Hello again.
Thanks for all the positive feedback and the tips and ideas.
How did I do it? Well, all of the smaller outhouse type buildings were based on the presentation boxes that watches come in, they’re a nice size and tend to be of a fairly sturdy construction, so over the years I’ve saved/scrounged quite a few. The taller thinner towers are based on the pressurised tins that fronton balls come in, (think funny tennis) The storage tanks are c.d. towers as stated. But not a new idea, I think I originally saw it on some infinity forum. The longer rectangular structure someone asked about is a tin some pre-prepared food came in. The structure with the sphere was an M and M dispenser from one Easter, it originally had bunny ears, nose and sun glasses. As it wisely stated in the first addition of the 40k/rogue trader rulebook, never throw anything away, hoard all the packaging your better half lets you
The detailing is just bits of wire and plasticard with the additional panels cut from thin card. The doors (as spotted) are the spouts off milk and juice cartons. Of note perhaps are the ladders on some of the buildings, these are made by inserting staples of an appropriate size into the structure, once again a very useful and effective idea lifted from the infinity forums.
A couple of the boxes had texture on them that I didn’t want, and in the case of the larger structure, this was a brandy presentation box and was a bit flimsier and also painted with a shiny surface, so to remove texture, re-enforce and add the first level of panel details, the boxes were covered in masking tape.
I didn’t have any problems with the paint adhering to the C.D. cases, I just built it up in really thin coats, perhaps the gesso helps for this as by shooting it through an airbrush mixed with a medium, you get a lot more control.
All the structures were then airbrushed with a gesso undercoat, and then given another coat, but this time grey. When this was dry liquid mask was applied with a sponge. Once dry, metal areas were sprayed a dark red, once dry, more liquid mask was sponged over these areas.
The final colour was then built up with progressively lighter shades of grey, keeping the coats really thin, so that the previous coats can be seen through them. A couple of times, I gave them a coat of grey/green and beige, just to introduce some moderation into the otherwise cold/dull grey scheme.
While all this was drying, I printed out some letters and numbers in a suitable font and size, and then cut stencils from the sheets, I also cut stencils for the stripes. This is time consuming and a pain in the arse but it’s worth it to get the uniformity that’ll later tie all the pieces together. Another key factor in achieving uniformity is to paint all of the pieces at the same time. It takes longer to start to see results, but in the end saves time, paint and effort.
Once all the stencils had been painted and had dried, I added some posters that a kind and worthy LAFer had posted in one of the fall out threads, these were then abused and torn by dampening them and attacking them…. When dry I removed the liquid mask and gave everything a couple of coats of Klear to seal it all, and then applied filters with raw sienna oil paint. When everything had dried I over sprayed with light grey to make everything look a little dusty, and then sprayed first Vallejo smoke, then beige around the base of everything to grime it all up a bit. Finally I Sprayed everything with matt Varnish to take the shine off.
Phewwwww, that sounds long winded, but it really didn’t take that long.
I enclose some close ups of one of the watch boxes so you can get a better idea.
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