Saturday 24 February 2018

Fakearse continues to build a tabletop......

Hello all, and welcome the next instalment of cheap arse hobby builds with Papafakis. If you missed the first riveting post about this project, have a look at the previous one by clicking on this thing.


Ok, on with the show;

Building a sump pit? Oil reservoir? Toxic waste dump? A hole in the ground?

Used an old hot water service water chamber, train set tracks and a shower hose for this Power generator?
Transfer pump? Elaborate toilet? Who knows?

Intense picture of the hole in the ground! 

Cheap arse plastic dumbbell cut in half and more shower hose.

A polystyrene box remade into a more interesting shape. I then
 painted it with a sandy PVA mix and added a few gubbins.

Toy stuff, great fodder for scrap heaps.

Only the finest tools were selected for the task of molding the plastic. 

I smote these bits but good!!! 

Before I unleashed my mighty warhammer upon the next batch I attacked them with my heat gun first.
Take THAT stupid plastic!!!

The entrance to the building was made from an old biscuit box.
A board game token was added for a sign.

I've got no idea what's going on in this shot.....just stuff n things.

The scrap piles were constructed from the heavily molested plastic pipes and other hobby detritus.

A few resin milk cartons and a half finished terrain piece.

Ooooh, more of this shit.....just in a different location.

Resin barrels, heated and deformed to make them look......like deformed barrels.

Roads were made out of bog roll and a weak PVA water mix.

I made some low hills in this area and then covered them with the arse paper and PVA mix.

I covered the foam hills with scrunched up foil to give them better texture. I then layered more unsoiled TP over it to give it even more
texture. The watchtower is another unfinished project.

I used so many rolls of shit wipes on this fucking board I lost count. 

And here's the money shot, pre flock stage. All the elements that I wanted were complete.

I used sawdust and stole copious amounts of the wife's tea, coffee and herb collection to flock this thing. She loves me so it's ok.

The shitty looking purple colour you can see on the board was just some old aerosol colour I had lying around. I used it to seal the
board before flocking, so the PVA would soak into the flock and not the board.

I know it looks like it's swimming in flock, and it is actually, but this was only temporary. I sprinkled heaps of flock onto the board to make
sure it was fully covered. Then I vacuumed it all up when it was dry and reused it.

Made this bodgy looking tool to lay some tracks on the roads....it failed.

Flocked to buggery!

Entrance to somewhere, the possibilities are endless....I suppose.

So it is here too, if you think about it.

This area will eventually be a burnt out and blasted forest, eventually.

Hole in the ground coming along.

Quick paint job with acrylic emulsions. Completed with the cheapest electric spray gun money could buy.

It's looking more like a gaming table don't you think?


Alrighty! Next up is to add some doors to a few places, a ladder to one of the mountains, fix up a few areas that the nether rags failed to cover properly and then I can get started on the washing and drybrushing task.


Ok, I need to go, bye :)

33 comments:

  1. With that much toilet paper, the local store is going to think you've got crohn's disease!

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    1. That's fine, I don't like the store owner anyway. He's stingy.

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  2. So, with this post and the last post I really admire the expanse of your project and scale of your vision. But with that much of the structure made from cardboard what happens when a pint of tasty tasty Fosters lager gets knocked on the surface and soaks through?

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    1. Fosters!? Never gunna happen brother. I don't drink that filth!

      But, if a beverage of some other kind was to be spilled onto the board I would simply cover the offending site with flock and paint over it. If it wrecks the surface real bad? I'd turn it into a terrain feature. It's kinda like a lazy Nurgle painters technique, the more fucked it looks the more Nurgle it becomes.

      Glad your liking my cheap arse creation so far Curis :)

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  3. Great inspiration. Nice use of cheap/found items. I look forward to seeing it completed.

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  4. Amazing creativity and very well done

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    1. Thanks Anthony, it's coming along isn't it :)

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  5. This is amazing but why the heck didnt you make it so all the scenery is separate or as 4 square baords instead of one big one?!

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    1. Hi Curtis,

      In answer to your first query, I have limited space for storage, so fixing them to the board made sense. Second, I can't stand seeing the join line between separate boards. It's definitely more versatile and easier to store, but it looks pants.

      I made sure that there were enough elements, spread out in such a way on the board that it'd be hard to play the same game twice. Doors going leading to a multitude of exits located around the board, lots of objects that could be used as simple terrain pieces or objectives etcetera. Once it's all done I hope it will make more sense. With any luck we might get to play on it together one day.

      Cheers mate :)

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  6. Kudos to you for your dedication and perseverance with this build, it’s going to look great when done!

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    1. Cheers Ragsta :)

      Once I started this thing I couldn't stop, as it's taking up my sons' valuable play space in his bedroom :)

      It should be ace when it's completed I agree :)

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  7. Sir, you are my hero. You dare to do what I can only barely dream. A board this size is insane, I do love it. I can't bear the lines between modular boards, but I haven't found the courage to do anything like this. Crazy beauty (I mean the board, not you!)

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    1. I think we both like tackling unorthodox projects Suber. Great, or deranged, minds like ours think alike :)

      Cheers mate :)

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  8. Thanks for sharing this one from inception to completion, it's really inspiring to see someone making such creative use of scavenged bits and pieces and seeing them come together to make a finished table-top that looks easily as good as pre-bought terrain.

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    1. Thank-you for your kind words Carmine :)

      Making gaming stuff out of junk and otherwise non-related items is a big part of the hobby for me. It's how it used to be at the start, which is where my head is stuck all the years later :D

      Cheers :)

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    2. It's very rewarding - I type this whilst looking at a hab-tower made out of Muller Rice pots, something of which I am disproportionately proud.

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  9. Oh, well done sir! Yeah, I need to do a terrain board. Throwing a blanket over stuff is great, but it gets old after a while. I really want to do the modular, though. There's got to be a good way to obscure the joins. Keep a bag of "flock" handy and deploy as needed? I think I've seen that done. Or maybe find a way to make the joins look irregular and hide them in fencerows or hedgelines of some kind. Anyway . . . Lovely stuff!

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    1. Yeah, I've thought about how to go about hiding joins too. Just doesn't seem to be a "seamless" way to do it though. I had an idea a while ago about making the separate boards square, but having low hills or land features straddle the join in an irregular pattern. It's a bit hard to explain via txt, but in the end I thought it still wouldn't be all that good.

      Like I mentioned, I think I've got enough elements scattered around to make it pretty versatile. Time will tell though hey ;)

      Cheers Composer :)

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  10. That's a great looking table. With such a complex setup, I think it will be pretty replayable even with the fixed features.

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    1. I think it'll work out great too Major. I made sure to make it vehicle/machine friendly as well, not just a cluttered mess that is so busy it doesn't look like a believable backwater town.

      I better hurry up and build the storage shelf above the stairs though :)

      Thanks :)

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  11. Oh man, that is shaping up beautifully mate - your ingenuity for repurposing junk is spectacular! Would love to see a ‘total spent’ summary when this is finished dude - apart with the (frankly weird) insistance on using fresh arse-wipe, this must’ve been practically zero cost?

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    1. I think the only thing that cost me any significant amount was the spray gun, and even that was under $20! I'm a tight arse through and through really ;)

      Oh, and TP is the king of cheap texturing material......as well as keeping our anus' clean.

      Cheers mate, glad you like it :)

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    1. And best of all, it's cheap too!

      Cheers mate :)

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  13. I dread to think what this has done to the stock market bog roll index. It's coming on really well though. Always amazing what a coat of paint does to make things look proper! The hole in the ground is particularly good. Looking forward to seeing what happens next!

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    1. Thanks Toby :)

      The price of arse paper has increased ten fold since I began this project. Bloody price gouging that is!

      I'm almost ready to start putting the final touches on the thing too. Not long to go now mate :)

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  14. I really like the way you melt and deform the plastic. It all looks grand now, but I just know that the minute you start dry-brushing it, it will all pop to life in a very exciting way. Can't wait to see the finished product, Mr. P.

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    1. Thanks Matthew,

      I totally agree, the drybrushing will transform it. I'm about to get stuck into it again, so hopefully over the next few weeks it'll be done.

      Cheers mate :)

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  15. Great work Mr.P,
    You should seal the sides & underside with use strips of newspaper + pva to seal them. Then paint matt black with Brolac black undercoat( cheap, strong & stinks when freshly painted ) Cardboard soaks humidity like a sponge..... been there done it don't want to do it again!!!!

    Keep it
    Z

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    1. Hey Zruny baby :)

      The plan at this stage is to finish the surface work first. Once that's done and it's stopped warping the rest of the board like a mofo, I'll flip it and give the underside a coat of PVA to pull it back into shape. I'll then glue some heavy black denim material that I picked up the other day to cover the sides and underneath.

      Yeah, cardboard is a bitch, but it is cheap.....and that is good :)

      Thanks for having a look see at my creation Mr Z and your comments/advice is much appreciated.

      Cheers mate.

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