Lake town house-boaty mcboatface.

[nic-e]

after drooling over it online for many months , I finally got a laketown house kit from GW.
It's a lovely little kit made all the lovelier by the accessories and detailing that comes with it, But in the name of getting scenery on the table, I gave this a quick paintjob mostly of inks and weathering. I sprayed it in the morning, went to work, then finished it about an hour or so ago. I'm pretty happy with it, I might go back in a bit and add more detail/texture, But it takes weathering very well and I'll certainly be looking at getting more for my Age of sigmar scenery collection. (it scales fine with empire/brets/anything human sized. Stormcasts are YUGE next to it, but then again they are yuge anyway.)











Next to do the boats boardwalks and various set dressings that come with it, and to try and get a well lit photo in my teeny tiny lightbox.

[Etranger]

That's the nicest varnished woodwork I've ever seen. It looks real.

[Caldor]

Wow! They look good!

[The Bibliophile]

As a newbie, I would love to see a little tutprial on your technique for this!

[Severian]

Very nice work! Great variety of effects and colours on the wood. Looking forward to seeing more.

[nic-e]

Cheers for the kind words everyone! I highly recommend anyone that likes the kit to get one, Its so simple but so nice to work on.

As a newbie, I would love to see a little tutprial on your technique for this!

It's honestly a very simple paintjob.
I sprayed it with army painted fur brown, then gave it two washes of argrax earthshade and a drybrush of lighter brown . I don't use any brown paints so i can't say what paint it was, But just go with brown mixed with grey and alter to taste.
The roof was painted near black, then drybrushed with various greys up to a nice clean almost white grey.

The wood is all painted in washes, so crimson and green , and then weathered with model mates weathering liquids. This is where most of the work is, going over the wood with various shades of brown and green weathering and dabbing dirt into the corners. There's really very little PAINT on the model besides the basecoat, the rest is all washes and dirt.

I stuck the kit in the lightbox after work today and got some pictures with my AOS figures .Bare in mind that the figures are on bases and so aren't actually on the same level as the house. I think they scale rather well.



(Gosh my lightbox really sucks the colour out of everything!)

[Little Odo]

Wow! That Laketown house turned out really nice 

[nic-e]

For those who asked, here's the process of painting wood i use.
It's a brown spray basecoat, then a light brown drybrush, then building up weathering with model mates moss green, mud brown and oil brown washes, then a small drybrush of black for any posts or broken wood ends, then a final go other with model mates moss green on any damp or mossy parts and picking out the details in silver, followed by a thick coating of model mates medium orange rust.

Very quick, very dirty, but i like the look of it.

Anyway, I started on the docks and gangplanks and this is my evenings process.







A bit more to do, and I'm excited to get to the boat!

[SotF]

For the size thing, a big chunk of that is the difference between the heroic scale which 40K and AoS use compared to the more true scale look of the Hobbit/LotR stuff.

[PhilB]

Looks great!
I started out thinking it ought to be mostly brown wood color too, but after a bit of research I discovered that most wooden docks and pilings, over long exposure to water, get bleached a light shade of grey, nearly white!

Anyway, the next step in the laketown house business is either:
1) kitbashing it into other configurations, or
2) doing the interiors!

Like here: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=102375.0

Still haven't had time to get back to this project. Maybe your effort will sput me into action.

Cheers,    --- Wheldrake

[nic-e]

a quick paintjob on a gw tree.
I have two more to do but they should be done by the end of the week. At thos rate I'll have a nice little table for skirmish games.



I don't really like the big multi base for these woods so i decided to add tufts and flowers so they would blend into the board as single trees on their own.As with the house this is a really simple paintjob meant to give a good table ready terrain piece. Dark grey primer, light brown wetbrush, rakarth flesh drybrush, grey drybrush on the rocks, green and brown washes.


I was never a huge fan of these trees when they came out, and i much prefer to build my trees from cratch, buti was given these as a gift for taking a family friends young son around warhammer world, and they do look very nice next to the laketown house.

[mweaver]

Oooo, very nice work!

-Michael

[OSHIROmodels]

Great wood colours 

[Nord]

Nice work. 

[DintheDin]

Your job on the lake townhouse is outstanding! 
Thanks for the painting process tutorial! Inspiring!