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What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Want to show off your painted figures? Got a cool conversion? Need some ideas?

what do you like best

Poll ended at Wed Sep 10, 2014 9:08 pm

wing A.
1
8%
wing B.
1
8%
wing C.
3
23%
wing D.
1
8%
wing E.
0
No votes
jetpack 1.
1
8%
jetpack 2.
5
38%
jetpack 3.
1
8%
 
Total votes : 7

Re: What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Postby Spack » Sun Oct 26, 2014 3:39 pm

Why not get some Oyumaru? It's about £5 for a pack of six sticks 1" long, one of those should be enough to create a press mould of the wing and you can then use it to create duplicates in green stuff or a similar putty. While not as good as a proper casting material it should allow you to create a bunch of them cheaply, and if you put strips of plasticard inside them they'll be fairly strong.
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Re: What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Postby BDA » Mon Oct 27, 2014 1:11 am

Thanks angelwing but I enjoy my boybits where they are and I can't guarantee where they might end up if I tried pulling that trick on the wife lol :) .

Hi Spack I got some oyumaru and have used the stuff a fair bit for single sided moulds and the odd two part as well and think the stuffbis really handy but I really want to try casting with resin and I got like 100 wings to do and some resins cure in 15 min while green stuff takes almost a day.
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Re: What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Postby BDA » Sat Nov 08, 2014 1:06 am

......... ok i just got badly distracted by my birthday preset :)
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Re: What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Postby Spack » Sat Nov 08, 2014 2:23 pm

Wow, nice present. It's my birthday next week, send it along ;)
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Re: What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Postby BDA » Sat Nov 08, 2014 11:08 pm

Lol its not pass the parcel :). Will try my hand at casting first before I get stuck into him but looks like i better invest in an airbrush as it might help speed a number of things along :). Got any suggestions people as I don't have a clue about airbrush
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Re: What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Postby Angelwing » Sun Nov 09, 2014 1:08 pm

This is the sort of airbrush I'd recommend for a wraithknight:
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Re: What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Postby BDA » Sun Nov 09, 2014 11:02 pm

What make is that? And do you give it an even all over coating Lol :)
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Re: What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Postby Angelwing » Mon Nov 10, 2014 9:28 am

On a serious note, I've never used an airbrush myself, but various sources have suggested its the way to go with large eldar models. What I will say is buy one that uses a compressor, not one with a aerosol can supply. Can supply can be uneven, leaving an uneven paint job. Its also much cheaper in the long run, and I'd assume more environmentally friendly.
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Re: What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Postby BDA » Mon Nov 10, 2014 9:35 pm

Thanks for that, it makes sense and I think I am getting an idea of what I need now :)
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Re: What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Postby BDA » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:29 pm

Well good news is our central heating is installed and cost less than I thought so I will celebrate by getting me some stuff to cast with :)
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Re: What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Postby BDA » Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:50 pm

[font=Times New Roman] [/font]So far so good
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I have decided to go for blu-stuff as my mould as it is cures quick and is more forgiving than other products I believe but is also more expensive but for the small stuff I want to do at the moment that is fine. You can get it from blu-stuff. Com or form eBay.

Being impatient I got hold of some blue-tack and a small container t start my firs mould. I layered the blue tack at the bottom of the small container and pressed the parts in to it, trying to ensure that they whey where halfway in .

then I mixed equal parts of  the two parts of blu-stuff and pored that in over the top slowly. The hole time trying to minimise air bubbles. You have to work quite quick here mind. One I was all poured in I have it a good tap on all sides to ensure any air bubbles where loosed. It should be ready in about 20 minutes but after 10 it had already set quite well but best to leave it the entire time.

next up if this all worked well then I should be able to pull the mould free and then remove the blue-tack and poor more Blu-stuff over the first part of the mould I did (leaving the parts in place).

Will need to cut some channels in there but this is really just a test run to see how much detail it holds and if I am along the right lines.

I have mixed the top part but in my ignorance i did not add any release agent so it seems to have bonded very so a surgical cut might help else back to the drawing board for another round lol

Not sure when I will get round to mixing the resin but soon I hope but better get this part right first lol :)
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Re: What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Postby BDA » Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:26 pm

Well it looks like my second attempt for a 2 part mould worked a lot better than the first that is for sure lol

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Will need to cut some channels to poor the resin in and might give that a little go at the weekend if I have time.

Also working on a Tau AA defence to go with my pot noodle defence line.

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This is made from two small tap reels and some 1mm thick plasticard so far but I will adding some green stuff ribbing along with some SMS systems from the riptide and areal. The idea is it is a quad gun equivalent.

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Re: What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Postby Angelwing » Fri Dec 12, 2014 1:03 pm

The tau aa defence looks interesting. Cant wait to see how it turns out.
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Re: What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Postby BDA » Fri Dec 12, 2014 11:04 pm

The AA turret is a fun change of pace but I might post any new bits on my other thread as I should keep this one for the corsairs really. :)

Off to wash a titan now and have a go at some casting....... Wish me luck lol
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Re: What do you like best for my DIY Eldar corsairs

Postby BDA » Sat Dec 13, 2014 1:08 am

well the mould is working well by the looks of it.

first off some update pics of a mould i made for a base.
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then we got a load of progress pics of the casting.
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the one part base mould did not seem to want to work all that well and i got a lot of bubbles for some reason but i am guessing that is because i used a syringe the 2 part mould worked very well but i feel that is because i used a syringe to fill it from the bottom and the pressure helped push the air out.
i should point out that all this has been an experiment to let me get use to the the materials i will be working with and i have learnt a lot of stuff. not lest of all that you wont get blu-stuff out the carpet once it has set lol.
the two part mould was not perfect in the first place but it very much looks like i went down the right lines.


the resin i used starts to go very hard quickly and is measured by weight. if anyone knows a slower curing resin that has a longer working time and is a 1:1 volume mix that would be very helpful to know.
oh as a helpful hint i used syringes to suck up the separate parts of resin and make sure i got the correct weight of each part.
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