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Offline mcfonz

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Mcfonz's Random Sci Fi thread
« on: January 13, 2025, 02:52:38 PM »
Well, I seem to be a bit rubbish at maintaining multiple threads of anything so I figured I would try and condense it into one.

Those of you that have seen others of my threads, for over a decade I helped to put on and run participation games at Salute. Other commitments and, lets just say, some incredibly negative remarks from one person, just put me off doing more at this time. It just sucked the enthusiasm out of it for me which is why there hasn't been so much from me recently, as well as some real life stuff.

Anyway, it seems that my long time love affair with Necromunda got me back on the getting stuff done train...




This was the first one, it was a test of concept more than anything else. I had a can of Mechanicus Standard Grey and wanted to start the ball rolling. So I threw that down as a base. Hit it with a dark brown wash and then got out the sponge to give it a good going over with Reeve's artist acrylic Burnt Umber. Then I got out GW's Ryza Rust technical paint and applied it to areas of the Burnt Umber - but importantly, not all of it, and mainly focusing on the lower half of the bulkheads. The last step for now, was getting as good a high end silver as I have, Vallejo air silver I think it its, and just hit some of the rusty edges with that.

I think I might add some other technical stuff at a later date, blood effect, some of GW's chaos puss type stuff, some other suggestions of water staining and then some posters/graff maybe. The main thing for me at this point was to get a set of terrain tabletop ready. And I had enough of a lot of it just sitting there waiting for that to happen.

The design of these was a process of being fed up of all the mdf makers having different heights and also missing the detail those plastic bulkheads give. Sheed plastic offcuts courtesy of 6milphil glued to the mdf platforms, in this instance from Kromlech via Dark Sphere in London.

The others follow the same build approach and painting technique.


With these I didn't hit them with a wash. I found it got lost amongst the grey, but looking at the red building, I feel like it could do it to help bring out some of the detail before I hit it with the rust paint. The 2nd grey building used Army Painters space wolf grey equivalent and is much closer to the colour of the original 1995 GW cardboard platforms.

I have some more bits I am sorting out images for before I post them.  :D
« Last Edit: January 23, 2025, 02:29:14 PM by mcfonz »
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Re: Mcfonz's General Sci Fi thread
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2025, 03:04:26 PM »
Awesome work, the red is really eye-catching  :-*
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Re: Mcfonz's General Sci Fi thread
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2025, 05:58:56 PM »
I like your rust effect.

Offline BeneathALeadMountain

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Re: Mcfonz's General Sci Fi thread
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2025, 06:50:29 PM »
McFonz - they look great. The good thing about getting any part of a project to this point is that they’re tabletop ready (and lovely) but you can always go back later to add more to them. I like the colour variations but particularly the red platform - it’s spot on.

I sympathise with the real world getting in the way (maybe an understatement considering the last couple of years lol ). Who is this rude individual? (I obviously don’t want you to name names) I’m getting to that part in my life where all tolerance for such behaviour is pretty much gone and my internal Viking ancestry is sharpening their axes and bidding farewell to their loved ones  :D. Luckily LAF is the last bastion of reasonable, polite and supportive toy-loving grown ups.

Keep up the good work,

Andrew
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Re: Mcfonz's General Sci Fi thread
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2025, 08:08:45 PM »
Nice work mate

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Re: Mcfonz's General Sci Fi thread
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2025, 10:13:14 PM »
Thanks for the start to finish series of photos. I have to be honest, I was shocked when I saw the red color pop up...  lol I thought you were going for a grimy abandoned piece of equipment and then...BOOM!

Looks great, though.  :-*

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Re: Mcfonz's General Sci Fi thread
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2025, 10:29:09 PM »
That is beautiful work.

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Re: Mcfonz's General Sci Fi thread
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2025, 07:35:17 AM »
That's really effective, good to see you back at it.

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Re: Mcfonz's General Sci Fi thread
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2025, 08:17:15 AM »
Welcome back to it Fonz :)

The buildings look absolutely great; the grey and red are both perfect for the subject matter and I particularly like the subtle striping here and there. Don't write off the brown wash; consiously you might not directly see it, but your eye does pick up the minute colour modulation and it absolutely adds to the look.

The weathering is very good too; simple but effective is what we all strive for after all ;)

I'm looking forward to your next installment!

Also; I'm 100% with BaLM on this one; no consideration or patience for haters anymore. Life is to short to spend it on negativity. And there's our small island of civility and hobby enthousiasm in the roiling ocean that is the internet instead; the LAF...
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Re: Mcfonz's General Sci Fi thread
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2025, 03:10:30 PM »
great looking terrain. 

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Re: Mcfonz's General Sci Fi thread
« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2025, 10:45:34 PM »
Sorry if the images are coming out huge, imgur doesn't seem to edit them in the way it used to and instead does weird stuff to them if I try to shrink or crop them?  :?

I found a little lot of stuff on facebook marketplace last year. I wanted it mainly for the Necromunda stuff so was able to split and sell other bits to make some money back. Some of what I was left with was parts of the Necromunda market set. Enough to make two and a half stalls, a small, a large and half a large...

The first one a sort of curiosities stall with random valuable artefacts etc:


The 2nd was missing the back piece so I made do with a section of ruin that was in the same lot. This, for me, lent it more towards being a guns and ammo stall.


The two together (the third is underway).

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Re: Mcfonz's General Sci Fi thread
« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2025, 10:57:14 PM »
Nice! That Necromunda market kit is very useful - I used one to make tarps for vehicle conversions!

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Re: Mcfonz's General Sci Fi thread
« Reply #12 on: January 14, 2025, 11:52:50 PM »
Well, I seem to be a bit rubbish at maintaining multiple threads of anything so I figured I would try and condense it into one.

Better than being rubbish in general. Just moved into an apartment, don't even have a table to put things on, much less any knack for creating such things.

You certainly have the knack. So say we all!

Those of you that have seen others of my threads, for over a decade I helped to put on and run participation games at Salute. Other commitments and, lets just say, some incredibly negative remarks from one person, just put me off doing more at this time. It just sucked the enthusiasm out of it for me which is why there hasn't been so much from me recently, as well as some real life stuff.

To my shame, I know too well. Plenty of positive comments from others still leaves the sting...

Well, trying to add a positive suggestion, for the stalls, I suggest you have a look at cheap plastic beads.

Some look like carved terracotta, perfect for desert caravan stops, but others, painted metallic, would look great on shelves as various wares.

Thanks for sharing!

Doug

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Re: Mcfonz's General Sci Fi thread
« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2025, 09:53:47 PM »
I love those stalls. Are those staples binding the cloth together...? If so, great idea -- looks like metal wire!

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Re: Mcfonz's General Sci Fi thread
« Reply #14 on: January 15, 2025, 10:24:42 PM »
I love those stalls. Are those staples binding the cloth together...? If so, great idea -- looks like metal wire!

Mike Demana

Yeah, they are one of the details on them in the kit - it's really lovely. There is so much stuff I haven't yet used as well.



I've made one of the goods displays top right but don't actually like how it looks. Which is why I stood the weapon rack upright at the back of the stall I made for guns and ammo. I have another frame which I am going to use plasticard with to make another stall and will plough ahead with the one I built.

Other bits and bobs will crop up in terrain builds I suspect. I try to give each piece a bit of a "snapshot" feel, a hint at something just happening. I've built a walkway with a service hatch open with tools lying next to it, like someone has been disturbed by gunfire and scarpered mid-repair.

 

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