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As promised, here is another update. The textured bases all got a coat of indigo acrylic.



Some looked better than others:




Then I selected a more or less random assortment of colors to highlight the bases with. Here they are in the order I applied them:





And here we start with the chocolate brown:






I don't bother to clean my sponge brush between layers. I find it helps to blend the colors. But I do do all the bases in the same color before moving on to the next layer.



And the next:


The next few pictures show layers 3 and 4 side by side, because I got lazy with taking pictures.




And two fully painted bases:


Thanks for looking! More updates tomorrow! Have an awesome day!

Weird and wonderful lol. Great job

Here's a "flower base" more or less start to finish. This one was a test. Call it a proof of concept.

Base coated:


Painted:


Inking the "flowers" before clipping them down to size:


And then the leafy bits from this thing...


...get doused in watered down green paint to make them less vibrant; less shocking:


And then a dollop of hotglue in the holes, followed by the "leaves" pushed in with another stem, followed by another dollop of hotglue and a section of the "flowers". And viola!


Thanks for looking. Even MORE more tomorrow.

Feedback always welcome!

That looks great, love the colour contrast, very Star Trek away team.

Looking good! I agree with SJM the color contrast is on point.

 SJM wrote:
That looks great, love the colour contrast, very Star Trek away team.

Lol! That's the best descriptive phrase I've read of my stuff, yet!

tonnez wrote:
Looking good! I agree with SJM the color contrast is on point.

Thanks for the feedback tonnez!

ha yeah, it actualky is giving a very 60s star trek vibe

great work mate, keep it up *fistbump*

@gwaahr: thanks for the feedback! Always appreciated.

Small update folks! Here I've applied sand texture to the "garlic tree" base.





More stuff Tomorrow! thanks for looking. Have an awesome day.

Ahh, I see... I was going to ask if you were going to paint the insides of the holes. Good use. Looking good.

Man, you're like a human scenery factory!

I finished a ton of them, but only have a minute, so I'm just posting a quick update. More this evening or tomorrow:





Thanks for looking and have an awesome day!

Is it this evening yet?

Looks good.

 Littletower wrote:
Is it this evening yet?

Looks good.

Thanks, Littletower. It isn't evening anymore, but it is tomorrow. Bear with me, there's a TON (or TONNE if you're overseas) of photos. Ahem:


Phew! Thanks for looking! If anyone is interested in owning any of these beautiful terrain pieces, just follow the link in my signature to my eBay store. These and many other things are for sale there. Have an awesome day everyone!

Damn looks, good. But someone's fish are feeling very self-conscious and exposed right now, aren't they?

Great job on the plants. I find that the aquariumplants make it difficult to work in height, and you seem to have solved that problem quite nicely. I also love the idea of you going out with wife, and them knitting (or whatever) and you in a terrain building frenzy =)

These look great, really have come out well, i don't see a link.

The link is in my signature, but my signature isn't displayed if you're using a phone, SJM. I'm currently on my phone, too, but I'll update the photo data in the gallery when I get home this evening.

@Meph: Thank you?

@JensDK: Yeah, "craft night" was exactly that. 4 women knitting and crocheting, 1 guy making a chainmail dicebag, and me furiously building terrain. I made the biggest mess.

Thanks for all the feedback folks! I'll have more tonight or tomorrow to show! Enjoy your day!

lol, yeah, they look good.
The sight of those aquarium plants suddenly conjured up a mental image of a couple of fish floating around in an empty tank, looking a bit perplexed...

 Meph wrote:
lol, yeah, they look good.
The sight of those aquarium plants suddenly conjured up a mental image of a couple of fish floating around in an empty tank, looking a bit perplexed...

Ah, yes. Put that way it is quite silly.

Finally got back to that store commission. I've been driving about 30 or 40 miles upstate through the Appalachians (a mountain range on the east coast of the United States) and I've noticed that the hills the highway runs through still show the evidence of being blasted to make room for the road (I guess it's just easier to drill into rock, place dynamite, and cart the rubble away rather than try to build a road uphill? I don't know, I'm not an engineer). It occurred to me that one of the mesa pieces had a road on it, or at least a ramp, and that it was likely that whoever built such a thing would've done a bit of blasting of their own. So, I needed to do some modifications. I started with this:


Took this tool:


And did this:


I ended up with this:


And the realization that the lighting in this place is entirely too bright. Here I applied more of that foul smelling glue to the flat "gutter" along the road:


I used my finger to spread the glue around and then used my gluey finger to get some rocks:


Then used my finger to push said rocks into place. The reason I use my finger is because I know some of that glue is going to end up on top of the rocks which will allow subsequent layers of sand and gravel to adhere to them in a more realistic manner.


Sprinkle some gravel:


And then some sand:


Then I left it to dry. More tomorrow. Thanks for looking. Feedback always welcome. Have an awesome day!

Oh thats a clever way to get that texture.

Very effective, looks great. Also try cat litter, mixed in pva then spread it around, looks very good. This will be a brilliant piece by the time you are done.

Also how about a wide angle shot of your forest!? Trees look amazing.

[Pirate]Argh, good call Warboss. Looks the part in all but colour (and you will fix that shortly). [/Pirate]

 Dr H wrote:
[Pirate]Argh, good call Warboss. Looks the part in all but colour (and you will fix that shortly). [/Pirate]

Yar!


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 Camkierhi wrote:
Very effective, looks great. Also try cat litter, mixed in pva then spread it around, looks very good. This will be a brilliant piece by the time you are done.

Also how about a wide angle shot of your forest!? Trees look amazing.

Thanks, Cam! I'll get that pic up forthwith.


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 Desubot wrote:
Oh thats a clever way to get that texture.

Thanks very much for the feedback, Desubot!

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Finally got back to that store commission. I've been driving about 30 or 40 miles upstate through the Appalachians (a mountain range on the east coast of the United States) and I've noticed that the hills the highway runs through still show the evidence of being blasted to make room for the road (I guess it's just easier to drill into rock, place dynamite, and cart the rubble away rather than try to build a road uphill? I don't know, I'm not an engineer).
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All along the Appalachians you see that, and in the Rockies too. They need to keep the road at a reasonable grade. You'll see the same thing with railroads. The rubble can be re-used as fill in other places.

Intriguing way to do emulate the effect. Looks very good.

Thanks, Red.

Today was a long, long day at the Queens, NY Maker Faire. Tomorrow is more of the same. Sorry there's no pictures tonight. I'm just so exhausted. Next meaningful update will likely come Monday, though I may check in again tomorrow. Cheers all!

Day 2 at the Maker Faire proves equally exhausting. But I bought some reusable mold making material, got coupons for plastic drinking horns, and got a deal on a 3d printer. Also priced laser cutters and picked many makers' brains. Also discovered Dremel makes a $70 portable band saw. Worth the aching feet.

Did some more work on the Building for that store's commission table. This is the slowest going project I've worked on in awhile.



Essentially I cleaned up the corners of the building and smoothed the join between walls and base. I'm hoping this looks like poured concrete when I'm done. Also, not pictured here mostly because it doesn't look like anything, I sealed the air-dry clay I used with watered down PVA glue. The clay has a tendency to crack and break away otherwise.



Thanks for looking and have an awesome day! Feedback always welcome.

Did some more work (the very beginnings of texture on that tall one). This'n:


Anyway, I threw down a bunch of sand before realizing I needed to smooth the join at the baseline. Then I forgot to take pictures of what I did until I glued sand on top of the clay I used to smooth the join. So, here's that work:


You can kind of see where the clay is beneath the red sand. And you can see the spray of rocks I put down first. I kind of like the way it's coming out.


Here I put some "dirt" on the top of the mesa:


And then I started on this monster:


Sorry I have nothing to compare it to, but just understand that it's probably about as tall as that other piece and more complex a shape. Of course when I started it all the pieces were aligned in a way that would've made mounting easy, but somehow as it dried everything shifted. Now I was left with this for the bottom:


So I took this and a sanding block to it to try and fix things up a bit.


Mixed results:


In the end I had to prop it up on one end using, ironically, the piece I had chopped off.
Carving has begun:


And then scoring in semi-parallel lines:


And then cross-scoring:


And then tearing it up:


Here it is propped up for the test fit:


This ramp is being turned into a staircase:


Test fitting a model to one of the platforms-to-be:


The monster glued down and fill added to the gap at the bottom. Next step is to smooth this out with air dry clay:


That's it for today. Thanks for looking! Have an awesome day. Feedback always welcome.

These are turning into some serious badlands! Great stuff!