Topic: Materials for Dioramas: Finding crates, parts and miscellaneous stuff...

[Darth More]

JDeck: I agree on the Kinder eggs, there is a certain hazard if you don't expect plastic in your chocolate. Well, milliput worked well for my very first sculpting project. I always wanted to get Apoxie Clay which isn't available here in Germany for example (well Amazon offered it, but it's much more expensive here). So I think you can find many good if not better alternatives in the U.S. - I can also bring some milliput when I come to the U.S. next time and then send it to you via USPS, how does that sound?

Starchaser: Green stuff is also a holy material to many custoizers out there. So many options, it hard to find the "best" one for one's personal needs. Thanks for your comment and best regards to your son! I hope he keeps Warhammer as his hobby.

Tamer: Thanks for modifying the list! I recently bought a lot of 100 lightsabers on ebay.com using your forum's link.

Art deWhill: Thanks for sharing your experience with vallejo's primer. I'm also quite happy with the resistance of it. Let's see howit performs on the lightsaber hilts I'm currently painting...

Thanks for your comments guys, I'll be back in April.

[FialaFernbrugg]

I can't wait to see what you create with this material.
Thank you for all the links. I need some new brushes.

[JDeck]

As I've said before, I watch Warhammer diorama videos on YouTube for ideas and inspiration. A channel called Bill Making things uses spray bottles a lot. In fact there was a challenge between Bill Making Things, Dark Matter Workshop and Miniature Hobbyist on who can make the best terrain scatter using only spray bottle parts. It was such an inspiration I figured I would try it myself Star Wars style.

I've found there are two basic designs of spray bottles. The cheap windex model has a lot of small parts, the other (pictured) has a simpler design. I didnt take a picture of all the parts I used. I used both types of spray mechs, and some soap pump parts.   I decided to make a Moisture Vaporator/ Star Wars fire hydrant/ water pump thing. It's small enough I can set it pretty much anywhere I want in my spaceport project.

[Clonehead]

Looks good to me
Well done

[Tamer]

Now thats what I call trash to treasure!

Off to share on the front pages.

[JDeck]

Looks good to me
Well done

Thank you. Sometimes I just like making things out of random junk. I never really thought about using spray bottle parts.

Now thats what I call trash to treasure!

Off to share on the front pages.

Thank you. I have enough parts to make another Moisture Vaporator/Fire Hydrant Fire moisturizer thing.

I'm going to Dollar Tree Wednesday to pick up junk. If anyone has any suggestions on what I should build next let me know. I want to keep it spaceport or Star Wars city themed.

[JDeck]

I went to the dollar tree and picked up a bunch of junk. Firstly I'll get more into the different spray bottles. I got a salon style metal bottle (Black). This doesn't have as many mechanical parts, like the others have, just some small bits. Not that great.

Then the  average bottle (Pink) has little more than the black, but the parts are different from the Clear parts I showed earlier.

[Tamer]

Nice, time to go share this.

I can't wait to see what you make out of this.

[JDeck]

Nice, time to go share this.

I can't wait to see what you make out of this.

I didn't take any pictures of most of the stuff I bought, because I wasn't sure if they would be worth posting until I took them apart to see if there was any worth while parts. I'll go back next week, and buy the best of. The firetruck was the best, with a lot of structural parts with the ladder.

[Tamer]

I love what you created with that fire truck. That crate handler droid is just fantastic.

[JDeck]

Thank you! It helps to have some idea of what you want to build. I'm not sure what I want to make next.

[Tamer]

Just a test reply. I kept getting the message this page wouldn't display.

[Tamer]

I am still getting an error message with this. I hope it is displaying correctly for everyone else. Let me know if it isn't.

[JDeck]

Thanks it's working now. I was fooling with the camera, and did something the website didn%u2019t like. I think it was the 64mp or too big a ratio. Sorry I broke your site lol. Test picture.

Everything's fine, were all fine here now. Thank you. How are you?

[Tamer]

LOL. You just gave me an excuse to streamline a few things and update to the latest software.

I am glad we figured it out. This topic has too much awesome stuff in it not to be able to see it.