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oh----ha!....now this looks as if serious business is happening!... i cross my fingers for some quality outcomes!

@Viktor: Thank you. See for yourself and let me know...









And close-ups:





Maybe not exactly what I was aiming for, but it'll do. It [b]is[/b] textured, just less than I expected. Further painting and weathering should add more depth and take care of the excess shine too.

C&C welcome as always.

Thanks for reading.

aha....hmmm.... well it will later on obviously need a wash or two... what was the look yoou were aiming for? metal or concrete?...(just the look of the material...not to be missunderstood of the later on color you want it to look like...)

That looks really great man!

I'd planned for concrete walls with metallic reinforcements on the edges, and metal for the firing points, vent grills, walkways and side supports (Basically, the current darker grey parts).

A basic three-colored basecoat (Concrete, metal strips and bits, and flooring), with added rust, weathering and maybe battle damage.

The textured paint on the wall is not intended to be kept as is now, I was thinking cement greyish green. Will see, the paint suggests a 48 hours wait before recoating, so there is planty o f time to change plans!)

Cheers.

well...then just plan your added damage like wholes and scratches... and i think you are good to go!!!

More and more impressed by this great build. So promising.

@Viktor: Will do.

@Camkierhi: Thanks for stopping by, glad you are liking it so far.

While I wait for the base paint to properly dry, there are a couple other projects waiting for some attention, and tidying up the workshop is long overdue...

Something will come up.

Cheers.

If you can find any spray in truck bed liner in can form, try that, it usually has a gritty texture to it.

@Nowlan: Thanks, will save that for future use.

As thought, not much got done during the week. I just got to break out my new airbrush (Very cheap single action bought on sale in the supermarket, just to try out, never used one before) and give it shot.

Far from great, but a start it is...



Will try to fix it up and keep on painting in the upcoming weekend.

Cheers.

Excellent mate, I have a suspicion that is going to become an even more awesome Bastion with a few more coats of paint

@Ruglug: Thank you, I couldn't agree more with the the more coats part , will do ASAP.

Got to learn how to use the airbrush, and work on my patience on the way too, leaving the paint to dry between coats and using several thinner coats instead of trying to drown the thing in paint on the first attempt...

Progress report to follow.

Very nice scratchbuild. I'm looking forward to see how you paint ant weather it up.

looking forward to more...!

Some advice. I picked up a cheap bamboo lazy susan at Wal Mart. It helps for drying quickly between airbrush coats in front of a small fan. The Fan I have is maybe 8" in diameter and has 3 speed settings, and is LOUDER than my new airbrush-specific compressor (Badger TC910).

@Galorn: Welcome, and thank you. Experimenting with an airbrush with this one, hope it comes out well enough.

@Viktor: Sorry, got sidetracked (again), but will come back with more later.

@dsteingass: Thanks for the advice, always appreciated, I just hope I got right what a lazy susan was... (That building is looking great, BTW)

OT: Following what I (expected) was dsteingass's advicce, and taking the long road (Just trying for Wal Mart would have been too easy, I guess), I went 1/1 scale and scratch built a sort-of turntable jig:



(Just figured that if for lazy susan something else was meant, this might still be useful for painting!)

Drying times are quite short, actually (weather helps a lot, warm, and very low humidity), I just have to tone down on eagerness and go with several thin coats, might try a fan for extra speed.

Thanks for stoping by.

now he has lost his last marbles for a turntable

WOW! Scratchbuilding a lazy susan/turntable is very, very impressive!

@Viktor: I guess I should have seen that coming !

@dsteingass: Not that much, if you have a router and don't mind the sawdust storm, but thanks anyway (And it did turn up to be quite helpful, so thanks again for the advice too!)

I couln't take pictures today, but have to say it, I'm really regretting not having tried an airbrush sooner

Attacked the metals today.

Basecoated for rust:



Sponged over with couple additional tones for depth:



Salted:



And steel-grey overcoated:



Waiting for the paint to dry to unmask, clean up, and find out how it cames out.

Cheers.

Looking GREAT!!

Im anxious to see how your salt weathering turns out !!

@FarseerAndy: Trust me, I am as well! And thanks for stopping by.

I will get back to that any time soon; meanwhile, and since the gear was already out, I sprayed some more paint:

Blue-grey camoed chimera:



Still a long way to go, but moving onwards nonetheless.

Thanks for reading.

Great work so far with the build. It really looks spot on, especially with the hammered paint, that will give the extra flavor to it . I like the vents on the side, but hunk I will steal that idea and alter it slightly. I think making a doorway that looks like it would spiral open would be wicked .

Keep up the excellent work.

Edit: ninja'd.
I like the camo you choose, über cool.

@Theophony: Hello, and welcome. Please, take away - you can not steal it if it's freely given - will be glad if I get the chance to pay back at least a bit of the ideas I picked up from around here...

And mind you, I haven't done the doors for the bastion yet (Just couldn't wait to see how it would look when painted, and wanted to try out some ideas on it too, like the hammered paint, and got a little overeager!), and might steal your idea as well

Edit: Likewise!

Navy blue turned out somewhat too bright, will be toned down with weathering...

Looking incredibly good, let's see how your weathering turned out?

Like the camo too BTW.

i am eager to see how the rust will look...the salt methode is still something i would like to try...but i am afraid i would mess it up...

tank is an intersting scheme too!

@Camkierhi: Thanks for stopping by, there you go:
@Viktor: Lets see how it did...

Current status:



Alternative views:



Firing point and top details:



The concrete walls need to be weathered to match the rusted metals, the rust will be toned down a bit (Too much corrosion came through the salt-painting, I’ll go back to it and “recover” some more of the chipped paint), and something will have to be done about the walkways, figuring out colors yet.

As for the tank, I basecoated the two I'd made in the same blue, and ran out of masking tape just before I could do the second one. Seeing the feedback it's got, I'll surely paint it to match.

Advice, comments and criticism more welcome than ever.

Cheers.

I think toning down the rust will really help this out, right now it's too big of a contrast to me, getting more of the metal back will help I think. I lo think the hammered gave it just the right amount of texture for the scale on the walls .

i too think the reddish look is too strong for the metal... specially in comparison with the still mint looking concrete parts...
a heavy dry brush of metal on the rusty parts and some grey (?) on the concrete will make this all look more suitable...

as for the walkways...you can never go far wrong with hazard stripes...(sorry for that lame pun...)

Rust looks PERFECT! very nice. Rather than toning it down, I'd do some AB weathering on the darker color now. Light passes from 6-10 inches away.