McNathanson Posted October 26, 2014 Report Share Posted October 26, 2014 Hey folks, just wondering if anyone can give some easy how-to pointers for making thruster smoke effects like those seen at the 40K OFCC this year on several people's drop pods, etc? What are the materials used? Where can I get them? How is it modeled? Painted?Thanks so much for any info, Nathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McNathanson Posted October 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 Searching around the web I found a lot of people just use "PolyFil", shape it with white glue, and then spray paint it... but I remember theirs looking more "billowing"... is that just extra shaping effort, or different materials? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluger Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 Let me hit up the warhamster forum because they did it really well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfestedKerrigan Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 Was it Painted smoke effects, or was it a boiler from a model train? I've been looking into smaller scale Steam Locomotives for adding steam/smoke to tanks and the like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torg Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 I know one of my teammates (steal angel) had some stuff like that. basically - cotton balls… and led - tea lights -- paint… someglue… very cool looking not the table. -d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torg Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5QVE2ulVwk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fix Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 Hi there, I did some of those drop pod stands you're talking about. It was pretty simple. Basically it was just a wood dowel rod angled into the support base, with water and glue soaked cotton (I use the kind of stretchy cotton you find in upholstery batting or fake cobwebs) wrapped around the interior core. Fluffed that out a little bit, but kept it pretty close to the dowel. Then I hit that cotton with a heavy coat of very bright orange from the airbrush, let it dry and wrapped it with a second layer of cotton, glued only at the top to keep it on there, and wound and fluffed it around the interior orange, fanned it out a lot. Then I sprayed the outer coat with the ususal grey and black rattle-can spray paints. That lighter, fluffier cotton caught the paint and didn't let it through to the interior color, which showed through nicely. No interior lighting needed, though I've done plenty of those tea light smoke markers as well. Finally, a little brown airbrushing where the dust blew up at the bottom edge of the cloud to match the basing color on the stand and it was done. We had to drill a hole in the bottom of Jason's gorgeous drop pods, which made me a little nervous, but it all came together! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pretre Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 Fix, have pics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fix Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 Sadly, not of the construction and my phone camera that took this is basically a potato, so you can't quite get the full effect of the color that gets through, but you get the idea. There might have been better pics in one of the OFCC threads. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pretre Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 Very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McNathanson Posted October 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 Thank you so much Fix, that'll be all the instruction I need I think!I'll do one or two and then post pics of the step-by-step if they look good :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Wow...looks nice, but seems like a...How can I make my army less transportable?...sort of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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