Everything I needed was in this Old Treasure Trove, although this left a layer of mess over my workbench. Seems some of these being shoved into a box with other sharp items over many years, meant some bags had small indents allowing particles to escape. First thing was to re-bag some of these.
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to SimCity Buildit... ok so the last repeated item is the main reason. The scenary piece is carelessly splashed with a base coat of paint and a quick black wash as I'll hopefully it will be covered with grass and other foilage that I purchased eons ago.
I was testing a small sample of Milliput against an unpainted metal Falcon to see the result after it's dried. Side thought, if it works, I may be able to make moulds! I had a small amount left and decided to make a bunch of skulls from what was left. Many eons ago, I wanted a skull pile and never done anything. I believe I even messed about with remaining greenstuff previously (shown in picture) and thought I had more, but couldn't find it. Milliput was difficult to work with, but due to the softer texture it was easier to poke holes into them. So this is the start of a Thousand Skulls Challenge, but to only sculpt them from left overs... roll on another eon before I achieve this.
Using Milliput is a mess from the start, mixing the material is like playing with mud; it leaves a coat all over the fingers and any surface it touches. I glued the plastic columns to the base before trying to wrap the Milliput around it, but like green-stuff, it doesn't stick well and I had it coming off the column, or breaking away from it. However once dried, the top-left pieces holds firmly in place to the base. Luckily as this is so cheap, the remaining mixture (bottom left) was just thrown away... well I forgot to do anything with it until the following morning when it was all solid.
This was what I had left from a pack of Milliput. It was likely bought ~20 years ago! Its a cheap alternative to Gamesworkshop green stuff especially when you need it in larger quantaties such as scenary pieces and dries much harder. Alhough what I had left was almost rock solid and even though I tried adding some water to the mixture, it wasn't mixing nicely. I used this many years ago for the Firedragon's Shrine and needed it for my Striking Scorpion's Shrine, hence purchase of a new pack. Hopefully if I ever get time away from Simcity Buildit, I'll be using this to make a support column and store the remainder in an air-tight bag.
This has been the best use for those scrap circular pieces I had left over. As they were the same thickness, I was able to use them to stack up and make support columns for the top platform. Saved me a lot of time hunting through my scrap pile for same thickness. I'll probably wall up the shrine so the underside isn't visible as there isn't enough height to display any models under it. The fireball tail effect wasn't intentional, although I'm now tempted to keep it, but likely the shrine feature will obsecure it.
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