ogryn
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Post by ogryn on Aug 7, 2013 22:50:21 GMT -5
I am starting a Dragon Age rpg campaign and I need some help. The intro adventure has the players crossing a riven with a log across. I have crafted the scene with the cliff sides and the log across in outdoor dmscotty style but I need 8 or so blood crow models. DA describes them as large crows with snake like tails with barbs at the end. Basically I need large bird models (man sized?) I use 28mm minis. I was hoping to make these on the cheap. I also have not been able to find bird models that would work. Any help would be great. I am not against buying or making something. Thanks Bill
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 8, 2013 0:52:35 GMT -5
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Post by AJ on Aug 8, 2013 2:12:31 GMT -5
Birds are a tricky critter to start modelling with, the detail involved with feathers is up there with snake/reptile scales.. time consuming, finicky work. I would suggest you find some pictures of Eagle wings, copy, resize down to scale and color print them off, made them two sided.. make a snake with a hooked, eagle beak out of Sculpey or air dry clay, give it a fat body like it just swallowed a dog.. support it until it dries with a pipe cleaner or some soft wire, even bunched up paper... try to have it rearing up on it's tail, or perched forwards with the tail poised in a scorpion stinger strike.. bake it or let it dry, give it a lick of paint and glue the cut out pictures of the wings onto it. Should look fairly good for not much effort, and it doesn't take a great deal of skill to roll a bit of modelling clay between the fingers and make a beak shape, the eyes and such can just be painted on, the feet can be made from tooth picks and glue, again, more detail with paint.
Good luck!
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Post by belatucadras on Aug 8, 2013 8:51:06 GMT -5
You could try a craft store that sells floral supplies, like Michael's. They sometimes have these little birds that are used to add decor to floral arrangements. These will typically be finches and the like, but with some spray paint and some Green Stuff, you can make these look more like what you are after.
If not that then the dollar store or toy store for those little hard plastic animals. There are bound to be some usable bird forms. I would imagine that even some hard plastic chickens from a set of farm animals could be hacked, prodded and sculpted to fit your needs.
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 8, 2013 11:47:20 GMT -5
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Post by dm1scotty on Aug 8, 2013 12:51:21 GMT -5
Don't forget also that you never have to run a encounter as it is written. You can always change out the monsters and/or the parameters of the encounter as long as it adds to the story.
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Post by indigo777 on Aug 8, 2013 20:55:11 GMT -5
Check wedding sections in party stores and cheap stores like Dollar Tree. They sell small Dove decorations for wedding arrangements and parties at a lot of places. You can usually pick up a large pack of doves cheap. Usually 1 dollar for 12 of em. You can bulk order them and get 144 for under 3 bucks online. They are about 3/4" in size so should be close to the scale you want. Should make a good base to build from. Heres a pic of them at a place that sells em factorydirectcraft.com/catalog/products/1302_2533_1857-6041-34_miniature_white_doves_144pcs.html
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Post by thedmg on Aug 9, 2013 1:22:10 GMT -5
Go to the park, get pidgeons, use shrink ray. (Note to self, invent shrink ray)
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ogryn
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Post by ogryn on Aug 9, 2013 21:13:06 GMT -5
All great ideas, most I did not think of and will work on them. Working on the shrink ray myself, maybe we should compare notes, it would be easier to have models to game with I thought about changing the the encounter but the monsters in the first box set for dragon age is very limited and having flying creatures attack the pcs on a log over a 100foot chasm is hard to pass up. I will post my progress. Thanks Bill
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 10, 2013 0:13:06 GMT -5
All great ideas, most I did not think of and will work on them. Working on the shrink ray myself, maybe we should compare notes, it would be easier to have models to game with I thought about changing the the encounter but the monsters in the first box set for dragon age is very limited and having flying creatures attack the pcs on a log over a 100foot chasm is hard to pass up. I will post my progress. Thanks Bill How about changing them to giant bats? The dollar stores are starting to put out some of their Halloween stock and several different sets have bats that might suit your needs. There are some that look really good and some not so much though. But as I said they might be worth looking into. They also have dinosaur type plastic toys that have pterandons and pteradactyls in stock pretty much all year round. With a little paint and elbow grease they can look great. Anyhow, just a couple other options for ya
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ogryn
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Post by ogryn on Aug 10, 2013 9:10:40 GMT -5
hmmmmm, I will look into those also.
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