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Nice work Warboss_Waaazag.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks, everyone! I laid down the base coat for the crud layers:


And worked on highlighting the tarp.


Followed by masking to paint the red panels:


Always progress. Thanks for looking, more soon. Have an awesome day!

Lovely heavy crud. Looks foul

That orange/teal contrast on the one tile looks great. Really amazing seeing them develop!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Lovely heavy crud. Looks foul

Thank you!

 Viterbi wrote:
That orange/teal contrast on the one tile looks great. Really amazing seeing them develop!

Yeah, I'm loving how that's turning out, too.

I did some highlighting on that tile and wanted to showcase a mid way through point to detail how much layered drybrushing really brings a model to life. Here's the halfway:


And here is the drbrushing end point:


Thanks for looking and have an awesome day! C&C always welcome.

So, I've had to temporarily move to a less-than-ideal living situation where I am sleeping in a friend's attic and sharing the rest of their house's facilities - shower, kitchen, etc. It's meant that I had to leave my PC and TV behind at the apartment (we're getting the bathroom remodeled). Without these distractions I've become more focused on my hobby and have been able to get a lot more done. Here's the fruits of last night's labor.

All panels fully dry-brushed, plus I masked off and painted the red panels on each. I think I also distressed those panels with my midtone grey.


Then I added watered down argrax earthshade weathering, followed by random white squiggles of layered grey and then "suede" - which is a craft paint color that's basically a tiny touch of butterscotch in white. And then touched those spots with watered down Sepia wash.


Then a few touches with nuln oil, some line highlighting with my midtone grey, some rust washes, and wet blending on the older "generator" tile.


And I think I'm calling these 4 done.

Next I started on 2 more tiles. These I decided against crudding up as significantly. I got basic layers of paint on these so far.


Thanks for looking and have an awesome day!

Brilliant stuff. the tile with the generator is my favourite.

Finished tiles look amazing, can't wait to see a shot with them put together! Hope the bathroom remodeling runs smoothly.

That is some excellent looking grime and rust. Love it.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Brilliant stuff. the tile with the generator is my favourite.

Thanks, graven!

 Viterbi wrote:
Finished tiles look amazing, can't wait to see a shot with them put together! Hope the bathroom remodeling runs smoothly.

Thanks, Viterbi! I'm sure the renovation will go smoothly once they finally get started. So far it's been postponed 3 times. Ugh. But, I am starting on wall sections for this terrain project next. So at least my temporary housing is devoid of most distractions.

 Camkierhi wrote:
That is some excellent looking grime and rust. Love it.

Thanks, Cam!

During my work week I don't have much energy to work on builds, so I've occupied my time with weathering small doodads I've previously made. I'll get some pix of those up in a day, when I'm awake during daylight hours again.

Panels look great.

CB

Thanks, Capatain Brown!

Here are 6 completed tiles all together. One with added scatter (the pipe and pipe elbow), stand alone, and with some boyz.


And then a collection of the many scatter bits I'm currently working on, plus a close up of the two most completed.


Thanks for looking all, C&C always welcome. Have an awesome day!

Fabul-pus rust and love the scatter, especially the terminal.

The Scatter terrain looks good! Although I feel sorry for the poor fella who came out to get his mail only to realize some joker stuffed an entire human skeleton in there...

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Fabul-pus rust and love the scatter, especially the terminal.

Thanks very much, graven.

 brushcommando wrote:
The Scatter terrain looks good! Although I feel sorry for the poor fella who came out to get his mail only to realize some joker stuffed an entire human skeleton in there...

lol. That's 40k for you. Even the mailboxes are grim dark.

Ha! Grim dark, indeed

The tiles are nicely done together- it's impressive how much more they seem in the aggregate- really nice work

The scatter is impressive too, both in its complexity and its sheer weight of metal- rock on!

Great work on the first two little terrain bits, cool to see you're not shying away from painting the details... like I would

Tiles look great together and good to see the Boyz on them for scale.

Looks great seeing it all together, plus the scatter looks ace.

As you all know, I am buidling tiles of terrain for a spacehulk/inq28/necromunda style campaign I've written. You've seen a lot of the pieces I've already put together. I had an idea recently, to run the whole game as if the lights inside the spacehulk are all out. That gave me the idea about how to represent that. And I thought about space marines' autosenses. So the whole interior would essentially be coded to what the marines could feasibly sense - heat, cold, sound, but not much visual details. So why not build a bunch of terrain that reflects that? Here's my first foray/experiment with that idea.

Primed black, one coat of drybrushed Macragge Blue:

Then a highlight drybrush of Teclis blue over that.

Vague side by side.


I'm thinking of going 1 shade brighter. Any comments, suggestions, praise?

Don't go brighter. It's perfect as is.

Gotta second Graven and cool idea. Excited to see more developing!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Don't go brighter. It's perfect as is.

 Viterbi wrote:
Gotta second Graven and cool idea. Excited to see more developing!

Thanks for the feedback, friends! I have some ideas for walls that I hope to start this week, so updates incoming.

This is a new and interesting idea!
Can I suggest little "sound echoes" highlighting things that move or make noise as a war to add some more interest?
For things such chains, creaky pipes, doors or even things scuttling in the darkness...

 Guardling wrote:
This is a new and interesting idea!
Can I suggest little "sound echoes" highlighting things that move or make noise as a war to add some more interest?
For things such chains, creaky pipes, doors or even things scuttling in the darkness...

That's a really cool idea I hadn't considered. Yeah, I'll definitely use that. I was also thinking of sculpting some formless figures - like a lump of shadow with a poorly conceptualized head or a tall figure with lots of spindly arms - for when players get only vague glimpses of the things that are waiting for them in the shadows.

So I've started on the walls, cutting out sections, drawing in lines to demarcate areas such as bulkhead locations and floor insert areas.


My intentions are to layer cardstock squares into peeling, disintegrating steel sections that can be removed by shooting or punching the section away. These are obviously unfinished.


And again this is just an experiment; a sort of detailed mock up. If I don't like it I can always start over.



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Here are the first 2 tiles layered up.

Excellent.

Wow, the layered card works really well, nice way to add some detail without being too complex for us mortals

Thanks for the feedback. I did the left one first, mostly as proof of concept, but I'm so much happier with how the right one came out. I might use thinner cardstock for the next one to add more depth. I realize what I'm trying to depict is almost total disintegration of materials so I'm probably going go even crazier with the cut outs on the next few until I find the right balance.


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 gobert wrote:
Wow, the layered card works really well, nice way to add some detail without being too complex for us mortals

I want to speak directly to the highlighted text. Because as far as I'm concerned, and for all the time I have been on these forums, everyone who posts here is my personal hero. There is not a human amongst you that I would ever insult by calling you a mere mortal. Levels of skill may vary, but having the courage and drive to make, post, and share your content is what makes this community great. Thank you all for being here and sharing it with me. I hope all your days are awesome.

^ hear, hear. Dakka is an amazing place full of enthusiasm and without judgement.

It is a great place to learn and share. As long as you attempt to bring your ideas or visions to reality you can never fail. Enjoy the hobby however you see it.