Hey Dustan your PM?

[tabletop]

What was that again? Something about fieldstone molds? You want some casts?

Let me know what you want and I can probably run a few casts. I've got plenty of Ultracal still kicking around in the garage courtesy of Daniel.

[Dustan]

Yeah I would probably buy some, moulds and ultracal that is. After building a couple little bits I got a bit of a bug for it.

I have got to get back to work on my vacuforming table. my first couple attempts at pulling a form were slapdash and amaturish... BUT it did work a little and it also showed that  Ineed the plastic to be a lot more saggy...

Damn food grade plastic has soooo much saggy I am probably going to need a way to keep heating the sheet as it is being formed in fairness  Ionly gave it a 2cm drop brfor it was at risk of getting me in trouple for plastic coating our oven rack =D

Oh and I hope you don't mind stu, the first thing that I am trying to form is that miscast facade you gave me ever so long ago. I realy must get another hot air gun...

[tabletop]

Yeah no worries, until you start mass producing them, then I'll LAWYER UP!11!!1111

Really you think you can get that much detail out of vac forming? Hell I was worried that I wasn't going to be able to Ultracal cast all the detail I'd sculpted on that facade, mainly because I was concerned about brittleness on the thin ledges etc. I'd be seriously impressed if you could vac form that facade to a good level of detail, but then I guess it's got plenty of voids (windows) so probably wouldn't be bad to suck air through.

Dustan, US$ is in the toilet. Hirst Arts molds aren't that expensive and they are VERY useful and by god they ship'em fast (3 days to my door is my record). The field stone molds are uber versatile. If you want buildable pieces, I'd recommend Fieldstone #70. They're $34 USD each. That's freaking $40 NZD!

http://hirstarts.com/fieldstone/fieldstone.html

That gives you options for basic walls and archways.

Holy shit. At $40 I'll chip in on an order if you want. I've lusted after the Ruined Fieldstone Mold #75 for quite some time. I mean LOOK at that shit:

http://hirstarts.com/tips23/tips23.html

Instant fucking Mordheim buildings right there!

[tabletop]

I've got at least $100usd coming from Google ads. I've blown $55 of that on an Ultrasil kit already, which leaves me ~$60NZD left to piss away. That's easily a mold + shipping.

[Jonathan]

How often do you get paid by Google for your ads?

[tabletop]

The way it works is they'll pay you every time your adsense revenue goes OVER $100usd.

However there's about a two month lead time on actually getting paid because they run some annoying system where they won't pay you until 30 days AFTER the END of the month you go over $100usd in!

So basically they hold your money for long enough to cream at most a quarter of interest off.

[tabletop]

Or if you're not into purchasing a mold, just let me know which parts you want from which fieldstone molds and we could work something out and I'll just have to keep gently touching myself under the table every time I see Hirst Arts mold #75 on that page.

For the record I believe I own:

Fieldstone #70, #701, #71, #72 (weak, regretted buying that one), #74 (excellent hex pillars), #203 (floor tiles), #210 (cobblestones) and maybe #260 or #265 (pretty sure I've got #265).

Mmm, mold #75...

[Dustan]

So If  Ilook at them and do some of that gentle stuff you were talking about I would start with 4 moulds
Cavern Accessory Mold #85 (Best of the batch)
Fieldstone Wall Mold #70
Ruined Fieldstone Mold #75
Fieldstone Accessories Mold #71

Next batch would be:
Fieldstone Bridge Mold #74
I love the hex columns but I like the gothic or roman ones a little better

And if I really got over excited
Cobblestone Mold #210
Clay Tile Roof Mold #230

In saying that I do feel guilty pangs because I dont see why I couldnt build my own masters and spend equal monies to get some RTV and an expert mould maker (You) to run me up a couple coppies of each set for me with royalty usage of the masters for himself (unless you start selling moulds in which case we would have to come to some arangement )

Would that proposition interest you Stu ? Of course time wise its going to cost me more than the moulds to make the masters but then I can try and get a more non repeating feel to some of them...

[Dustan]

Oh and by the way... mould purchases for me are a month or so off cause begining of August I need to blow another $120+ on malifaux models so  Ican order up the Nightmare ed (limited edition) Dead justice crew. and some more bits and pieces to make the order over $100 so I can get a free limited ed female convict gun slinger. If I was a rich man or get some stuff on trade me ASAP then I would get Wyrds new Puppet Wars game which I dont care how it works cause its got awesome puppet versions of the existing Malifaux range.

[tabletop]

Ah well believe it or not that actually is a tricky proposition. Fieldstone is a bitch to mold in Ultrasil and trust me I've tried. It's tricky because it's so deeply undercut on all the faces. I'm pretty sure the Hirst Arts mold master must pour and then vacuum chamber his molds to avoid air bubbles :/

I have the Clay tile roof mold as well btw, plus a bunch of Gothic ones (for that damned Cathedral). I swear there was a list of the molds I owned written up on here once but I can't find it.

I really can't recommend Hirst Arts molds enough. They're cast in an incredibly resilient molding material (of all the molds I own I haven't had a since one tear ever) and they last and last PROVIDED you're only casting with plasters. Resin casts will kill them which is why I don't do that. The pieces they produce are sculpted to very exact tolerances and they always seem to fit together with minimum filing. They're a bit like Lego that way to be honest. I've never managed to sculpt to those tolerances myself when trying to master anything.

Much as they seem fairly costly. $40 for a mold? Each mold itself has an endless possibility for constructing interesting terrain, particularly in the Fieldstone lines. Gothic is a bit less flexible imho, but they're still lovely molds.

Also I can totally wait until you're ready to order Dustan. I only want to order #75 myself. Mmmm #75 yes my precious.

The other option I suppose is we could start a mold library, and ship our HA molds to each other...although I have to admit that's a bit less attractive for obvious reasons. Geographical sparsity, losing the ability to go 'hell I'll just cast some of these and have a play' etc.

[tabletop]

Actually it's just occurred to me that it's probably best you DON'T buy Hirst Art molds given the madness I've seen you perpetrate with the few scrag ends I send you when combined with McDonald's toys.

God only knows what you'd be capable of if you actually had a whole HA fieldstone mold in your possession...it's probably safer for all mankind we keep you away from them.

[Dustan]

Oh man, your squashing by dreams of building my own house... I wonder how many castings for a 2 story 3 bedroom with double garage

Stu are you really afraid of the madness or is it fear of catching the bug?

[tabletop]

I should dust off my HA mold collection and rip into a few more Mordheim bits and pieces. That's really what #75 would excel at though. Hell, couple of casts and bam instant ruins!

[tabletop]

Hey hey. Google paid me! I've got $78.87 NZD burning a hole in my pocket Dustan.

Ready to order when you are. I'll pick up #75 and maybe snag the Pulp .45 2nd Edition Rules as a PDF.

[Dustan]

Well, maybe #75 is what you need then, give you a little motivation to get things rolling again... Sadly I I have a little over $100 that is all going to Wyrd games next week so I can pick up some limited edition models... It may be another month before my finances settle down what with the change of jobs and moving to fortnightly pay. One the up hand My allowance is going up and if things work out alright I may be able to order most of the moulds on my list, which means  Iam going to need 20kg's of casting materials

Also Man I wish I would get my ass into gear and figure out my website... At the rate adsense is going  Iwill get a payment in 2 years time =D

It is nice to see some of my stuff popping up in google searches though... I need to tag all my pictures though... or find a way to get wordpress and Nexgen gallery to preserve the tagging I do before uploading...

Oh and as for casting I read somewhere that 3 parts plaster of paris and 2 parts concrete makes a realy good cheap alternative to expensive plasters? is there truth in this as then  Ican get PoP and Concrete from bunnings rather than paying postage on dead weight