Image heavy post here, including a fair number of WIPs.
Flocked everything. This was a mix of regular flocks, plus some ground herbs (mostly marjoram and parsley).
Same for the grasslands.
This was the first water pour.
Looks good, but horrible bubble problems (hard to see in the photo).
I didn't take any pictures of the later disaster water pours, but I did take a few of my near-disastrous attempts to fix severe warping in the large pond. The base cracked, but luckily the clear gel held the top together. I had to glue the cracks from below. Things got sloppy.
One end stayed stubbornly high, so I had to add a filler bridge out of cardboard sanded to fit.
On the top, new filler added.
After that it was days and days days of corrective water pours. In the meantime, I worked on finishing the smaller stands or bracken and shrubs for cover. I pretty much grabbed every scenery element I had. Woodland Scenics and MBS clump foliage, Bachmann saplings/branches, Noch & Silflor tufts and flowers.
Problem! My cover stands were alright but looked wrong on the table. I realized that I just didn't have enough small bits to break things up, so I decided to make some more. A friend of mine with lots of woodworking experience actually helped me by cutting these out of MDF - I was just going to borrow his drill press to cut discs, but we wound up using a lathe (!). It seemed like an elaborate process (mounting a woodblock to the late, then crewing bits of MDF into the block, then carving them out carefully with a chisel) but was actually easier than it would have been because we cut and bevelled them all at the same time.
The wall compound I'm used to buying has been changed to a smoother formula, so I tried adding sand to bring texture back in. This worked pretty well.
Finally, after the water had been more or less rescued, the grasslands were detailed too, mostly with tufts. Some finished shots!
Obligatory bad photoshop job
Is that all? Nope. I've also been working on a small shelter made out of wreckage. I want the shelter to be multi-purpose, with bits that look like they might have com from an aircraft or ship or who knows what. The idea I had was to simply build up a collection of parts that looked like they could be from "something" and then build it out however it works of these pre-made bits (I do have a general idea of look and layout planned). First, a base.
Wood will be wood, plasticard for metal bits. Here you can see some sort of structural member as well as some hull plates (some damaged).
I knew I wanted a hatchway door with a broken window. Here's the start.
The two halves of the door complete, as well as some other bits.
Some wooden bits, this is after they've received a light wash of ochre to scale them better. Very light since this is still supposed to be newer wood, recently rescued from wherever. I'll have some more weathered wood too. Might drybrush some charring on some parts.
That's as far as I am with the shelter for now. But there's still one more thing. I needed an injured or sick man so I put one together out of bits and putty. The bedroll is a pressmold copy of a roll (sleeping bag?) I had from a military bits kit (so no, I didn't sculpt it).
10 October 2015, 04:47:47 PM