Painting miniatures, terrain and scenery.

[NTRabbit]

I like it, where's the pattern from?

 

[Chief]

I like it, where's the pattern from?

"Lord Zsezse Works" - Papercraft Watermill - $4 on RPGNow or DriveThruRPG.

 

[Beerfish]

Who needs a 3D printer anyway right?

 

[Chief]

Who needs a 3D printer anyway right?

I DO!

 

[Chief]

And a couple of fences in the works. New Raw Umber and Burnt Sienna rust blend.

One for Batman Miniatures Game:



Got the Judge Dredd Miniatures PDF on sale at DriveThruComics so this one will fit in with that if I ever get to play it:



Figured out what to do with the back of the Chopper fence.

Recently I replaced the wipers on our cars and kept the metal backing strips. Finally hoarding crap has paid off!

 

[Chief]

I call this one: Dicking About at 3AM



Filler, paint, sand, gravel, PVA and a bunch of stuff to make a rubble pile.


*sploop*

Painted black then a bit of a "dry" brush (my brush isn't always as dry as it should be).

The world's most painful poo:

(Edit - better shot w/ mini)

 

[NTRabbit]

For a moment there I thought it was an Airfix 1/72 tank model, as assembled by a 5 year old

 

[Chief]

For a moment there I thought it was an Airfix 1/72 tank model, as assembled by a 5 year old

It is basically a mud pie.

I will use it to mess with some little techniques - it has a pipe sticking out one side I want to try to get looking like it is leaking green ooze.

The glue droplets from the glue gun will become some sort of alien/mutant garbage-eating fungus. Just got some cross-stitch mesh I want to get looking like metal mesh. The white foamcore will become some sort of futuristic "visual display unit". Fly wire screen bits as concrete reo.

 

[NTRabbit]

If you want tips, the guy and his wife who run this company make the best terrain in all human history, he's a poster on another forum I'm on.

https://www.patreon.com/3T?ty=h

I feel inadequate just mentioning his stuff in passing. The guy is a professional artist though. I probably shouldn't show you these, only unspoiler if you're prepared:

Spoiler

 

[Beerfish]

Awesome.

 

[Chief]

If you want tips, the guy and his wife who run this company make the best terrain in all human history, he's a poster on another forum I'm on.

https://www.patreon.com/3T?ty=h

I feel inadequate just mentioning his stuff in passing. The guy is a professional artist though. I probably shouldn't show you these, only unspoiler if you're prepared:

Spoiler

They're great - I've got a bunch of threads from other forums like DakkaDakka open that I scroll through. Just some mad skills and crazy imaginations out there. Meanwhile I still can't even do the eyes on my minis

As my pics probably show, I'm meandering through random basic techniques and ideas while I watch TV eps or fill in time here and there. It's relaxing and the kids like seeing the results.

Might sign up to get articles from these guys.

Edit: A friend of a friend pointed me at this guy, whom he thinks is the best model painter around - www.buypainted.com

 

[Chief]

Trying one of these next - http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com....00-08:00&max-results=5&start=35&by-date=false

Something like:

 

[iBeng]

Hey Chief, I have a Warhammer High Elf Battalion set I bought ages ago, its still boxed and still sealed in its plastic. Interested in buying it?

 

[Chief]

Hey Chief, I have a Warhammer High Elf Battalion set I bought ages ago, its still boxed and still sealed in its plastic. Interested in buying it?

I'm not really into Warhammer, sorry.

 

[NTRabbit]

With the liberal unit footprint rules, that battallion could make a troop and a regiment each of kindred archers and tallspears, two troops of stormwind cavalry, and a noble war chariot, in Kings of War

 

[Chief]

Today on Chief's Playhouse we've been mostly trying to do weathered wooden doors using this tutorial: http://www.militarymodelling.com/news/article/making-it-real-part-2/4084

It looks better in this photo than it does in real life, but it was a good practice of the technique. Everyone seems to love weathering powders to get a great finish but CBF buying them yet:



And rearranging my pipe terrain (with coffee stirrer H-beam in the middle there, the ready-made Plastruct beams etc are stupidly expensive):

 

[Chief]

Chief's Playhouse hosted Chief Jr #2 starting on Shimmergloom the Shadow Dragon from D&D Legend of Drizzzt



I've also started on a barricade terrain piece.



This will get some junk piled up and fastened to the posts.

 

[Chief]

A bit of foamy stuff becomes some Judge Dredd scatter.



Will probably go on a CD with some rubble and grass.

 

[Chief]

The pipe terrain gets some gesso and hopefully that filler will stick it to the foamcore base.

 

[NTRabbit]

I painted a few bits of MDF at the end of December, mostly to colour test before I prime and block out a whole box full of it with my airbrush

 

[Chief]

TONS of 3D files for printing D&D minis:

 

[Chief]

Futurey-terrain on old DVDs in various stages of completion.

 

[Chief]

Ruins get some paint. Still more coats of grey to go.


EDIT:
Sorry, pic is a bit big from my phone.

 

[Chief]

These are the four pieces I've finished. This material is a bit cruddy fordetails and cutting - too spongy. On the plus side it doesn't shed stuff everywhere like polystyrene foam.

 

[Beerfish]

That actually looks really good. I particularly like the 'rust stains' down the 'concrete'.