with recent “meals”. There are two different kinds of resin used here. It takes a long time for this resin to cure, so you are looking at several days of seriously stinky crafting here. I am glad to be done with it for the moment, that stuff takes days to fade away.

Close-up on the recent meals.