Strange creatures, us modellers...

[Tarok]

I can't help but think what strange creatures we modellers are...

This evening, I specially made a 15Km round trip to collect 2 handfuls of twigs/sticks and a handful of pebbles from 2 of the local community dams for a project I'm busy with... just because I knew one of them had the right twig for the job...

And all the way home I chuckled, thinking what strange creatures we modellers are... :lol:

And here's the really scary thing.... I'm sure 95% of you reading this post have done something similar! LOL :lol: :lol:

 

[Roc]

Not strange at all, we have all done that some time or another, we are just enthusiatic people.

Cheers
Roc.

 

[Guayo]

we modellers are...............PASSIONATE, thats what we are¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

 

[whdamon]

Actually those that don't do it are the strange ones. Walt Damon

 

[PJ Deluhery]

Right, Walt. I feel truly sorry for someone who does not care about something in their life that much. "STBY" (sucks to be you).

 

[megroot]

I think we are not the strange people,

That are the people who staring at a glace tube where there see nothing.
There mind is stomped off the reality, and is almost dead.
When you asking what are you watching: The answer is: OOOO nothing particular.
What are you doing whit your time. :angry:

Now, it is better then looking for twigs, stone's ect, or painting little man, reading over them etc. :lol:
That keeps the mind going and it is better to get not Alzheimer.
Maybe are the tubelookers pre-Alzheimer????

marc

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Sounds perfectly logic and natural to me?

Youve wrote that they were the right size and sort, didnt you?

Cheers

 

[megroot]

Originally posted by Uruk-Hai@Jan 6 2006, 01:01 AM
Sounds perfectly logic and natural to me?

Youve wrote that they were the right size and sort, didnt you?

Cheers

Janne,

Is that question for me ???

Marc

 

[jjgurk]

Reminds me of the first time that I collected greens clippings (I'm a golf course superintendent). I'd taken a few handfulls out of the mower bucket, laid them on a table to dry and told all who wondered what in the world I was doing that the fine cut of the grass would make perfect scale grass for vignettes and dios as if it was a completely normal thing to do, which of course it was.

John

 

[Uruk-Hai]

No Marc, not at all.

I was meaning that if the stones and the twigs were perfect its most logic to go there and get them. I do such things all the time.

Cheers

 

[Jason W.]

It's not that strange for us. Just ask Gary about my handful of Gettysburg Battlefield saw dust and twigs that I liberated from the property. :lol: And yes, I've used some of it in my ground work.

Jason

 

[Einion]

I didn't travel there especially for it but I do have some grit I made a point of collecting when I visited Newgrange as I knew it would be perfect for small rocks in groundwork. And I have some flint, er, 'borrowed' from Dover Castle, pebbles from the desert around Vegas and mosses from wherever I happen to see it around Ireland.

I bet if we start a thread on reference photos we'll get an even wider selection! And now with digital photography we don't even have to feel guilty about it either :lol:

Einion

 

[Cicero]

I have some pebbles waiting for a projects involving Celts. The pebbles were collected during my vacation in the Auvergne, central France. It's the place were Vercingetorix fought his last battles against G.J. Caesar. Won't it be fun, being able to say, that my Celt is standing on the grounds of the actual battlefield?

Happy collecting, folks :lol:

Johan

 

[garyjd]

Originally posted by Jason W.@Jan 5 2006, 07:34 PM
It's not that strange for us. Just ask Gary about my handful of Gettysburg Battlefield saw dust and twigs that I liberated from the property. :lol: And yes, I've used some of it in my ground work.

Jason

Jason, That was fun, wish I had "borrowed" some. The Friends of the battlefield at Gettysburg were selling pieces of wood from the trees cut down on Little Round Top. Unfortunately to my horror when I located some pieces for sale they were about 4" in diameter with a brass plaque epoxied to it. I was hoping they would be chunks of wood that could be fashioned into figure bases. How cool would that have been?~Gary

 

[billyturnip]

When I was reading this about half way down the page I wondered if anyone had actually used stuff from a battlefield and lo and behold............
Good idea, I have a stone from Flodden field and the site if the Battle of the Standard is about 8 miles away, maybe.........

Roger.

 

[Dan Morton]

We actually don't have many Great War battlefields in or around Omaha, Nebraska, alas.... :lol: So the concept of picking up stuff from the actual battle fields and using it in my dioramas...that's a little beyond me unfortunately. I suppose if I were more interested in modelling Western, Indian, or Great Plains issues, I might have more luck.

But I keep my eyes open for modelling materials all the time.

A few weeks ago I was working in central California and spotted a bundle of farmers' tie wire by the side of the road. Lest I be accused of petty theft, let me make clear it was lying by the road, abandoned. No farmers within 5 miles who I could ask if it belonged to them, etc. This is the wire they use to tie off strands of barbed wire to other strands, etc. It's the perfect size and thickness for armature wire. I now have enough armature wire for probably the next 30 years!

A couple months back I was pondering how to make uniform-looking ammunition bandoleers for two 120mm figures. Several of you were kind enough to give me some ideas, but I continued to chew on the problem. I was in an industrial shop and noticed a small partly broken and unusually shaped gear shaft. I thought it might have the right size of indentations to form the bandoleers so I asked if I could have it and picked it up. Sure enough - tried it out on putty and it's perfect.

So - keep those eyes open, folks!

All the best,
Dan

 

[garyjd]

Dan, Groundwork materials and tools/supplies for sculpting sometimes come from the least likely source.~Gary

 

[jccraemer]

I've carried a plastic container to work with me, (I'm a commerical fishermen) too collect pieces of drift wood and other material that are in my crab pots. Also I have sand from Ft Fisher battlefield site. And Next time I'm up to Moores creek or Orton Plantation I willl talk with the ground keepers. Thanks for the idea.