Useful items for sixth-scale environments (continuously updated)

Lynkhart wrote:I have a problem, and that problem is my slight addiction to free wallpaper samples from DIY shops!

Untitled by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

Wallpaper samples by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

Awesome!
Humans all have addictions, it's just the substance we are drawn too.
I think free wallpaper samples is a pretty good one to have!
I love it!

The choice in colours, textures and patterns these days is incredible, and many of them can be used very successfully in dioramas. I particularly love the wood and stone effect ones as most have a matte textured finish which looks great in photographs. The scale can be a little difficult at times, particularly with the brick ones, but in the right context they can be quite convincing castle or dungeon walls.

Behind the scenes! by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

Skara's Prison Break by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

Skara's Prison Break by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

The wood effect ones can be cut into strips for planks, or as I used a few pages ago, to make a weathered looking table.


Untitled by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

Also, kind of unrelated but I saw these candle wicks in a craft shop the other day and thought they might make useful plaited rope with some weathering.

Wicks for rope by Christine Sutcliffe, on Flickr

dadrab wrote:Hey Rev. Not sure about where you are, but around here there are interior design stores that feature rolls upon rolls of wallpaper. Many fabric stores will offer a pretty good selection of wallpaper, as well.

The box stores might not carry it any longer, but lighting centers and flooring stores do...among others.

ReverendSpooky wrote:These chairs look pretty spot on size wise, and the mini figures are really great.  Those pics of of your figure enjoying his figures are such a blast!I've been meaning to put together some diorama's incorporating one of my figure's action figure collection, and I've been planning on using Heroclixs, since the scale should be about right.  

I always ask whenever I see it, but what did you use for the butterfly tattoos on your sailor girl there?  Do they hold up well to posing?

MarkEl wrote:

ReverendSpooky wrote:These chairs look pretty spot on size wise, and the mini figures are really great.  Those pics of of your figure enjoying his figures are such a blast!I've been meaning to put together some diorama's incorporating one of my figure's action figure collection, and I've been planning on using Heroclixs, since the scale should be about right.  

I always ask whenever I see it, but what did you use for the butterfly tattoos on your sailor girl there?  Do they hold up well to posing?

Thanks for the nice feedback!  

Sailor girl is using tattoos that are water transfers for nails.  I bought an assortment pack and found the ones I liked.  They’ve are set with Micro Set and Micro Sol.  The edges have curled on one from moving the figure, but you can reset it again with Micro Sol.  I probably can’t dress this one much either. The transfers do reflect light differently, so it’s something to also consider.

ReverendSpooky wrote:Holy crap, both of those pig pictures cracked me up.  Good haul indeed!

Stryker2011 wrote:Nice stuff. It’s pretty neat how quite a few of those charms work well in this scale.

Stryker2011 wrote:Some pretty cool stuff, Guv. Can’t help you with the fish proportions, haven’t gone fishing in decades (hate the taste).

rollotomasi wrote:Nice finds, Guv! I have that jazz guitar, looks great despite the translucent finish.
So Michelle's a lefty like Hendrix...

dadrab wrote:I think the fish is fine. I'm assuming it to be a large mouth bass, in which case it's a world's record, but it's not bad. If you are of a mind to repaint it, make it look like a salt-water spotted bass and it'll be perfectly in scale.

MerylAkiba wrote:Awesome find, GubernatorFan. I just came from Hobby Lobby to buy leather straps to replace the faded ones on Guritz and Gothmog. Oh man. I want a deer head too. Where in hobby lobby is the deer head located? I want to make a 1/6 Battle Beast style Deer Archer.