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Wow your table top must look amazing kudos on the effort put in

Awesome thread. You have some really amazing pieces of terrain in here that just make me green. This makes me want to go back and redo some of my pieces.

Wow, fantastic stuff, here! The subtle additions you've made blend seamlessly into the pieces and the painting is superb. I might have to cite this thread to anyone who doesn't think there's a proper way to drybrush. Some of the subtle tints and smooth blends made me think you were using pigments, not drybrushing.

@ Cadian: The ground on these (and grunt bases) I do ; black primer, Vallejo 'chocolate brown', dry brush a mid brown such as 'English uniform', dry-brush something pale 'dark sand' or 'buff'.

@ big-d: Cheers, re going back to older minis - I quite often see bits I don't like and re touch stuff, repainted half a dozen tanks once, felt much better after.

@ oadie: thanks for the feedback, I do use a lot of dry-brushing (nearly 200 Marines with less than shiny armour). As you can probably see in the pics of the buildings there is also a fair amount of pigment.
Black soot stains up walls, some European dust along the base of walls, rubble dust on . . rubble .






I've picked up all the larger OOP FW pieces from eBay over the last two - three years, most were in a fairly grim condition; peeling primer and mold-lines.
I've added a lot of sandbags (hides the mold-lines in the windows and provides another colour to break up all the grey), the odd bit of rusty corrigated sheeting, posters and cam netting.

Wow that is insane man you can sell all this stuff bro!

Nice.

Looks good - thank you for the tip on the camo netting. Cheap and effective things like that are why I love modelling.

Definitely some of the best Imperium city terrain I've seen. I really appreciate how you thought of color breaks and contrast points. It gets sooooo old looking at the same six gray ruined walls folks put up. Too many folks subscribe to the "In the Grimdark future, there is no paint!" philosophy.

Really nice work here I love the Skellton one, with the sniper!

Cheers chaps, that skelli was floating around in my bits box for years.The armour was a fairly half hearted effort with a bit of plasticard and his trousers are just tissue and PVA.
Since these pictures were taken the bloody cat took a dislike to the piece and ripped off the walkway, snapping all the supports in the process . It also attacked my second Baneblade, clawed the cam net off the turret and bent the ariels! I have developed a dislike for cats . . . (well one evil cat anyway)

Here's some more pics of the Censorium piece:







I'm planning on adding some Ivy to all of these, once I've worked out how to make Birch seed look the part. The posters could also do with a wash, looking a tad bright.

Found some PIP pics with added grunts for scale:

As always great work im surprised no one comments

These pieces have got me really inspired! I've been eyeballing some miniature set-pieces at Hobby Lobby. WW2 tank traps, barbed wire fencing, dug-outs...bet I could make some great 40k/warmachine terrain! Thanks for the inspiration, again

All your stuff is very well painted. I'm impressed.

Incredible stuff and picture quality is fantastic. Great job.

good looking
will we be seeing a game-board soon?

Cool stuff, I bet your battlefield is a ton of fun.

He plays on 4x4 unpainted polystryene boards stolen from his local hardware store
Classy.

j/k mate, fantastic stuff, show us the boards!

Ratius wrote:He plays on 4x4 unpainted polystryene boards stolen from his local hardware store
Classy.

j/k mate, fantastic stuff, show us the boards!

It's true. . . I do. If only, I use the carpet.


Other than not fitting the Autocannon to the tripod prior to taking the pictures, this is done:

I didn't see if you'd answered it already or not--but how in the hell did you do the camo netting on your emplacements?

I've tried to replicate something like that before for my Tarantulas, but it always looks terrible.

But yeah...these are fantastic. Good to know I'm not the only one liking defensive emplacements.

Here's one I prepared earlier:

First up, get all your bits together. Cut some gauze to fit the space you want. I find it easier to have several smaller bits to cover a large area. Remember that if you want it to have some substance it will need to be folded over a couple of times, or it will be so thin you'll hardly see it.


Test fit it.


I mix together dark green paint, some water and PVA, in an old Bakewell tart tin (thank you Mr Kipling!). Make sure it's a good tin, I had to eat my way through half a dozen boxes of Bakewells to find the perfect tin!
(I mix it up to a thickness of paint and then drip in more water until it's more like the thickness of milk).




Once mixed dunk in your piece of would be cam net.


I use tweezers to extract the gauze from the tin and plonk it on the model. Stretch it out and press the gauze into the surface of the model. Leave to dry.




For the rag strips, repeat the process using a different shade of paint (went with a sand/khaki mix). I use any sort of smooth tissue; three ply tissues are good as you get three bits for each cut strip. Arrange to taste. I tend to let them fold over and don't worry if they tear as you can just squish all the bits on as you go. Use the tweezers to push the 'rags' into the texture of the gauze. Leave to dry.



Once it's dry, give it a light drybrush with a lighter shade.

Steu wrote:Wow your table top must look amazing kudos on the effort put in

can we see the whole?

Another great way to add some realism to your camo netting is to sprinkle them with herbs while they're still wet. I usually use oregano because of the size of the flakes, gives a very nice leafy finish.

A pic says more than 1000 words I guess:

Some of your images aren't showing (says 'this image exceeds bandwidth with too many views') But the stuff i can see looks simply amazing, seriously I wish i was half as good as you are, i'm not sure if you stuff can even be improved on?

fiddler6291 wrote:Another great way to add some realism to your camo netting is to sprinkle them with herbs while they're still wet. I usually use oregano because of the size of the flakes, gives a very nice leafy finish.

Cheers for that; I've had a go at the herb/gause combo, got a nice result with a mix of dried parsley and tea leaves!
I was going to use it on some of my IG stuff, but as so much of it already has the WW2 style Hessian Tape camo nets, I stuck with them for continuity.

I do however have an 'almost finished' Chaos Chimera for my renegade IG, Mmm . . . . . . .





re the 'bandwidth' thing, Photobucket only allows a set amount of info traffic within a set period, the account with most of my more recent pictures has exceeded that amount.
Should reset around the 18th, when the pictures will reload. (that's the theory)

Or try uploading to the Dakka Gallery, which gives you no bandwidth limit.

Here is the second Autocannon emplacement:





And the Heavybolter emplacement from the step-by-step:

AWESOME!

Amazing terrain! I really like the bunkers and ruined buildings.

I really love the dead guardsmen corpses. very nice work

Other than some mud this is done:





@ Jensvejmand: Glad you liked the skelli IG, here are a couple of the FW IED markers:

Little resin Urban rubble pile that I picked up at Salute for 99p!




Also done with these, by Maximin, came with the siege gun conversion kit: