tiistai 22. maaliskuuta 2016

Mordheim report #3

I'd say the first building is ready now! Spent some more time painting this than the first, and it's getting there. I chose the worst colors for it, and tried to get it to work and am quite happy with the results.
That water damage effect is so easy to do and breaks up the flat surfaces nicely that I think it'll be my one thing in common with all the buildings.

Failfocus here, sorry bout that.



I'm real happy how the wood planks turned out. The flat surfaces could use something more, like details or just a layer of drybrushing, but that's for the next building. One thing I still might add to this is some scorched edges.


Next up is unfinished divider block (in awful lighting!) These things are so good with the game, as covers so much ground it really limits shooting and line of sight.


Just flat colors and some inking. It still needs a handful of layers.


No Mordheim table is finished until it has a tower made out of a Pringles tube! Here's the start of mine.
This of course doesn't fold in any way, and will be one of the few set piece buildings I plan doing along with the more simple collapsible ones.


I added a layer of wavy cardboard on top of it to give it some thickness, and add a layer of vinyl wallpaper to add the texture. I plan on breaking that texture with some chipped plaster looking stuff, maybe with filler, or just paper wallpaper. We'll see.

While this thing doesn't fold, I'm planning on leaving the bottom half empty to house something specific in it to, again, save all the space I can. And that specific thing will be covered in the next post.

maanantai 14. maaliskuuta 2016

Molding is childs play!

I bought this new molding stuff to try out. It's real easy to use but has limited applications. Only thing you do is boil water, drop a handful in there and let it melt. After the water has cooled so you can fish it out you just slap the stuff on your master and let it harden, and boy does that thing harden! It's about as hard as a plastic bucket, now imagine you have something detailed stuck in there. If there is even a tiny bit of negative in the mold, it's real hard to get out.
It's also reusable!



Here is a bit I made using ProCreate. Mold holds details really well!


Now the real deal here is that I wanna have something really simple. No resin measuring, no epoxy kneading, no plaster dust and no mess with clay. Enter My Dough!



It's one part, doesn't leave a mess and hardens without oven (also smells nice). These are the things I wanted out of the stuff. Pretty cheap too! 6€ for the tube.
It has its disadvantages too. It shrinks quite a bit, loses some of the sharpest details, and is somewhat brittle (I'd say in a ballpark of plaster). The shrinking is the thing though which makes it hard to use. For example that window frame above would never work with My Dough, since the mold don't allow it to shrink lengthwise, it'll rip itself apart.

And here's a copy of a thing that My Dough excels at. A simple stamp type mold. 
Both have been made using the same mold. Shrinking is real!



Next up is something a bit challenging, barrels and boxes, and other more three dimensional objects.

perjantai 4. maaliskuuta 2016

Mordheim report #2

Got some stone steps finished.
Not much detail here, as a friend pointed out, but I'd like to keep these clean of clutter since they are such small pieces themselves.






The recipe for these are just flat gray base, black wash, light brown wash, heavy drybrush with the base gray, and light drybrush with a lighter gray.
The colors I used were Vallejo Cold Gray (if my memory serves me right), the one brighter gray Stonewall Gray. The heavy black wash was oil color, I just wanted to test that shit out. Some Army painter sand color for the second wash, I diluted it like 40% color 60% water.

tiistai 1. maaliskuuta 2016

Mordheim report #1

Here's the bare-bones collapsible prototype building from below. It still lacks the details and of course the paint job.
Some minor failings are present in this one in general, but I think my next one will be pretty much perfect, mechanically speaking.



And here's the first Prototype collapsing towards itself.
The photo here is just showing off the quick and dirty paint job of just a few flat colors and brown oil paint wash over them.

Red circles show magnet placements, holding the thing together.