""Stone By Stone" Tiles For Your Alien Or Ancient Temples?" Topic

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Cacique Caribe	03 Jun 2011 10:10 a.m. PST
I am well aware that Hirst Arts has molds for lots of things, and that you can buy casts from several dealers . . . But this is the product I mean (select "Products" and then "Loose Stones": stonebystone.com link link Michaels and Hobby Lobby normally have them at $12 USD a bucket. However, I found a Michaels that had them on clearance for some reason. So I cleaned them out and got 6 buckets (5 of the 3/8" tiles and one of the 3/4" tiles) at $1.99 USD each!!! Just wanted to know if any of you had ever bought and used the product for making buildings and ruins. If so, please give us some of your wisdom and, perhaps, links to inspiring pictures. Thanks, Dan TMP link TMP link TMP link TMP link
nnascati	03 Jun 2011 10:20 a.m. PST
I'm almost afraid to ask. But what are you planning on building?
Cacique Caribe	03 Jun 2011 10:35 a.m. PST
NNascati: "But what are you planning on building?" Though the possibilities are endless, I'm considering either the interior of a Martian building, The Mummy's Hamunaptra or Burroughs' Opar. If Mars, then this is my inspiration: jeffcarlisle.com/node/109 jeffcarlisle.com/node/131 link TMP link link And this, or something like it, might be my entrance: picture link link If Opar, then this is my inspiration: erbzine.com/mag15/1547.html picture link link TMP link If Hamunaptra: TMP link So many choices!!! What will I do with 6,000 small tiles (3/8") and 300 larger ones (3/4")??? Dan
darthfozzywig	03 Jun 2011 8:05 p.m. PST
Ooooooooh!
28mmMan	03 Jun 2011 8:08 p.m. PST
So that will be at least 13.2lbs of tile on that terrain…gonna be heavy :)
Alfrik	03 Jun 2011 9:46 p.m. PST
could you post a picture with some of the tiles next to 28mm figures for scale comparison?
Cacique Caribe	03 Jun 2011 10:24 p.m. PST
Alfrik, I'll try tomorrow. In the meantime, keep in mind that the larger tiles are about 20mm x 20mm and the small ones are about 10mm x 10mm. Dan
Legion 4	04 Jun 2011 5:19 a.m. PST
Check out the Alien terrain one of the Aussie Tac Cmd crew did with Hirst. link And follow down on the thread, you can see that I posted links to where in the US you can get pre-molded Hirst "bricks" … SF #311 & #212 sets were what he used. Very tempting …
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART	04 Jun 2011 7:03 a.m. PST
Hey Dan, There is always styrofoam to be used for building filler. Also, if you are feeling ambitious, you can cast facades of your choice in Resin and glue it to said styrofoam to lighten the load even more. Lions and tigers and pyramids…. Oh I just got stifled. In any case, I'm intrigued! ….Photos after?

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