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02-08-2008
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| Conscript  Join Date: Jan 2008
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|  GS logos on marines shoulder pads Hi everyone Just thought i would pass this on - it isnt a majorly detailed tutorial - but hopefully it will pass on my idea The whole idea started 2 and a bit years ago when i had a sculptor do me a pad for my DiY marines army, a guy from GW HQ went through some casting ideas with me before i really knew much about it Anyways - i didnt think much of it and left it at that, then i started a BA army a few weeks ago - the idea of sculpting each pad was my original idea but sounded like it would be problematic because well, there might be some dis-similarities Right at this time i was doing some silicon moulds for a mask project, so i stuck a rough BA pad sculpt onto the moulding box, boxed it in and poured my silicon to leave me with a 1 part mould of my design I then took a clean marines pad - drilled a hole in this ( where my logo was going to be ) Took a ball of GS and put it roughly into the mould and then squashed the clean shoulder pad into the mould What happens is the GS fills the mould logo - then the excess GS comes straight out of the hole in the shoulder pad which can just be scraped away leaving with a pretty much perfect GS logo on a GW plastic pad What is a cool thing about this method is if your careful - the GS wont stick to the mould much as it is silicon and pops out so multiple pads can be done quickly with 1 shoulderpad Some pics to explain what im on about Moulding Board - the shoulderpad is up in the top right of the photo - just foam board and blu-tac used to box it in  This is the silicon mould with a shoulderpad in it with a GS BA logo going onto it - note the hole in the back and excess GS which has gone through it - if there wasnt a hole it would bulk up the logo or ruin the shape  The final pad with the silicon mould - removed after about 5 minutes ( henc why it isnt clean - the GS around the logo on the pad is thin enough to just come off with a nail scratch ) As said, just thought i would pass it on as a way of reproducing army pads quickly - the design on this pad was just a simple idea to test the idea, but soon plan to try it with more detailed designs thanks, L Last edited by Lieutenant L; 02-08-2008 at 03:57 PM. |
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02-08-2008
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| Re: GS logos on marines shoulder pads nice i think ill try that when i get back to marines this summer
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| Your Friendly Neighborhood Heretic      Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Louisville, KY (Back home in the bluegrass)
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Blog Entries: 5     | Re: GS logos on marines shoulder pads Hmmm.. I wonder how well this would work with more intricate designs.. Great tut none the less. + rep for the idea.
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| Re: GS logos on marines shoulder pads Sure would make getting the rest of my spacewolf pads alot cheaper 
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| The Munkey Master  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Frederick MD
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| Re: GS logos on marines shoulder pads Nice nice tut man!!!! Warchild and Erus You can get with me about this type thing if you need more info!! |
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Blog Entries: 5 | Re: GS logos on marines shoulder pads Quote:
Joe, can you and the 2nd shrink those recruitment marines down juuuuuuuuuust a bit?
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02-09-2008
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| Master Procrastinator  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: As a figment of my own deranged imagination, i don't actually exist anywhere. Or London, UK.
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Blog Entries: 1 | Re: GS logos on marines shoulder pads bit technical to be of much use to a simple man like me but very handy none the less +rep |
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| The Munkey Master Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Frederick MD
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| Re: GS logos on marines shoulder pads Well I await your call, my Lord Commander!!! Oh and is that better?? |
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Blog Entries: 14 | Re: GS logos on marines shoulder pads Me likey. as i need a lot of BA shoulderpads as well thanks 
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