Author Topic: Captain Blood's very titchy (15mm) barbarians. A primeval menagerie! (P18) (Read 37784 times)

Elk101 · « **Reply #165 on:** November 07, 2019, 05:38:09 PM »

I'm really impressed with that, it's going to be a cracking bit of scenery / terrain.

Oldben1 · « **Reply #166 on:** November 07, 2019, 05:44:43 PM »

That's really neat. Reminds me of the old Citadel orcish town terrain.

Silent Invader · « **Reply #167 on:** November 07, 2019, 08:47:29 PM »

Looks very good. Works really well with the board.

gamer Mac · « **Reply #168 on:** November 07, 2019, 11:53:11 PM »

Very nice

The wee extra bits and walls really bring it all together

Barry S · « **Reply #169 on:** November 08, 2019, 03:36:59 AM »

Wonderful stuff as usual

gibby64 · « **Reply #170 on:** November 08, 2019, 04:34:02 AM »

Watching with great excitement! Well done as always sir.

Ockman · « **Reply #171 on:** November 08, 2019, 07:54:57 AM »

What an amazing build!

Jagannath · « **Reply #172 on:** November 08, 2019, 08:51:30 AM »

I’m really enjoying seeing this come together. You’re right about set dressing in 15mm, I’ve made that mistake a few times and ended up with pretty, but not very useable, minis.

verd · « **Reply #173 on:** November 08, 2019, 01:39:17 PM »

That's just stunning work

Captain Blood · « **Reply #174 on:** November 08, 2019, 01:52:23 PM »

Thanks gents

More to come over the weekend I hope.

CookAndrewB · « **Reply #175 on:** November 08, 2019, 02:53:45 PM »

Oh, wow... that looks great. A nice paint job always brings things together. Even priming often makes me sit back and think "oh, that is better than I thought it would be!"

Mason · « **Reply #176 on:** November 10, 2019, 11:00:42 AM »

Wonderful!
It is really looking the part now.

Captain Blood · « **Reply #177 on:** November 11, 2019, 06:49:29 PM »

Thanks

Next update...

I've now applied the surfacing texture coat of gloop (paint, sand, PVA mix) to the new board, and (once dry) all the top dressing and detailing.

As you can see, it pretty well blends in all the joins so that once painted and 'greened' it will appear a single cohesive terrain board.

It's looking rather shiny at this stage because everything loose (plus the 'mountains') has received a drenching coat of neat PVA, to fix everything immovably in place beneath a plasticised skin. And to provide a key for the primer coat of paint.

If I had one piece of advice for budding terrain builders, it is to slather your creations in PVA once you have made them - it will fix everything rigidly in place and help prevent all that unsightly chipping where the surface paint layers flake off. Ain't nothing flaking off this baby...

I've used a mixture of bits and pieces of slate dressing for potted plants, aquarium gravel, model railway talus and grit in various grades to form scree and rock detritus. The trick is to gather this in places where it would naturally fall and accumulate...

I've created a nifty Cirith Ungol style stair climbing the escarpment, using assorted sized pieces of slate (all cunningly arranged to fit 15mm round bases) bedded in place with Green Stuff. It seemed a bit unfair to present the venturing barbarians with a completely unassailable rockface

And a similar route up onto the low plateau section on the Cimmerian side of the river...

Plus a clapper bridge...

And the Copplestone resin stone circle, attached with a hot glue gun shot, and blended into the terrain...

Here's how the old and new boards will look together...

The view of the Pictish Wilderness from the Cimmerian village...

And the Cimmerian village (a tasty reiving morsel!) viewed from the Pictish Wilderness...

Finally, the whole thing gets a primer coat of Halfords matt black spray primer, dusted with Halfords matt dark camo brown - further fixing everything down. (Nothing is going to shift off this board I promise you

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It looks weirdly shiny because of the daylight - the surface is actually fairly flat matt.
Not that it really matters, as I'm going to be overspraying the lot with layers of emulsion paint using a decorator's spraygun and air compressor...