| Cacique Caribe | 04 Feb 2018 3:21 a.m. PST |
Ever scratch-built anything like the Barsoomian buildings in the background of these Frazetta paintings? If so, care to share photos and tips? Dan
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| AVAMANGO | 04 Feb 2018 5:48 a.m. PST |
A good start would be the old Kryomek true 25mm dome buildings although they are scaled for 25mm they are much more suited to todays 15mm-18mm scale, with the addition of some cheap plastic Christmas decorations for the arabian style spires i think your be good to go… ☺ |
| rvandusen | 04 Feb 2018 6:25 a.m. PST |
Those are cool. Frazetta was the king of evocative fantasy art. Whenever I read an R.E. Howard Conan story, my imagination defaults to Frazetta Hyborian images. In the case of those buildings, I can't help you there, but those 'tear-shapes" might turn up at one of the craft chains. Christmas ornaments, as suggested above, might work for those spires. |
| rvandusen | 04 Feb 2018 6:34 a.m. PST |
What about building up the structure around a wooden or paper mache craft cone?? link |
| altfritz | 04 Feb 2018 7:09 a.m. PST |
Fenris and similar companies sell resin domes and spires. |
| wolvermonkey | 04 Feb 2018 7:35 a.m. PST |
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| whill4 | 04 Feb 2018 7:50 a.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 04 Feb 2018 8:48 a.m. PST |
How about upside down cheap plastic champagne glasses? I know I've seen onion-shaped plastic glasses somewhere. Dan |
 Legion 4  | 04 Feb 2018 9:47 a.m. PST |
I've converted 25mm Kroymek and others to 6mm by making smaller doors and windows, etc. …
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| SpuriousMilius | 04 Feb 2018 10:02 a.m. PST |
I built a foamcore "palace" for my John Carter convention games &, as whill4 suggested, for the 4 corner towers I used Pringles cans topped with inverted unfinished Christmas ornaments from Hobby Lobby. These gave me that plump dome shape topped by a spike. |
| Cacique Caribe | 06 Feb 2018 6:30 a.m. PST |
SpuriousMilius Did you take any pictures of the palace and spires? Dan
PS. I have a feeling that Mike Hoffman might have drawn a few more pictures of domes and spires than just these here:
TMP link |
| Cacique Caribe | 15 Feb 2018 9:20 p.m. PST |
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| TheBeast | 16 Feb 2018 12:11 p.m. PST |
Weren't there some third party resin sculpts for Eldar buildings that might work, as well? Mind, combinations of old household clearer bottles and plastic Easter eggs, the season's coming up, would be promising, as well. Doug PS. Whoops, the Eldar stuff wouldn't work as well for 15mm, though. |
| Cacique Caribe | 16 Feb 2018 3:40 p.m. PST |
Beast Lol. I've actually made a couple of cardboard templates using Eldar designs, which I plan to use for hot wire carving on foam. Dan |
experiments to find a better way to mount aircraft for wargaming.
