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The red zone terrain is turning out great.

Glad to see you back at it

 Theophony wrote:
The red zone terrain is turning out great.

Glad to see you back at it

Thanks, Theo! It's good to be back.

So, with my big piece - I'm thinking of masking and color-theming the different floors. But I have no idea what color should be for what layer. Or if I should even mess with a color coded system (especially if I want to make it interchangeable). I guess maybe I'll just stick to primary colors for these bands with red, blue and yellow. Any body have any strong opinions on the matter want to weigh in?

I would just keep it all the red. The hive sprawl would be so large that trying to do multiple colors, you’d run out of colors quickly. Barring that, Can you find stencils for numbers? Keep it all red sector, but you can number the walls or larger pieces with numbers for the zones of the sector. Then it wouldn’t matter how it was laid out really.

Hrm. That's a pretty decent point, Theo. I'll see what I can find for stencils.

Helix math school set has a stencil, would work fine.

Good to see you are still at it.

Warboss_Waaazag,

One option on the red striping between the masking tape, is apply it as a drybrush rather than a paint layer. Then you will have no bleeding and any area that the red does no reach, looking like weathering.

Just a suggestion.

Still very envious of all the pieces you have.

Cheers,

CB

Changing gears briefly, the Pandemic has me more scatter brained than normal. I bought a mess of soft foam sheets about an age ago, specifically because I picked up a cactus-looking thing in a craft store and said to myself, "I build this!" And then I forgot what I was looking at and now I just have craft foam and floral wire. So, it's probably been 5 years since I bought this stuff (or, I don't know 8 months, the pandemic has made me bad with time) and I've finally gotten around to trying something with it.



So far I have learned that I should probably be using hotglue (which means I have to go to storage because that's where all 5 of mine are currently) and that I should have some leafy references nearby or my plants will look like a kindergarten project. And I should probably bend the wire before I glue on to the foam. It'll also get a few layers of drybrushing to make it look less like foam on stick and more like a giant alien succulent plant. I'll keep y'all posted as this (and my other terrain projects) progress.

I apologize for not posting anything more recently. I got my old job back and have been working nights and sleeping days. I joined a fellow creator's discord and they have been inspirational to me. This morning we had a craft-a-long chat and I finally started painting the piece I made out of hair curler parts, a plastic cup, and other various doodads. Here are the paint in progress shots.


I've missed you all. Any feedback is appreciated.

Lovely to see you and your doo-dads again perhaps some streaking, especially around the grill section?

Thanks, graven! Yes, this is just the "base coat". I have to add a lot more weathering and layers before I am done.


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Here is a picture with poxwalkers for scale.

Excellent terrain piece and scratchbuilding- the paint is a terrific weathered effect. I like that the piece is completely self-contained; often (in my case, anyway) the base for something I try to build is an artificial 'box' of necessity. This piece could be dropped onto/into any game board and look perfectly natural, defined by its own purpose. Well done.

Great job as always! Welcome back

That rusted effect is excellent, hard to believe it’s not finished. Glad to see you back at it.

That's a really cool scratchbuild and I'm already excited for more weathering!

 Meer_Cat wrote:
Excellent terrain piece and scratchbuilding- the paint is a terrific weathered effect. I like that the piece is completely self-contained; often (in my case, anyway) the base for something I try to build is an artificial 'box' of necessity. This piece could be dropped onto/into any game board and look perfectly natural, defined by its own purpose. Well done.

Thanks, 'Cat!

Pointer5 wrote:
Great job as always! Welcome back

Thanks very much, Pointer5!

Yorkright wrote:
That rusted effect is excellent, hard to believe it’s not finished. Glad to see you back at it.

Thanks, Yorkright! It feels good to be back.

 Viterbi wrote:
That's a really cool scratchbuild and I'm already excited for more weathering!

Me too! Thanks for the feedback, Viterbi!

I'll have more pictures up in a few days. Today I twitch cast my DnD game on Geekade around 12:36 to 17:00 (noonish to 5pm) EST. Then sleep, then back to work, so I won't have a chance to work on this again until Monday or Tuesday.

Warboss_Waaazag,

Welcome back.

How did you do the tile flooring section?

Cheers,

CB

It's Evergreen plastic sheet, Captain Brown. One side in imprinted with squares for easier cutting perfectly angular pieces.

I had a little time yesterday and did some additional weathering work. This is a middle step. I'm probably going to apply more nuln oil to the channel on the edge and touch up the rust bits. But here's where I'm at right now. Any feedback is appreciated.


Thanks for looking and have an awesome day!

That's extremely cool and looking fab. Maybe a few scrapes and scratches on the squares, for variety?

 inmygravenimage wrote:
That's extremely cool and looking fab. Maybe a few scrapes and scratches on the squares, for variety?

That's an excellent idea, thank you.

So, I had to "auto-adjust the first image because the one I took was too washed out to see any details.


But these are all the tile detail shots. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the scratch marks I painted on. Feedback?


And here are shots of the details I added to the panel area, the square plate, and the boiler plate, in that order.


Barring any feedback to the contrary, I think I am going to call this piece done.

I love it! I think the scratch marks look great. If you were so minded you could add a dark grey line to each pale one as shadowing but that's an awful faff and probably unnecessary. I really like how crusty and textured your rust looks

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I love it! I think the scratch marks look great. If you were so minded you could add a dark grey line to each pale one as shadowing but that's an awful faff and probably unnecessary. I really like how crusty and textured your rust looks

Thanks, graven! I'll give the dark grey lining a try, see how I like it.

Sponge chipping some very dark grey might work too

The white scratches are very bright, so they look very fresh, as if they were just made. If you want them to look older, another possibility is simply doing a wash of some kind to dull and tint the scratches slightly. That would age them, make them look like they were scratched some time in the past couple years, rather than the last week.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Sponge chipping some very dark grey might work too

Oh, dang. I feel like I probably should've gone with that idea first.

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
The white scratches are very bright, so they look very fresh, as if they were just made. If you want them to look older, another possibility is simply doing a wash of some kind to dull and tint the scratches slightly. That would age them, make them look like they were scratched some time in the past couple years, rather than the last week.

Hmm, that's a good idea, too.

Whelp, guess I still have more touch up and detailing to go on this before I finally do call this done. Thanks for the feedback, folks! And if anyone else has any ideas, please feel free to share them. Let us all be resources for each other.

Thanks for looking and have an awesome day, everyone!

Well, before finishing the last piece, I started working on 3 more. Here's the PIP of the first panel.


And compared to the mostly finished other piece.


And the other two.


Basically, a friend gave me a ton of unused Gundam platforms and accessories and I turned them into 6" square spacehulk panels. I combined all sorts of odds and ends - hirst blocks, scrap plastic, etc. And then I weathered it with Baking soda and sand. More updates soon. Feedback always welcome. Have an awesome day!

I really like where you're going with this project, feels like your stepping into a section of the Underhive or a Space Hulk. How do you incorporate baking soda onto the terrain? Is it superglue then add the soda too it?

I really like the orange texture on these piece!

Waaazag
That's a excellent way to make your jungle terrain. I've been drilling out individual holes for my shrubbery to go into. I'm definitely going to try it your way. Thanks!