"Do You Have A CORK Fetish Too?" Topic

I love cork, REALLY LOVE cork, and I've used it a lot for making hills and rock formations .*

But it's obvious I'm not the only one fascinated with that medium. Many if you have used cork to simulate concrete successfully, even with small scale terrain. This is truly impressing:

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QUESTIONS:

How about you? Have you caught the cork bug?

Dan
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Wow, lovely job with those ruins.

Nice, just don't soak the cork:

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CC, where have you found cork tiles in the US? The nice 15mm stuff you link to is probably the thinner stuff I found at office stores. But I've never found thicker cork appropriate for 28mms buildings in small amounts. I've only found it a flooring clearance stores where I have to buy a full case.

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Dan

Cork for walls? Simply a great idea that had never occurred to me.

Love the ruined city, too.

Spacejacker's stuff is awesome. But cross-post much CC?

Beautifully done!

I love working with cork. I've made a 20mm medieval village, all my walled/fenced fields are based on cork. Plus lots of other applications. It's easy to work with and relatively cheap as well.

I have been using it for years. Here is a building from my Stalingrad setup. Cork is a little more difficult to work with, it's not as sturdy as foamcore, but he has a cool texture to it.
I bought mine in sheets from Lowe's and also from Michael's

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Matakishi uses a lot of cork tiles.

I have not been able to find the good cork, just the weak flimsy craft cork. The cork tiles from the DIY has this weird backing on it.

I've been trying to source sturdier cork tiles here in the US. Best I can come up with is cork floor tiles: link

Anyone have a good source that's not the flimsy stuff you get a Hobby Lobby or Michael's?

go to hobby lobby or ace hardware they have th e12 by 12 tiles last time I was there

Yes … yes i do. The 7mm cork I use is only periodically available in Australia (curse cork floors going out of fashion!) but that has the effect of limiting the somewhat unsustainable rate of building I would otherwise be conducting.

Here's my first project – a desert village for pulp gaming in 28mm. All the buildings need more work but they certainly look OK from a distance!

I'm working on some english farmhouses for a VBCW project at the moment.

My inspiration is Matakishi – but some great work above as well.

Cheers
AL

SpaceJacker's work with making cork look like concrete is truly amazing. Check it out:

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I also like how he has mounted these GZG doors:

"Here are some GZG doors mounted on plastic card bases, with cork tile backing. They have been built to place up against a flat wall, or on the board edge to represent an entry point. They will be useful as objectives themselves, or to make a building out of any other solid mass scenery."

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Dan

I've seen some of the thinner cork which is self-adhesive; you could probably cut a wall out of thin plasticard and then stick cork on both sides to get the stronger walls you need.

I'm actually thinking of using strips of the thinner adhesive cork to add vertical "support column" texture to thicker straight sections of cork.

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Dan

This has a lot of great ideas!

CC
Just how did you make those cork hills, I know you mentioned how once before, they look great.

They were made using with $20 USD worth (8 tiles) of dark crumbly cork.

All I've done is glue a stack of them together and let the glue dry completely. Then I started "chipping" away bits, with the reverse (unsharpened edge) of an Xacto blade, using short downward strokes. Used a large brush to shake off any loose bits. Then I added two generous coats of straight PVA.

No painting yet. And I may still add 1/4 inch mdf as bases, to minimize the chance of any future warping. Then I'll paint them.

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Dan

Well ,I didn't Dan but I sure have it now.

I'm off to get some.Hopefully I'll find some thick pieces.
I was wondering can you glue thin sheets to make thicker ones ?

Kudos for all the great stuff
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"can you glue thin sheets to make thicker ones ?"

I don't see why not.

PVA (white glue) takes a while to dry between sheets, but that's what I use when making hills and rock formations, so that I can chip away cliff sides and such. Just make sure to put a few heavy books on top, to keep the white glue from warping your stack of cork sheets/tiles.

Hot glue works a lot faster, but if I hit a clump if it while chipping away, it sometimes starts pulling on the other glue sandwiched in between.

For upright walls I've used super glue gel, even when I add adhesive strips to sections of the main wall piece. It's fast and the residue is easy to clean up if you act while still wet.

The choice is up to you.

Dan

Guys,

By the way, this is another very inspiring cork building project. I have it saved among my favorite sites:

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And I really love that he made each section modular. So you could conceivably end up with a different set up of buildings in every game!!!

Dan

OMG, is this stunning or what!!!

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What dedication!

This guy is definitely the cork god, Giuseppe Fiorelli:

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Dan

Those are great! I'm going to have to grab some cork and try my hand at that! :D

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I like the cork also :) and could be used diferent form. here I take the cork cut and paste them in a previous plywood structure. this is a church for 28 mm figures.

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That looks Nice! bet it will look even better when it is finished, do you have any pictures of those that are finish
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Stunning work! Absolutely stunning.

Dan

I think I ma starting to have a cork fetish now

There ya go! Come on over to the dark side.

Dan

Yes the Dark Side! We have milk and cookies! :D

Hmm. Milk and cookies. Milk and cookies …

Dan
PS. Hell has no milk. Just cookies.

That's why it's hell how do you wash down cookies with out milk? :(

I don't want to hear about milk when you're talking about a cork fetish.

Lol

Dan

I know! how about a cookie factory and a milk barn made of cork! :D

Great thread..

I am using cork bark to build my cliff faces

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Very nice

Great work Eric! Love the textures.

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here the cookies factory that I made in cork:
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knock me down with a feather duster – they are gorgeous

Those are great! A little paint, some new glass and we could have Milk and Cookies for everyone! :D

Beautiful work! Incredible.

Dan