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That's an interesting combination of household materials you have going on there Vik. Pretty amazing how you take the things you use and turn them into awesome pieces of wargaming excellence.

*bows humbly* thank you mate... i need and want to make do with little...that is a basic agenda with all my projects...^^

Crappy, 'cept for the MtG Open I attended. Oh, wait, I did horribly at that. At tleast I got some good cards. This week will see me back to work, though. So happy about that.....

crappy weekend and a crappy outlook to a crapload of work ...on my...you have my sympathy^^

More work for Vik

well... to keep that thread back on track...i´ll show you:

browness in its fullest:














the cupolas are not glued to the towers atm... i want to spray prime them... and also i just had all the original rivets removed... well in fact they all fell off... so i used the pinning rivets methode to get the lot riveted... pics of that tomorrow...

note... the brownness is due to the fact that i don´t have a really good opaque enough cheap black paint... so i needed a first layer of my darkest paint ... later on i think the more watery black will darken it suitably and then i begin the drybrushing... tho i have thought about doing that rock as sandstone in a lighter brown...

your thoughts?

Oh Wow Vik! That looks great! Especially the Steel Legion Drab/Graveyard Earth color on the rocks and towers! If you just lightly drybrush that up with bleached bone and light greys it will look great!


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But if you are doing metallic colors, always use black first..unless you are using the new high-pigment metallics like Leadbelcher...I LOVE Leadbelcher

well currently it is just wet looking... it darkens pretty much on its own atm too... but i have considered this look:




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welll actually the towers will be done in metal colors... but i have for such immense surfaces cheaper paints... and the brown i thought could be a good basecoat to later only drybrush metal on so that it looks scratched and rusty ?... i mabye add the odd textured spot of paint in plces to give a better hint at the rustyness...

WOW! Paint really does define the project. I couldn't 'see' past the components, but this is excellent! It's really awesome Vik!

YES! The brown of the basecoat is EXACTLY what you want to use later with a sponge or brush to make paint chips! -Good Plan!


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..Those sure are some purdy rivets ya got there Vik!

well... i had a thought today... the penguin and santa tissue i used actually served as a way stupid looking camo scheme... because... what should a camo scheme do? obscure details... now imagine the tank at your base done with that scheme in mind... i bet no war would ever be needed to shed blood^^

Oh wow that does look really good! (Rivets especially haha) the christmas paper made me really happy lol

Keep it up! Xxx

Hey Vik just found this and thought you might like it Gives me some ideas

^ that is one cool model LDD, and it took me longer to realise who you where after the avatar switch

Sorry man its me cool mini first in a new line and looks fething great if you ask me

Nice I have the site bookmarked


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And Vik, That is looking sweet now!

thank you sir shaso!!!

and LDD... i am subbed and addicted to that stuff already... if i ever have enough soare money...yeah...right... then the robots of them will be a cool project for sure... trenchers goes without saying

thank you bubble... at first it was that i took what was there... the cheery penguins...well... but then it was fun ripping santa and penguins apart to later get them soaked in with PVA... maybe it was a long over due revenge for christmas presents i longed for and never got

I have some of the robots they are pretty cool looking but a pain to stick together, even after washing

I think you should do some tanks in your winter land camouflage

well i actually had thought about that^^... but then all this hard work to have a tank that looks like hello kitty... i never would know where to hide my face in shame^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:well i actually had thought about that^^... but then all this hard work to have a tank that looks like hello kitty... i never would know where to hide my face in shame^^

Where you always do

... ok... the gutter is actually not such a worse place^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:... ok... the gutter is actually not such a worse place^^

Vik ok... the gutter is actually not such a bad place
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Night night

sleep well mate!!

Looks good, but are you sure you used enough rivets ?

Some good progress vik!

HA! adam... good question... hmmm... probably not... but well rock has not many options for using rivtes on it... and besides... this is for the contest to use lids... and on that matter i have aplenty already^^... totally lost count of these^^


thanks hazzer^^


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hello fellow lads and ladies...

the time of browness has ceased... detail work has been done...


see for yourself... and remeber... this is all still prewash...











and also... did a bit of LGS work on the tesla tower peak...

later this will be used as a means to have textured lightings ....




cheers, vik

LOOKING GREAT MATE

I think you could be onto a winner here, the paint work has really lifted the whole thing and thats pre wash

Though the tesla coil is tops my favourite bit …… so far the GS has added a better effect than I had imagined it would have, I was worried it might have fethed it up to be honest but I was wrong

Great stuff keep it coming, you never know what idea might creep up behind you next

well the tesla coil peak gets primed soon... then we will see^^


hehe.... i see what you did there... or should i say... you saw what i did there

Viktor von Domm wrote:well the tesla coil peak gets primed soon... then we will see^^


hehe.... i see what you did there... or should i say... you saw what i did there

You got it then

nice lightning on the tesla ball! the paint will make it or break it vik, so good luck!