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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Daeothar on July 20, 2020, 09:23:13 PM
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Since my desert themed table is finally nearing completion (it just requires finishing off the sides of the modules), I got motivated to start on some themed terrain for it right away, during drying times (I've been applying quit a few alternating layers of glue, sand-mix and varnish-mix, which require loads of time inbetween them).
And what better theme to get started, after all these years of hoarding stuff than Yes; Star Wars!
The first thing I got my teeth into was a Star Wars Legion terrain/objectives set by FFG. It is comprised of 4 Moisture Vaporators, 3 Control Panels and a bunch of crates (the vaporators were the items I started out with). I also had some barricades from the Legion boxed set, so I took them along for the ride as well.
The construction was very straightforward and easy. virtually no cleanup required, and the fit was perfect (obviously the slightly vinyl feeling barricades required none); the vaporators received washers for bases instead of the provided Legion bases though. Better stability, and I'm not using the Legion bases on any of my units to begin with (I use WotC minis for SW).
Paintjobs were fast and dirty (quite literally so; Tatooine style delapidation is mandatory of course): a white primer coat, followed by a coat of white paint. Then a wash with watered down Army Painter Strong Tone, some accents in colour, chipped paint with a dark olive brown with some silver edging and finally sandy and sooty weathering powders before a coat of matt varnish.
The barricades had the area of the orange stripes neatly taped off, after which I stippled the orange on, but to my dismay, the orange still ran. So I had to do some clean-up, but most I was able to hide between damage and grime, as well as some replaced, grey panels:
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_08.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_09.jpg)
That was that, but now I wanted a building as well. I have several bunkers in my current terrain stock, but I felt the new table warranted something more suitable.
So I unearthed the Proxxon Foamcutter I had bought on the cheap last year (or was it two years ago ::) ). At any rate; I had not used it before, but I did have the advantage of having the experience of a terrain building workshop by no other than Gerard Boom (even longer ago), so I was confident I would be able to get at least a decent result out of it.
I also had some small blocks of left over foam form said workshop, and that was enough to get me started. After this experience though, I will now have to dish out for a good sized stash of the stuff, as I expect more projects to pop up in the near future... ;)
It took me just a couple of hours, including figuring out, testing and tinkering with the cutter, to get me a pretty good result. I had to resort to using a plastic dome, from some sort of packaging, out of my 'junk-box', since I had been unable to source any styrofoam spheres in any of the nearby shops. I will venture deeper into town soon to get me an assortment of them. They will come in handy for this project I reckon...
The foam was glued with fast drying PVA and pinned, the dome was glued down with hot glue. I then also created an inner frame to support the dome, since the foam piece I used for the roof was rather thin (a left-over from that workshop), and I feared it might otherwise suffer catastrophic failure somewhere along the line.
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_01.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_02.jpg)
The door was made from polystyrene sheets (2 thicknesses), and the ribbed texture in the door portal is a zip-tie. The tech panel next to the door is made from a cut down Antenociti control panel with some added plastic greebles. The pipe on the side is from the Chemical Plant box by Tehnolog, the vent in the back is the eye from the same zip-tie I used on the door, and the crate on the right side of the building is from the aforementioned Legion terrain set.
The stage I regrettably did not photograph, is the covering of the entire building with an instant wall filler. I used many pots of this stuff on the table, and I find a great material to work with. It's fast drying, easily sandable, light and also pretty cheap. In this case, I coated the entire building with it, and smoothed the layer out with water. I only used tools in some hard to get to nooks and crannies, the rest is all just (gloved) fingers.
Oh; and I taped off all the mentioned parts of the building that I didn't want covered in plaster ;)
I then lightly sanded the coarsest parts down, and I find that this is the area I still have the most to learn (including the application of the filler), as there are some areas that are not as smooth as I would have wanted them to, although there are some parts I'm pretty satisfied with.
After this followed a brush on coat of the Graveyard Earth matched wall emulsion paint I use for all my basing and also the table (the pot I had mixed up in 2011 is finally showing a dent in its contents! lol ), and a zenithal spray coat of Army Painter Bone.
I then mixed a wash of brown and black from tubes of cheap acrylic paints, and coated the entire building. Then followed a drybrush of Bone mixed with white. I then built up some washes at the bottom of the building, using Armypainter Strong Tone and Sepia.
Then it was on to painting the details, and after a spray coat of Armypainter Matt Varnish, I declared this project done!
I had also cut out and beveled an MDF base for the building, but after testing it on the table, which is (intentionally) uneven, I decided that using it as-is, is probably the lesser of the two evils, and I think the inevitable gap at the bottom between building and ground is less conspicuous than the same gap between a base and the table... ::)
The entire building, sans drying time, probably took me about 5 to 6 hours. But I'm sure this can go faster once I get more practice in, although by that time, I'll probably be wanting to do larger, more complex buildings...
But enough waffle; here it is, in all its glory:
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_03.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_04.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_05.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_06.jpg)
And one more gratuititous shot of the building in its natural habitat: welcome to Tushi Station... :D
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_07.jpg)
On my workbench already, and bound to be finished next, are a converted speeder and (the more observant amongst you may already have spotted it in the pictures) a Table Top Combat MDF (energy?) turbine kit, which I already greebled up and primed white. And the control panels and crates from the Legion kit are queued up as well.
At this rate, I might actually finish up my first themed terrain set soon... 8)
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Top banana.
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Great stuff 8)
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Looking good!
Thanks for sharing your techniques and pics.
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Good stuff mate :)
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Many thanks guys! :)
I had forgotten just how fun it is to build terrain, but it looks like I've found the right flow now. Also, I always was an (almost) exclusive polystyrene kind of builder, but now I find experimenting with all kinds of different materials rather cathartic, to be honest... :)
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The barricades got me thinking. I always imagined them to be grey, but yours look so much better! I think, I have to copy that, if you allow... ;)
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Lovely detail on that building and some ideas to steal, I Like the cable tie idea :-* :-* :-*
The building looks very strong
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The barricades got me thinking. I always imagined them to be grey, but yours look so much better! I think, I have to copy that, if you allow... ;)
Be my guest! :D
I have seen them mostly in either grey or white too, but I found one with some blue Aurebesh text stencils on. My rationale was that I could also use them in near-future gaming, and white with orange is basically a staple in that setting...
Lovely detail on that building and some ideas to steal, I Like the cable tie idea :-* :-* :-*
The building looks very strong
Thanks! :)
I've found cable ties to be quite a versatile material when building, and all parts of them can be used in some way. The ribbed areas are great for use as vents or edging such as on this building (I previously also used one on a Star Trek shuttle build in basically the same way).
On the power turbine I've teased, I have used all parts of a whole bunch of them; the eyes as vents on the sides, the tapered tips as extra details on the vanes(?) that form the edge of the turbine and some larger ones added their ribbed portion to the spine of the turbine. They really helped in adding some visual interest to an otherwise rather bland and flat MDF build.
The only down side is that zip-ties are made from nylon, so the only way to securely attach them is with loads of superglue, but really; that's just a very minor quibble...
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Great work on that building, hope you don’t mind me pinching that cable tie idea for when I eventually get on with my Megacity
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Thanks :)
And hey; I don't own the idea anymore than that Thomas & Betts own the actual patent to the Ty-Rap... :D
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Everything here looks excellent! My mate is contemplating buying a SW Legions starter set. Your work is tempting me to join him...
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Top notch work mate! I love the distressing and the white/orange color choice.
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Looking very nice so far - the weathering really evokes the Star Wars universe. Very much looking forward to seeing what else you have planned.
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Could have sworn it was Tosche Station...but yours must be where the space pirates hide their booty.
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No, no; you've got the whole thing backwards! Tushi station is where the kids hang out, drinking Mountain Dewback and gossip about their online teachers.
Toschi Station on the other hand, is where Owen met Beru, and he doesn't want Luke to go anywhere near it. You never know what he might pick up there...
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lol
Robot Chicken should definitely be treated as canon ;)
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Hear that, Disney?? :D
Last night I managed to finish the power generator I had prepped earlier.
It's one of a pair, but I haven't built the other one yet. I figured I'd just need the one for now.
Built right out of the packaging, it was rather bland, so I decided to use some card and chipboard to break up the flat surfaces. That was not enough though, so I also used some coffee stirrers on the 'vanes'(?) of the turbine. Still not enough, so I added the tips of a bunch of really small cable ties on top of the stirrers, and a larger cable tie to the chipboard ridge on top of the turbine.
Then I added some Antenociti control panels to the sides; one with a few screens and another one with a large lever (á la Deathstar shield generator; it's even on the nominal rear side ;) ), plus the eyes of the same small cable ties I used on the vanes on the sides. there were some small shapes laser-cut into those positions, often painted as lights, but I covered those first with some card squares, and finally added the eyes; as vents I suppose.
All of this neatly broke up the flat surfaces, and after a couple of coats of primer and paint, it was ready for the real work.
It was a simple job; basically the same method I used on the moisture vaporators and barricades. Except that the chipping of the edges took forever! ::)
Finally some detailed attention to the control panels (specifically the screens), and it was done.
(http://fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_11.jpg)
(http://fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_10.jpg)
(http://fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_12.jpg)
(http://fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_13.jpg)
I only now realize I totally forgot the last step of adding weathering powders, but as it still needs a coat of varnish, I'll do that before I spray it. This will add some more colour modulation, which should be a good thing.
Next on the bench is a converted WotC landspeeder; it began life in the service of the Naboo Royal Guard, with two crewmen, a gun on the rear spoiler and two large, blocky engine pods. I took out the crewmen, built the seats back up with some plasticard, cut off the repeater blaster (this is now a civilian vehicle), and replaced the peg and base with something a bit less obvious (Renedra 40mm plastic base with a groove cut out for the metal rod I used to hold the speeder up, which I then covered with a circle of 0.5mm thick plasticard).
(http://fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_14.jpg)
The engine pods were too large in my opinion, so I took them off, and replaced them with two 1/72 guided bombs with the fronts and rears cut off and nozzles from the bitsbox added to the rear.
Only when I had attached them, did I realize that they now look exactly like a couple of wall plugs. Had I seen that earlier, I might have saved myself some work, but hey... lol
Right now, the windscreen is missing, but that's for painting purposes only; it'll be replaced once that's in the bag.
And then there's the first squad of Stormtroopers, with an officer and droid in support. I'll undercoat them white, and will work from there.
(http://fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_15.jpg)
The pilot figure btw is the only character of our (concluded for now) SW RPG campaign I had not come around to painting, so she'll finally be finished too. You've seen two characters of our group so far; the Saurin was my character, Gilaan Fal'kas, and the human (ex-imp) scoundrel was the nominal leader of the pack.
The pilot was the only real conversion required for the characters bar a single headswap, but it was an extensive one; there are parts of 4 miniatures in there; the legs of a WotC Swoop Ganger, the body and head of a hasslefree not-Starbuck, the pistol of an actual WotC TIE-pilot and the helmet of a stormtrooper, converted into a pilot-helmet. The conversion also required sculpting the left arm and the coveralls tied around the waist and the building of the control box on the chest from plasticard and white metal tubing.
I'm pleased with the conversion, but now that the campaign is over, I will paint her up the way I want to (there were specifications of elaborate tribal tattoos, patterned flight suit, long, flowing and braided hair, etc). So expect the final result to be a bit less gaudy... ;)
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Great work so far keep it going
Love the details you are putting in :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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That’s much better with the additional details on. Love the weathering 8)
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Great work and project! :-*
I really didn’t like that shield generator model before, npbut you’ve changed my mind! With your add-ons and paint job, that’s really scrubbed up nice! 8)
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Wow! You never cease to inspire mate!
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Cool work on the generator. Hadn't seen that one yet.
Also nice touch having some of the brickwork show on the building.
Truelly a lovely table. I'm looking forward on many an epic battle.
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Thanks guys! As always;much appreciated 8)
Well, my vacation time is finally here, but (as expected; it's the same every year), instead of drastically increasing my hobby time, it actually almost eliminated it, since vacation time is family time. And we've been having a great stretch so far, with sun, beach and quality time, but I still managed to sneak some me-time in there ;)
I finished the first of two speeders I had on my desk; this is a dainty sports model, still looking relatively pristine (considering the circumstances on Tatooine of course...):
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_16.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_17.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_18.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_19.jpg)
And here it is, next to its original shape and form. It's looking much more original trilogy now, I reckon 8)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_20.jpg)
The second speeder is more of a cargo skiff really. It started life as a die-cast First Order Speeder, and even though it's still die-cast, it's now (on it's way to becoming) a really beat up cargo hauler. Probably plying its trade in and around the space port, lugging crates and other items between local businesses and landed ships.
It's had an engine replacement recently, and it could do with a fresh coat of paint (the cash logo on the blue band has become barely visible), but it's still functional, and that's what counts.
I removed a second seat next to the driver, including its roll bar, and also the repeater blaster on a mount in the prow. Both areas were simply covered over with a piece of plasticard.
The paintjob so far covers a white primer, a warm grey basecoat, the blocking in of panels, adding of the blue stripes and Aurebesh cash sign and a first wash on the floor.
Next will be several washes, highlights and, eventually, a lot of chipping.
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_21.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_22.jpg)
And finally, there is also some small progress on the first squad of Stormtroopers. After their coat of white primer, I inspected them for remaining mould lines. I did find a couple, and I cleaned those up and retouched the white primer.
Then I gave them all two layers of Vallejo Model Wash Blue Grey. Next step will be blocking the panels with VGC Wolf Grey...
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_23.jpg)
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:o
It's all a pretty impressive work :-* :-*
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Daeothar, what scale is this? 28mm? Those the WotC Stormtroopers?
Same as speeders?
Grimm
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Cheers Suber :)
Grimnar; this is a nominally 28/30mm project. The minis are all WotC bendy ones (for now), the terrain is from a range of different sources, including Legion.
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Brill :)
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Love the additions to the MDF generator. It actually makes the MDF terrain look fantastic after painting (your brushwork also fantastic!)
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Oh my not sure how I missed this till now!
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Inspiring stuff, please keep it up.
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Inspiring stuff, please keep it up.
What he said....
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Awesome stuff so far.
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I couldn't wait, so got started on the Stormtroopers today. I figured that my hobby room is nice and cool, and house was empty because the womenfolk had gone to the pool, so plenty of time to get that squad done, right?
Wrong...
Several tutorials convinced me that Stormtroopers are 'quick and easy to paint up'. Well I call shenanigans on that!
I eventually went with Duncan Rhodes' method (over Sorastro, Spikey Bitz and some Asian-American woman who only drybrushed), although the fact that he basecoated with a light grey, and a zenithal white, where I started with a full white may have worked against me.
I compensated by doing a blueish grey wash over the white, but on second thought, I should have skipped the second layer, as I find it a tad too stark now.
I then picked out all panels with VGC Wolf Grey, leaving the wash in the recesses.
This I then highlighted with white.
The black areas were then painted with VMC German Grey, and the eyes with straight black.
And after some corrections, this is where we stand right now.
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_24.jpg)
This took me over two hours, and that's not as quick as stated by those esteemed Youtubers, especially for such a near monochrome model. Also, being WotC bendies, both size and sculpting style differ from sculpt to sculpt, not to mention the often shallow detail (due to both casting limitations of the soft plastic and the oftentimes globbed on prepaint layers ::) )
But I am satisfied with the results, stark as the contrast may be.
And the process was enjoyable enough for me to stick with it for the 29 others waiting patiently for their turn. I will however not be batchpainting an entire squad this way, there is my sanity to consider after all lol
I think I might still do some highlights on the gun and hands though, and some sandy weathering to drive home the Tatooine theme. Also, I only now noticed in the picture that the base rim could do with another layer of paint... :D
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Classic Stormtroopers look amazing to me. They are an iconic part of my childhood and a foundation stone on my ideas of what looks cool. But the idea of painting them given how much trouble I have painting white is more than a little daunting. I respect your dedication and commitment mate!
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Looks good :)
I’ll have to try a white Space Marine(don’t have any Star Wars miniatures),see what I come up with :)
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Looking good :-* :-* :-*
The hardest set of basic troops to paint out there!
I just get my brother to paint empire :D
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He’s turned out great 8)
I’m really lazy when painting stormtroopers. I just ink wash over the bendy then touch in the black and highlight with white.
Given their record on the big screen they certainly aren’t the Emperors finest so they ain’t getting a fine paint job lol
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Good stuff man, love your paintjobs. Will be most excellent on the table 8)
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Cheers guys :)
Up next is an Imperial officer. These guys are everywhere, so might as well give my stormtroopers someone to take orders from, eh.
Again a struggle with shallow detail (especially the face), but he'll do for a tabletopjob.
It was an interesting experience to determine the colour of the uniform, as the internet is aswarm with different takes. Official on-set pics vary wildly too, probably depending on the lighting.
In the end I just took one picture as reference and started mixing until I got close (enough).
So here he is, with his entire command:
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_25.jpg)
'We're not leaving the range until you finally hit something trooper!'
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'We're not leaving the range until you finally hit something trooper!'
They'll be there for a while then lol
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Nice work :)
'We're not leaving the range until you finally hit something trooper!'
lol
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So here he is, with his entire command:
Gotta feel a bit sorry for the trooper having this guy breathing down his neck all the time.
Good looking stuff. Only 29 more troopers to go? :D
Can't wait for a nice little diorama on your table once you all tie (no pun intended) it together.
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How have I only just found this???
Lovely stuff, mate.
Loving all of it so far, scenery, vehicles and figures.
:-* :-*
Classic Stormtroopers look amazing to me. They are an iconic part of my childhood and a foundation stone on my ideas of what looks cool. But the idea of painting them given how much trouble I have painting white is more than a little daunting. I respect your dedication and commitment mate!
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What he said!
Stromtroopers are scary (to paint, anyway!).
Incidentally, you did exactly the same modifications to your die-cast First Order speeder that I did.
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=113602.msg1422629#msg1422629
Great minds, eh?
;)
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Cheers all :)
Paul; it was your purchase of these speeders back in the day that got me to rush and get myself a couple as well, for just the time I would finally be doing my own SW project (which obviously is now :D ).
I like what you did to your speeder, but my effort is a tad less involved I think; I merely removed the gun and one seat (I kept the one behind the controls), while yours has a proper standing controller position like that. Also, you broke out the greenstuff to tart it up further, where I simply glued two plasticard cut-offs to the floor... lol
Great work there, mate; fits right in with your range now :)
On a side note; I will be off on a family camping trip the coming week, so no updates during that time. I had hoped to finish another stormie and the pilot, but between a birthday that had to be attended and loading up the car, I could not find the time. They'll be the first ones to be finished upon my return though :)
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So, an expected hiatus of 1 week turned into almost 3 weeks. This was mostly due to the weather, which did its very best to reach actual Tatooine-like temperatures, combined with a humidity more akin to that on Camino... ::)
My painting desk is still situated on the top floor of our house, under a flat roof, so temperatures regularly topped 40 degrees C, at a humidity of 80%. So everything stuck to everything else, paint would simply not dry (I did try), and I was sweating so profusively, it dripped from my forehead onto the mini under the brush, so I called it, and resigned myself to a vacation without hobby time.
I did manage to rewire the entire ground floor of the house, which was a mammoth task on its own, but that hardly qualifies as hobby time; that's just plain work :D
Yesterday though, after temperatures finally dropped to acceptable levels over the weekend, I finally managed to get some miniature work in!
Originally, I had wanted to paint some more minis (read; Stormtroopers), but then I watched this Youtube clip of a guy making a Tusken Raider village from foam, and this seemed like the perfect little project to take on.
So I grabbed some 50mm XPS foam cut-offs, left over from building my table, and went to town on them with my foam-cutter. It was the perfect opportunity to try out the circle cutting accessory I bought from Shifting Lands a while back, and it works just great.
I started out with 3 cilinders, each 5cm high (obviously), and two with a diameter of 8cm and one of 10cm (this would be some sort of chieftain's tent).
The Youtuber used two 1 inch thick sheets glued together, so I think I had an edge there, but then; he was able to glue a smaller diameter layer on top of a larger one, so he already had a head start when shaping the huts/tents.
This proved to be the most challenging part of this build (and then only marginally so; this is a very easy project), as I used an extendable blade to make the cuts.
Now, I do have a very simple handheld foam cutter, with different, swappable, business ends, but it had decided to play hide and seek, and the most frustrating part of the build (so far ::) ) was the hour I wasted trying to find it. So in the end, I had to settle for the knife...
By the time I got to the third hut, I had found a workable method to cut them, and the last one turned out much better than the previous two. I might opt to make a few more, to turn this hunting camp into a small village though.
His versions were perfectly hexagonal and dome shaped, with defined sides, but I purposely made mine a bit more haphazard, as I figured it fit the subject better.
I then cut out the doors, with a bit of interior space, just like my example on Youtube. Following that, I added broken off cocktail sticks to the top, to simulate the hut's framework and also some to door of the large tent, to form some sort of awning later on. Where the poles connected, I tied them together with some very soft metal wire, which I believe I once resqued from a piece of broken jewelry. It basically works like a piece of very thin floral wire I suppose (but this was free ;) ).
Then for the fun part: I tore up small pieces of thick paper (or thin card I suppose ;P ), soaked them in a PVA/water mix, and stuck the pieces onto the huts, starting on the bottom, layering them as I worked up towards the top. I made sure I made some patched up areas here and there too, to aid in the haphazard look.
This was the first time I used this technique, and when checking the results this morning, I was really pleasantly surprised by how sturdy it had become. The foam makes them too light to use as terrain pieces in my opinion though, so I might embed some nuts and bolts into the bottom, to weigh them down a bit.
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_26.jpg)
And all that's left to do now, is paint them!
Also, I also faithfully copied the Youtube guy's idea of a framework with a tanning hide. A simple (roughed up) cocktail stick frame, tied with the same soft metal wire I used before, and some thread tied and glued in strategic places to create a spider's web on the inside. I cut a hide from 0.5mm plasticard and duplicated that. I then used polystyrene glue to stick them together, sandwiching the wires. I still have to add some sort of pins to the places where the wires meet the hide.
To emphasise the savage nature of the Tusken Raiders, I added some human(oid) remains to the base as well.
Left to make is a campfire, but that's pretty easily done, and stills from the movies show some sort of conically shaped pottery stored next to the huts, so I might have a go at those too. All in all, I'm hoping I will be able to (nearly?) finish the entire set this evening.
In conclusion, this will be a nice objective for a Jedi in touch with his darker side, or a squad of Stormtroopers looking to pacify the region.
Now for an extra Bantha or two... :D
Oh; and during my vacation, I received a package of 3D printed Star Wars crates I bought from a seller on Ebay. He sold them in batches of 10, so I ordered two, since these are so ubiquous, and piles of them can be used as set dressing, cover, objectives, you name it.
But I was sorely disappointed when I received them;
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_27.jpg)
'Yeah, well, I told you not to inflate them too much, captain.'
I mean; really? They were advertized as compatible with Legion (the small crate is an original plastic Legion one), but they look more compatible with 3" action figures. Not to mention the printing layers on the product; this was actually one of the better ones.
After requesting to return them, I was fully refunded though, with the excuse that the person printing them had done so at the wrong resolution and not scaled down. So now to hunt for some better ones. Resin ones are probably a safer bet...
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The tents look the part and the drying frome is great
For SW boxes I am sure Jim Oshiro has some
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=profile;u=2619 (https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=profile;u=2619)
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Cheers :)
I just checked Jim's catalogue, but these specific SW crates are not there.
MicroArt Studios has some (https://www.minyarts.eu/star-wars-legion-cargo-crates_7524_9534) very nice ones, but I'd be better off buying my own YT transport and fetching a full cargo hold from that galaxy far, far away... ::)
I've been thinking of making them myself from cubes of wood (or plastic), an engraver and a drill bit. Labour intensive, but not as dear as the nice resin ones above.
Updates will be postponed one day, as I've just been summoned for a game of Bushido. My Temple of Ro Kan's first outing, so that should be fun too... ;)
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I’ve got some of that style left. Drop me a pm :)
Village wip looks great 8)
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Great work on the village, mate.
Love the drying frame.
8) 8)
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Can't wait to see all that stuff on the table.
It's starting to be a good collection and the board looks amazing.
I'd love to get some star wars gaming done.
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As always; thank you, gents :)
All in all, I was not able to put in as much work as I had wanted to last night, and the bit I did get done was, well, disappointing.
I used cheap acrylic craft paint for the basecoat of the huts, like all the popular Youtubers seem to do these days, but I mixed in a bit of Vallejo white to get the colour I wanted.
It went on fast and easy, so I was happy with that. And after letting it dry, I applied an armypainter wash, to bring out the details, but that backfired like a badly tuned V8. I had forgotten that the craft paint gets reactivated when water is applied to it, so the wash went on all streaky, and in some places, the brush simply took off the entire basecoat!
The end result is horrible, and also, it turns out the paper I used for the hides that make up the tent was too thin and soft and the wash did not pick out the details like I had envisioned.
So I ended up with three messy piles of bantha pudu, and I am of mind to simply chuck them out and start anew. My idea now is to start with some styrofoam balls cut in half, with ribbing added to the outside, and that covered in the same way by torn pieces of paper soaked in water and glue (but thicker and firmer, to retain the layering detail).
The current failures will at least have served as a valuable learning experience... ::)
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Don't throw them out, could you do some 'wet' drybrushing to make them look more like animal hide?
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Yeah; an overspray and retry could work, but that wouldn't help with the lack of texture on the surface (in fact, it would probably worsen it ever so slightly).
I might give them to my daughter to finish though, they could definitely work as a village for her orcs :)
And in the mean time, I could chalk this one up as lessons learned, and try my hands on take two... :D
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Get a fine black pen, or a sharp 2b pencil.
Draw around the 'hides' & then apply 'stitches' (small dashes drawn at about
90 degrees to the edge of the hides. The occasional 'X' is also acceptable.
Then pick out a 'hide' or two in a different colour/shade. You can use felt-tips.
Finally spray a varnish to protect it all. That will also bring out the black in the
pencil marks (if you used pencil that is).
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Damn, that's a shame.
Can't help with the texture, but for the streaking: I tend to put some PVA in my basecoat when I work with foam and cheap acrylics.
I never had a problem with streaking or paint reactivating. Normally this is followed by a wash I also make with cheap acrylics and it works a charm.
Another option is, of course, hitting it with some varnish before the wash.
You might also crumple up the paper for some added texture before gluing it on the model.
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I Like the idea of the stiching apart from that I trying giving them a heavy dry brush before you bin them as they don't look to bad at the moment
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For texturing I recommend stippling with a big fluffy brush. Try it with a darker shade to get a texture (plus some shading) and then a lighter shade, to build up highlighting. Those are well rescue-able to my eye.
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Do what Cubs said and stipple with a big brush.
Add some PVA glue into cheap acrylic as this will help create texture.
I have used this technique plenty of times before and it works.
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I don't think they look that bad. Like others said, I think there are some things you can do to dress it up a bit, but it hardly seems like the kind of failure that screams to be put out of its misery. If you would like to see what some of those look like, come look in my basement lol
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Cheers :)
I just checked Jim's catalogue, but these specific SW crates are not there.
MicroArt Studios has some (https://www.minyarts.eu/star-wars-legion-cargo-crates_7524_9534) very nice ones, but I'd be better off buying my own YT transport and fetching a full cargo hold from that galaxy far, far away... ::)
I've been thinking of making them myself from cubes of wood (or plastic), an engraver and a drill bit. Labour intensive, but not as dear as the nice resin ones above.
Updates will be postponed one day, as I've just been summoned for a game of Bushido. My Temple of Ro Kan's first outing, so that should be fun too... ;)
I got mine from crooked dice, they do separate crates as well as crate stacks, perfect for Legion
https://crooked-dice.co.uk/product-category/crates-and-containers/
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Got to love the Tusken Raiders Camp! Great work and so thematic.
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Thanks all, for the advise and encouragements; much appreciated.
But being the perfectionist that I am, I could not let it go, and the more I looked at my attempt, the more I considered them a failure.
So back to the drawing board. Well, not really; the idea was sound, the execution had just been lacking.
My second attempt had a different starting point. I had acquired quite a few styrofoam balls for use as Tatooine building roof domes (I was toying with the town name of Moss Vespa, but that might still change lol ), so I cut a few of those in half, and then cut out the door opening as per my previous attempt.
For the tent poles I used cocktail skewers, broken/bent into the right curvature, and then glued to the half spheres with fast drying PVA.
After drying (just an hour or so), I cut them off flush with the bottom, and pushed/screwed three thick and short wood screws into the bottom of the domes for added weight (which were also glued into place with PVA).
I then pretty much used the same method I used on the previous huts for the tent cloth; torn up squares of thick paper, soaked in a PVA/water mixture. I made sure to use larger pieces for the bottom, and smaller ones for the top. When finished, I tore up the leftovers into smaller pieces and added those to areas where there was very little texture, to break up the even surfaces.
The end result was much more pleasing to the eye, and significantly larger too, making the Tusken camp look more like a family camping area, instead of a festival terrain.
They're now also more in line with the huts/tents as seen in episode 3.
After the below picture, I already undercoated them, but this time with the wall paint I use for all my basing and tables (matched to the old GW Graveyard Earth), mixed with water and PVA. This made them stronger, obviously, but as I did not let the paper squares soak as long as I did the first time, they were not as mushy this time around, preserving the edges of the paper better, so the texture is now there as I had intended.
I will spray them in a sand colour after this, and I'm confident that the following washes will not be as dire now, as my with first attempt.
'And there was much rejoicing'
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Yes, they look good 8)
We learn by doing :D
I'm still learning after 20 odd years lol
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Glad you are happy with them there was nothing wrong with the last batch
Look good though will be better with some paint
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They certainly cut the mustard.
8)
If you have not already binned the others maybe you could use them as an abandoned village and have sand drifts piling up over them...?
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Thanks gents :)
And Mason; that's actually a great idea. Of course I haven't binned them yet; I'll post a side by side picture of them together later, just to show the huge difference between the two batches.
I had already been thinking of a purpose for them (the village for my daughter's orcs is not off the table yet), but such an abandoned village has a lot of merit indeed. I might even add some blaster marks ('only Imperial Stormtroopers are that precise') and maybe even a scorched skeleton... :D
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It would be a shame to waste them....although the idea of them housing your daughter's Orcs sounds equally worthwhile.
:)
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Here the two batches are next to eachother, in comparable WIP states.
Now to finish them off...
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They look really good
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Well, between chores and physical work around the house, I did manage to finally finish the three Tusken Raider tensts/huts. The second iterations that is, obviously :D
I spraypainted them the same sand colour I used on my first Tatooine building, but this left the colour too close to it, so I decided to use flesh washes and other reds instead of the dark tones I used on the plasterwork.
And this worked out perfectly, since the tents/huts are supposed to be made from (animal?) skin. It's hard to make out in the pictures, but I picked out a lot of individual hides in different washes. The effect is subtle, but works really well to break up the surfaces of the tents. Sadly, it does not show up too well in the pictures, but believe when I say the effect is there.
I also picked out all seams/overlaps with Army Painter Dark Wash, slightly diluted, to make sure the different hides do not melt into eachother when looking at them from a distance.
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_33.jpg)
After this, I drybrushed the entire tents with khaki, then sand and finally bone white. I used make-up brushes for the first time here, and they are great; very soft and big, and they're now a standard part of my painting arsenal.
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_35.jpg)
Then the wood used for the frameworks. These are cocktail skewers, and they caught a substantial dose of sandcoloured spraypaint during that particular step, and it made them look very pale. In fact, to the extent that they looked very much like dried wood already!
But as there were also patches of black paint where I had accidentally touched them during the painting of the top opening, they needed to be painted over after all. I found a very good grey/green colour (VMC Stone Grey - 70.884) in my collection that matched the sprayed-on bamboo almost perfectly, so I used that to paint all the sticks (including those in the drying frame). They then received a wash of AP Dark Tone, and finally a drybrush of VMC Silvergrey - 70.883.
And the effect was perfectly mimicking very dried out wood! 8)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_32.jpg)
That was the tents all done, although I might give them some sandy pigment treatment to the lower parts of the tents before sealing them.
The hide on the frame was painted in the same way as the ones on the tents, but here, I got a bit adventurous, and as the flesh wash (slightly heavier than on the tents; this is a fresh one after all) was drying, I repeatedly drew a clean, dry brush through the (now sticky) wash, to hint at a pattern of a spine and ribs. I'm pretty pleased with that effect, although the end result is still a bit flat and textureless, so I might stiple some paint on, let it dry and then repeat the process, after which a light drybrush can bring out the added texture.
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_34.jpg)
But silly me did the above on both sides, which (unless they managed to find and kill a very rare type of siamese twins) is not very realistic ::) So I'll probably darken the rear side, and maybe even hint at a pelt. Maybe by using static grass? (now there's an idea...)
Also, the ribcage and skull pile on the base are blending into the sand a bit too well, so I might yellow those up a bit.
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_36.jpg)
'The Synchronous Gaffi Stick Team went bananas when they saw their new camp'
Left to do is to make a camp fire, and some assorted scatter terrain pieces, inspired by the same picture I used for my tents. I believe it's from the Star Wars Battlefront game, and not episode 3, but hey; it works for me.
Here it is; you can compare my end result with this piece of inspiration and judge for yourself whether or not my first attempt would have fit the bill ;)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_37.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_31.jpg)
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They look top notch, mate!
:-* :-*
I shall come back and steal all of your ideas when I make the yurts for my Dune Tribes.
:D
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Lovely stuff, dude.
It may have been frustrating, but it was well worth the efort
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Nice work mate 8) Needs a butterfly lol
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lol Everything's better with a butterfly hidden somewhere. But actually, there is a sand moth inside one of the tents... ;D
And thanks guys; much appreciated, as always.
In the meantime, I have added some pigment powders to the tents and sealed them. Also, I have revisited the drying frame, and added a paper front onto the plasticard hide, which I stippled with a glue/paint mix, and then treated exactly like I did the plasticard underneath, so a patterned wash for the inside of the skin.
Which is now an actual pelt, because I have added long fur to it by coating the surface in PVA, and then (starting at the rear end) added small bundles of a long, tan coloured static grass. I first rolled the grass between my fingers until the individual fibers aligned, so I could then tap them gently into the glue lengthwise (relative to the pelt). I then added more, all overlapping, working towards the front.
When the glue was drying, I 'combed' the hairs with a brush, gently stroking any recalcitrant hairs into the right direction. This was not a perfect job though, and there are still some hairs 'off', but this does make it look like a particular rough pelt, so it works.
Once the glue was dry, I simply gave the entire fur area a dark brown wash, and that was it. I'm pretty pleased with the result, as it adds another layer of realism to the pelt.
In combination with the pile of skulls on the ground, I will leave it up to the observer to judge if the raiders managed to catch a Wookie, or another furry creature...
Also, I made a fireplace, by gluing down a ring of rocks (read; pebbles), with some tiny twigs and sticks as firewood inside, all painted to look like a died down campfire.
Regrettably, I do not have any pictures at this moment, so that will have to wait till this evening :)
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I thought the originals looked pretty good but you were right in redoing; the new ones are awesome.
Also love the hide drying rack.
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Oh, yeah, those are slick!
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They've turned out well 8)
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Cheers guys :)
And here are the pictures I alluded to earlier today:
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_40.jpg)
The campfire, all cooled off after last night's roast dinner
The drying rack, front side, now with added texture on the skin:
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_39.jpg)
And the rear side, with added fur; in real life, the pelt looks a lot more coiffured:
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_38.jpg)
Chewbacca never knew what hit him...
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They have come out very well indeed!
:-*
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Great work mate!
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Those are pretty cool. I'll have to bookmark this thread to add to my infamous VSF Desert Martians (that just happen to be Tuskens).
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On the crate front, have you had a look at the Crooked Dice ones?
https://crooked-dice.co.uk/product/cargo-crates-c/ (https://crooked-dice.co.uk/product/cargo-crates-c/)
https://crooked-dice.co.uk/product/cargo-crate-stack/ (https://crooked-dice.co.uk/product/cargo-crate-stack/)
Nice work by the way.
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Great looking scenery, keep it coming.
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Really nice work - wonderful thread!
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Finally, at the very end of the less than stellar past years, I managed to get some more work in on this project.
I had some days off, and I took one of those days to create another building for my Tatooine scenery. It literally took me one day, including drying time, even though I did schedule in a little break in the evening to play a game of Gaslands on my desert table (but that's for a different thread).
There was always going to be a moisture farmer's homestead, obviously. It may not be the Lars family one exactly (read; a burnt out hole in the ground lol ), but it could pass for it, or any other generic moisture farmer's house. Or at least, what's on the actual surface of course.
I started with a styrene ball cut in half. I believe it was 12cm in diameter. Then I cut a block of styrofoam into a low cilinder, with a diameter slightly larger than the half sphere, and these were glued together with hot glue.
Previously I dabled with PVA and cocktail sticks, but the waiting time was annoying (and dear), so I switched to my glue gun, and this seems to be the way forward.
After this, I cut three blocks of the same height as the cilinder, and cut one side of each concave to match the curvature of the cilinder, so they would have a good surface for glueing them to the main body.
On top of these, I glued down some half cilinders, cut to shape to match the curvature of the dome on one end, and finally, flush witht he protruding blocks. For the front (center) one, I did the same, but I cut off about a centimeter or so off the half cilinder and cut out the top half of the door. I then also cut out the same depth and width from the lower block before glueing the two parts to that same block.
This was to be the door. I glued in a length of zip-tie again, to get that ribbed look on the inside of the doorframe. The door itself was made from polystyrene sheet, with a pattern cut out of a second piece, and glued on with plastic cement. This was then simply slid into the door opening from underneath, behind the zip-tie ribbing. Pressure would keep it in place, but I added some PVA for good measure anyway.
The control panel was a made from a few pieces of polystyrene cut-offs. Used were a small rectangle of 2mm thick sheet, and some different diameter polystyrene (or ABS?) rod, both round and square.
The end result would later be pushed into its place by cutting away the wall-filler, and pushing in the foam to the desired depth. A drop of PVA went into the hole and the panel was pressed into it.
On the back, I added a vent of sorts from my 40K bits box. A space buck for the first one to guess its origins ;)
The surface of the entire structure was then coated with wall filler, and smoothed out with water here and there. When dry, it was then sanded down to bring the surface relief moderately into scale, using homemade sanding sticks (icrecream sticks with glued on sanding paper; cheap and effective ;) ).
The rest of the proces was actually (very) similar to that of the first Tatooine building I made, so if you're interested, read all about that on the first page of this thread :)
I then added some crates etc to the front of the building, to make it look that little bit more like Owen Lars' real estate; in pictures from A New Hope, there are quite some boxes, crates and bottles scattered around the doorway, so I emulated that with an assortment of suitable items.
There's a crate (or crates?) from Oshiro modelterrain, two different crates from the previously used Star Wars Legion Battlefield Objectives set, and some other random scifi resin bits, like a barrel and a fuel(?) can.
As a final touch, I ran a wire from a deep crack in the front wall, to the vent thingy on the back of the building. Judging by the moisture leaking from the thing, it must be some sort of airconditioning unit. Any passing Tusken would have an immediate fit at the sight of such a waste though!
Now, the final weathering still has to be done, but I will only break out the weathering powders once I get my hands on more matt spray varnish. I'm all out at the moment, and we're currently in another lockdown, meaning all non-essential businesses are closed (to me, hobby supply shops are very essential, but apparently, nobody seems to take my phone calls on the matter seriously).
So that'll have to wait a little bit longer.
For now, here's some pictures of the newest addition to the Star Wars fold...
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_41.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_42.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_43.jpg)
And a few gratouitous pictures of all my current finished Star Wars terrain:
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_44.jpg)
'Hello peasant. Nice place. Want to keep it that way?'
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_45.jpg)
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Great work mate!
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Not seeing any pictures ???
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Can't see any pictures either?
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Well that's new :(
They're showing up on all of my devices, but I'll check to see what's off here. Perhaps the Empire is blocking our frequencies...
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I see them just fine. Can't stop the signal (whoops, wrong franchise...)
Sweet looking, building there. You board is coming up nicely
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Great looking terrain 8)
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Looks great!
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Well that's new :(
They're showing up on all of my devices, but I'll check to see what's off here. Perhaps the Empire is blocking our frequencies...
I can see them on my phone but not the laptop (laptop was my initial viewing).
They do look great though 8)
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Exact same as me can't see them on my laptop but can on my phone??
Has something changed on the forum?
There have been a few threads recently where I can't see the pictures?
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Nice.
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On the back, I added a vent of sorts from my 40K bits box. A space buck for the first one to guess its origins ;)
Vent off the back of a Terminator.
Grimm
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Nice try, but alas... ;D
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Exact same as me can't see them on my laptop but can on my phone??
Has something changed on the forum?
There have been a few threads recently where I can't see the pictures?
Yep, same for me. I could see them an my tablet but not on my PC.
Are you using crome? This seems to be the problem for me, I tried another browser on the same Pc and I could see them just fine. More google BS no doubt.
Nice work on the Terrain, really looks the part.
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Yep, same for me. I could see them an my tablet but not on my PC.
Are you using crome? This seems to be the problem for me, I tried another browser on the same Pc and I could see them just fine. More google BS no doubt.
Nice work on the Terrain, really looks the part.
Thanks for the tip about Chrome - I was having the same issue, switching to an alternative browser worked for me. The terrain looks great and it is making it harder for me to resist trying some Star Wars modelling myself.
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As luck would have it, I found myself completely without obligations today; I had dropped my daughter off at school, my wife was at work, I had the day off and all chores were done. So I was happily able to spend the entire day on my hobby.
Now, I could have continued painting my Dark Eldar (an entire squad of Wyches is sitting on my desk, waiting to be finished), but I felt doing a bit more terrain would be more rewarding on the short run. I mean; either finish the skin tones on a dozen of murderous acrobats, and then maybe the basecoat on the armour, or create an entire building from scratch?
It's obvious what would yield the most visible result, so out came the foam cutter :D
And time flies when you're having fun, so I had to pull myself away halfway the afternoon to go and collect the little lady, or I have no doubt I would have been able to get this thing all the way up to the undercoating stage, but alas; that'll be for another day.
But enough waffle; on to the pictures!
(http://fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_46.jpg)
(http://fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_47.jpg)
(http://fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_48.jpg)
(http://fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_49.jpg)
(http://fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_50.jpg)
I'm quite happy with how this larger building came out. I experimented with slanted walls, and this is also a more interactive structure than the previous ones, built especially with skirmish style gaming in mind.
The only bummer was that the hot glue I used was just too hot this time around, and it melted some of the foam here and there (most visibly on the stairs :-X ). I never had that problem before, but nothing a liberal application of wall filler won't fix eventually...
Obviously, it's not finished just yet, but the basic structure is. Remaining to do is possibly the creation of some small window slits, the covering of the entire structure with wall filler, and sanding that down, scratchbuilding the two doors and entryways, plus the addition of some greebles and scattered items here and there.
And of course that's all before the actual painting...
I had a blast today though, and I hope to be able to put the finishing touches on this structure later this week :)
(http://fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_51.jpg)
The Empire approves of this structure!
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So, despite the overwhelming response to the new building, I decided to plough on... :D
First up were the doors and windows. Yes, windows; I cut several window slits high up in the walls, right below the (envisioned) ceiling, because I felt that the otherwise rather bland side and back walls required a bit more visual interest. But leaving them open would not be an option. I mean; they would let in all the outside heat, plus the sand (Course; gets everywhere) and probably a multitude of creepy crawlers, most of which no doubt parasitic.
So I built shutters for al of them by means of a strip of plasticard the height of the windows, on which I glued overlapping smaller strips, to look like some lamelated covers.
Then the doors. On this larger construction, there are two; one on the ground floor and one on the second story, leading to what can't be anything else than some storage attic of sorts; it's too small even for a guestroom. Unless the guests are Jawas, but who in their right mind would invite those thieving little vermin inside their home, right?
Anyway...
I constructed two doors, using the same template. Except for the lower one I used the design, and for the top one, I used the cut-outs. The results are nice enough in both cases though. I then constructed an arch around both for those ubiqutous Tatooine recessed doorframes. These I then embellished with pieces of semicircular styrene rod, interspaced regularly.
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_52.jpg)
Then it was time for some greebling.
Firstly, I assembled some control panels for the doors, by combining several styrene strips, -sheets and -rods, and a couple of small gubbinz from the bitsbox.
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_53.jpg)
And then I raided another bitsbox for some larger pieces to dot around the building. I settled for some tubing, a part that I think belonged on the rear of a Predator Lascannon turret and some tie-wrap cut offs (that will probably not be used in the end).
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_54.jpg)
The box will be positioned high up on the second story wall, and once painting is done, I will probably add some cables to it. Also, I will be adding some scatter terrain such as crates, boxes and barrels at the end, like I did with the other buildings.
Once this was done, I covered the entire building in wall filler and let that dry completely. Once dry, I then sanded it smooth as well as I could, taking care not to take too much off so as to expose the foam underneath.
This time around, I had decided to carefully mask off the doors and windows before applying the filler, but that was not a success. For once, the tape stuck like crazy, and it also got stuck by overflowing filler, so in the end masking was more trouble than it was worth. It had the added negative of ruining the perfectly square window openings too ::)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_56.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_55.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_57.jpg)
Maybe next time I will leave the doors and windows out, but instead I will put a dummy in each place, which I can then later remove, leaving the filler intact, while also not filling up the textures of the windows and doors.
But once sanded, the building started to look like a proper adobe-style construction, and it was ready for painting.
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_58.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_59.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_60.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_61.jpg)
I am in the process of painting this thing right now, so I will probably only be adding pictures once those steps are done, but who knows.
So far, the building has received two layers of a protective basecoat of the standard desaturated brown wall paint I use for all my terrain, mixed with water and PVA glue.
Then I sprayed the entire building with Armypainter Sand, and added a reddish stripe to the walls, made by sponging on a mix of a burnt red, sand and white, with the stripe once again taped off with masking tape. This tape took off some small chips of plaster here and there,so I will have to touch those up with a sand coloured paint, but this will probably only add to the overall look.
Next up will be washing with brown and then drybrushing with bone white, after which it's off to my favourite part; detailing :)
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I like the foam building. I have been thinking about making similar things.
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Brill 8)
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Nice job, already looks the part, but the detailing and paint job will make it pop
:)
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outstanding built
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Sorry, but pictures not showing. I take it from the comments
that I am missing out on some nice stuff. I will try later, maybe
on another computer.
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Sorry, but pictures not showing. I take it from the comments
that I am missing out on some nice stuff. I will try later, maybe
on another computer.
You're probably using Chrome. See https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=130132.msg1650437#msg1650437 for instructions on how to get chrome to show insecure images on LAF.
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Thanks guys :)
You're probably using Chrome. See https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=130132.msg1650437#msg1650437 for instructions on how to get chrome to show insecure images on LAF.
And my images are not insecure; they had plenty of counceling and coaching! ;D
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Thanks guys :)
And my images are not insecure; they had plenty of counceling and coaching! ;D
Your images have no reason to be insecure; they go in my "ideas to steal" folder.
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Superb!
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Looking good. I like the idea of adding windows / shutters for visual interest.
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Well... A tiny little setback was encountered... :?
As I had reported previously, the painting stage was in full swing. I had done the undercoat (twice) and applied the basecoat, plus the coloured band around the building, just as I had envisioned. So far so good; everything looked great and ready for the next stage, the wash.
However, I managed to royally screw that up. Instead of the required black and brown craft paint mix I used on the previous buildings, I merrily started washing away with the product I use for all my temperate bases; Vallejo Brown Wash (in a very large pot). I even diluted it (I remembered that much at least ::) ), but it was still quite strong.
But even when drying, an uneasy feeling crept up on me; was it supposed to be this yellow/brown? It just didn't mesh, but I couldn't quite single out what it was that bugged me about the result.
Until last evening that is, when I decided that I would at least drybrush the whole building, even if I was deathly tired (usually doing hobby related activities picks me right up again), and then it suddenly dawned on me.
I looked up the recipe I used on the first building and lo; it was right there in the very post I made in this thread!
There was a short period of fence-sitting; should I just go ahead as-is, or should I step back and redo the last two stages? Me being me though, it was easily decided, and dutifully I picked up my project and off to the spraying booth it went. No matter I was pretty satisfied with the coloured stripe on the walls; I knew it would bug me to no end if the final finish would be radically different from that on the other buildings.
So now it sits in a plain sand colour once again.
The silver lining though, is that the entire structure will be that much more sturdy now, with those extra layers covering it... :D
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Sounds like you made the right decision, and it will be even more realistic as a result...what real building hasn’t had more than one coat of paint :D
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Ever the perfectionis, huh? :D
I know the feeling. Re-doing the facade of my building right now.
It'll be worth the trouble in the end. Knowing what you're going for, it'll tie the table together much better.
Sweet looking building. That table is gonna be awesome.
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Cheers guys :)
Ever the perfectionis, huh? :D
You know it... :D
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So, after that little episode, we're back to our regular programming.
I redid the stripe on the walls (slightly adjusted for colour as well, while I was at it), and did the correct wash this time. Then it was on to drybrushing. I started out too dark, but in the end I got the result pretty consistent with the other two buildings.
This was followed by a light wash of both AP Strong Tone and Sepia to the bottom edges of the walls.
After this, we were already on the home stretch, really. I did the doors, windows and control panels, which was really quick, and then I started on some scattered crates and barrels.
These seem to have become a bit of a theme in this project, and they look good, so why stop now, right?
Then I added some cables to the boxy thing on the second floor, and also added a greeble for them to lead to, just around the corner.
Plus; I added some sand/tilegrout mix to all horizontal surfaces, since sand gets everywhere apparently. Retroactively, I did the other two buildings like this as well, and I really like the end result.
Finally, almost as an afterthought, I added some seditionist graffiti to the rear wall, and I called this one done.
But enough waffle; this has taken long enough already, on to the pictures!
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_62.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_63.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_64.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_65.jpg)
Some detail shots:
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_66.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_67.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_68.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_69.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_70.jpg)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_71.jpg)
And finally, a shot of it on the table, with most of my other Tatooine terrain:
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_72.jpg)
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(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_73.jpg)
Stormtrooper: What's this, then? "Imps move House"? "People called Imperials, they move towards house"?
Rebel: It says "Imps, Go home".
Stormtrooper: No it doesn't. What's Basic for "Imp"? Come on!
Rebel: "Imperium".
Stormtrooper: Goes like?
Rebel: "al"?
Stormtrooper: Vocative plural of "al" is?
Rebel: "Als"?
Stormtrooper: "Imperials".
[the Stormtrooper corrects the first line of the Rebel's grafitti]
Stormtrooper: "Move". What is "move"?
Rebel: "Go".
Stormtrooper: Conjugate the verb "to go".
Rebel: "I go, you go, we go".
Stormtrooper: So "move" is?
Stormtrooper: Third person plural present indicative. "They go".
Stormtrooper: But "Imperials, go home" is an *order*, so you must use the...?
Rebel: The imperative!
Stormtrooper: Which is?
Rebel: Um, oh, oh, "also go?".
Stormtrooper: "Go".
[the Stormtrooper corrects the second line of the Rebel's grafitti]
Stormtrooper: "House"? Nominative? "Go house". This is motion towards, isn't it, Rebel?
Rebel: Dative!
[the Stormtrooper draws his blaster and holds it to the Rebel's neck]
Rebel: No, not dative! Accusative! Accusative! "house", sir. "to house".
Stormtrooper: Except that "house" takes the...
Rebel: The locative, sir.
Stormtrooper: Which is?
Rebel: "Home".
Stormtrooper: "Home".
[the Stormtrooper corrects the last line of the Rebel's grafitti]
Stormtrooper: Understand?
Rebel: Yes, sir.
Stormtrooper: Now write it out a hundred times.
Rebel: Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Long live the Emperor, sir.
Stormtrooper: Long live the Emperor. And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll blast your balls off.
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The buildings look great - well done :-*
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Cracking building and a nice take on the monty python scetch lol lol lol
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Great work mate!
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Thanks all :)
...nice take on the monty python scetch
Cheers; I just could't resist... :D
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Looking good man. Just those couple of buildings on that table.
It's gonna be awesome when it's complete.
And good thing learning rebel scum some proper grammar.
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Love ‘em!
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Great work in the building. Love the little details you added that really bring it to life.
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SO, in the aftermath of the building, I decided my Imperials required some more manpower, so I painted up six more Stormtroopers, bringing them to a game-legal (well, for Legion at least) number of seven.
I think I've got this paint scheme down. They won't win any prizes, but I can reliably churn out one per hour now, although I found that doing them in two's works best...
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/StarWars/Tatooine_74.jpg)
Look sir, Tushy Station. Perhaps we should go and patrol over there...
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I really want to see what is going on here but just cannot see any pictures....so sad.
:'( :'(
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Probably that browser issue again :'(
I must really start looking into adding that 's' to my 'http'...
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I really want to see what is going on here but just cannot see any pictures....so sad.
:'( :'(
Mason,
You can try following the instructions I posted at https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=130132.msg1650437#msg1650437
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failing that you can right click and open in a new window
Nice work :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Beautiful work. What made you go with blue board for the buildings rather than foam core if I may ask?
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Thanks guys :)
@ Nick: As of last year, I've become a student of the school of Proxxon. [GONG]Clang![/GONG]
Meaning I am now doing most of my building out of styrodur, using a foamcutter. It allows for much more intricate shapes, a lot of which I still have to try out. Coincidentally, I received my copy of Gé Boom's seminal work 'Buildings - Tabletop terrain from XPS foam', just after I finished my last building. I'll be sure to use loads of the techniques in that book in the next build though.
Also; foamcore is not as prevalent here in the Netherlands as it is elsewhere, and I've had abysmal luck trying to remove one or both sides of the sheets we can buy over here (which are rather expensive to boot)...
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Thanks, understood.
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failing that you can right click and open in a new window
I tried that last time around and it would not work.
Now it does...weird.
Result!
Great stuff D, I love that big building, makes me want to get back to making some more buildings myself.
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That building is fantastic man! Love the painting on it, especially the stripe and graffiti. Really finishes it off. Excellent.
And for me the trick to see the images is to open the page in Safari...I normally use Chrome, but for this thread that doesn't work. So I copy-paste the link and I can see the eye candy!