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Better have a trapdoor in it...

So, it turns out I've uploaded a TON of photos to the site. Here they are in some sort of order. I'll try to keep projects together.

Finally put a roof on the giant building:



Trying not to go crazy because the roof isn't perfectly flat:


These are the ruined wall bits from the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring boxed set arranged this way and that on masonite bases, then rubbled up and based brown:




Then overbrushed blue:

























Then overbrushed red:

























You'll notice some of these bases have round pits on them. Those are plastic tree bases from woodlandscenics (link leads to the woodland scenics tree armature page) and will later be filled with the rest of the armature.

Next step I painted the walls, exposed paving stones, and a selection of the ground rubble in grey:













Then I put a blue wash on all the grey areas:













Followed by a brown wash to "dirty it up":










You'll also notice that the pictures get fewer and fewer as I decided to work on individual pieces rather than continue to batch paint.

I repainted the wood planks on all the pieces in brown to clean them up a bit, dabbed the ends with watered-down indigo to suggest charring, and started layering on greys, grey-browns, and grey-whites to create a wood grain effect:






















And layered watered-down indigo, grey, and white on the campfire to make it stand out:







Then I picked out some stones in red and blue:




And then drybrushed everything in white:









Then for just this one I painted and affixed the tree armature:





Then glued on some turf and static grass:




With a Dark Eldar Wych for size and playability:




I also started working on this building because there's a lot of Styrofoam material laying around:



All the corners had to be creatively pinned in place:



But in the end I like how the structure is coming out:





Phew! Anyway, thanks for looking. Sorry about the tremendously long post and thanks for everyone's patience while I wallowed in not posting things up because the volume of photos I had to post was overwhelming. There's still (and always will be) way more to come. Critique and/or feedback is always welcome. Have an awesome day!

Really liking the ruins man! Makes me wonder if I should add some grass flock to my terrain at all.

Wow. You have been busy!

Cool ruins dude! For the sake of your sanity, i hope your net connection was fast when opening and pasting so many links

Keep this up please, i need motivation for my diorama

Ahh missed out on so much!! Looks great... going to go back through and appreciate it all properly!

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

Here's the paint step by step of these shanties:


The original basecoat didn't take very well:


Plus 2 others base coated brown:










I began with a blue overbrush on the dirt bits:













And then red, as per standard:











Then, red loosely and wetly mixed with white on the walls. I kept both colors out and wet on the palette and mixed them on the brush as I went:











Then a second coat to make it stand out bolder:












I applied two blue washes to the walls:








Then I picked some panels out in blue using the same method with the white as I did for the walls:










And applied another wash of blue (and possibly brown, too):






















Then I applied grey to all the wooden bits (you might notice the vaguest of green washes on some of the wood. It was an experiment):

















Then a brown wash to unify all the bits:



























Then grey mixed with varying amounts of cream and white to affect a wood grain as well as a grey drybrush of the dirt bits:














Then drybrushed the whole bunch with white:










And finally flocked them (but for some reason I only have pictures of these few with flock on them):






No matter, you can pick them out in this picture:


Thanks for looking! There's still plenty to post up and I'm always working on stuff. Remember that I do commissions, so if you're looking to have something made (a single piece, a series, a themed set, etc.) don't hesitate to contact me via PM or through my Facebook Page. Critique and feedback always welcome. Have an awesome day everyone!

Really love your stuff! Some constructive criticism though: I think you may be better off posting less pictures, maybe 1/5th or so of what you're posting now? Please don't take this the wrong way, I really want to look at your stuff, but there are so many almost identical pictures of all angles of all buildings at every step of the process. Maybe save the "everything from every angle" until the finished product, an just post one or two (as opposed to 10+) pics for every "step" before that? Just some thoughts you may disregard if you wish looking forward to more!

 Mymearan wrote:
Really love your stuff! Some constructive criticism though: I think you may be better off posting less pictures, maybe 1/5th or so of what you're posting now? Please don't take this the wrong way, I really want to look at your stuff, but there are so many almost identical pictures of all angles of all buildings at every step of the process. Maybe save the "everything from every angle" until the finished product, an just post one or two (as opposed to 10+) pics for every "step" before that? Just some thoughts you may disregard if you wish looking forward to more!

First of all, thank you very much for the feedback, Myrmearan! I always appreciate it!

Secondly, Myrmearan makes a valid point. What does everybody else think, should I post fewer in progress shots and keep the multiple angles for the end or continue with the way I've been doing it? Your opinions matter to me, so thank you in advance!

Great job in both quantity and quality.

As for wip pictures, it does make sense that we don't need to see every piece of terrain from every angle at every stage.

However, it is still worth taking those photos. But then pick the best one or two to represent the stage of the model (or group of models) as a whole. It'll save you time if nothing else.

Also, if you have done something that you feel is worth seeing from more angles, or is unique to a particular model, for example, you have a hut that you have painted a door in one way, and another hut that also has a door but the result is different, then it's worth showing both so you don't have to explain the differences later (a picture says a thousand words). If, however, both doors have just been base-coated in one colour, then a blue door is a blue door and another blue door is still a blue door...

I tend to save all-round picture dumps for when the building has finished (probably primed), and then when painting is finished. The rest of my wip shots are only one or two angles to show the changes.

I do like to see each stage of a build though. So keep that aspect.

But it's your blog, show what you want to show. But keep in mind that many similar pictures may lead people to scroll over them and not stop to "look" at something, you may not be passing on all the information you think you are ("wood for the trees" kind of thing).

Thank you for the comprehensive response, Dr H. What I'm hearing is keep the build pics and lessen the PIP pics unless I need to showcase something interesting. Is that a correct interpretation of what you said?

Dr H said it much better than I could!

Yeah, pretty much. Building tends to involve more dramatic, and specific, changes than painting, so could deserve more pictures indeed.

Very nice terrain work! I especially like the ruins and shanty

Okay, I hear you guys and I'll start implementing the changes right away. Thanks very much for your feedback on this issue.

Even just spoiler block the PIPs? I find them highly informative, that gives folk the choice.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Even just spoiler block the PIPs? I find them highly informative, that gives folk the choice.

I could do that. My intention has always been to be thorough; to show every step of the process. I want to teach and give back to the community.

So: lots of build pictures, a few choice PIP visible, and the rest of the PIP pictures in spoilers for people who don't want to see every phase but have the option to see each step in case they do find those steps helpful.

Does this sound like a fair compromise?

Pardon the lousy pictures, all I had on hand was a phone. Here are some WIP of my latest project, some custom 25mm bases.








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

Very nice indeed! Perhaps some very fine wire coming out of one to be ripped cable?

Liking the one with the cables spilling out of the pipe.

Thanks for the comments guys. Sorry I have been away so long, my wife's sister has been hospitalized with an unknown illness for the past few months on and off. Doctors can't seem to diagnose the issue. First they said it was Crohns disease, then it wasn't, then it was Ulcerative Colitis, then it was both, then maybe it was neither. You get the idea. She had surgery this weekend past and is slowly making a recovery. Fingers crossed that this solves whatever issue she had and we can all get back to our normal lives.

Thanks for your patience, everyone. I'll get back to posting an avalanche of terrain shortly. Thanks for reading and have an awesome day!

Nightmare. All thoughts and etc. Bases are fab and highly castable.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Nightmare. All thoughts and etc. Bases are fab and highly castable.

Thanks, 'graven. In fact, that's exactly what's happening to them this week. Hopefully those will be the first photos I post in a few days - the first cast copies.

All the best to the family and good luck with the casting.

Thanks, Dr H!

Here's some finished products of buildings and jungles. These are currently available on my eBay store.



Thanks for looking and have an awesome day! More pictures tonight or tomorrow.

More terrain, also available for sale in my eBay store:
First up, jungles.


And then some simple buildings:


Thanks for looking. As always, C&C is welcome. Have an awesome day!

Good work on the terrain pieces.

Are you not tempted to mix them up a little; some plants on the ruin pieces and some ruin on the plant pieces?
The ruins in particular look a bit sterile to me, but I appreciate that a LOS blocker is pretty much what many want and details are not required.

I make terrain to sell, so a lot of what I do becomes things that fit into easy categories. If I were making these for myself there might be more variety and complexity for that matter.

More jungle stuff I've finished recently:



As always, thanks for looking and have an awesome day!