My little sister found out I got into making dioramas as a hobby. So naturally she wished for me to build her one for christmas. But a beautiful, cozy, wholesome one. No creepy or horror stuff.

So do you guys have any ideas how I can build a cosmic horror into the terrain which is hidden in plain sight. That she hopefully won't see in a long time or until I tell her?

Not sure how to go about it. I was thinking a bunch of cute animals in a little forest. But if you sway the tall trees to the side, a gigantic many eyed tentacled monstrosity is hiding behind them or something.

I was hoping you guys have some creative ideas here to help me out. The issue isn't integrating a cosmic horror into the cute little forest or w/e type of terrain I'll go for. It's hiding it in a clever way.

If you look out the window and see a volleyball pitch, you're fine, you're ok, read no further. If you see a cool 20ft desert board and you are already thinking how many miniatures you'll need, you're a tabletop guy, you have problems, you need help.

This finally arrived today for those who made the purchase.

They're pretty clean and are waxed(?) cardboard. I included some minis at various scales for an idea of size

Image 1 - Incomplete Watchtower Image 2 - ChatGPT Render Image 3 - Complete Watchtower

Image 4 - Incomplete River Base Image 5 - ChatGPT Render

Hi All, I'd been struggling to get some reference materials for a couple of projects I'd been working on, so thought I'd try an experiment with ChatGPT.

In both cases here, I took photos of my incomplete project, uploaded them and explained what I was building and what my vision is/was. Asked it to produce me an image of what that could look like, and now I get reference imagery back that I can use when finishing the projects.

Have found it really useful to remove that creative block and anxiety of it "not looking right", hope it proves a helpful technique for others.

Is there a safer alternative to using polystyrene for terrain building? Tons a warnings about use of, exposure to, heating up with hot wire cutters and smoke accumulation, along with overall inhalation. I see these guys making these huge massive and beautiful terrains… but I always wonder… what type of cancer will you get? I’ve seen the smoke come off the wire cutting and I rarely see anyone in a respirator. Scary.

I’d prefer to stay away from that as much as possible. Wasn’t certain if anyone has block like alternatives or anything they’ve used!

Looking to hire someone to build Some LOTR Dioramas for me. If interested let me know

I live in the USA / Florida

I got this foam "things" protecting a package. What would you build with them? (Can be Fantasy or Sci-fi). Any sugestions are apreciated 😁

Am I the only one having these life-changing revelations?

In the first comment the full tutorial

As title states, I’m making scatter terrain for the Cyberpunk ttrpg and I want to make detailed bits I can glue to tables, shelves, etc. especially thinking about beer and liquor bottles, food stuffs like chips and to go containers, that kind of stuff. I don’t have a 3d printer, so I want to make my stuff from every day materials. Perhaps sculpt it out of clay? Looking for advice, thanks!

Spent the last month planning this and I'm so chuffed with how it's turned out. I'm hoping none of my gaming mates see this as it's a surprise bit of terrain for a big game we're playing on Saturday but I'm too excited and needed to share it with someone.

Necromunda inspired video billboard. It's an old Samsung phone, loaded with a video playing on-loop, with an MDF surround painted to look like concrete, plastic toy pipes struts and the base is a thin bit of MDF with wood filler texture.

Here's a clip of it playing - https://youtu.be/BV4E8oIqU8M (The Sons of Vornskr are my friends 'stealer Cult gang)

And this is the video playing on it - https://youtu.be/Eo04peLZh7o Feel free to use it as I made all the images using ChatGPT (hence the spelling mistake on the Ammo Jax image).

EDIT - -For those of you that don't like that I used AI to generate the images because I should have done it myself, if I want to minimize the amount of screen exposure during my hobby time, I will.

• For those of you who don't think it was creative to use AI, regurgitating "slop" over and over again is unoriginal and boring, come up with an original insult.

• For those that are appalled by the environmental impact of increased Data Centre requirements, where do you think Reddit is hosted? You've all contributed in a small way, don't be so hypocritical.

bye.

Ciao a tutti! Volevo condividere il mio ultimo progetto e il processo un po' insolito ed economico che ho usato per dipingerlo.

Questo è "The Elder Helm", una torre per dadi che ho progettato e stampato in 3D. Invece di usare le mie solite vernici e lavaggi per miniature di alta qualità, volevo un aspetto grezzo, ruvido e antico. Quindi, ho fatto razzia in un negozio di ferramenta e nel mio giardino. Ecco la postazione (come potete vedere sullo sfondo della foto):

• Vernici di base (spray da ferramenta): Ho dato una mano di primer e poi ho usato bombolette spray economiche per auto/ferramenta (argento e rame Macota) per le parti metalliche. È incredibilmente veloce, super resistente e dà una finitura metallica sorprendentemente buona.

• Invecchiamento e lavaggi (Tempere): Invece di usare costosi lavaggi acrilici (come Nuln Oil), ho usato dei tubetti di tempera Giotto diluiti con un po' d'acqua e detersivo per piatti. Ho steso il composto su tutta la base di pietra e nelle fessure dell'elmo, poi ho rimosso l'eccesso. La tempera asciuga incredibilmente opaca, il che ha conferito alla pietra una perfetta texture polverosa e consumata.

• Base (Naturale!): Niente erba statica o floccaggio sintetico. Sono letteralmente uscito, ho raccolto della vera terra e del vero muschio. (Nota: cuocio sempre la terra in forno prima per uccidere eventuali insetti/spore!) Ho sigillato la terra con colla vinilica diluita e ho incollato il muschio direttamente nelle fessure per dare l'aspetto di un'antica rovina dimenticata.

Adoro come la vera terra e il muschio interagiscono con gli spray metallici. Dimostra che non sempre servono materiali di alta gamma per creare un pezzo da tavolo divertente e realistico!

Mi piacerebbe conoscere le vostre opinioni o rispondere a qualsiasi domanda sul processo. A proposito, se qualcuno fosse interessato a stamparlo in 3D, non esitate a mandarmi un messaggio privato (DM) per i file STL! 🎲🌿

I used a hot-wire foam cutter to melt styrofoam (I think polystyrene). I was doing this outside my apartment, but the cutter produced a noticeable amount of white/light-gray smoke with a strong, unpleasant smell, and a lot of the fumes blew toward my face.

I used it for about 15 minutes without a mask or a respirator.

Afterward, I noticed slight throat irritation and dry eyes. I'm otherwise feeling okay at the moment.

I didn't realize the smoke could potentially be harmful until afterward. I’m seeing posts now talking about it being toxic, causing chemical injuries to lungs, respiratory failure, or death. Do I need to be worried??

If anyone’s curious, it was designed in studio here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ukstl/ukstlstudio-your-cityyour-rules

Hey guys, I found this and thought I would share too it’s a work in progress. That’s My dad holding it he collects ALL political paraphernalia so don’t think it’s an advert.