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Very cool stuff man, helpful too since I am starting to build my own table

 Ustrello wrote:
Very cool stuff man, helpful too since I am starting to build my own table

Thanks, Ustrello! Exactly what I'm hoping to do - be helpful to the community by sharing what I love. Have an awesome day!

Thanks man, really informative.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Thanks man, really informative.

Thanks for the feedback, inmygravenimage. I'll post more progress pics this evening.

Brilliant work - your terrain absolutely oozes class...

What you finaly do the table pics I wanted and I missed them :(.

Looking really good I'd love to play on that board with a science outpost in the middle

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Sorry to keep you waiting so long, JoeRugby, but here finally are pictures of my alien jungle terrain all sprawled out on a regulation 6x4 table. Enjoy:

Spoiler:

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

This is beautiful!
And the fact it's colorful changes from the usual grimdark.

I would love to have my Orks burn all those trees!!!

 Ruglud wrote:
Brilliant work - your terrain absolutely oozes class...

Wow. Thank you. I'm flattered

 JoeRugby wrote:
What you finaly do the table pics I wanted and I missed them :(.

Looking really good I'd love to play on that board with a science outpost in the middle

Thanks, Joe!

 nflagey wrote:

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Sorry to keep you waiting so long, JoeRugby, but here finally are pictures of my alien jungle terrain all sprawled out on a regulation 6x4 table. Enjoy:

Spoiler:

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

This is beautiful!
And the fact it's colorful changes from the usual grimdark.

I would love to have my Orks burn all those trees!!!

Thanks very much, nflagey. I'd love to see your Orks on this table, too. My own Boyz could use a good scrap.

Hopefully I'll have the opportunity to visit NYC sometime soon

Sorry it's been so long since I updated this blog. I promise there will be updates soon. I have been very busy with "real life". You will all be rewarded for your patience soon. Thanks!

Wow, where to begin? Let's start with the extreme basics. Here is my palette. It is a porcelain tile:



Here is the paint palette I used for everything for the foreseeable future:





My old crappy brush:


And the new one:


Side by side:


I came back to the store to find a whole ton of extra, half finished terrain waiting for me. I'm starting to feel a little taken advantage of, but I'm trying to make the best of things:
















Plus my own stuff:



My clayed stuff survived pretty well:








I clayed up my stuff hill and coated it with gravel and sand:



And "painted" the other surviving hills with glue and water to begin texturing:




I coated all those hills with clay and gravel and pressed my texture mix into the still damp clay:











Next update tomorrow. Thanks for looking and have an awesome day! C&C always welcome.

So let's start with this big hill:



I modified it a bit when I started working on it:


And then again when I started putting the clay to it:




Here it is after I've coated the whole thing with clay and stuck the aquarium gravel into it:





And then after pressing the sand texture into it:





Then I coated it in watered down PVA glue and sprinkled it with black craft sand:



Using my fingertip I rubbed the sand off some of the gravel while the glue was still wet:






Then left it to dry. I also found this barely-worked-on ruin and set to work on it with the clay:




It's slick with watered down glue:





That too was left to dry. I sketched out and then glued down a few new hills, too:








Found some old, half-finished cd craters:





And got to work on them:






Here's piles of everything drying:





And then I hit everything with the black sand:











I did this one poorly at first:




But through the power of "doing it again", got a better result the second time around:




Anyway, that's it for now. I'll post a new update tomorrow. Thanks for looking. C&C always welcome. Have an awesome day!

Here's the big hill after it dried and cracked:




And then base-coated:



After laying down more clay, I textured up the big ruin:






Added some sand to bring it all together:







And then base coated it:








Thanks for looking. Next update tomorrow. Have an awesome day. C&C always welcome.

So many images! and the production is like seeing a terrain bakery of permanent works of cake and pastry!

That's... a lot of stuff! rather awestruck.

Bloody hell... that is a lot of terrain! Very cool...... for me.... those craters are my fav! Very nicely done and cool to get an insight into the process!

Thanks for sharing!

 shasolenzabi wrote:
So many images! and the production is like seeing a terrain bakery of permanent works of cake and pastry!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
That's... a lot of stuff! rather awestruck.

 MagosBiff90 wrote:
Bloody hell... that is a lot of terrain! Very cool...... for me.... those craters are my fav! Very nicely done and cool to get an insight into the process!

Thanks for sharing!

Wow, thanks guys! I always feel like I'm not doing enough and that somehow I'm falling behind, but I guess my reality is that I work at a murderous pace and I'm my own worst critic. My next update will have to wait for tomorrow, as I am exhausted tonight. Thanks again and I hope everyone has a extra special day! Cheers.

No need to kill yourself

Yeah, I know, Shas. I just love it.

Hills:



















And even more hills, base coated:





Then with blue:






Red:





Grey:







Cream:








White:






Flock:























That's it for tonight. Thanks for looking. Next update will likely happen on Sunday. C&C always welcome. Have an awesome day!

You must have made at least an entire state worth of terrain!

 shasolenzabi wrote:
You must have made at least an entire state worth of terrain!

I've certainly made a lot. I actually only work on this commission one day a week. It's never ending, but I'm loving it.

So here's a bunch of CD craters I worked on, start to finish:







Then with more detail stuff:









And black sand:




And then sealed and base-coated:


Blue and red coats:




And grey:







To be fair, I washed these silver bits with an indigo-brown before I took these pictures:












Cream middle tone:



Grey-cream crater interior:





Rust wash 1:









Rust wash 2:













Green base coat:









Green highlight and green wash:








Rust wash 3:










White:










And the skull detail:









Tada! Thanks for looking and have an awesome day! C&C always welcome.

Shanties! (aka poop houses)

They started like this (I still haven't done anything useful with the largest one, fyi):









And then details using an empty box, balsa wood, and sand:

























































Then a basecoat in poop color:














Also, I bought a $1 birdhouse to try to do something with and some "collectable" Portal turrets that I have no idea what to do with yet:









Any ideas you all might have for the birdhouse and/or turrets is welcome. I'm really not sure what to do with them, yet. As always constructive criticism and critiques/feedback is welcome. Thanks for looking and have an awesome day!

Wow, no feedback at all? No ideas? Come on guys, anything!

whats the scale like on the bird house could be a small fantasy/mordheim building

 kencotter wrote:
whats the scale like on the bird house could be a small fantasy/mordheim building

Hooray! Feedback! That might actually work, kencotter. The birdhouse is about the right size for that. I'll get some photos with minis for scale.

Anybody else have any suggestions?

Would be cool as a stables perhaps? or an old byre..... nice and muddy.... or even have it half underground and the round "door" could be for a squat or dwarf hall or something?

Those drones look really cool aswell nice form to them....

Good work 'boss.

Yeah the birdhouse should make a good basis for a house of some kind. Although you'll get bonus kudos points for referencing birds somewhere in the build or paint job.

I love those turrets and have thought about making some "in scale".
What to do with them? Other that using them as turrets, maybe add some arms/legs and make robots of them, or stick them on a tank and use them as sponsons etc...

 Dr H wrote:
Good work 'boss.

Yeah the birdhouse should make a good basis for a house of some kind. Although you'll get bonus kudos points for referencing birds somewhere in the build or paint job.

I love those turrets and have thought about making some "in scale".
What to do with them? Other that using them as turrets, maybe add some arms/legs and make robots of them, or stick them on a tank and use them as sponsons etc...

Thanks, Dr H. I was considering using the turrets as parts for a robot's forearms. They aren't very articulate; they don't open/collapse. They're static. They come apart easy though.