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Author Topic: Round bases it is!......The ruins of Krappefortt (MORDHEIM)  (Read 391692 times)

Offline Mason

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Re: Temple of Sigmar, Krappefortt. (Mordheim)
« Reply #15 on: July 02, 2011, 11:18:02 AM »
Would you care to share your painting techinques for these!?

agree with ninja! I'm interested in your painting techniques!


I love your result, the pegasus piece is awesome, and you obtained a wonderful result! :)

Of course. I am glad you like them.
Its quite simple really, mostly just drybrushing.
A LOT of drybrushing!
For buildings of this size I use a huge cheap stiff-bristled brush.
I guess a standard large brush would do, but as this brush cost next to nothing and it is pretty tough I have persisted with it

First, everything is painted in Burnt Umber acrylic craft paint. Again, this is because it is cheap. It would cost a fortune to coat something of this size in Vallejo or GW paints.

The stone areas have been progressively drybrushed with the following stages;

1.Burnt Umber craft paint and GW Tau Sept Ochre 1:1
2.Tau Sept Ochre.
3.Tau Sept Ochre and GW Iyanden Darksun 1:1
4. Iyanden Darksun.
5, Iyanden Darksun and Vallejo Foundation White 1:1
6. Final drybrush of Foundation White.

The main thing is to make the layers as gradual as possible. The first layer of drybrushing is done quite heavily to brighten up the model to achieve a lighter effect, but after this initial drybrush try to keep it gradual and be patient. It may seem tedious but I find it is worth it.
This takes a long time, but I usually do these stages while watching TV to avoid going stir-crazy!
(The other, smaller sections of the church that I have,not posted yet were done with less layers and it shows! They appear much lighter, and not as good IMO).

Once the drybrushing is complete I then added various GW washes for weathering.
For this building and colour scheme I used Thraka Green, Ogryn Flesh and tied them together with watered down Badab Black.
I find, when doing the washes, that a few thin layers is much better than one thick.
The washes tend to flow downwards quite nicely and are then drawn back upwards when they pool to create the rising damp effect.
The floors are simply painted Burnt Umber and then drybrushed Foundation White with a stippling motion.

The wood is painted Burnt Umber at the same time as the stonework, but only received the first two layers of drybrushing.
Then liberally washed with all the brownish shades from the GW wash range, with Sepia being the predominant colour. The others used mainly to create a little variation. More variation was used on the walkways and the three levels on the main wall scaffolding to give the impression of wood scavenged from a variety of sources.

The window frames were then given a couple of washes of Ogryn flesh to seperate them from the stone walls.

Finally they are finished off  with sand, gravel, static grass on the bases and Woodland Scenic Underbrush for the vines.
A few posters added and the metal areas (lanterns etc.) painted with Black wash.

That is pretty much it.

I used the same process to paint the graveyard for the church in this thread;
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=30663.0

Hope that is what you were looking for.
« Last Edit: July 02, 2011, 02:27:28 PM by Mason »

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Re: Temple of Sigmar, Krappefortt. (Mordheim)
« Reply #16 on: July 03, 2011, 12:01:08 PM »
That's some of the best modular Mordheim terrain I've seen...EVER!  They're not a 'dark n' dingy' as most scenery for the City of the Damned tends to be, which I think is refreshing.  Plenty of levels, too, which is always good!  Please post more! 

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Re: Temple of Sigmar, Krappefortt. (Mordheim)
« Reply #17 on: July 03, 2011, 09:03:16 PM »
That's some of the best modular Mordheim terrain I've seen...EVER!  They're not a 'dark n' dingy' as most scenery for the City of the Damned tends to be, which I think is refreshing.  Plenty of levels, too, which is always good!  Please post more! 

Thank you, Mr F-F!

Glad you like them.
That was the main reason behind the colour chosen for the stonework.
I wanted something brighter.
Dont get me wrong, there are loads of beautiful, well-made items of scenery out there it a more 'traditional' Mordheim pallette, I just wanted something a bit different.

Hence, the alternative setting for our Mordheim campaigns is the town of Krappefortt, a town that has recently suffered a huge magically-caused earthquake, resulting in most of the buildings collapsing and the sewers being exposed etc. The fictional locale is set in an area of the Empire where a more sandstone coloured rock is the principle source for solid building materials, resulting in a more vibrant, colourful enviroment.

On the subject of showing more; I fully intend to.
Although I originally posted the Graveyard (The Gardens of Morr) seperately, I thought it would make sense to just include all the various elements in this thread, and rename it.

So here goes...

The Gardens of Morr;




I will continue to add more pictures to this thread when my better half can be persuaded to take more!
« Last Edit: July 03, 2011, 09:05:30 PM by Mason »

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Re: The ruined town of Krappefortt. (Alternative Mordheim setting)
« Reply #18 on: July 03, 2011, 11:29:56 PM »
Great work! I love the level of finish you take your models to.

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Re: The ruined town of Krappefortt. (Alternative Mordheim setting)
« Reply #19 on: July 04, 2011, 02:54:03 PM »
Fantastic work!

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Re: The ruined town of Krappefortt. (Alternative Mordheim setting)
« Reply #20 on: July 05, 2011, 04:49:53 PM »
Thanks for sharing, now I will no longer have to steal these from you while you sleep! ;)
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Re: The ruined town of Krappefortt. (Alternative Mordheim setting)
« Reply #21 on: July 05, 2011, 06:13:23 PM »
Really very nice.

And now some pics of the whole ensemble together?  :D

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Re: The ruined town of Krappefortt. (Alternative Mordheim setting)
« Reply #22 on: July 07, 2011, 07:12:41 PM »
Really very nice.

And now some pics of the whole ensemble together?  :D

I will try, but, as I have just recently moved, I may not have a space large enough to set it up until I get my new gaming board sorted out.
Will just have to post another part of the town at the weekend until I get the board done.
The board should be done in the next couple of weeks (I want to get playing again, after all!).
I can still get some other elements photographed until then.

Watch this space......please!

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Re: The ruined town of Krappefortt. (Alternative Mordheim setting)
« Reply #23 on: July 08, 2011, 07:42:16 AM »
Very nice work, of course.  :)

As for your choice of paints - you really should have a look in a crafts or DIY store and look at the crafts paints. You'd be able to find almost exact matches for all the GW-paints used - and they cost about the double for many times the content, and slightly thinned they behave just as well as model paints.

I never use my small pots for large pieces like terrain and boards - they simply empty out too fast  ;)

I use Windsor and Newton a lot, but there is also other brands out there.
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Re: The ruined town of Krappefortt. (Alternative Mordheim setting)
« Reply #24 on: July 08, 2011, 09:40:33 AM »
 :o :o :o

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Re: The ruined town of Krappefortt. (Alternative Mordheim setting)
« Reply #25 on: July 08, 2011, 11:51:56 AM »
Gorgeous stuff there!

Keep up the great work!

 :)
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Next up will be a ruined gambling establishment/brothel, The Green Griffon.
I will post pictures of the finished piece in the next couple of days, but as I have just found a few old WIP photos of the finished ground floor, (I built it one floor at a time), I will post these for now.













I am sure there are more of these on my old phone, including some of the gound floor from th start before any paint was applied.
I will see if I can find them, if anyone is interested...
« Last Edit: July 12, 2011, 09:24:23 PM by Mason »

Offline Longbottom Leaf

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Beautiful!  :-*

Tons of atmosphere in that piece!

 :)

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I think I recognise some dolls house furniture in there. ;)

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Hey, how'd you make my house into scenery?

 

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