Paper-Barrel: How2do in five easy steps

It looks awesome
There is just one little thing I would have done different ^^"
That is the space between the strips on the side - I would have made that space smaller i.e. have made the strips sitting closer to one another

/Maikcir

Cool idea using a spool. Gotta try that out myself.
Made a barrel and it turned out pretty okay I guess. And it sure beats the hell out of spewing money at GW for pre-made barrels.

Maikcir you're right for the space. I hope the space will be a little hide with painting.

Oberon wrote:

Maikcir you're right for the space. I hope the space will be a little hide with painting.

I think a nice paintjob will do the job
Please show us pics of the finished thing!

/Maikacir

The space between the staves will vanish when the barrel is painted. But when not, fill in some PVA-glue with an injection.

The idea with the spool is very nice! I think it will cut down the buildingtime about 5 minutes. I use little round pieces of wooden sticks with a diameter about 15-20 mm. You can get them in every "doityourself"store. I use different sices because I want different dimensions of barrels.

very good tutorial!

i suppose you could do open casks as water butts too.

just paint the top like water, add a drain pipe and add PVA glue to give a liquid look.

larger ones could even be water towers on a wooden frame.

Guhlprotector wrote:

The space between the staves will vanish when the barrel is painted. But when not, fill in some PVA-glue with an injection.

The idea with the spool is very nice! I think it will cut down the buildingtime about 5 minutes. I use little round pieces of wooden sticks with a diameter about 15-20 mm. You can get them in every "doityourself"store. I use different sices because I want different dimensions of barrels.

how about using wine corks? you could just draw the lines into the cork and add the metal straps?

blessed knight wrote:

Guhlprotector wrote:

The space between the staves will vanish when the barrel is painted. But when not, fill in some PVA-glue with an injection.

The idea with the spool is very nice! I think it will cut down the buildingtime about 5 minutes. I use little round pieces of wooden sticks with a diameter about 15-20 mm. You can get them in every "doityourself"store. I use different sices because I want different dimensions of barrels.

how about using wine corks? you could just draw the lines into the cork and add the metal straps?

When painted, you can still see most of the "crumbly parts" that cork is made of, through the paint..

/Maikacir

Hm may be a good idea to shift this topic to the turtorial-section?

Guhlprotector wrote:

Hm may be a good idea to shift this topic to the turtorial-section?

Your wish is my command...sort of.

Oh man I was reading this at first as if that ruler was in inches and I was thinking "that is a huge barrel." Hats off to the metric system.

What happened to the finished product?

One in situation behind the dwarf and one on the middle of the screen but a little in the dark :



I think you can make a better result but it's just right for table top.

These look great, i'm definitely having a go

Thanks for this tutorial, will need some barrels to put in my ships hold once its done. Anyone have ideas for grain sacks?

This is a good tutorial! I used the basic process to make a barrel from styrene that i'm going to cast. When i make another i will post it up.

DeafNala wrote:

Looks REALLY good; clever idea. The English word is spool.

Bobin works too.

Awesome Tut

A nice little tutorial but looking at this i remembered one thing i´ve seen sometimes long ago, but may be it will help to close the gap between the staves. I´ve tryed it and as you can see it works really good.

I just cut off a little bit at the ends of the staves.

As you can see the gap is smaller than without it.

That's a nice improvement. Good job.

Nice Tutorial. Thank you!

They turned out great thank you!

Great idea - Thank You! :-)
Simple and nice.