Daily Hobby Vlog 161

Transcript

Welcome to the Hobby Nomicon. This is day 161, and this is one of those days when nothing is working right. I made that big mold today, which is the main thing I wanted to show you, but I filled these molds an hour and a half ago. They’re supposed to cure in 30 minutes. I don’t know—maybe it’s too cold, or where I had the material stored was too cold. It’s eventually curing, so hopefully it finishes in time.

The MDF Problem

It turns out I’m actually out of MDF, which is crazy. I have 2x2 plywood, but I don’t really want to cut that up for this because I can use it to make the Mordheim board eventually. It’s thick—meant to be built on. So I’m trying to decide if I wait until tomorrow and hope the stuff cures, or find a different way to go about it.

Salvaging an Old Shelf

As I was about to give up and walking out of the garage, I spotted an old shelf that came out of a table. Pretty dusty. I thought I’d be able to pop the panel right out, but the bottom was stapled and there were finishing nails in the sides. Pain in the ass, but I got them out.

I’m thinking I can center this panel in the drawer frame and use the space to the right as a rolling tray area. It sits under, so I could still hang it—it’s got the cool hardware on it. I think we’re cooking.

Building the Board

We’re about an inch short of a perfect square. I could make one side long at 17 by 16, but instead I’m going to center it and figure out something else to go around it—maybe moss or something.

The plan is to have it flush on one side and use the piece of wood I pulled out to fill the other. I can’t do that right now because I need to glue it back together, but there’s equidistance on both sides, and on the far end I’ve got a pretty good-sized dice rolling tray. This is what we’re going to roll with.

The Daemon Revisited

Meanwhile, the casting material still hasn’t cured. I don’t know what I did wrong. I think this might be a bust and I’ll have to recast tomorrow. But we’re going to revisit the daemon figure. I’ve been looking at him and he doesn’t feel finished to me. I feel kind of like a fraud because I fixed the back miscast and made the janky feet, but the head—I really just threw stuff on top of it. I didn’t feel like I did enough to change it. So that’s what needs fixing, but it’ll have to wait until I can cast again.

Gluing It Down

Time for an ungodly amount of Elmer’s glue. Dumped it in, smoothed it around, put heavy stuff on it. Got it all measured out. Technically, we’re ready to play—we’ve got our 16x16 board.

This one isn’t going to be as stone-heavy as the other board. I really want to break out the squares and put a bunch of dirt and texture on it. Still a lot more to do, but I need to let this dry and get it weighed down. I’ll line the side with something and deal with the glue that got where it shouldn’t.

I’m still pretty excited about this. It’ll be a quick, fun project—hopefully finished over the weekend.

Overnight Update

My molds still haven’t set. I’m going to let them sit overnight. I’m pretty sure the cast isn’t going to turn out well, but I’ll hope I can get it out in the morning and recast it. It’s still very squishy despite turning more white. I don’t know what I went wrong, but we’ll figure it out tomorrow.