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MagosBiff90 & GamesEtc - Yes i will continue my tests on the boulders

In regards to the cork, i think i need to rough it up a bit more so it looks like degraded tarmac. I cant dig into it too deep though because its just a thin coating on corrugated cardboard. but i can pick away at it a bit and glue on some further sand. I need to make some sort of way for the sign to be held up as well. probably going to make a small Milliput mound and press the sign into it to give a slot, and then remove the sign to let it dry, and also glue on a little rubble around it to show how it is held up. Then glue the sign in once its all painted. (so i don't have to mask it when using the AB on the base.

Well my Supply Drop from Camkierhi for "Completing your entry despite having a baby!" from the last compeitition, arrived this weekend. And what a plethra of awesomeness it was. Thank you very much. I even had to put a new shelf up in my studdy to rearange stuff to put it away



And i also i got a lovely little something for Baby Oliver (considering my nick name is Bear this is especially awesome)



So i started making good use of my new supplies and put some textured "plate" down on the gantry part of the sign. Don't want the naughty Ork falling over in wet weather.



I have been thinking that i need to add more little details to my peices, and i have been thinking about what to add while working on the doors at the weekend. This is one of the things i thought about. A little birds nest with egg/eggs in.



Some other things on my evenings working that i thought about was, having a head of the recently deceased having rolled off the road into a crack. And add some more dirt / gravel to the road. As no one is likely to sweep clean a broken road. Also some detritus from a broken vehicle in the corner.





I had a dig through my collection of bits that a friend gave me from his old ebay / car boot business. And i managed to find an Ork that i feel looks appropriate to be the one in question, as he has a stick to use for levering the boulder off. I need to think about what to put in his off hand. I am thinking bottle of sandwich.



And finally my beautifully paper mached boulder



Looks much better and is drying out nicely. Also i will be able to paint straight onto this rather than having to undercoat it. which should work well with a lighter grey.

In my continuation to try to add details, rather than getting to itchy to start painting. I have been spending my non hobby time thinking about what to do, rather than staring at my desk when i sit down to "hobby". So here is my plan.



So we have a lovely ham salad sarnie. But the question is do orks like white or brown bread? Or do they in fact like blue bread, nothing like a bit of mold for flavour.




A lunch box that the sarnie had been stored in.



And if you are standing around waiting to squish the emperors finest, you need some coffee to stay awake.





Also at work i use the penknife i whittled some bones out of a coffee stirrer, as much as it passed the time, i have a feeling that they may look too flat.

Nice detail work!

I don't know why, but I fell like taking my lunch break right now...

After my D&D session i sat down to do some more. But i decided i need to undercoat and it was to late at night to do that then. So a quick mock up ...



and then getting my AB out to work on the grey of the boulder, there is actually 3 different grays on here, not that you can see from this photo. LOL, needs a wash and then maybe some further work (still working on my AB skilz)



So hopefully the next shots will be once i have started blocking out the color.

Fantastic stuff, those detailed bits are awesome.

Glad the bits are of use.

I love the Ork so much totally brilliant.

Mordian... the sandwich makes it. Just brilliant!

Well back from my few days away for my Sons 4th Birthday, including picking the winner of the sheep race at "The Big Sheep".

Camkierhi - The supply drop was was very useful, thank you.

Gitsplitta - The sandwich was fun to make

So i used my AB to lay down some colour on my terrain. This is my first real project using it. After spraying some greys in varying amounts, i then put on some browns for dust and dirt in certain areas. Then to show the atomized blood from the smushed space marine there is a spray of red.







Then i created a gore mixture by adding some pva to the left over blood red, i mixed in some random bits i could find like dried grass from the lawn mower next to me, and some snipped up packing foam, finally all mixed in will a drop or to of Baal red wash.



I then put a wash over the gravely parts.

I took a further photo of the gore this morning, its looking sufficiently gory





Now tonight before i go to my second job, i need to touch up the undercoat on a few of the pieces, ready for Sunday night when i can do some more painting.






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Ah bugger i forgot the road markings .... ok that's easy to fix, i can then just do further dirt on the road, which is probably a good thing

Looks great....nice textures to the surfaces, smushed marine works a treat, and 'Ungry Uggboo the rock pusher is very cool with his sarnie

Looking brilliant, great gore and texture on the road.

May I be a bit bold and suggest a thin black wash or two will exaggerate the great texture you have.

Normally i would use a wash, but i have not done one yet as I am trying out the Airbrush. The gravel/pebbles at the side have a wash, but yeah the rest would benefit from a wash. I'm worried that using the AB to highlight over the wash would cover it all up.


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On a side note i made a turtle shell for my sons fancy dress party. I only decided to make it on Saturday for Sunday. So did not have much time, i used wide masking tape rather than paper mache, and after a thin brush of paint, i was able to use the airbrush for shading (although i clogged it in the process, but it gave me a chance to take it apart for the first time) I was so proud of it. But then he decided that on Sunday outside the venue that it was the wrong colour as it should be more of a brown than a green. *grr* I can't complain too much it should have been a bit darker, but i did not have much time or paint to work with lol.

Well after seeing the great work done by my fellow contestants, i needed to get my bottom in gear and make some further progress.

I started with putting on the road markings that i had forgotten, Buy cutting out a mall stencil and AB in a bleached bone line. And then going over parts of them with a drown (areas of dirt / gravel) so it did not look like they were painted on top of said gravel. I also used a blood red wash over parts were the gore should be sitting on top of the lines. And as i had brown in the AB i gave the wooden steps a paint. (Not fussed by overspray on the base as this would add to the dirt, and on the post that is due to be painted metallic in the end anyway)





Then taking some advice i gave the whole thing a spray of a watered down black wash, i will see how it looks when dried, to see if it needs another.



My first large flat area to be painted, started dark then built up to a lighter blue mix then the lightest just on the top (although it is upside down in the picture), another handy thing i found was that i could dry the paint by just putting air through the AB, its quieter than a hairdryer and its already in my hand





I just need to finish cutting out the stencil for the sign, and then i can spray that on. its taking shape. ... although should probably work on the ork as well. It normally takes me for ever to do a single figure, but as he is in one piece it should be easier, and the AB should help. He has lots of green flesh for me to play with.

Taking good shape! Textures look good, and the colours are gaining depth all right.

But the turtle shell is the best! I love it when the hobby "extends" into RL in those ways.

Looking brilliant, love your road surfac, and the white llines are looking good.

Agree though the best is the turtle shelll.

Well i finished creating the stencil for my sign, and taped it into place. I decided to go with a skull white for the text. It went pretty well, the spraying went well enough, if anything should be improved it would be my stencil in the first place, and to spray top down rather than from an angle, but if i had paused a bit between sprays giving the layers to dry off, there would of been less running, but at least the running was within the painted area and there are no streaks. But i do think that this does make it feel like a real sign.



Gave a couple of coats to the lunch things, starting with a darker red then going for a blood red. I do find that my red does not like sticking to the undercoat, and has a habit of just running around. i am wondering if its because i thin my paint with water rather then alcohol or a proper thinner. But then the blue on the sign went on so beautifully. Now it is dry its not looking to bad, but its not super bright, i may just give it a top down highlight of an orange and then detail from there.





Actually looking at these close ups, it looks better than i remember last night, so thats always good lol. I still need to pull my finger out on the Ork though. I have D&D tongiht so not sure how much painting i will get done, but then i may also be able to get some brushwork done surreptitiously (i play over skype)

Well as much as i have good intentions to get so much done each night, last night i managed to get the Ork flesh done. And a base coat on his coat But i was wrong i have D&D tonight and not last night. But as i am still trying to catch up from the lack of sleep at the weekend, i think after tonight's geeking i will get an early night, as the late nights start again tomorrow :(





I will try and do his face during my dice rolling tonight.

Progress is looking good.

Would that be real D&D or 4e D&D? Bear in mind I started with the 3 brown books... And my friends are trying to talk me into this new 5e version. Just got the PHB, so we'll see.

3.5 eddition, played over skype or google hangouts (as i moved away from my group) It has quite a heavy reliance on the Role Play Aspect, so my DM is not so keen on 4th as its more just hack and slash. We have spent an entire session just shopping and looking for info. It has sometimes been weeks before we have rolled anything but a d20 lol. But its great fun, and often incredibly rude and inappropriate for younger ears. but hey that's my sense of humor Currently playing 2 different characters, a Human lvl 9 Dragon Shamen, and a Gnome lvl 9 druid whose animal companion is a bear in a top hat called sir binky. Just started this campain a few months ago, and its based in Planescape.

Well i managed to get a bit of sneaky painting done during my D&D session, until my little bundle of joy came to join me for a bit

Added some food dribble and a bit of mold onto the lunch box.



and some coffee dribble, and also some of the mold has grown up the bottom of the flask. (Looks like my thin metallics strikes again, so i need to add a second coat to the lunch bits)



Added down some more base colours onto the tipping Ork.



And with a wash. But dam my sucking at doing eyes, especially a squinty one.





Why is it that a photo never does a model justice. I am always much happier with my model before i see the photo of it :(

Fantastic stuff, love the deatiling on the lunch items.

Ork looking good. I would only advise that you do the eyes then touch up the skin around them. (thats what I do)

Well after another stressful weekend of door work, i managed to get some painting done on Sunday night. Added some more colour to the dirt, as the base was looking a bit samey. I did not want too much brown as the dust and gravel was meant to be from the same material as the road / tarmac its self.



Given some base colour to the tank hatch and the helmet, gone with purple as though it was one of my Marines. (An Assault Marine). Then put some mettalic and rust on the tank track, and some added lead bealcher the vertical poles.

Camkierhi - I will see if i have a steady enough hand to touch up under his eyes.

Road surface looks great...think you have just the right variety of textures there to tell the story....

Update photos are boring, so took some pictures of rivets on my walk about Bristol today.

THOSE are proper rivets!

Might have to give a try at something like that sometime...

But updates are good, so keep them coming!

Nice rivets - no Clifton or Burlington though?

That is a LOT of rivets.

Ok i have been ill for a few days, so sorry for the lack of updates. But here we go.

Yes Fifty lots of lovely rivets

monkeytroll - Not as far as the Clifton suspension bridge, was based out of the Paintworks (and walked passed these bridges from TempleMeads

Littletower - please find the following update


Tank detritus painted up and rusted.


Striking Skulls Assault marine head painted and gore trail added to where it has rolled.



Further gore added to the underside of the boulder.



Wash added to the sign, i never like washing such large flat areas :(



Dry brushed at an angle to work over the dark wash. Then gave it a further sepia wash. with add further washes for depth of colour. Its meant to look rough, the best metal would not be used for signs



The sandwich is taking shape.



And so is the birds nest.



I seem to have misplaces the egg, so i'll have to source another one.

Well another busy weekend, and distracted by the shinyness of Robocraft on steam, means i got less done than i wanted. But the front of the sign is done.



Need to weather up the back further though.

And lunch is looking yummy.

Bah, the sarnie is not considered appropriate.

Sandwich looks good enough to eat! Well done M0rdian!

Wow dude! Excellent stuff.

The bottom of the bolder is looking fantastic, as is all the gore.

Sandwich is just the best EVER.