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Suitably disturbing...

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
Suitably disturbing...

Good good.

And that feels better. Tied together with some more tissue and some mud'n'rocks at the bottom. I've got an idea of how I'm going to paint it now.



I'll let it fully dry/cure overnight and then switch my desk to airbrush setup tomorrow and get this coloured in.

Reminiscent of the Dakka user who made the 'cube' army - forget the name right now... but I recall the thread...

Still liking it, it's coming a bit more together now

Ruglud wrote:Reminiscent of the Dakka user who made the 'cube' army - forget the name right now... but I recall the thread...

I remember seeing that. Cubes of polystyrene foam, melted into interesting patterns.

Thanks CommissarKhaine. Paint brings it further together...


Also included scale reference of the Deathmark and marine re-paint that I'm working on for my personal army thread.

You may be able to see where it's going now with the mud'n'rocks at the base being sucked up into ghostly grey and glow-y tendrils, with all the junk bits being their own colours (and likely rusty metals).

Ohhh! I'll be interested to see how you'll paint up this action scene!

Hi Dave. Well, here's where it's at currently...

Most colours blocked in and shaded.


These multi-coloured things take so long to paint...

That's very cool - it needs some sort of force wielding hand raising it up!

Superb!! Bravo! It looks like it's moving.

Thanks Graven'. True, force-wielding hands not included.

Thanks Weety.

And with the tendrils painted up to white:


Now I need to go over each individual item and finish off details, final highlights, and weathering... But where to start...

And done! I believe...

Many photos at slightly different angles as it's a tricky thing to photograph to give the idea of it's cube-ness.





and a scale shot to give you an idea:


Got a birthday coming up so the next project will be whatever it is I make for them... by the end of the month...

Dude! That's fantastic!! Really amazing to see it all done.

I like the clueless beaky
Looks top notch bro.

That's utterly fantastic! Bravo!

Thanks chaps. It's good to get such enthusiastic responses to it, as it was a bit of a failed project that's been shoehorned into a new life I didn't really know if anyone would like it.

Graven', yeah he's probably about to be "eaten".

Onto the next project. It's a birthday present so you are all sworn to secrecy. Shh.

To follow on from the Gandalf piece I made previously, we have more Hobbit miniatures. Should be fairly self-explanatory:


Much more work yet to build up the base and then install the figures.
And they are tiny figures, they barely come up to a space marine's waist... which does make sense, they are halflings. But it does make for some tiny models.

Good start, but it almost looks like they are about to have a snowball fight in winter . "We'll get the tricksey baggins my precious."

Junkube is a random piece but its amazing Looks like its coming to life.

What models are you using for the hobbit diorama? They don't look like the GW lotr range.

Ahh! The Riddle scene! Very cool!

Thanks Theo. Don't you remember the snowball fight scene from The Hobbit?!

ckig wrote:Junkube is a random piece but its amazing Looks like its coming to life.

Thanks ckig. Good to hear.

What models are you using for the hobbit diorama? They don't look like the GW lotr range.

They are not. These are from Mithril miniatures. I would link the website, but it doesn't appear to be working (It was about a year ago). They are very old sculpts. Look for their "Classic 32mm" range.

dsteingass wrote:Ahh! The Riddle scene! Very cool!

From their poses and Gollum holding a fish, I'm placing them just before the riddles.

Nothing to show today, I've mounted it on a polystyrene foam base and given it another layer of tissue/pva. Will update when it looks more exciting.

I've heard that the first draft of the hobbit had Bilbo and Gollum shaking hands at the end.

Red': Shows it's always good to give it read over after a break, I suppose.

Slightly more exciting looking...slightly.

I added a few more spikes of rock to enclose them and make the scene more cave-like without needing to build a cave.

Much more to do just to get this done. The rock texture needs more to start with, but I have a plan.
Need to install the figures first...

And for scale here's Bilbo and Gollum next to a 1992 metal marine:

Thoise two make the Spehs Muhreen look gigantic!

One way to get true-scale marines...

Typical GW, cheating with a thicker base.

Excellent work bud, painting those 2 will be a challenge, especially Bilbo.

Tiny and lovely.

And now gentlemen I will demonstrate the meaning of patience. .......

Good luck with those two !

Thanks chaps. Yeah, I said they were small.

and, Cam', these are 32mm scale rather than GW's 28mm. And that's an old metal, little-marine. So we can forgive the base.

A challenge they will be, but that's the point, isn't it?! Good thing I am a patient person. I have just over a week to finish though.

Texture.
The tissue base has been smeared with plaster and that dabbed/patted with the smearing finger to give it the texture (as I did on the "Crash" piece recently).
Bilbo and Gollum have been installed and I've started adding more texture to the ground.
Once that's done the majority of painting will be quick, until I come to the miniatures...

Late, as usual, but...that cube thing looks awesome!

This new diorama is coming along nicely. Was there much warping with your chosen materials?

Cube is fantastic, really looks like it is about to move about. Your color choices are as always good.

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Late, as usual, but...that cube thing looks awesome!

Never too late for praise. Thanks.

This new diorama is coming along nicely. Was there much warping with your chosen materials?

Ta. Not much at all, I weighed down the middle of the piece while the glue (mostly) dried. There is/was a slight up-turn of the outer edges once it was mounted on the polystyrene foam, but that's mostly fixed with the application of plaster and sanding of the centre. With the slightly rounded edges it appears to float by a mm or two all round. It may well get some felt pads underneath anyway; makes it more shelf-worthy.

Yorkright wrote: Cube is fantastic, really looks like it is about to move about. Color choices are as always good.

Thanks York'. Colours are such a pain to choose when you have a mixed item/material build like this (and the "hide" piece I built a while ago). Getting the balance right from all angles is important, and I spend a lot of time just looking at the primed model, and after adding each colour's basecoat, thinking about where the next colour should be to get that balance right. So much thinking without any progress, but it's worth it in the end.

The cave got it's primer and basecoat done today:


Looking more cave-like now.