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speaking of signature...why no carving (lol...typing it now...I see the double entendre)

and I agree... a knife in the tables surface would look cool!

Casey's Law wrote:The table looks brilliant just by itself! Awesome work.

Thanks Casey. Wait until you see it with the bottles done...

Theophony wrote:He table is great if he rest of the project gets painted like this you should take it to a golden demon like the blood on the table

I don't think I'm that good, but thanks for the compliment.

Camkierhi wrote: Just reading comments about your beautiful table elsewhere and had a brain wave. You have to put some form of knife or scalpel on the table. It's Doc's table after all.

Sorry had to get that out, it hurt to think that much. Just a suggestion. You are perfect as is. Just hit me, it would be like a signature. Doesn't have to be too specific to any time period. Anyways I will shut up now, sorry.

Thanks Cam. You best have a lie down after that then.

Viktor von Domm wrote:speaking of signature...why no carving (lol...typing it now...I see the double entendre)

and I agree... a knife in the tables surface would look cool!

We'll see about the knife, I can add it any time.
Although I quite like the mystery of "where did the stain come from?"... goes with the whole hut "what is the back story?"...

And here's another slightly blurry extreme close-up of some wood to show what has been happening.

Following the previous picture, this has had a dilute, uneven, black wash all over,
Then the beams were washed with 186(brown),
And then everything was dry-brushed with 63(Sand)...

Still more to do and then I can start on the outside...

you´re doing a wonderful job here... even if you are a bloody tease

Great job doc!

Sweet scenery! cobbled together shelter/station/field HQ etc.

Viktor von Domm wrote:you´re doing a wonderful job here... even if you are a bloody tease

Thanks Vik. More teasing below...

da waaagh orkz wrote:Great job doc!

Thanks da waaagh.

shasolenzabi wrote:Sweet scenery! cobbled together shelter/station/field HQ etc.

Thanks shas. It can be pretty much anything you want it to be.

The basic wood painting is complete inside. There will be weathering/dirt/rust/mould added later (I'll do the inside and outside at the same time so they match).

This is after a patchy/irregular dry-brush of white over everything.

The outside has also been started.

From the top; A dry-brush of 27(Sea Grey), 64(light grey) and then 34(white). This is about 1/3rd done so far...

More later...

I'm calling the outside done. Except for the weathering/dirt etc...
The pictures below are;
Top picture; Irregular black wash,
The rest is the step by stepfor the "anti-weathering" where the wood is usually out of the sunlight and so not bleached...
Note the positions where there is likely to be shade (this is mostly only where the roof overhangs and so is quite rare on this model),
Start with a "paint heavy" wash of 186(brown) in the most shaded areas,
Then another "paint heavy" wash of 83(Ochre) that overlaps the brown and extends at little further out,
Then an irregular dry-brush of 71(oak) to further merge the brown into the grey.
Then a black wash to aid the merge.
Finally an irregular dry-brush of white.

And as a special treat, I've named The Hut...
Is it too obvious?
Is it not readable enough?
Too corny?
Suitably amusing?

Absolutely amazing. Perfect name. I have said it before, by the time you are finished this belongs in an art gallery.

Thanks Cam. It will take pride of place on the shelf at least.

LOL... that name...what a mind...what a mind...reminds me of a corckscrew^^

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
LOL... that name...what a mind...what a mind...reminds me of a corckscrew^^

I twists and I turns like a twisty turn-y thing...
Thanks, glad you like the name.
I was just going to have the name plank completely fallen off and trampled into the mud with just HOME written on it. But after I started referring to it as The Hut, the name just fell into place...

Also, it's not too easily read, is it? I want you to be looking at it a little while trying to read it before it hits you. Although I have touched up the lower half of the first B as I made more of a mess of it than intended.

And so, with the wood done, I've started on the roof...

This is just a dark red-ish brown that I just mixed by eye, so I can't really help you find a matching paint unfortunately.

Interesting top-tip for you: The texture was created by adding a pinch of the finest dried paint dust (that usually gives texture in greater quantities to the mud on my bases) to the paint mixture before slapping it on. I assume this is what all these weathering powders do in addition to the pigment...

Also, it's not too easily read, is it? I want you to be looking at it a little while trying to read it before it hits you. Although I have touched up the lower half of the first B as I made more of a mess of it than intended.

HA! exactly... it took me quite some time... if you hadn´t pointed out there was a name to be read at all i might have overlooked it completley! ... and i tried to explain my wife your work and your naming of that ..shed (she is almost half a nerd too... with us three boys at home...no other option available )

and that rusty roof... yes... looks the part... and i see your point with those weathering powders....seems fitting to me... we often pay for stuff a bright mind could make and come up on his own...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
HA! exactly... it took me quite some time... if you hadn´t pointed out there was a name to be read at all i might have overlooked it completley! ... and i tried to explain my wife your work and your naming of that ..shed (she is almost half a nerd too... with us three boys at home...no other option available )

Cool. That seems the right sort of level.
I hope your wife got it in the end. I don't suppose that "the hut" and "a hut/shed" translates too well in German to get the pun.

and that rusty roof... yes... looks the part... and i see your point with those weathering powders....seems fitting to me... we often pay for stuff a bright mind could make and come up on his own...

That's only the first of many layers. Like the wood, rust has many subtle colours when you look closely enough... It's just had a very wet wash of purple for instance...
And the use of dried paint as a weathering powder works with the competition as well.

And the use of dried paint as a weathering powder works with the competition as well.

werrrrlll.... how come noob would have dried up paint already? of forgott... he bought the new pots of GW

and actually in german shed stands for "Hütte" wich is not that far away from hut... so... and welll she quite quickly got the joke... as i said... star wars is very top item atm at home... she can try to resist... but if your oldest humms continuisly the imperial march your resistances fade into nothingness rather quick^^

 Viktor von Domm wrote:

And the use of dried paint as a weathering powder works with the competition as well.

werrrrlll.... how come noob would have dried up paint already? of forgott... he bought the new pots of GW

Well yeah, that is a good point. But maybe, being a noob he or she wasn't as fastidious about putting the lids on their new paints and therefore has plenty of dried paint...

and actually in german shed stands for "Hütte" wich is not that far away from hut... so... and welll she quite quickly got the joke... as i said... star wars is very top item atm at home... she can try to resist... but if your oldest humms continuisly the imperial march your resistances fade into nothingness rather quick^^

Good good. We can change the non-geeks one at a time...bring them over to the dark side, you might say...
I also wasn't sure what Mr. The Hut's name may have been translated into, assuming that you do watch a dubbed version. But he probably is just das Hütte (or is it der Hütte? been a long time since I learnt any German).

Nice work on the roof, really like the finish with the crumbly paint. I've got an idea for weathering powder that's been sitting in the garage since the move.

 Theophony wrote:
Nice work on the roof, really like the finish with the crumbly paint.

Thanks. I felt it needed some texture to the large flat areas. We'll see if I can make it work for me in the end.

Much more to come on the rust... I've got quite into the adding many subtle colours to create an overall effect.

I've got an idea for weathering powder that's been sitting in the garage since the move.

Would that be something that's sat still long enough to become a pile of rust?

No but after going in there a few hours ago and finding that the squirrel had gotten in there and chewed through the bag of bird food I might have some grey tree squirrel powder.

Nice progress teases. Looking forward to seeing this all finished up!

Theophony wrote:No but after going in there a few hours ago and finding that the squirrel had gotten in there and chewed through the bag of bird food I might have some grey tree squirrel powder.

lol. pesky squirrels.

Casey's Law wrote:Nice progress teases. Looking forward to seeing this all finished up!

Thanks. More teases to come...

These are the next few steps of the roof to date.
Top is after the purple wash, then the middle shows a plate that got a quite red-ish wash and the bottom shows some that got a yellow/orange wash (this dried a bit too light and will be darkened by a black wash in the future).

This shack is gunna be shacky! I will forever loot it and call it my own.

Rust shack.... baby rust shack...That's where it's at

 dsteingass wrote:
Rust shack.... baby rust shack...That's where it's at

Why thank you Dave! stuck in my head much now...... baby rust shack! ..... got me a shack it's covered in rust!

Thanks guys. lol Rust Shack...

And here's a teaser picture that is (shock horror) in focus for a change...

This is after some more red-ish washing (as I quite liked it in the previous picture) and some dilute black wash to bring down the lighter patches. I've also tried to minimise the "high water marks" from some of the washes, but kept some as they seem to work on this roof.

There's a few little touch ups I want to do (a little orange here, maybe even a little metal there) and sort out the ladder that hasn't turned out as well and then I can move on to the base...

My ladder is giving me gip too.

That roof looks crazy good. That edge with the rusty-ness is truly epic. Looks perfectly real. If you do add any "metal" make it titanium coloured. Just seems to work nicer than silver on these things. But the "goto man" for paint effects of this calibre has to be Dave.

I think we have a winner here. Everyone's work in the competition is amazing, but this just takes it to another level.

 Camkierhi wrote:
My ladder is giving me gip too.

Yeah, I've found that slapping paint on doesn't work as well on a ladder then it does on a flat surface.
The real shame is that it looked good half way through the procedure and now it just looks mostly brown... so I'll just start again on it.

That roof looks crazy good. That edge with the rusty-ness is truly epic. Looks perfectly real. If you do add any "metal" make it titanium coloured. Just seems to work nicer than silver on these things. But the "goto man" for paint effects of this calibre has to be Dave.

Thanks. I'm quite liking it, although the plates didn't end up as different as I planned. There are variations, but they're subtle and all the plates have sort of proceeded towards the same end through different routes... *shrugs* You can't fight the paint sometimes, go with the flow.
I was thinking of a gun-metal colour as it's darker than silver. But it's only going to be on very few raised edges, just to make some things look newer than others...may not even be noticeable...

I think we have a winner here. Everyone's work in the competition is amazing, but this just takes it to another level.

I don't know about that . But it's down to the judges in the end and what tickles their modelling bits the most.

And there is some very good modellers out there that have shown very little of their pieces so far and could easily snatch a victory with wow factor 45. I'm happy just for the challenge of the modelling and to show off just what I can do (to myself as much as the rest of you).

Before I started the models you see in this blog, I always followed the instructions for the model to the letter and painted cleanly and neatly with no weathering at all. Any techniques beyond neat shapes and a bit of dry-brushing (that I did without knowing it was a thing) I have learned during the course of this blog.

Enough of that though, time to look at this ladder again...

it is really a bit creepy how good all of your stuff turns out atm...???

the rust is way too RL looking for my taste...wow...

by the way... the first non blurred pic doc

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
it is really a bit creepy how good all of your stuff turns out atm...???

the rust is way too RL looking for my taste...wow...

Thanks Vik. I just been tinkering with it, throwing some paint about and they seem to work out in the end. I've posted everything I've done, every step, you can see that it just comes together at the last step. Or more accurately, I keep going until it looks good enough for me... and I want it as real as possible.

by the way... the first non blurred pic doc

Yeah, entirely by accident I assure you. Call it a treat for putting up with my teasing.

Yeah, entirely by accident I assure you. Call it a treat for putting up with my teasing.

ROFL...

Thanks Vik. I just been tinkering with it, throwing some paint about and they seem to work out in the end.

see? this is what makes it soo creepy!... in a trail and error session the fail is more common than the win... ...but you either keep from us all the fail parts or you have a rather uncommon lucky streak... what a bugger...
no seriously... whatever you currently do... amazing really... i even thought the orange yellow wash at the back of the earlier update was quite convincing looking... really... rust can come in so many varieties

True. I think that's the thing with the wood and the rust. There's so many possible varieties/colours, that so long as your not aiming for a particular colour and just see what results, it's going to work.