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Yeah, I agree with your statement deadmeat85. And there's 2 good reasons why I use perfectly measured bases. One is that I'm working with what I have on hand and the other is that a lot of what you are seeing is commission work where the customer has specifically asked for these kinds of bases. If you look at my finished stuff thread, you will see more of the stuff I have done in the past has irregular bases. This commission has given me the opportunity to work really large and I would love to be able to have really irregular bases - heck, I'd love to make ruined skyscrapers and undulating hills and mountains of debris - but for the time being I'll work with this.

Maybe a page back I put up some reference photos for a personal project and you can rest assured those pieces will have very irregular bases.

Thanks again for the feedback, deadmeat85. I really appreciate it! Have a great day.

Thanks for the response, I'm glad you have the same idea on the bases. The photo of the larger Russian building is really neat as a concept.

As for a larger Skyscraper that would look so sweet as a center piece. Hell maybe a set of terrain set up like a hive spire all on a slant heading up to the center spire. Hummmm....

Hmmm, indeed. That sounds like a really cool idea.

Really nice update. I love the lake. It layered really well, plus it is good to see Barry go swimming. Is that deep resin or painted in layers?

I like the building ruin too. The crater, is that Mork's footprint?

I think it depends on the use of the terrain for square/uniform bases. If you have a table that is flat and you are placing scenery, then oblong shapes look best. But if you are doing modular scenery on top of a table, then you do need them uniform.

Thanks, Gorgrimm. The water is layered resin. The stuff I used would only dry if the layers I used were 1/8" deep of less, so there are actually 4 layers of clear resin in the lake.

The crater is just a crater (but between you and me, it's likely Da Foot O' Gork!). I agree with the modular idea in theory, but this commission is a bit of a challenge in that regard. I'm going to be making a few "throw" pieces that are meant to abut these ruins and create a more irregular debris footprint. I'm also thinking of adding some alleyways complete with piled on debris.

Thanks for the feedback again, Gorgrimm.


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Some might remember a piece I posted up awhile ago. The Astartes Victory Plinth. Here it is again, in case you've forgotten (or like me, are too lazy to go all the way back through the thread to look for it).

I did some work on its base, adding a sidewalk.

One can never have too much glue:


Why the square sheets simply won't do for the triangular panels...

And I was forced to use hexagonal card stock.

I wound up trimming the edge of the sidewalk just before I primed it this morning, but got no intermediate pics, unfortunately. I also filed down the edge all around the base to make it smooth and uniform...ish.

Then on to cleaning up/hiding the join at the base of the Plinth. I used a wire that came from a pair of headphones that don't work anymore. And this, kids, is why we builders never throw anything out.



I'll have more progress shots up later today. In case anyone is curious, this Plinth in taller than 18". Shazzam.

Thanks for looking!


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Also, I went crazy applying washes to the ruin I'm currently working on.








Interior walls got some individual attention as well. First a blue wash.

Then a rust wash.

And then a white wash.

Around the same time that I did the rust wash on the walls, I also applied a rust wash to the base in all the places I imagined there would be buried metal bits in the rubble.






I still think the exterior wall needs one more coat of heavy black wash.


That's it for now. More in store tomorrow! Thanks for looking.

Looking good so far Man!.

Thanks Galorn!

Really impressed with pretty much every single piece of terrain, it's so important for a proper gaming experience and so few people bother to make it right, watching with interest now.

Thanks for the feedback and the compliments, Ignatius_Grulgor!

Here's a bunch of pictures of my "shattered administratum" a mere 5 layers of wash and/or paint away from done:






And then a bunch more pictures with said layers finally applied.










And then more work on my Astartes Plinth. Conveying this thing's size is difficult.


Base coated with ivory and light yellow.


next will be two highlight colors. the bright yellow mixed with white and then just a straight white layer. Then grey for the sidewalk/base, and then I paint the statue like a really worn Black Templar because that's the army my client plays. More pics tomorrow. Thanks for looking!

Very cool. If I haven't already said, I really like the colour of your imperial buildings, it's unusual and very effective.

Really love those ruins..... they look great and the effects on the ground are great!

The internal shots of the ruins really stand out to be as being exceptional!

Not a criticism in anyway.... but to me the externals of the building dont look ruined or old enough to have that amount of dirt and be that deep in mud etc..... maybe a light dusting to the outside to tone it down slightly?!

Or just ignore me... because it looks awesome! haha!

Cheers,

Thanks for the feedback, inmygravenimage and MagosBiff90!

@MagosBiff90: I do a lot of research for my ruins and everything I've seen points to mountains of debris and deep rubble. Typically, and to scale, one 3" floor would be reduced to approximately 1/4" of rubble. The deeper the rubble, the taller we can suggest the building once was. If you go back a few pages you'll see a post with spoiler tags. These are pictures of actual wartime ruins, mostly from the second Chechen war and the Yugoslavian civil war (which ultimately created Bosnia, Serbia, Herzegovina, Moldova, and a handful of other, smaller nations).

But, rant aside rubble looks cool. And thanks again for your comment!

Hey mate!

You are totally right! looking at it and at some reference pics... WW1 etc... your scaling is bob on! ( SLAP ON MY WRIST!) Your comment about the deeper the rubble being directly in reference to the previous height of the building is spot on! It had never occured to me in that way before!

Great work mate!

It makes a lot of sense, seeing the amount of living space between the floors.

Although, mulling over your comment, MagosBiff90, I might give the exterior a slight and subtle dusting of grey to indicate dust (which is also extensively present at the site of most bomb blasts and building collapses. So, good point on that count. Thanks for the perspective!

Nice progress Waaazag - I particularly like the way you've painted the interior walls of the ruins (well, and the exteriors too! ) - I shall be pilfering effects... Eventually!!

So I dusted the exterior walls with light grey and then washed them with a blackish/brownish mix. I think the grey really drew out the color and weathered the piece nicely. Thanks for the heads up, MagosBiff90! It worked out really well.
But because I'm such an insane perfectionist, I still will probably go back and lightly highlight all the skulls. Sanity is for the weak and all that...








I also did more work on the Astartes Plinth. I drybrushed the tower with two more extremely subtle color shades, each infinitesimally different from and lighter than the layer beneath it. You can hardly tell from the photos. Then I washed it with a mostly black wash and then with a light brick/dark brown/black mix wash along each of the indents. I let it run down the pillar in whatever way took it. Then I washed the top of the pillar with the same mixes. Then I painted the sidewalk with 3 shades of grey and heavily washed it with that brick/brown/black mix. This is the result so far.







Thanks for looking! Have a greay day.

Looking brilliant mate! The building is really has a lot of depth to it! ..... making me want to do my own piece now...... if i get it anywhere near as good as this i will be over the moon!!

Great stuff mate!

Looks great! A drybrush highlight on the skulls could resolve the matter? Also like the fiery marbling, very nice.

IN a way I think the inner circle under the statue could use a slight glase of a color to differentiate it from the pillar but it looks killer as is.

Thanks for all the feedback, guys!

@Galorn: I see what you're saying about the base around the statue. Its texture is different than that of the pillar. Maybe I'll use a slightly different colored was to make it seem like it's made of a slightly different material. Thanks for that suggestion.

@ inmygravenimage: yeah, those skulls definitely need one last touch up.

@MagosBiff90: maybe I'll do a step by step tutorial on this thread about my process regarding the building of ruins. My primary piece of advice, though, is to use as much photographic reference as you can find. The internets is perfect for that. Use search terms like "war torn, libya, syria, chechnya, chechen war, tblisi, ww2, london blitz, iraq, ied, fallujah, ww1 Ypres, and bosnia". These should yield you a wealth of photos. Also, the YouTube channel "newsanna" is a Russian language news agency with literally hours of helmet and tank cam footage from syria and other global conflicts. If you can ignore the humanity of the conflict and the constant mumbling of the insurgents (I suppose you can just mute the footage), there's a whole city getting blasted at pointblank range and crushed underfoot of the grinding T72s.

Very nice. I am loving the SM statue. It really makes it stand out more on the battlefield too. The building is ace too.

Here's some random stuff I've been working on.
Cork bricks (which my wife keeps thinking look like graham crackers and I hope to use as the basis for cast bricks...or something, I don't know):



Crazy poofy balls whose stems I wrapped with metal wire. I don't know what I'm going to do with these.

In a minute I'm going to upload a tutorial for some new trees I've started making. Stay tuned!

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Crazy poofy balls whose stems I wrapped with metal wire. I don't know what I'm going to do with these.

In a minute I'm going to upload a tutorial for some new trees I've started making. Stay tuned!

When I saw the tree it hit me like a ton of bricks what it looked like.

Yep, Deadmeat85. I draw a lot of my inspiration from Dr. Seuss. I'll be doing a tutorial on the knobby bits in the background of that photo in a day or two. Thanks for the feedback.

Never thought of using the corkboard for bricks might have to try that as alternate rubble, been chopping up sprue when I'm watching TV up until now for ground clutter.

I used to use chopped up sprue, too, Ignatius-Grulgor. That is so time consuming though. I highly recommend going to a pet supply store and purchasing a 5 lb bag of coarse aquarium gravel. They usually cost around $10 USD and they'll last forever. The rocks look more like broken bricks than chopped sprue and respond well to white glue because they are porous.

Wow, I haven't been active in ages it seems. Steadily working on all sorts of projects. I promise a new update with loads of pics in just a few days. You only have to be patient a little while longer, I promise.

Hey Boss, i also live in new york city!! Brooklyn to be exact. Been here 2 years and I havent found anyone to play 40k with :( and the only place i know of is compleat strategist in midtown. Maybe when i get ny sharks filled out we can play sometime!
Cheers
BB

Sure! In the meanwhile I suggest you check out the 20 sided store. It's in Brooklyn on 20th ave, I think.