Gidians custom terrain (10-05-03: some new terrain)

[HSisforcoolkids]

Awesome altar! You are one talented guy, Gidian.

[IAmBatman]

you make me proud of my German heritage!

[NecroBlade]

What they said.

[Cale]

very sweet. i likey a lot. sehr gut, große Kreation. i think i got that right

[insomnimaniac]

I can't stand it














It makes me envious. Great job and I like going to your website!

[Onacara]

I am going to ask my wife is Gidian can come live with us on some sort of exchange program.

[Gidian]

I promised you some pictures of non-HS-terrain, so here they come:

Observatory:



















Cityfight Building:






Jungle Pyramid:






Tree:



Unfortunately the quality of the pics is not the best one. I will take some better photos when I have some time and then I will integrate them into the gallery of my site.

[EDIT]: I forgot the update on my custom tiles.
I reworked the first casting results a little bit and made I final mold of them. Now I have the base of the tiles and I can glue differently shaped pieces on them to get different terrain pieces. Here is an example for a street:



As you can see, one of the tiles has 4 small holes. I use it for terrain with plants which you can stick into the wholes.


Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[Cale]

very nice! your work has upped the bar a bit. i'd like to see more heroscape buildings/temples. i really like the way you paint/weather your work. great job

with the custom tiles do you use plaster? i've been thinking of making some molds for tiles myself, but was thinking of just doing a RTV two-part mold. are your tiles able to stack on top?

great job and look forward to seeing more heroscape customs!

[Gidian]

Hi Cale,

you´re right, I use plaster to cast the tiles. I was thinking about doing a two-parted mold but I decided to go for two-parted tiles for two reasons:

1. I just have to change the upper part to get different tiles. And I don´t have to cast the upper part necessarily. I can also build it from foam. That´s good for tiles I just need a few times.

2. It´s quite easier and faster to cast one-parted molds.

And yes, you can stack the tiles on top of the original tiles. That was very important for me and that´s why I had to go for the two-parted tiles.

Btw - I builded the prototype completely without using the original tiles to prevent from any copyright issues.

Greetings from Germany

Gidian

[MI_Tiger]

How well do the plaster hex pieces hold up over time? I think of plaster as being fairly brittle. It seems like the interlocking pieces would get chipped and worn down from frequent assembling and disassembling. Can they survive a little abuse?

Beautiful work on everything. And I love the Heroquest figure on top of the Observatory. I've been trying to remember the name of that game for a month, and now it makes 2 appearances this week (also in Leifkicker's custom terrain thread).

[Cale]

Originally Posted by Gidian

I builded the prototype completely without using the original tiles to prevent from any copyright issues.

i think it's the locking system that would have the copyright- so i don't think you are safe and can sell those. might be wrong though.

[Daddio]

Glad to see these updates, Gidian. I am officially a fan!

I've been inspired by your work to continue my efforts and hopefully show level of competency that approaches your fine craftsmanship. I hope others feel the same way.

P.S. I think Cale is right about the locking system. No need to risk trouble, right?