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Author Topic: Cohen the Barbarian inspired figures.'Tin Sheds Fantasy Thread '  (Read 22908 times)

Offline Bloggard

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Re: Fantasy Armies,or Tin Shed misguided wip. Karl Franz 31/11
« Reply #30 on: November 01, 2019, 10:27:31 AM »
crikey, this is coming along rather well.

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Quick update .
I've managed to paint the Griffin and rider tonight.(I'll take some pictures in the morning as mentioned many many times before the lighting in the house is naff as we have a photosensitive child staying so its like a cave. )
Still haven't bought any grass tufts as I keep getting sidetracked buying figures. :D
As promised I'll take some photos of the back banner as I make it.
Mark.

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Looks the biz, despite the lighting

 :)

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Thank you ,Here's some slightly better pictures and with a couple of context one's with the high elf one(painted in day light) and the Pegasus.

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Great painting and loving the colouring on the feathers. I am going to copy that.
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Re: Fantasy Armies,or Tin Shed misguided wip. Karl Franz Griffin finished 12/11
« Reply #35 on: November 12, 2019, 11:07:24 AM »
It's a really quick and easy method.
Paint all the feathers and highlight in the top colours then shade the upper half.The shade colour becomes the wash for the flight feathers.Then shade the flight feathers.This in turn becomes the wash for the darkest feathers. Then shade these and use a little. Of this last shade in a couple of places on the lightest feathers shading.
That way all the colours tie together .(if you use a hairdryer you can do the whole thing in roughly an hour.)

Back banner takes a little longer simply because it needs to dry at each stage just so the paper doesn't get saturated. So around two and half hours including sidetracking and a coffee break.

The only oddities /needs a little practice in painting banners is not paint symmetrical sides.
I don't do this because when you bend the banner it can suddenly look cluttered and simply stops looking symmetrical.
The side that is down / facing the table gets slightly bigger eyes and shields with brighter details.Than the side facing up.
Ones the banner is finished and the movement is fixed and the false shadows added it feel much more even than if I'd spent an age painting a symmetrical banner in the first place.



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Re: Fantasy Armies,or Tin Shed misguided wip. Karl Franz Griffin finished 12/11
« Reply #36 on: November 12, 2019, 11:13:54 AM »
  ::) At was this point last night I realised. I'd not actually done the final shading of the Pegasus banner(which would explain why the damned thing kept bugging me everytime I looked at it.)
So here's both figures. They still need a matt varnish to take the shine out of the banners .But table ready if nothing else.
Mark.
« Last Edit: November 12, 2019, 11:17:14 AM by tin shed gamer »

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Re: Fantasy Armies,or Tin Shed misguided wip. Karl Franz Griffin finished 12/11
« Reply #37 on: November 12, 2019, 12:35:10 PM »
Awesome work, and a very helpfull tutoriall for the banner!!
''Its so much easier to build something new than work up the courage to actually paint some.'' -Wyrmalla (2015)


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Re: Fantasy Armies,or Tin Shed misguided wip. Karl Franz Griffin finished 12/11
« Reply #38 on: November 12, 2019, 01:19:28 PM »
yes, thanks for that.

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Re: Fantasy Armies,or Tin Shed misguided wip. Karl Franz Griffin finished 12/11
« Reply #39 on: November 14, 2019, 05:40:39 AM »
Looks great!


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Re: Fantasy Armies,or Tin Shed misguided wip. Karl Franz Griffin finished 12/11
« Reply #40 on: November 17, 2019, 07:04:07 PM »
I'm glad you like it .
They're quick and simple. But most of all functional  table top models which is what I need.(and all I have time for.)
Now it's back to painting cavalry.

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Did not realize I'd been that busy on other projects.Till I updated .
Here's the first part of a new project . I've no idea what the finished Castle will look like as this is a junk pile raid project.
Only using whats already floating about. Nothing new or bought in.

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Re: 'Cardboad Castle ' WIP
« Reply #42 on: April 18, 2020, 04:02:07 PM »
As I'm being frugal with the materials I have . I've etched the remaining test piece of stone work into another wall section.

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Re: 'Cardboad Castle ' WIP
« Reply #43 on: April 18, 2020, 04:49:36 PM »
This wall section looks mighty fine, but I would not expect to see timber on the outside facing towards people who might set fire to them...

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Re: 'Cardboad Castle ' WIP
« Reply #44 on: April 19, 2020, 09:36:54 PM »
There's a suprizing number of Medieval wooden castles . Although they tended to be re built for the obvious reason you mentioned.
There's a couple of Russian reconstructions.which tend to look like a Larp version of an American frontier fort.

I'm airing on the side of caution at the moment as this really is the wrong way to go about a project. It'd be a doddle if I could plan it and buy in what was need . But the challenge is to get something useful from what I have . Not what I can buy in.
I'm trying to build something useable and that looks plausible as a castle even though it's fantasy.
So in theory I should end up with a mashup similar to Guedelon Castle ,with  Murus Gallicus inspired detailing (which is providing heavy on paint for the base colour.) The main reason for using it as a detail on the face of the walls is to help hide the joints of the modules .Its a sort of belt and braces tactic. As I'm still undecided on whether it should be modular or a static single build.( Work mode keeps nagging single piece display. Gamer head says it'd be more practical in pieces.All my other stuff is but oddly enough this one keeps nagging to be a single piece. For the life of me I can't think why ? ;D)
It's still down to materials. I'll worry about the end result when I get there.

 

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