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I'm saving up to buy a better airbrush.

I want to use it for more than just basecoating. Although, so far, the idea of basecoating my Imperial Fists with it has been wondrous. I still need to do that.

 Valhalla130 wrote:
Maybe it's the pics, but I think it looks pretty good. It looks like it may have been blue at one point, but has gotten very grimy since.

Thanks for the kind words Val, I think I'm going to try the salt weathering thing...for this type of terrain, it seems apropos.

 Valhalla130 wrote:
And what do you mean by "lay a gradient" with the airbrush?

good question

yeah I find my airbrush a lot of hassle, it doesn't really mesh with my way of working which is more spontaneous/messy. If you plan out what colours you will be using you can probably get away with next to no cleaning though - for example: spray dark brown rust across 3 bits of scenery, add a bit of orange to the mix and spray some bits for tonal variation in the rust, run some water or windsceen cleaner through the brush as a quick rinse, apply hairspray/salt, spray dark grey over everything, add some white to the mix, spray light grey over from above or in the center of panels to create a colour gradient/bit of tonal variation. Then clean properly.

Just like the gradient you have from blue to black on your scenery, but airbrushes can do this more smoothly.

Didn't work on the piece last night as Thursday is our game night. I ended up facing Ozymandias again and ended up overwhelming him with numbers...He had only 9 guys (even with the hired ratskin) to my 13. So that, coupled with his inability to roll a wound on just about any one he hit pretty much sealed the deal. One of the ladies he did take out ended up getting captured, so on top of the 6 bonus points all his guys got simply for stepping on the battlefield with me, he made out with a nice chunk of cash in exchange for the prisoner.

Depending on whether or not its raining this weekend, I'm going to try to break out the airbrush and see if I cant get this thing finished. I still have a little more riveting to do yet. and a few details to add to one of the walls. Hopefully I will be on to my next project by Sunday.

Awesome construction work!

Here is a newsletter I made for our Necromunda campaign, inspired by the article in White Dwarf #193 by Gav Thorpe...




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 Crypto wrote:
Awesome construction work!

Thanks Crypto!

Sump Hole Bottom? I think my bathroom has been called that a few times after I left it...

Yeah, I wanted something suitably gross. Plus, I plan to make a nasty sewage sump terrain piece to throw in the middle of our board for most games.


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The GW studio campaign in the 90s called their main settlement area 'Glory Hole'...I don't think that name is suitable any longer...

Depends on who's glory hole it was... If it was GW's own gloryhole it was a hyve for sure...

Some excellent work here. Subbed.

Thanks for putting that up, it looks great! I'm working on the next fluff piece for Manson and his boys.

Yeah, I forgot mention you wrote that excellent fluff piece I put in the newsletter

Since there isnt enought room for all that great descriptive writing in every newsletter, we should compile it all somewhere...maybe post it in its entirety up in this blog. Can't wait to see some of Manson's Raiders...er, Cult of Personality all painted up!

I really want to play Necromunda. I just don't want to invest time and money in another game system, painting buildings and figures and stuff.

To be completely honest, the only substantial investment in Necromunda is time and materials for terrain (Which can be used in 40k games as well!), and allot of guys on here just recycle old children's toys, cereal box card, and other forms of consumer goods packaging. For a gang you need like 8 models...and a few more to add on as you gang grows. Mine is at 13 now (including a hired Ratskin Scout), and I feel like thats as large as it needs to get before becoming too unwieldy and expensive (in game credits-wise) to run.

If you have a guard army, then you likely already have a few models you can use/convert to gangers. If I hadnt bought these Escher models 18 some odd years ago, I likely would have converted models myself...in fact I have 3 or 4 reaper models on their way from TheWarstore as I type this (meaning, you dont need the official models).

Ozymandias converted all of his Cawdor gangers out of Chaos Cultists from the Dark Vengeance box set.

Edit: Oh, and the rules are a free download on the GW website.

All good points. But there is also the matter of having someone to play with.

 Fango wrote:
Yeah, I forgot mention you wrote that excellent fluff piece I put in the newsletter

Since there isnt enought room for all that great descriptive writing in every newsletter, we should compile it all somewhere...maybe post it in its entirety up in this blog. Can't wait to see some of Manson's Raiders...er, Cult of Personality all painted up!

Maybe I'll post it in this blog...

Looking damn cool

Thanks Silver!



Did 'Gingerbread' houses with the wife and kids tonight, here's mine...

Haha, that's awesome!

There's been some excellent threads about rebuilding the old GW cardboard terrains, and this one is of the same quality!
Your firebase makes me jealous!

Your necromunda stuff is great too.

Keep up the good work!

The gingerbread firebase is inspired...

Wait-up though - you have a Cawdor gang and the leader is Manson? Snap... My Cawdor gang is led by Manson - used to be Koresh but he got killed in the first ever Necromunda game I played and Manson took over as the Alpha male...

This is one tasty blog...

Very creative use of... graham crackers?

 Ruglud wrote:
The gingerbread firebase is inspired...

Wait-up though - you have a Cawdor gang and the leader is Manson? Snap... My Cawdor gang is led by Manson - used to be Koresh but he got killed in the first ever Necromunda game I played and Manson took over as the Alpha male...

Yeah, I also have a jones, moon, etc. All my gang members are named after cult leaders. When Manson was captured, I was 'this' close to starting a new gang, led by Koresh...

 Ozymandias wrote:

Yeah, I also have a jones, moon, etc. All my gang members are named after cult leaders. When Manson was captured, I was 'this' close to starting a new gang, led by Koresh...

Yep, that's pretty much what I did with names, although mainly mass murderers:

Gang: The Messengers of the Apocalypse

Koresh - Deceased leader

Manson - New leader, former ganger

The Ripper - Heavy (Stubber)

Ramirez - Heavy (Bolter)

Brady - Ganger

Crippen - Ganger

Kidd - Ganger

Then I have three more gangers that I can't remember why I named them... Bishop; Harris & Green

Thanks for all the comments guys, hope you enjoyed my 'gingerbread' firebase interlude...

Here is another progress update on my Necromunda terrain scratch build...

On Sunday I airbrushed the gray over the bad drybrush i did a few days ago. Then I took Bruticus' advice and looked up a rust painting tutorial here on Dakka...and just sorta went at it. I still have more details to do, but mainly I wanted to get the bit around the pipes done so that I could sandwich the top and base together and start skinning the sides with plastic card.

Let me know what you all think so far...

Nice effect on the rust, looks like some serious metal fatigue going on there

great application on the rust! At a glance it looks like a printout or something, it's that good.

Maybe the gangers need to be a little careful on those grates. Those look like they could collapse under too much weight! Great rust on those. I'll have to bookmark that link.

That's great! Now just use the airbrush to fill in around the rust/scrapes. I never need a sink to clean my airbrush. Just a trash can, windex, and paper towels.

Nice rust, it looks really good and is a HUGE improvement over the previous paint job (and the original cardboard colour scheme). I am not 100% sure about the black-lined silver parts because it seems to me like those bits - where the paint has chipped off revealing the bare metal - would be the most rusted and I am not sure how it would come about that there would be bare, clean metal on some parts while everywhere else is rusted. I also think that pigments are the way to go with rust just for ease of use and the slight texture apart from anything. Oh and do some hazard stripes, not Necromunda without them!

Edit: Oh, and the rules are a free download on the GW website.

It's much better to use the Community Edition rules, they can be found on Yakromunda (the best Necromunda resource, try their gang roster system if you haven't already, such a time saver).