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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: pocoloco on June 06, 2013, 07:20:09 PM
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I had the great pleasure to purchase jimbibbly's wonderful Pump station kit and I am currently building it, pics will follow later.
Since I haven't really painted any brick buildings (real ones don't count, I guess) I had to do some experimenting first. Happily I had received two smaller brick wall pieces from (and by) yet another talented LAF member, Sangennaru. I had an idea to use those wall pieces as optional additions to pump station, in form of windows that have been walled up.
Here's a pic of the first test piece and I think it looks quite fitting. In case you wonder about the bare part in top, that is for bluetac to hold the piece in place if needed.
(http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j384/pocolocopocoloco/plbrickwall1_zps182548a4.jpg) (http://s1083.photobucket.com/user/pocolocopocoloco/media/plbrickwall1_zps182548a4.jpg.html)
C&C welcome. Will post more pics as I progress with this build and paint.
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Looking forward to seeing what you do with it ;)
cheers
James
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Oh, man! Maybe that's standards for you, but I'm amazed by how realistic it looks o_o.
Please tell your secrets, I wanna learn! :o
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Looks good to me. :)
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Looks good to me. :)
Antti: Receiving this comment from the man that I consider to be 'The Master of Brickwork', then I think you have it sussed.
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Many thanks for your words gents, I am blushing here :)
suber: my first try at painting miniature brick wall so I might have just gotten super lucky, glad you like it. The basic brick colour is a 60-40 or 70-30 mixture of Vallejo Cavalry Brown and Vallejo German Cam. Orange Ochre. Then for somewhat browner bricks I added few drops of Vallejo Charred Brown and for the yet more darker bricks I added Vallejo German Grey.
First I painted with the basic brick colour and later picked some individual bricks with the browner and darker colours mentioned above.
Once the paint was dry I took a white chalk and grinded chalk powder (thanks for the tip James!) which was then scrubbed on the wall with finger. After applying the chalk I brushed off lightly any extra powder and then with slighly wet (maybe barely moist would be more accurate description) napkin swiped the surface lightly, leaving the chalk powder in recesses and with the finish seen in the pic. Surprisingly easy... and fun :D
Here's a pic of all four walled up pieces, unfortunately no paint on the building itself yet. I will keep the four pieces attached just with blue-tac, so I can vary both the number and places of those windows that have been walled up, gives more "tactical choices" and whatnots for different scenarios :)
(http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j384/pocolocopocoloco/plbrickwall2_zps379af174.jpg) (http://s1083.photobucket.com/user/pocolocopocoloco/media/plbrickwall2_zps379af174.jpg.html)
I noticed only yesterday that Quantum Gothic is currently out of business or having a longer break, at least. Shame, as I was hoping to purchase their generator model to be used as one of the possible interior pieces for this... anyone know any other similar pieces, please feel free to suggest. And is there any manufacturer who does some kind of small workshop interiors for 28mm?
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Absolutely great. Bravo!
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And is there any manufacturer who does some kind of small workshop interiors for 28mm?
Pardulon will do something suitable and I'm looking into it also :)
cheers
Jame
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Suber: many thanks amigo :)
James: will check out immediately, many thanks for the tip.
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Antti: Receiving this comment from the man that I consider to be 'The Master of Brickwork', then I think you have it sussed.
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Now I'm blushing. Too kind sir :).
Looking forward to seeing this painted up Pocoloco.
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Now I'm blushing. Too kind sir :).
Looking forward to seeing this painted up Pocoloco.
Now the pressure keeps building up but I will advance with small steps. Just sprayed a layer of varnish on the walled up pieces. Tried to be gentle as possible, so kept my distance over than the normal 30cm or so and tried to have a very light coat of varnish... should be easier to build up new layer of varnish from that later on or add more chalk if that's the case later on.
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Looks great pocoloco! First thunderchicken and bibbly, now you too are a qualified bricky. (tradesman)
I would not believe that was white chalk if you had not said so. Just normal chalk board chalk, or artist pastel?
Does the varnish lock in the chalk, id imagine it could come off quite easy.
Cheers
Matt
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Hi Matt, thanks for such high praise but more realistically I'm at apprentice level, learning (hopefully) more as I progress with this.
The chalk is indeed normal type, we have a small part of wall painted with chalk board paint so I kind of nicked one chalk for hobby purposes :)
Varnish seems to hold the chalk in place, at least nothing does seem to come off now but I think couple of very thin layers more should give better protection from my greasy butter-fingers, so to speak :D
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And is there any manufacturer who does some kind of small workshop interiors for 28mm?
http://www.rustyrail.com/ (http://www.rustyrail.com/) has lots of cabinets, work benches, boxes and junk piles. Nothing modern however, more pre-WW2 era stuff.
And then there's these guys: http://www.sierrawestscalemodels.com/oscale/machine.html (http://www.sierrawestscalemodels.com/oscale/machine.html) Awesome machinery models but unfortunately so are their prices :(
Another one with some machinery and store interiors is http://modeltechstudios.com/ (http://modeltechstudios.com/oscalebuildingandrooftopdetails.aspx) Tried to place an order once. You can read how that turned out here : http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=50658.msg593050#msg593050
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Many thanks for the links zizi, I will drool over the items later on lol
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So while finishing my Fast Attack car I also had time to continue (finally!) the pump house, wonderful kit by by our very own jimbibbly. It is not yet finished, need to chalk up walls some more here and there, paint the inside, paint and fix all the windows and door and last but not least, build and paint the roof. So plenty of tinkering to do, but that's the fun part.
Here's a pic of how it looks so far (everything looks good through sepia filter, doesn't it?). As you can see, some grim chap, armed with pristine mp-40 has driven his new shiny Audi A3 to a darelict old pump house :)
(http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j384/pocolocopocoloco/plph1_zpsdcec9cd3.jpg) (http://s1083.photobucket.com/user/pocolocopocoloco/media/plph1_zpsdcec9cd3.jpg.html)
And here's the same with more colours:
(http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j384/pocolocopocoloco/plph2_zps42d9ac0c.jpg) (http://s1083.photobucket.com/user/pocolocopocoloco/media/plph2_zps42d9ac0c.jpg.html)
Comments and critique more than welcome, cheers for checking this out.
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What you've done so far looks ace 8) 8)
I like the irregularity of the chalking :)
cheers
James
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Thanks James, glad you like it :)
Now I'm having a dilemma whether to paint the windows and door worn white or muted green, currently leaning more towards the white. Decisions, decisions...
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That is looking great, mate!
Wonderful brickwork.
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Doors?
How about a green previous coat with white flaking paint over the top?
Now I bet you wish you hadn't asked.
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Hehe :) Now I do wish I hadn't asked BUT great idea. Now lets see if I can pull that off.
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That is a good idea and you should be able to do it with two different types of paint. Either acrylic over oil or the other way round. Or something like that, I've done it before but it was a while ago and I can't remember which way round it was (or which specific paints for that matter).
cheers
James
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That is a good idea and you should be able to do it with two different types of paint. Either acrylic over oil or the other way round. Or something like that, I've done it before but it was a while ago and I can't remember which way round it was (or which specific paints for that matter).
Sounds tricky o_o
I guess this will take more time than planned...
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Hey pocoloco, I've been reading bob letterman's tutorial for weathering vehicles, and it has a small section for painting peeling paint on doors. He just uses a sponge! And when I say just, he is a Jedi master with that thing. Scroll to the pic of a house. That may save you time using different mediums.
http://www.bobletterman.com/wordpress/?cat=279 (http://www.bobletterman.com/wordpress/?cat=279)
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Yeah, do the sponge thing lol
cheers
James
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Yeah, do the sponge thing lol
That is an old wives tale!!!. Oh we are talking about painting! Then by all means use the sponge! :D
Great build BTW.
Snitchy sends.
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Yeah, do the sponge thing lol
Now, THAT just sounds so wrong!
:o :o :o
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Thanks for the link Constable, lots of good advice in it.
I have done the sponge thing ::) lol Haven't managed to get the flaking paint effect with that though before, I need to practice more I guess.
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Still no sponge process thus no paint on the windows and door but something else, nevertheless. A smallish 4 x 2 part of a town forming up. The other building, "manor" of some sort, is from the Dust range, cars are 1/43 scale diecasts.
There will be a brick wall surrounding the pump house perimeter and perhaps a smallish garden for the manor. Lion statues by the entrance to the manor are from Fenris games, IIRC. If I somehow complete this board, I have a plan for a smallish waterfront board next... ::)
edit: and here's the pic o_o
(http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j384/pocolocopocoloco/pltown_zps37ce6705.jpg) (http://s1083.photobucket.com/user/pocolocopocoloco/media/pltown_zps37ce6705.jpg.html)
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Ooo, expansion, we like expansion 8)
cheers
James
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Nice looking plans there Pocoloco.
Do my eagle eyes spot a DB5?!!!!!
If so... NICE!
Cheers
Matt
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Thanks James. Expansions are nice.. more work though :)
Indeed Constable, it's a DB5... you should really rename yourself as Eagle-Eye Bertrand :D
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You have been busy lately, havent you?
Nice results.
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I like where you are going with this, mate.
Very nice....and plenty of scope for expanding.
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Indeed Constable, it's a DB5... you should really rename yourself as Eagle-Eye Bertrand :D
Well done Pocoloco, nice tip of the hat to 007! Will you add the correct plates too? ;)
Haha, I may need to. But my skills are not worthy that title as some on LAF are! ;)