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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 12:37 am 
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Hi!

I have some interest in making some bases for my chaos projects and was wondering if anyone knew of a place to obtain small sized skulls for basing purposes.

Those I have seen are more appropriate for 28mm scale not 6mm.

Any advice or information is appreciated.

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 Post subject: Re: Skulls for bases
PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 2:21 am 
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I don't know when they're coming out, but you should put eyes on the skeletal bits from Microworld:

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And failing those, perhaps a pack of skeleton spearmen or two, brutally hacked up to provide skulls/bodies as needed.


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 Post subject: Re: Skulls for bases
PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 2:38 am 
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Nice!

Must have missed those. A definite thing to use.

I would also like to see something "flat", to cover more area. I need some to cover a 100mm x 50mm area.

Good call doomkitten! :)

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 Post subject: Re: Skulls for bases
PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 7:51 am 
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Green Stuff press mould em.

find one tiny skull on a mini, or sculpt 1 on 1 stick. then press is many many times in to a suitable press mould substrate (sculpy, GS, etc) then press GS to your heart's content. Can do carpets of skulls with little effort that way :)


pile is just one skull i pressed lots of times into the inside face of a conical depression in some sculpy:
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 8:38 am 
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 9:28 am 
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 11:19 am 
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Dat's a lawta skullz

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 1:57 pm 
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Speesshhhhh...
And to think you'll ever get a job at GW this way. I can still see the sides of that building and your skulls should be made up from smaller skulls.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:36 pm 
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Hi!

How hard is it to do that Apoc?

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it's a very simple technique using basic material and no 'actual sculpting' (unless you sculpt your own master skull to start … but it's not hard to find a skull to copy!).

lots of tutorials for press moulding basics, this is an example: http://www.captureandcontrol.com/2010/0 ... -mold.html (just replace the BA device with a tiny skull, forget the bit about marking a small channel)

for lots of skulls you just press the skull in again and again and again into the mould (so you remove it before the GS sets – lubricate it well) sticking the skull onto the end of a pin works well, makes it easy to pull out. once done you can 'mould' whole carpets of 6mm skulls just by smooshing green stuff into it – results are very flexible and can be applied to odd shapes, like the front of land raiders:
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not actually sure where mine went, the only one that was a bit tricky was that pile of skulls (less reliable results, and the mould broke after a couple … but then i only needed one :D )

100*50mm is a pretty big area and would take time to do at this scale, but im not sure you'd find a faster solution than this at 6mm.

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Hi!

The "test" case if you will will be on a base of those dimensions, but I am looking further into the future to actually making a generic "khornite" base with skulls.

For my test case your method would work, but given the "size" of some of my projects I would need a source of mass production.

I guess I will need to commission getting some skulls done and them having them done in mass via molds.

A minor task compared to what needs to be done. ;)

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yeah mass is fine – once you've made one you can just get it resin cast.

Or, if you make a press mould exactly base size that wouldn't be too bad either (well unless you wanted 200 of them … which I guess in your case might be the situation!)

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Apocolocyntosis wrote:
yeah mass is fine – once you've made one you can just get it resin cast.

Or, if you make a press mould exactly base size that wouldn't be too bad either (well unless you wanted 200 of them … which I guess in your case might be the situation!)


Hi!

That would be the plan, make a "master" and resin cast it.

200 is way to low by the way. ;)

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