Oz Painters

Hi all,

I had a good day of mini related scavenging today!
I thought a thread where we could show off our latest "acquisitions" might be interesting.
Post a pic of your bit and a brief note of where it's from.

Here are my ones:

First up a nice decking patterned piece of metal.

It's taken from a used imaging drum from a Xerox 4112 B&W photocopier - hence the slight heat mark.
I did get some odd looks from my colleagues when I squealed a little and rushed to grab a screwdriver when I spotted this instead of just binning the used part.
Here are some pics that give an idea of scale.

25mm base

I haven't tried to cut it yet but it feels like it will cut OK with clippers (at worst the dremel will sort it out).

This stuff was gathered a week or so back:

These are small pieces that the copier above spits out as it staples books. We don't get these often as the waste container is quite big. This is only a fraction of what it held. Handily they are about .5mm so they'll be great for fine pinning and are much softer than most .5mm pieces of wire that tend to damage your clippers (I know this as I have 2 pairs with wee divots).

This is a bit older.

It's some termite eaten hardwood from a sleeper near my house - not too close luckily
It will be perfect for weird rocky outcrops I reckon!

I just love finding this stuff but all I get from "her indoors" is a roll of the eye when I proudly show off my hunter/gatherer skills

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"Australia is the land of Apathy, gods have no place here... especially if they make you do stuff."
Game Classy - "May your rules be written by the Germans, your minis sculpted by the French, and your games distributed by Americans!"

Been there done that. Most of my scavenging is outside stuff though. Like at the lake I find tiny, tiny clam and snail shells, even some pretty close to scale for heroic 28mm.

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"Give government an inch and it will take a mile, strip-mine it, repair it and then charge you licensing fees for walking over it." -Vox Day

Ah, yes scavenging. My friends are used to me saying "are you using/throwing that out?....... can I have it?"

I pilfered some moss from a pot plant, I've got dibs on my mates chilli plants (for the roots) when they die, I usually bring stuff back from the beach and I've stopped on the side of the road to collect mosses that I find on the mountain.

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tick, tick, tick, and yes, tick!
if we're out anywhere and I'm spotted looking at something for too long my lovely wife just looks at me knowingly and says "terrain?"

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BAZINGA!!

Last fortnight I found a skeleton of a umbrella in a cupboard while trying to jam a bag up there, I got a whole heap of 1.5mm hardened steel wire from that. And that same week the council chopped down one of the Silky Oaks on Morgan st and I found part of a Bees nest inside the trunk of the tree while walking past. It still has Bees in it, dead of course, so cool looking . No idea what to use it for.

On a slight tangent my sister moved in and found a container with toenail clippers and the leftovers of many trimming and decided that I must be saving them for basing. I just hadn't got around to emptying it and kept it on my painting desk out of the way. Really odd family.

Although saying that I was asking about dead birds that a friends cat leaves on the roof for them, so much so that the air con guy hates coming to their place.

@agent_venom- I'd still be putting dibs on some of the chillies, I've got some chilli plants that are two years old. As long as you move them under shelter for the winter months they come back good. I'm sure there will be death by chilli as soon as the Dorset Nagas redden.

edit:

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Now back on CMON http://www.coolminiornot.com/artist/Kara%20Jane. Must be some sort of masochism there.
Finally linked correctly.

Toenail clippings and dead birds... I'm sure to outsiders we must look like serial killers or mad scientists occasionally...

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"Australia is the land of Apathy, gods have no place here... especially if they make you do stuff."
Game Classy - "May your rules be written by the Germans, your minis sculpted by the French, and your games distributed by Americans!"

all the gears from a HP printer ..

Hmmm... Looting from Xerox and HP machines. I really need to strip a machine at work and loot the innards

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I just scored another strip of that grid stuff Gotta love it when a good paper jam takes out the imaging drum

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"Australia is the land of Apathy, gods have no place here... especially if they make you do stuff."
Game Classy - "May your rules be written by the Germans, your minis sculpted by the French, and your games distributed by Americans!"