Teensy tiny pirates, yarrrr! P17. Another ship, by thunder!

[majorsmith]

Looking fantastic

[tomrommel1]

very nice indeed

[fred]

Great stuff - the terrain board already would work for a sandy area!

I do like the weathering you have added to the buildings too

[Silent Invader]

It will be beautiful! 

[Romark]

 

[anevilgiraffe]

buildings look great, looking forward to seeing this finished...

[Captain Blood]

Thanks guys 

Great stuff - the terrain board already would work for a sandy area!

Thanks Fred. Yes, the sand does look pretty good au natrel, but I like to paint it all to provide a consistent, finished feel - and to seal everything in place

So here's the ground painted with a medium sand colour emulsion, lightly drybrushed with a pale sand shade.
And I've then started adding some ultra thinned raw umber oil paint wash to the grit-surfaced areas...





Then a burnt umber wash with very thinned oils over everything, along with a few dabs of dirty mossy green wash in places along the harbourside and jetties... The effect is quite transformational on the stonework 





Next, it's painting the ridiculously blue Caribbean Sea - yes, I've looked at a lot of photos and it really is that vivid (well, at least once the images have been photoshopped by the tourist board )

This is wet blended as I go - you can see the paint is wet - working off a palette, and mainly using Vallejo Blue-Green, but blending in touches of Iraqi Sand, Khaki, Black etc, in very small areas here and there to suggest shallower water or areas of sandbank or weed under the surface...





And here it is when dry...



Three layers of high gloss yacht varnish across the sea surface will a/ toughen it for game play, b/ deaden the blue down a bit and make it slightly greener, and c/ pick up on the minute dimples in the surface of the styrofoam to look like a gently rippled water surface.

Like this...



You can see I've also painted and added the run of timber pontoons along the harbour wall, and also started adding some sparse scrub and tufts...

Next up, the finished product! 

[FifteensAway]

That terrain board looks really good.

I admit to being a bit stymied by the 'wooden pontoons' along the sea wall.  Curious to see how they come out in the finished product. 

[anevilgiraffe]

the turn around on this is annoying... stop it...

[mikedemana]

You nailed that Caribbean Blue, blue sea! Love the way it turned out. I've been there a number of times, and yes, it is that blue. At least when the sun is shining... 

Mike Demana

[rumacara]

It looks great.

[Father Primus]

Water looks great while painting method sounds rather simple! 

[Bloggard]

crikey, that's looking fantastic 

[OSHIROmodels]

I admit to being a bit stymied by the 'wooden pontoons' along the sea wall.

Why?

[Calvin59]

I really like this land, it's really superb