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Other Stuff => Workbench => "Build Something" Archiv => Topic started by: McMordain on April 06, 2021, 02:39:30 PM
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Ahoy!
This will be either something for Necromunda (more likely) or something Sylvaneth themed for my AoS army (less likely).
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Good luck mate, Necromunda terrain sounds very interesting :)
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Thanks :) I just need to think on how make it interesting.
I think I will stick to Necromunda/generic sci-fi and either do something that fits with last years entry (the crashed ship (https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=121646.0)) or with my 2018 build (The Nest (https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=106266.0)).
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I was thinking hard how to make this more interesting, but couldn't come up with anything...
So decided to keep it simple.
I will make some additional pieces to last years crashed ship. The end goal is to make enough terrain for a 3x3 board, themed around an alien swamp. The overall scope of the project goes beyond this competition, as I would like to make some los blockers and other things, but doing some swampy patches fits in well.
I went through my boxes and took everything that could be useful.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/8499-200421194653-51114449.jpeg)
I also bought some additional items today and ordered a bunch of static grass in different colors (blues, reds, turquoise etc.).
An important thing in making these terrain pieces is to make them easy to store. I found some empty boxes and decided that anything I make have to fit in those.
First I made a test piece. The base is 3mm thick PVC foam. It is light and I hope it will not warp too much when I apply the water effect. But I want to test it, hence the test piece.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/8499-200421194653-511341319.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/8499-200421194653-51133245.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/8499-200421194653-511352130.jpeg)
Next I draw an outline for the water and tried to use an electric multitool with a milling head to make some depressions. Well that was a bad idea. It got really messy and the fine plastic shavings got charged and stuck to everything...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/8499-200421194653-51136319.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/8499-200421194744-511371113.jpeg)
Instead I made the sides of the pool from insulation foam and covered it with pva glue and tissue paper. Then it got a black undercoat to make sure no white would stick through the after the next step.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/8499-200421194744-511382091.jpeg)
Which was covering the whole thing in Vallejo black and brown thick mud.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/8499-200421194744-51139923.jpeg)
Before this I also glued on the snail shell and the plant thing.
The half sphere will have some crystals sticking out of it after I paint it.
Which is the next step so no more of this piece till the end :)
Nothing spectacular but if I can finish 3-4 big ones and half a dozen smaller ones during the BSC, I will be happy :D
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Nice, that texture turned out good and swampy looking even just primed black!
From Teh Rools: "You may enter up to six smaller individual bases." so you can get a good number of alien swamp boards done and show them all off for us.
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Slow progress during the weekend. Nothing really exciting, just more of the same.
The second box have three bases. I'm not sure how to use the small one yet.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/8499-030521183951-51235794.jpeg)
I found the dividers on the first base to big, so I experimented with a hot glue gun on this one. Also added some of the new acquisitions as alien plants.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/8499-030521183951-512392065.jpeg)
After this I covered it with the pva+tissue combo and primed it. (Forgot to make a photo). Then I added the texture.
I like better how this turned out, so hot glue it is on further pieces.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/8499-030521183951-512402348.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/8499-030521183951-51241940.jpeg)
I'm still waiting for the colored static grass to arrive (the post is sitting on it for some reason...). I need to wait till I can see them in person, before I can decide how to proceed with the painting part.
Nice, that texture turned out good and swampy looking even just primed black!
From Teh Rools: "You may enter up to six smaller individual bases." so you can get a good number of alien swamp boards done and show them all off for us.
Thanks, though the texture is not primed, it is Vallejo Black Thic mud and Russian Mud. I like how it looks, so I will probably go easy on the still water effect.
I'm also aware of the rules, but a, the bases are not that small (the boxes are 31 x 23 cm) b, I want to add some trees and big rocks to the board, which are not difficult terrains :)
But do not worry there will be a lot of swampy ones, the current plan is to make at least a dozen lol
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Do to a lot of small things adding up, I couldn't do much since last time...
I did finish building the bases in the second box.
I added to the small base one of these:
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/8499-300521204806-515021358.jpeg)
Then got the same treatment as the others.
The third base only got the banks, no extra big feature, but I added some "plants" using these:
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/8499-300521204806-515012379.jpeg)
A couple of them were added to the other bases as well.
No pictures as I forgot to make some before I started painting today... which is done, mostly. I need to make some adjustment here and there.
After that the only thing left is adding the static grass and the water effect.
I got this pack:
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/51/8499-300521204806-515001561.jpeg)
but I'm not sure how much should I use.
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Stay the course. This looks interesting!
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Well I added the static grass first to all the bases and then the water effect to two of them.
I started with the smallest base. I like the static grass colors I choose for this, however the application was to uniform and it doesn't look natural. It is a small piece though so it does not look that bad. I did the same thing on the second base and it is much more noticeable there.
So I tried to do the two big ones somewhat differently, and I think they turned out much better. My mother had a different opinion though. She thinks the patches of static grass still look to uniform...
Still at this point I was happy with my work so far. Then I added the water effect... :'(
I again started with the smallest one and added some purple ink to color it. The first mistake as it made it too dark. The second was that I thought the superglue I used to fix the small "plants" and their steam will seal the hole I drilled into the base. Nope, the nice dark purple water effect started to leak... then as I quickly wanted to seal the holes on the bottom, I tipped the base to much and spilled over the bank onto my table...
I'm not sure yet how to repair it, but as it is the smallest one it isn't a huge problem. Probably some repaint and reflock is needed.
Learning from this I used some tape to seal the holes on the other bases and started with the second one. This time I put some bright green paint into the water. Everything was fine until the water effect reached a point on the side where the I put some static grass. It instantly started to soak it up and slowly spread it along the bank... Managed to stop the spread with some super glue application so only a small section is ruined and I have some ideas about what to do to fix it.
But this will be a problem on the last to pieces as well as I put some grass in places where I can not avoid this soaking issue.
Anyway, this was a good learning curve but I'm not sure how good the end product will look. Especially compared to the other amazing entries lol
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We all go through setbacks - learning is an iterative process.
I have a lot of such experiences. lol
Please submit pictures of your finished project - even if it is not quite as you want it to be.
I still want to see it - I think the concept is very nice. ;)
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Oh, I will, don't worry :)
I worked to much on this to not submit a photo lol and i don't do it to win anyway. I like building stuff.
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