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Author Topic: Coast extension for my urban board (last-minute updates for Crisis 4.11.)  (Read 20330 times)

Offline cianty

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This is totally amazing. Not really my genre but it's a beauty and joy to look at nonetheless. I look forward to more eye candy! ;D

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Painting wood is easy - prime black, heavily drybrush with Cold Grey, drybrush with Stonewall Grey, highlight with either Wolf Grey or some other light grey of which I forgot the name (all Vallejo Game Colour). Then carefully pick out a few individual planks with light grey or even white. And finally apply a few thin, uneven washes of various browns. It's amazing how wood can take on almost the colour of concrete.

The concrete surfaces were all done with cork wallpaper (Amazing stuff, cork. Really.). The cracks are simply torn into the material, the pieces were then glued to the board with a millimeter between them. Afterwards, I went over it with plaster to fill in most of the small holes. Then painting.

I'll take detail pictures over the weekend.
Great, Zafarelli, thanks!
Now, I'll see if I can find some of those wallpapers :)

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Looks amazing
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Silversixx, I got my cork wallpaper from the DIY store. Doesn't come cheap, but is well worth it.

Finally did the water. However, what looked quite good in the little test piece did not turn out that well on the big board. The surface turned out extremely uneven, up to the point where it looked rather like coarse sand than water. I managed to smooth it down a bit by additional layers of different materials (Noch Modellwasser and PVA among them), but it still looks rather odd. Acrylic water mediums and I are not friends. Besides, it warped the board something terrible. Fortunately, that was mended rather easily by covering the other side with PVA, and, once the surface had dried, weighting it down with a few heavy bottles.

However, I like the way all that stuff washed against the beach turned out. Also, the cliff starts to come out nicely.



Closeup of the jetty. I got a bit carried away with placing barrels and stuff in the water, so there is no more room for the additional two sections I had planned, or even a boat... Top left you can see a few waves I sculpted from Vallejo Gel Denso in an attempt to give all that movement in the water a sense of direction. They should have dried up clear by tomorrow.


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Cool  :-*
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Great, Zafarelli, thanks!
Now, I'll see if I can find some of those wallpapers :)

Skander, www.materialbutiken.se 's got them, several thicknesses.

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Re: Coast extension for my urban board Update 19/7
« Reply #36 on: July 20, 2010, 09:33:54 AM »
Absolutely fantastic!

Offline M Blakey

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Re: Coast extension for my urban board Update 19/7
« Reply #37 on: July 20, 2010, 09:38:12 AM »
that water is Superb!

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Re: Coast extension for my urban board Update 19/7
« Reply #38 on: July 20, 2010, 10:43:54 AM »
Mensch, Jens, das ist doch superklasse geworden! Man ist selbst immer ein wenig zu kritisch ...  :)

Absolutely fantastic!

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Re: Coast extension for my urban board Update 19/7
« Reply #39 on: July 20, 2010, 02:41:16 PM »
The water looks great on the photos! Very very cool. Especially with all the stuff in the water. Awesome.

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Re: Coast extension for my urban board Update 19/7
« Reply #40 on: July 22, 2010, 09:41:38 PM »
Here are a few pictures of the completed coast segment with some terrain and minis on it, as well as some last minute additions. With the added waves, I think the water looks quite good (I'm even tempted to buy more of that Gel Denso stuff, and sculpt some more), although it doesn't really show in the pictures. I'll try to take pictures in daylight someday, as usually, the reflection of the sky is what makes water look like water, instead of acrylic modelling paste under neon light.

Accept for the waves and some more detail painting, the two main additions are the camouflaged lookout on the cliff, and the concrete shelter in the last pictures (which will be available as a kit from Pardulon some time in August). Anyway, thanks for all the helpful tips and suggestions, even if I did not directly respond to them.





















And that's it! Thanks for looking!

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Re: Coast extension for my urban board (pic-heavy final update 22/7)
« Reply #41 on: July 22, 2010, 09:45:20 PM »
Thanks for sharing  :D

Wonderful work you have there, the colour palete is very pleasing to the eye, nice and subtle.

cheers

James
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Re: Coast extension for my urban board (pic-heavy final update 22/7)
« Reply #42 on: July 22, 2010, 10:08:16 PM »
Small observation, where the concrete sea wall has collapsed for what ever reason, wouldn't there be dirt poured out from under the slabs of concrete? Just thinking that the cemented area would not be 12 feet thick? Anyways, nice work :)
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Re: Coast extension for my urban board (pic-heavy final update 22/7)
« Reply #43 on: July 22, 2010, 11:24:41 PM »
Great work Jens, a fantastic addition to your board.

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Re: Coast extension for my urban board (pic-heavy final update 22/7)
« Reply #44 on: July 22, 2010, 11:50:12 PM »

 :o  WoW  :-*
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