Raedwald’s Sci Fi Thread (p.10 - VIP & furniture)

[has.been]

- our household cat is convinced she’s the owner and we’re staff!

In ancient Egypt cats were worshipped as gods...cats have never forgotten this. 

[snitcythedog]

Lovely models.  Always like me some crooked dice civilians. 

cats have never forgotten this. 

Cats remind us of this at every opportunity. 

[Raedwald]

Hi all,

Long time since I posted on this thread! It's been a strange year, with hobby time taken by a series of family illnesses, some requested drawings to do, and then prepping close to 100 minis for various sci fi, fantasy and historical projects.

Anyway, I bought Hasslefree's 'Abercrombie' about six years ago, thinking it would make a novel VIP for sci fi scenarios. Recent events reminded me and bumped it to top of the painting queue as a quick break from other projects.

This one really challenged me, trying to paint such a finely detailed sculpt, and I've done the sculptor no justice. The combination of the Hasslefree scale, my aging eyes, and painting when already exhausted in the evening made it a struggle in all honesty.

The sci fi furniture is Micro Art Studio's very nice data tower, and some other items by Terrain Crate. I won't go into another rant about the Terrain Crate stuff, but in summary: if I'm paying that price for terrain I don't expect to have to mess about trying (with limited success) to heat and reshape it into a believable object.

I really just coloured these in with a contrast paint, but did enjoy trying 'The Matrix' style text on some of the screens.

Cheers,
Raedwald

[Mellal]

Really nice job on all this scifi thread ! I especially love the text effect on you screens :O

[has.been]

Do not decry your skills...you came up Trumps. 

[Raedwald]

@Mellal - Thanks! Really glad you like the thread. 

@has.been -  Well on reflection, perhaps you're right. It is great... bigly great... the greatest. 

[Mellal]

Are your screens a one shot greenish discontinued lines ?

[Raedwald]

Are your screens a one shot greenish discontinued lines ?

@Mellal - Thanks for the interest. Starting with a black background, they're a series of dots, or broken line, first in dark grey, then medium grey, then a bit of light, then the odd spot of white. After that, washed it with a thin glaze of bright green.
Magnified shot shows it's quite imprecise, but looks okay on the table to the eye. 

[Mellal]

Thanks a lot, I need to finish my Star Saga furnitures so i'll give it a try very soon !