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Dave making convict troops!

Viktor von Domm wrote:What could it be? I call that a bloody life sign for sure...

And mind you, I am no stranger to cobwebs around my own unfinished projects...freaking spiders, having no sense for completing ones work in their behalf...

looks like a bridge tho...? Innit?

Welcome back matey!

Thanks Vik! I know, if those spiders would just work instead of always worrying about food and breeding
not exactly a bridge.

shasolenzabi wrote:Dave making convict troops!

Heh, no, this guy escaped ....downhive.... to get away from Bounty Hunters

At the moment it seems I only have to leave something alone for 5 minutes before a tiny spider-baby is trying to colonise it.

Whatever it is, it looks promising.

I'll put $20 and some Outlanders buildings on...

NECROMUNDA.

Welcome back, Dave.

--Brian

That Exodus game you where messing with a while back? You know the one with cowboys and bounty hunters but not quite. You had some Texan guild dude looking AMAZING! Is that it. That would be that kinda terrain I think.

Or Necromunda, like Briancj says.

Or Borderlands the boardgame?

Or Fallout the board game?

Or just a yellow railing?

Well, that's obviously Billy No-shirt keeping look-out on top of a wind-swept tower down in the hives - that grimace on his face says it's right breezy.

Ha we pushed him back to the fray and back to the frontline for you sir and a welcomed return, I was staring at your work area in awe all those half finished projects that we remember from days past

Well glad to see you back and back to necromunda by the looks of things so will we be seeing some steady updates and inspiration

Btw lone_dirty_dog its awe.. ore is what you dig out of the ground lol.

@Dave: By the power of Grey Skull! thats a monster hobby setup!

Dayum! I be gone for over a year, and what does Dave do... He only gets friggin better! But at least now we know why he's so good... Its not Dave, its the Dave-Cave...

Yes I just realised what I had done it's been a long day thanks teach I will bring you an apple to class tomorrow

Welcome back Dave, its good to see you went straight for the toxic coloured paint on your return.

Long days is something I'm familiar with. Until my next day off...














I'm quite sleepy, so I'll type up the text tomorrow sometime.
Brian wins the cookie

Nice work on tower! parts look like they have been abused as they got moved and re-assembled

Yes great to see the necromunda come back what kit are you using never seen them before are they your flanges he heh hehe he or new kit ones

See the airbrush is back and in action is this going into the original setting or a new layout

Look loads of rivets

This was an experiment to see how the Dreadzone panels can be used. It's pretty simple tower, nothing fancy, but I'm not a big fan of the way the corners fit, so I covered them with what I realize now was the most expensive option, three triangular strips of styrene. It'll go on the old layout (still classic) and yes, they are my flanges

As for the airbrush, this was also an experiment to see what all can be done with my bigger, Badger Patriot vs. my finer tipped Badger Renegade Krome.

The Salt Method is new for me too. It looks ok. I was afraid I'd overdone it, but really, I Think it was underdone OR it was my choice of a metallic rust basecoat vs. a more orange rust basecoat. The metallic rust looks really nice underneath the yellow, but not as well under the green. More pics of that to come.

And oh yes, Rivets. must have em.

Good stuff Dave! new techniques are always fun eh! :-) I think you're right though, a more orange colour under that you could weather down the sides with rust streaks may have stood out more, but the weathering with salt does give nice randomness to it all not to mention the panels you chose are cool as :-)

Yeah, I'll do much more weathering before it's all done. I just bought some Vallejo Washes I'm anxious to try. Plus I'll give it the usual "grimy pre-war" treatment that has worked for me in the past.

Good work Dave.

Can't really help with the salt effect, as I've not tried it. But it seems to have done the job of giving the rust bubbles.

It's better to have under-done the rust underneath, than to have over-done it. It's easier to add rustiness to the breaks than to reduce it.

Was your salt all one size? Maybe a mixture of grain sizes may help get more variation in the final effect.

I used 2 sizes. Med. Morton's Table salt (The kind in the blue can) and Morton's course Kosher Salt. That's right, this terrain, is now safe for Passover.

Nice to see you back in the groove Dave. Can never go wrong with a bit of Necromunda style terrain for a come-back

Looking really good dude!. Ive had good luck using epsom salt as well.

I have never done the salt method so cant offer any help with that one, the overall looks good though maybe just highlight a few rust spots on the green section might lift it enough ?

The flanges look great I honestly thought they were a new kit version how did you do the curved pipe section by the way

Thanks guys! It's good to be back. ANd it's good to know people are still interested. Pipes are Hirst Arts casts. The flanges are just glued to them. The valve is from that Chemical plant set.

I have used the salt method for rusty exhausts on my super heavies. It works.

Oh dear, I do hope you are not using that windex or bissell ammonia cleaner as a thinner for the airbrush. Please try something like this http://www.homedepot.com/p/Titan-32-oz-Paint-Easy-Latex-Paint-Conditioner-0154840/100657717 It works beautifully. And it is fairly inexpensive.

Windex is just a cleaner, not a thinner.

Hirst Arts molds can you use resin in them ? sorry but just wondering if they work OK with resin.

 dsteingass wrote:
Windex is just a cleaner, not a thinner.

I'm glad to hear that. (where's the sigh of relief emoticon anyway?) I have heard of people using windex etc as a thinner for airbrushes.

I always thought Hirst molds were for dental plaster (hydrocal, merlin's magic, whatever it's called) only.

According to the Hirst Arts FAQ, you can use Resin but it damages the molds

http://www.hirstarts.com/faq/faq.html

One of these days I'll buy some molds and give it a go. Looks like fun

Yeah, Dental Plaster. It wouldn't be economical to use resin with them. It would be quite heavy too.