Bose-IV - What a mess… Nov 11th

[Mason]

It works for me.
 

If you can be bothered, a couple of streaks of greenish or brownish colour would look good.
Not really necessary but realism is called for sometimes.....

Like this:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=927&q=rusty+concrete&oq=rusty+concrete&gs_l=img.3...1539.4790.0.5578.14.10.0.4.4.0.79.427.10.10.0...0.0...1ac.1.4.img.ZxP3QOIR_Mw

[pocoloco]

Excellent idea! Hadn't thought out so far yet, many thanks. Will need to try to replicate that somehow, within my limited skill range that is. Maybe streaks orange+brown combo is enough for the effect?

[Mason]

Maybe streaks orange+brown combo is enough for the effect?

Start there.
You will soon get really carried away and come up with something amazing...

[Sangennaru]

in my opinion, you should start with a base with a lighter colour. that heavy drybrush doesn't represent well the shades of concrete. from there you can work with sponge instead of brush, or anyway give lighter shades, and then strong points on the borders. After that you NEED to apply some washes. a black one, or dark brown, then a lighter one somewhere, or a darker one in the dirty parts.

one of the greatest things of the plaster is the way it assorbs the washes. just a few seconds and the water is gone, so you can control them in a very different way! just try it out!

[pocoloco]

You mean on the yellow? Or on the rust effects? Or on both?

[Sangennaru]

i mean on all the piece.

[pocoloco]

Okies Sounds quite challenging, I'm far from good painter and using white basecoat could prove to me too big of a challenge for me 

Maybe I could have achieved better finish with an airbrush... but I'll save that for bigger pieces.

[pocoloco]

So, after a long hiatus, decided to do something on the sci-fi front even if I haven't bothered checking what's (not) been happening regarding the Mongoose Rogue Trooper minis for ages. I just hope those minis will be available at some point 

Anyways, here's something cheap and easy (like me, I hear you say  ) that I will use for Bose-4 if I ever get the chance, that is.

So I went to an average DIY store and bought some plastic stuff and made few things:

An escape/entry hatch from/to some underground facility:



Start of a wind-mill:



And then an air-intake tower for some underground facility:



Then got myself light blue spray paint and sponged a bit of gray afterwards here and there:




Next stop is to spray the hatch and come up with suitable blades for the wind-mill and paint it as well and finish the bases for all three. No time, money or effort wasted

C&C welcomes

[dijit]

That looks quite effective. Nice work.

[Suber]

Wooo, looks promising! Nice to have this thread alive again!

[ink the troll]

There's some cheapo battery powered pocket fans available- might work for the windmill/ turbine blades?

[Mason]

Wooo, looks promising! Nice to have this thread alive again!

It certainly is!
 

I am now looking at the plastic piping under my kitchen sink (that is being removed and replaced) in a very different way.
 

[pocoloco]

Many thanks Gents, much appreciated.

The plastic plumbing is both very easy and versatile to use, and like said before, very cheap as well. Besides this type of scatter terrain it would be rather easy to make a gas or oil-line piping etc.

It seems that I have plenty of time still to work on scifi terrain, as Rogue Trooper stuff will be available in late December... earliest :/

[Predatorpt]

Does the paint stick to the plastic plumbing? I did something similar some time ago and after painting and weathering the piece of terrain I found out that the paint came out at the slightest excuse (even with a coat of varnish all over it) 

[pocoloco]

The paint seems to stick in place rather nicely, no peeling off at least by now. I too was kind of expecting that to happen and that's why I only braved to spraypaint that one piece at first.

I bought the spray from a store that sells car parts etc so that spray is meant originally to be used as car paint, maybe that explains why it stays on? One possibility would be to get a plastic spray primer, special spray meant as the undercoat for plastic surfaces before spraying some paint on.