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Why yes, yes I do.

Which neatly brings me to my next question: leave the deck stripes yellow, or as hazards?
Here they are in full:

Yay/nay?

Hazards IMO, I think it will add a good break up of colour to the ship

That's an awesome boat.

EDC

Hazards, agree with Knightley. Looks awesome by the way.

Right, right, curse you all...

Yeah, that works I guess done with ink rather than paint
And crusty progress too


And even some work on the stern
Getting there. Purple, blue and green washes have been added.
Smoke, and window effects, to go.

Looking good planning on giving her a load of cattle?

Yeah, hazard stripes.

Nicely done too.

Thats looking really nice, its a lot bigger than I thought it was. Hazard stripes are looking good

Good zized transport barge!

That boat is soo crusty and ugly... I love it . Great job dude

Llamahead wrote:Looking good planning on giving her a load of cattle?

. Funnily enough I have started collecting the little Spanish bulls off wine bottles as they are to scale only got a couple. Must drink more.

Dr H wrote:Yeah, hazard stripes.

Nicely done too.

Cheers! Bloody tedious. Could never do Iron Hands!

GiraffeX wrote:Thats looking really nice, its a lot bigger than I thought it was. Hazard stripes are looking good

Cheers, yeah, it's pretty much a table edge in game.

shasolenzabi wrote:Good zized transport barge!

Thanks, yeah. Multi level terrain, too.

JoeRugby wrote:That boat is soo crusty and ugly... I love it . Great job dude

Thanks matey.

So here it is, merry Xmas... Wait, the Serenity 2, I mean:


Very pleased overall. Glad I pushed it with shading and general crustiness.




A better shot of the bridge, and a penguin... Crew



I'll need to get some proper action shots, and get some with containers on, but hopefully that'll do you for now?
Shelf of shame update - killer frost primed, black canary built - repositioned arms so they're thrust back, more like she's screaming. I've decided not to gs over her fishnets but treat them like padded leather, biker style, instead. We'll see. 3 weeks, 6 minis. Nearly there!

Later,
Graven

Great work, the boat looks fantastic!

Brilliant, boat looks fantastic, got me thinking, stripes and crustyness looking perfect. Great work.

That does look like a boat owned for nefarious reasons and jobs

Excellent work.. I like the hazard stripes. Though I think the actual deck needs a darker wash, and scuff marks from all the containers. My 2 cents.

Have you seen the Heresy not Serenity crew? How hard would it be to stat them up for Batman?

Beautiful work graven. Pat yourself on the back for that one.

*insert Borat voice* It's very nice!

Catching up on all my followed dakka blogs - great projects of late graven! really like the boat -ship - thing!

Paradigm wrote:Great work, the boat looks fantastic!

Cheers mate. But it did take 6 months to get my head round

Camkierhi wrote:Brilliant, boat looks fantastic, got me thinking, stripes and crustyness looking perfect. Great work.

Means a lot of from such a LOER legend as yourself. If I were doing Iron Hands, it's where I'd go. More generally I feel like my dockside is really coming together.

shasolenzabi wrote:That does look like a boat owned for nefarious reasons and jobs

Indeed! Shady dealings ahoy. I am considering making a wall of containers...

Solar_lion wrote:Excellent work.. I like the hazard stripes. Though I think the actual deck needs a darker wash, and scuff marks from all the containers. My 2 cents.

That's a fair point. There are scuff marks but the whole thing could be down a tone.

Llamahead wrote:Have you seen the Heresy not Serenity crew? How hard would it be to stat them up for Batman?

No, I hadn't! That's a really interesting idea. Doable, is the answer, though not sure what faction. Probably the Deathstroke militia, using Arkham Knight for Mal, Medic for Simon, Gatling Brute (just cos) for Jayne, Milita Sergeant for Zoe... Not sure about the others. But yeah, doable

Gitsplitta wrote:Beautiful work graven. Pat yourself on the back for that one.

Thanks mucker

Knightley wrote:*insert Borat voice* It's very nice!

Yaskemas!

TerrainWalker wrote:Catching up on all my followed dakka blogs - great projects of late graven! really like the boat -ship - thing!

Thank ye kindly!

So we're getting close. 18 days till Xmas, and 7 minis to go!

Decided (edgy, this) to do my Black Canary as, well, Canary (Legends of Tomorrow) - so, ivory. Lots of black to paint and it's nice to have variety. Speaking of which, Black Manta is Grey with a black wash, which has given him a really nice, subtle depth (not sure how apparent that is); he'll also be getting a red wash and weird OSL from his eye beams. Killer Frost is going to be deep, rich purple mostly, with alabaster skin and pale hair (more CW than 52). Up the back, I've got Arsenal, Green Arrow, Red Hood and Huntress waiting. Huntress is definitely getting a Ed Brubaker/Scott McDaniel (late 500s) look - no cheesecake skin, blacks and purple, white trim (also seen in start of New 52). Arsenal and Green Arrow are going to be very dark shades, CW style. Red Hood - not sure, probably dark browns, leather etc.
Madness? This is Shelfy!

graven

Cool stuff. Are going going to give Canary a sword or anything?

Loving that totally-legit cargo ship!

A clear shelf of shame . Well just in time for a Christmas haul .

Paradigm wrote:Cool stuff. Are going going to give Canary a sword or anything?

I really thought about it, but I want to run her as RAW so no weapon

dsteingass wrote:Loving that totally-legit cargo ship!

Yup, nothing to see here officer, move along

Theophony wrote:A clear shelf of shame . Well just in time for a Christmas haul .

Well here's hoping anyway
On that subject, I seem to have got involved with a new terrain company http://www.redbeamdesigns.com/ who you should totally buy stuff from I'm part of the design team, at the idea/commissioning end. If there's a particular gap in the 28mm (mostly) terrain market you think needs filled, lmk, and we'll see what we can do obviously there's going to be a lot of urban terrain coming, but any and all thoughts welcome!

Thats a good start Graven, I've just ordered Huntress but I'm going full cheesecake

Cool! containers of all sorts and in different states of repair sounds good!

GiraffeX wrote:Thats a good start Graven, I've just ordered Huntress but I'm going full cheesecake

I'm sure she'll be delicious

shasolenzabi wrote:Cool! containers of all sorts and in different states of repair sounds good!

Yeah. Good shout!

Progress on Black Manta, mostly:

Need to start adding ivory to all the raised areas on Canary. Oh, and started Killer Frost's ice crystals, as you can see. She's actually quite far on too, but not pic worthy yet .
Think I'm happy with Manta's weird glow...


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And... Done. Black (ish) Manta's back!

And front:

Think I'm pretty happy with how all the light effects have come out in the end, and the base step definitely an improvement.

I like what you did with Manta thats very cool on the light effects and the water base.

Really like his eye lenses, nice work on those.

GiraffeX wrote:I like what you did with Manta thats very cool on the light effects and the water base.

Why thanks! I'm not 100% sure if the effect is right but i like it well enough.

Theophony wrote:Really like his eye lenses, nice work on those.

Cheers! They were fun to do.

Meanwhile, working on the girls: