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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Suber on August 21, 2017, 09:46:41 PM
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This ludicrous adventure starts when Mrs. Suber gets rid of an empty hairstyling foam can. The thing never made its way to the bin.
Yeah, I know how to start a story...
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I knew I had to do something with it. My mind flew over the idea of some Tatooine-like moisture farm shapes or something of the like. I just begun to glue absurd stuff all over:
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(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-grajahGrh6o/WYOW2_gMA5I/AAAAAAAACJ4/W80uT01euzUx_BLhebRxuLjDrzFdRKSNACLcBGAs/s400/2017-06-11%2B19.27.54.jpg)
(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3kOA-83AjfM/WYOW23jWX9I/AAAAAAAACJ8/pLaAvaDFx5oQeyO3XUYdT59SK33O5a9BwCLcBGAs/s400/2017-06-11%2B19.27.37.jpg)
You can see, this includes card, mdf bits, a staple ladder and whatever I could find in my bits box. With a cologne tap I made the control console:
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V5uWPTPbGWo/WYOXhf5RsdI/AAAAAAAACKI/PCuyTwQPQBEeONO1W0RFfb9uXjMESejrwCLcBGAs/s400/2017-06-11%2B20.26.07.jpg)
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O2MIR7V4XYk/WYOXhdFKrbI/AAAAAAAACKE/dROJN3tb1YEjk3y0lJzI8FQQV7GHDfoeQCLcBGAs/s400/2017-06-11%2B20.26.29.jpg)
Time to splash some paint on it! I primed it white...
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And then I thought it would be a nice idea colouring it in desert fashion. Well, trial and error... It wasn't that a good idea:
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YkEvJNn6QZ4/WYOZF7V9wfI/AAAAAAAACKY/VO07xoKfedIsNoqJRSyX0X989oqWsUzPACLcBGAs/s400/2017-07-26%2B19.35.19.jpg)
Nope. It definitely needed to be white. So spray all over again and then to weathering and details.
(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nE1DWas3T5M/WZVOPePL79I/AAAAAAAACNo/MnNChDGa9zQnSjH-RmwvD8ie1LFGm3QawCK4BGAYYCw/s400/image2.jpg)
Here you have it finished:
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(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A6D8GYZuK4U/WZgpjdnW4XI/AAAAAAAACOc/GpKnwQW7GxkrcmaPLHRA9SUYW0LLPlAUwCLcBGAs/s400/2017-08-19%2B11.38.56.jpg)
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Vm1vfsAe6w/WZgpjCVUxVI/AAAAAAAACOY/CczDaAFop5AU4A_fvQyhollhLBsxKfj6QCLcBGAs/s400/2017-08-19%2B11.39.03.jpg)
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o93p73pyJhM/WZgpjha3oDI/AAAAAAAACOk/DcP0Y1Ul918QgOMklJgs0ASDqdddn0P_ACLcBGAs/s400/2017-08-19%2B11.43.29.jpg)
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iKtGhBK--v0/WZgpkFbDqGI/AAAAAAAACOs/4Oq3V-hxnbEyxXoCF6wmH7cnRyvB0jAzwCLcBGAs/s400/2017-08-19%2B11.43.56.jpg)
(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DbQuq5AKlmU/WZgpkCrYlGI/AAAAAAAACOo/mwGDoct3iTgqcOdhPtjbgAdfZR44QB7ZQCLcBGAs/s640/2017-08-19%2B11.45.04.jpg)
You can find it all on the blog (http://oldschoolworkshop.blogspot.com.es/2017/08/moisture-vaporator-on-budget.html). The main setback now is that I feel that I need a full moisture farm now!! o_o
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Love the end result. It does look better in grotty white than the sand.
The weathering (esp by the ladder) is ace.
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Clever sod. I love it!
Funny how all these trash-built tings look naf until you spray them. now it looks awesome.
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Wow great result! 8)
Yes; many thanks to the marketing people of all those bottles, cans and pots our womenfolk are enticed to buy, for the interesting shapes they come up with every time... ;D
You were right about changing the color to off-white; it looks just right like that.
The orange stripes and numbers just finish it right off. As the owner of the first fully decked out Rogue trader table I ever saw told me back in the early nineties; every shape works, as long as you add big numbers and letters all over them. :D
Very nice terrain piece indeed. Although looking at the original shape, it might have worked as a missile or rocket just as well... ;)
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An incredible scratchbuild! I was a little worried about the final look, until you did all the weathering and stencilling. And now it's perfect!!
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Very nice build. Love the weathering.
Snitchy sends.
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Impressive, and a bit massive!
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Very cool.
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Excellent.
So how much moisture does it vaporate?
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HOLLY MOLLY!!!!!!!!!! Stunning work Suber!!!
That's a 1st prize at " chinese scennery awards" :P
i really like the weathering on it!.
which colour pattern did you used?
Love it!
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Really nice work, mate.
:-* :-*
The bathroom cupboard will never seem the same again.
;)
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:o that's very cool Suber!!!! and great finished after weathering!!
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Very cool.
The white paintjob and weathering really does it good. In the sand colour it looked a bit - err shall we say fallic.
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Very nice work there.
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Thank you all! :)
every shape works, as long as you add big numbers and letters all over them. :D
lol lol lol That's totally true!
i really like the weathering on it!.
which colour pattern did you used?
Funnily enough, having primed it three times, it now has a really interesting texture, paint holds extremely well ::). Once I got it full white, first thing was washing it all generously in Vallejo sand. Next step was a darker weathering with Vallejo leather in selected places (two layers). Then I sponged it with Vallejo whatever-the-name (German camo? Their dark, dark, scorched brown). Tremendously easy for lazy blokes like me :D
In the sand colour it looked a bit - err shall we say fallic.
Ouch! What has been seen cannot be unseen...
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really great stuff. the supply of this stuff is truly endless.