I had the plan to build some interesting barriers suitable for World War II, modern and near future settings. Suddenly came the idea to do something burning, because I couldn't remind to be done very often other modellers or by any manufacturer. I had some experince with fire and smoke already and so I gave it a try.
I searched the WWW and found this pictures as references:
Recently I cast some different tyres and some open topped and battered oildrums in resin. These were the perfect basis to do some burning barriers.
I started with the casts and began with the first testpieces. The fire were sculpted with Pro Create, a selfhardening modelling clay I often use.
With these done I wondered if I could build a mould and get the models cast in resin. I was afraid of either to damage the mould while unmoulding the masters or to get to much airbubbles when casting the fine peaks of the fire in resin because I use singlesided moulds without preasure or vacuum. But to my astonishment everything went quite well.
The results can be seen in the next pictures:
The next step was painting the casts. After priming in black (Humbrol emailcolor) I first painted the oildrum with my proofed rust-technique. A short tutorial can be found here
http://www.elladan.de/052%20Oil%20drums%20and%20other%20rusty%20pieces/052.htm.
The fire was painted with acrylic colors, starting with a mix of white and yellow as a basecoat. Then followed yellow, orange, orange-red, red, darkred and finally black. I used my references as a guide. I painted the lighter yellow colors in the dents and at the bottom. The darker reds and some black was painted on the raised areas and at the peaks.
The smoke is done with some kind of white cotton woll for filters (floss). This had been spraypainted in a dark grey with a black color from a spraycan. The intensity of the differences in coloring and the transparency can be achieved by uncompressing the foss.
The next pictures show three versions of the first finished burning oildrums:
On the left: the unpainted cast
In the middle: a painted version with the smoke simply glued to the cast with whiteglue (Ponal)
On the right: another painted version with additional flames being added as desribed here
http://www.elladan.de/021%20Fire%20and%20Smoke/021.htm.
For the burnung tyres the paintingtechnique was the same as descibed above. The tyres had been painted in a very dark grey first. Then dry pigments in a dust color had been applied with a brush, especially in the treats. Then followed a careful drybrush with a middlegrey on the raised areas of the treats. The base was simply drybrushed with different brown and sand colors.
The next pictures show three versions of the first finished burning tyres:
On the left: the unpainted cast
In the middle: a painted version with the smoke simply glued to the cast with whiteglue (Ponal)
On the right: another painted version with additional flames being added as described here
http://www.elladan.de/021%20Fire%20and%20Smoke/021.htm.
And a detailshot:
http://www.elladan.de/053%20Burning%20tyres%20and%20oildrums/DSCN2774large_cr.jpgAnd finally (at least for now) I add some pictures with some WiP shots of the next and bigger piece with burning tyres:
If there might be some interest I will make this and the comming models of burning tyres and oildrums available via Stronghold-Terrain.de, a small hobby project of me and a friend of mine.
Stay tuned for more pictures and infos about the next pieces - I will definetly do some more in the next days.
Ciao
Elmar
http://www.elladan.dehttp://www.stronghold-terrain.de
27 May 2010, 12:34:41 PM