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Rust ?
Dust ?
Wrecked trucks/cars/tanks ?

I'm here !

Nice scenery. Adding vegetables... well no, plants, on the top of it is a nice idea and adds life to the terrain.
I also like the squigs, love the back/belly color difference.

Nice work Cam'. Like the little orange squig things, and the space hulk board is looking nice.

Thank you all.

So bits and pieces...

Painted up a couple of the floor plates...(stealing metal technique from Nerdfest09, he is a genius.)


Furry black background thanks to this!


Not quite ork related but hey shoot me...



Thanks for looking and please feel free to comment.

Damn, that molten sprue tree is gooood...

Nice tiles as well, do you wanna do my kitchen floor for me

Those tiles are really nice Cam.

Nice. The Space Hulk board is going to look amazing.

EDC

Awesome tiles.. like the color!

Nice colouration on the tiles.

With some tweaking of the method the tree could be a great use of sprue.
Some places look a bit too much like twisted-together strands to be organic.

While some "horror film" trees do have twisted parts, I think some camouflage of the individual stands is needed to merge them together as a tree would do.

Some putty/plaster between the strands, or cover them with tissue/PVA (keep it wrinkly for added texture), or hot-glue would all add to the lumpy, twisted, shape of the sprue.

Thank you.

@ Ruglud, No worries mate, give a week to mould up the tiles!

@ Gits, Thanks bud.

@ EDC, Thank you sir, I hope so. Trying for easy and pretty at the mo, will have to see how she goes.

@ Solar, Thank you sir, blame Nerdfest, his concept, purely stolen by me.

@ Dr, Agreed, this is a first run, will have another go soon. Was going to be an effort for the LoER comp, but dropped it as Ruglud is doing a similar effort. That tree will appear shortly in my other blog I think as a base for something I have in mind.

Now been doing bits but didn't feel like much to report, but I better give you some pics I suppose.



Typical of me, inconsistent on the colour, but I will get that closer, but I do not mind the inconsistency, makes it a bit random, a bit more Orky.

As you can see I have added a little colour to some of the tiles. Thinking I will do this for just a few, to add variation, so maybe 1 in 5 will get a lick of paint here and there. Also tried some new techniques for me, chipping and salt chipping, Figured if the paint was on the floor all those hob nail boots would scrape it up pretty bad.






Thanks for looking guys.

Look great with some color on them!

Floor tiles look great!

And I like the idea of using a scale model to show off terrain and stuff. I've seen a few others do that (RedHarvest comes to mind), but now that you mention it, I might have to try that out too.

Keep up the good work!

Thanks guys.

Still very WIP, but progress....


Tried some work on the walls. Not 100%, but will do for a start. Thoughts?

Nice. The splotches of colour certainly help it look more orky.

EDC

Looks good but I think it's to bright. Might be your flash?

Thank you guys, Certainly is brighter in the pics, must be the flash.

Been experimenting.... Got me some new supplies.

So I tried a little sculpting....



Big guy...




And some nasty stuff been hanging out in the corners of the ship!!




This last has to give credit to the master sculpter NAVARRO, his blog (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/377728.page) is amazing and inspirational. I have tried to do a very poor copy of some of his work. thinking along the lines of, well, in the good old days when you played Space Hulk you had genestealers and Orks and Chaos all kicking about. That will be the same possibly in my set up. That way you could play a team of Ork boys off to prove themselves by going down into the dark nasty end and fight the buggy things down there. for example.


Thanks for looking.

Tiles are looking nice with a splash of paint.

Good effort on the not-alien terrain features.

Good start on the body.

What's the pinkish putty you're using?

Super sculpy. Oven bake. Firzt time for me. Love it at mo. Though a little brittle on fiddly detail and finding it hard to get a smooth finish. Practice i guess.

Those worms remind me of artificial 'worms' used for fish bait.

That Space Hulk board is a masterwork

Can you sand-- with 400+ grit-- or file or scrape the super sculpey after baking to get a smoother surface?

Iwas just reading through my backlog and realised I owe a mention and sorry...

You must go here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/404939.page

Jen's work is brilliant, and a direct inspiration for..


So now you know who to blame. (sorry Jen.)

@ Red, yes sanding works nicely. Practicing still, so finding out a few things still.

That, is a tanky looking bike... I love it!

Nice... I can only hope that my orky builds reach half of your level, Cam.

That bike is really awesome and inspirational.

The Ork hulk tiles look fantastic, nice and grimy.

I love the side car

Thanks guys.

Tiles....




There appears to be a bug in the hulk!...






Thanks for looking, more later.

I'd hate to have to walk through that! Looks awesome, good job!

Wonderful work Cam, but will a figure stand up on those squiggly tiles?

Thanks guys,

@ Gits here you go....

I tried when making them to make them evenly squiggly, so they kinda even out for models, pic dump.







Some are a bit tilted, but are stable. Pretty happy with the results myself.

You may have noted the door.


And for scale...HHEEEERRREEES Ronnie...


Still got some things to work out, going to do wall ends and things like that, still a bit torn on the 3d/2.5d thing, but it will work out.

Any ideas thoughts or criticism please let me know.

Thanks for looking.

PS Sorry about blurry pics, trying to do RL wife list, slipping this in...hehe.

Tiles look like they'll work fine. Door is awesome!

That sliding door is amazing!, like the orky tiles for the hulk gaming, as well as the gribbly mods!

The sliding door is awesome. What does it look like on the other side?