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I think it's funny that you actually own a shower cap! lol

Hey, i don't per se own that shower cap, lets just say i borrowed it from my Nerdwench for the purpose of my fashion shoot!

@Pyriel, if you have a rubber duck collection in your bathroom i'll eat my hat! but i'd sure be up for a rubber ducky pic-a-thon with anyone!

on a slightly (only just slightly mind you) more nerdy note, my board will get some more work done today or tomorrow, in my mind it's coming along nicely!

...In my mind, I have an entire 28mm Imperial Planet to model

I can totally sympathise with you Dave! the more i research and browse, the more i actually want to try out what i'm learning! only thing is i can't find the pink extruded styrofoam in my state :-( so now i'm ticking over other cool things to do with my buildings! it needs to be 'wow' or at least make people want to have a second look! any ideas? i'm thinking weathering powder but i haven't had much luck researching basic methods?

@Pyriel, if you have a rubber duck collection in your bathroom i'll eat my hat! but i'd sure be up for a rubber ducky pic-a-thon with anyone!

The shower cap hat?
Also bear in mind you will eat it without any salt!

The color doesn't matter, it's colored by manufacturer methinks, blue, pink, as long as it carves, and is not the kind that shreds into little balls, it's all the same stuff. It's also only sold in 8x10' sheets, but in 1/2" up to 2" thick sheets.

Weathering powder is great stuff, but I don't think it is the ultimate answer- sometimes, less weathering gives a greater effect, you know what I mean?

The shower cap hat?
Also bear in mind you will eat it without any salt!

Why yes, Tom I believe if you post pics of your Ducky collection i shall indeed post pics of me eating said shower cap! without salt I think i'm safe!

The color doesn't matter, it's colored by manufacturer methinks, blue, pink, as long as it carves, and is not the kind that shreds into little balls, it's all the same stuff. It's also only sold in 8x10' sheets, but in 1/2" up to 2" thick sheets.

Weathering powder is great stuff, but I don't think it is the ultimate answer- sometimes, less weathering gives a greater effect, you know what I mean?

I hear you about less is more! I mean look at the pic of me in the bath! less is definitely more there!

I can scrounge the styrene that's made of balls easily and perhaps coat it with some watered down filler and glue to seal it but the other good stuff (in any colour) is being troublesome to say the least but I'm nothing if not persistent so i shall keep my eyes peeled and continue enquiring around my town (and hey no small town jokes from you Pyriel!)

I've found that mixing sand into paint and rolling it on creates an almost concrete-like texture on ball foam, but it still chips pretty easily if the edges aren't covered with some other kind of skin.


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If nothing else, I can always cut the foam into 1x1' squares and ship them to you if you can't find any. Are you in California? I hear having a gasoline-powered lawn-mower is illegal there, maybe it's ae environmental law or something. The stuff I get here is made by Georgia-Pacific.

I've found that mixing sand into paint and rolling it on creates an almost concrete-like texture on ball foam, but it still chips pretty easily if the edges aren't covered with some other kind of skin.


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If nothing else, I can always cut the foam into 1x1' squares and ship them to you if you can't find any. Are you in California? I hear having a gasoline-powered lawn-mower is illegal there, maybe it's ae environmental law or something. The stuff I get here is made by Georgia-Pacific.

I may try the sand roller method as i won't be transporting the terrain far from my nerd cave any experimenting will be good and could work for what i need? i'll keep ya posted

And thanks heaps for the offer of foam! I'm residing in sunny Australia so it's a fair way away but if I get really stuck i'll be happy to pay you for some and postage to me?
us hobbyists need to stick together eh!

oh..I guess I shouldve looked at the flag huh? lol
Absolutely!

yeah those flags can be a dead give away eh! ;-)

I'll keep you in the loop about my terrain and progress on my newly formed league of extraordinarily basic modelers!

wonder how many will join?....... :-)

lol thanks man.

Good.
Then I´ll let you have one whole day more to carefully select what hat you will eat
Remember picture proof needed of said hat as it, eh exits too

Good.
Then I´ll let you have one whole day more to carefully select what hat you will eat
Remember picture proof needed of said hat as it, eh exits too

One day! I think i shall eat a shower cap it seems fitting not that I need to worry about eating it as i am still yet to see your collection! which needs to be more than 2 ducks to clasify
and if you want proof of *ahem* an exiting hat....... well, i'm guessing PM all the way


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Ah I do enjoy the witty banter of educated gentleman!

I actually do have a rubber ducky collection. That's not weird, right? The story behind them is that every marching band season, the band support staff give you a rubber duck and usually a little candy bar or something every time you fold and hang your marching uniform correctly. Once you get the hang of hanging the uniforms (lol), and with a performance or two every week, you start to accumulate ducks...and they don't ever seem to go away. Here's five of 'em that I could find...without getting up from my computer. They are literally everywhere.



Anyways, enjoy that shower cap

Not wierd. We have one too.
So does my friend.
We're going to be getting a vampire duck at some point

Brilliant work :-) looks like i need to up the ante with the Duck collection! i should have grabbed the set of l.e.d flashing light ducks I saw the other day! now they were something special!

dsteingass wrote:I think it's funny that you actually own a shower cap! lol

It's not a shower cap, it's a Psychic Hood! Good god man, know thou nothing!?!

nerdfest09 wrote:Brilliant work :-) looks like i need to up the ante with the Duck collection! i should have grabbed the set of l.e.d flashing light ducks I saw the other day! now they were something special!

There's more than enough flashing gone on in the last couple of pages as it is thank you!

Here's a point, the MOD's haven't taken it down for being non wargaming related.... I wonder if you should take that as a compliment lol.

Anyway, NF09, apologies if I've missed it elsewhere (or even forgotten) but can you give me a quick run down on how you painted that red terminator armour please?

There's more than enough flashing gone on in the last couple of pages as it is thank you!

Here's a point, the MOD's haven't taken it down for being non wargaming related.... I wonder if you should take that as a compliment lol.

Anyway, NF09, apologies if I've missed it elsewhere (or even forgotten) but can you give me a quick run down on how you painted that red terminator armour please?

Lol, thanks Kitch and you would be mistaken as it is in fact wargaming related pic! yes i am seen scrubbing a panel of the Realm of Battle game board that classes as gaming in my books! although lets just boost the ego and say thye mods enjoy some Nerd nudity...... Nerdity?

You want to know how i do my reds eh! no probs at all, it's easy and imo looks good too

paints are:
the army painter dragon red primer
Blood red
blazing orange
vomit brown
devlan mud
Baal red

All i do is prime the model with dragon red then wash with devlan mud, once dry i then start to highlight by layering over blood red, then i jjst do a 1:1 mix of blood red/blazing orange and continue highlighting closer to the edges, then it's pure blazing orange again smaller highlights, after that it's 1:1 blazing orange/vomit brown and lastly pure vomit brown on the extreme edges and high points, once dry I wash the entire model with Baal red and then paint the details as you can see I kept the technique fairly smple and easy to mix the colours again and again as i do my force, I think I did a step by step on my first experiment i did for them ages ago but if you want me to do one for you i can certainly send something through

Cheers!

This is your lucky day pal, I´m of to a sudden work shift so picture will be of by a day or two but to compensate I´ll also include my bathtub/shower duck themed curtain in the picture.

I suggest you use this time to consult a doctor over what sort of laxative you might want to use to get said cap/hat/psychic hood to exit more smoothly.

have fun at work Pyriel! no sneaking off to load yourself with rubber ducks o.k! I'm good for my word you know that, if i say i'll eat said psychic shower cap then that's what i'll do, but you gotta come up with the goods too

Update day early this week! As these are my first ever 2 terrain peices i've ever worked on I got inspired in a big way with my battle board and i got out of bed early and went to work on it, after I added the sand and blended cork to texture it, it then received a coat of black undercoat so i could see how it was coming along (nicely imo) I also noticed that the cliff faces were now too smooth and needed some fine details on them, I grabbed the 'ol trusty white glue and added some water and then painted it on where I wanted some texture, then it was simply sprinkling over some plaster powder and once dry another quick coat of black



I let it all dry for a good while and then went to the next step which was using the army painter coloured primer can to lay on the base coat I used 1.5 cans of Leather brown to do the whole board and it turned out really good! I neglected to snap a pic of the brown on the board sorry guys again, after a drying time, i cranked up the 'ol noise polluter and pulled out the airbrush to paint the cliff faces and broken plates of earth, for this i used Vallejo air paints, Dark yellow, middle stone and light grey green mixed with small amount of black,




at this stage I feel it's really coming along nicely and very quickly! for it's appearance now onto the start of detailing, dheneb stone overbrush on the skull pits and wash with gryphonne sepia and then lightly dry brushed on the edges of the cracks in the rocks etc, and that's where my board ends for the day!


Love to see what you all think!


As i had the airbrush out and itching for action I started working on my imperial city, I've got one building assembled and not based yet but I gave it some undercoat and used the same paint I used on the board to tie the colours together across the whole terrain, starting with the middle shade I sprayed the whole structure and then used the lighter stone colour to add some feathered highlights, after that i used the darker shade to add some shadows and gave it a burst from underneath for more shadow.




I plan on basing the buildings to match the board, and adding the details with golds and bronze as well as weathering,

Feedback and thoughts on all this is very welcome, i want to make sure i'm heading in the right direction!


talk soon!.............. Damo

Oh dear lord.

What have I started?

Hey Nerd, you do realize it ain't real terrain unless it draws blood, right? wounds aside, it's awesome to see you working on your RoB finally, and I really appreciate the kind words and especially the homage to our little RoB project. (Here's the reference if anyone hasn't seen it.) Your texture and color scheme look great, I would just add that from the close pic I saw so far, it could just use a little dark wash into the crevices and at the base of the cliffs and under rubble, followed by some more edge highlights. I saw you mention you were doing that but didn't see a close up yet :p

I anxiously await to see how this project looks in the end, you got some super spiffy figures and it looks like they'll have a fitting table to fight on.

Looks sweet Damo. Very dynamic.

The board is coming along very nicely NF09, I like the colours you choose.

Nice job on the board so far NF. I also got a chuckle out of the bath pic though more for the shower cap than anything else.

Really coming along nicely. Weirdly enough I've also never seen bronze-ish CoD yet, looks awesome (and goed well with the table). Nice warm tones.

Say, that balcony looks like it could use a few banners hanging down from it .

Righto then, Terraformer wanted me to 'wash my crevasse' so I did, well, i started to do it but due to the board being on my floor at the mo it kinda hurt my elbows after a good hour or so, so I've got a few progress shots for you all, it makes the areas pop a bit more with some shading, i used heavily watered down black drawing ink for it and it gave the cracks a nice soft blend where i wanted it but was still very opaque in the deeper parts, i still need to touch up areas but it's looking better each day




I did also manage to start adding some water effects to my skull pools too, i'm not sure how i'll finish it off but the first 2 layers are done so I can still see the submerged skulls, I want it to look like a stagnant pool as opposed to a toxic sludge.



Started painting my termie chappie too nice looking guy, can hold his own in a fight but loves hanging with my squad armed with claws!





Got some paint on 3 more marines too, 2 tacs and a termie




And lastly, I've nearly finished Librarian Tomas! probably one more session and he'll be finished but here's his 90% shots.






Phew! what a day in the Nerd cave! now I put my psychic shower cap back on and prepare for the feedback!

The librarian looks awesome. That skull helmet on the chaplain looks strange, is that third party?

Skull-soup terrain?

I like the part where you dropped flour on your terrain board

And what colour will you paint the pentagram on the librarians shoulderpad with?