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Which colour should I paint my table ???

Option #1
9 (34.6%)
Option #2
11 (42.3%)
Option #3
2 (7.7%)
None of the above; start building a tramp steamer or something!
4 (15.4%)

Total Members Voted: 26

Voting closed: January 11, 2008, 07:56:18 PM

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Offline Argonor

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« on: January 08, 2008, 07:56:18 PM »
I need feed-back. Lots of it!  :wink:

All pics are taken with flash, as I do not (yet) have proper lighting for photography....

Option #1:
This one looks better on the photo than in real life...


Option #2:


Option #3:
This one might be better for a Mars table..?
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Offline Lowtardog

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« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2008, 08:05:24 PM »
What stthe Question Argonor? which looks more like wildwest desert?

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« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2008, 08:22:39 PM »
I find them really nice. You could give me (us?) the way you create them?

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« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2008, 08:41:08 PM »
I'd tone down the red and add more tans.
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« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2008, 09:14:04 PM »
I agree with cory, less red..

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« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2008, 09:54:21 PM »
I think they ar all to red .
I would make it mor yellow/beige so you can use it also other games(africa maby)
sometime you have to  compromise
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« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2008, 01:57:14 AM »
I actually like the red- it's not much different from some of the natural geology here in the states- good for some old west action from Oklahoma and Texas to the southwest. It's not named Red Rock Canyon (Nevada) just to sound cool :)

The red also is good for some of the sand dunes of the Kalahari for African adventures, or VSF adventures to Mars.

You could probably tone it down just slightly, but I still like the red.

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« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2008, 08:59:34 AM »
If a can give you my advise : the firs is good, et second too, the third well is for Mars.
In my ming you could improve the looking  with dry pigments Ochre an Red Ochre. You use it dry  with a brush. the dry pigment fade the relief. I use this technic for my basing with good rendering.
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« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2008, 07:33:00 PM »
Quote from: "Lowtardog"
What stthe Question Argonor? which looks more like wildwest desert?


Yeah, something like that..

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« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2008, 07:38:53 PM »
Quote from: "Luc"
I find them really nice. You could give me (us?) the way you create them?


Hmmm..

Its a chipboard with glued-on sand (thick white glue to avoid warping). Then I seal the sand with a thinnned down white glue (about the thickness of skimmed milk).

Colour 1: Windsor&Newton Galeria Acrylics Pale Terracotta with some Burnt Sienna mixed in, then drybrushed with Pale Terracotta

Colour 2: Same, but with more PT for the basic colour.

Colour 3. Pale Terracotta mixed with Cadmium Red Hue, then drybrushed with PT. It's not quite as red  as it looks on the photo...

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« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2008, 07:44:16 PM »
Quote from: "Grimm"
I think they ar all to red .
I would make it mor yellow/beige so you can use it also other games(africa maby)
sometime you have to  compromise


I have a very dark brown 2x2 table to use for African jungles (PULP and/or DA), and a yellowish 2x2 desert table for.. well... deserts.  :mrgreen:

This one is going to be 3x3 and used for smaller games of GutShot and maybe LotOW.

And I was thinking, that if I went for a red look, it could double for Mars (Warzone, FW) and other 'red planets'.  :?

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« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2008, 07:47:30 PM »
Quote from: "Argonor"
Quote from: "Luc"
I find them really nice. You could give me (us?) the way you create them?


Hmmm..

Its a chipboard with glued-on sand (thick white glue to avoid warping). Then I seal the sand with a thinnned down white glue (about the thickness of skimmed milk).

Colour 1: Windsor&Newton Galeria Acrylics Pale Terracotta with some Burnt Sienna mixed in, then drybrushed with Pale Terracotta

Colour 2: Same, but with more PT for the basic colour.

Colour 3. Pale Terracotta mixed with Cadmium Red Hue, then drybrushed with PT. It's not quite as red  as it looks on the photo...


I would dry brush it with some yellow ochre to make patches of sand. There are red desserts

http://zbigkurzawa.tripod.com/red-desert.jpg

http://catholicearthcareoz.net/graphics/desertrainbow2.jpg


in fact you get some weird looking desserts that if you put on a gaming table people would think wasnt realistic but it is the sunlight that governs the perception often
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« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2008, 09:49:02 AM »
#2 it is, then! I'll start painting in a few minutes  :mrgreen:

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« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2008, 10:27:32 AM »
Basic layer is done!

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« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2008, 01:39:07 PM »
Finished the basic table, am working on some mesas and encounter markeres.

Will be able to post pics of table/terrain and a couple of minis 'round next weekend, I guess...

 

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