SandPort - rock outcrops WIP - 22.01.2019

[Dr DeAth]

Finished painting the full set of droids:

IAF081 Taranis Runner Drones from theionage.com, great little models that come in two halves to allow an good variation of poses - easy to put together and a joy to paint.

I know they're sold as combat drones but I intend to use them as repair and maintenance drones in SandPort. I think the weapons will pass as welders/scanners/inspection lamps etc. and the two with claws will make excellent baggage handlers. I bought an extra 'claw' drone as the pack only contains the one and will probably get a few more that I can convert to carrying boxes etc.

[Shaved Dwarf]

I like them. Very nice idea to use them as port helpers instead of combat. And the colour choice emphasises this.
Also very nice painting and chipping.

[huesped]

Cool indeed!! great work on that weathering!!!!!

[Malamute]

Brilliant brushwork, love the chips and paint scratches.

More please 

[pocoloco]

Now that's a proper looking airfield crew  And they won't most likely strike

[has.been]

Can we have some robot pickets with placards protesting for 'A.I. rights!' or 'I think, therefore I am' or 'If you prick me do I not bleed (oil)?'

[Dr DeAth]

Can we have some robot pickets with placards protesting for 'A.I. rights!' or 'I think, therefore I am' or 'If you prick me do I not bleed (oil)?'

Don't see why not

I've made this graffitied advertising hoarding in preparation for the next building in the project

[Silent Invader]

It's uncanny but when I look at that poster I see Nick   

Lovely droids Mark: how do you do the paint chips: just flicks of colour? 

[Mason]

It's uncanny but when I look at that poster I see Nick   

 

That is just so wrong!
On so many levels!
 





(Bloody funny, though.... )

[Dr DeAth]

It's uncanny but when I look at that poster I see Nick   

Funny you should say that - watch this space and all will be revealed . . . 

Lovely droids Mark: how do you do the paint chips: just flicks of colour? 

I have a bit of sponge foam (from a figure blister) glued to the end of a cocktail stick that I roll it in Vajello Hull Red paint till it's just 'damp'. Then I lightly dab on the figures to get the chips before the metals are then stippled over the hull red area using a brush.  I've found the sponge gives the best results, painting it on was to regular and flicking just got messy and to random as paint tends to chip on edges and exposed areas. That said I do use a brush on edges (see the crates in the previous picture).   I'll also use the GW technical rust paint to drybrush over the area and blend it in in some instances.



 

[Silent Invader]

Thanks for the tute Mark, very useful.

[Malamute]

It's uncanny but when I look at that poster I see Nick   

You are a terribly sicked and twisted indvidual.

Which is probably why I like you

[Silent Invader]

You are a terribly sicked and twisted indvidual.

Which is probably why I like you

Kisses 

[Captain Blood]

They look fab 

[Dr DeAth]

Completed a bit more junk modelling - a  Communications Sphere from a 50p plastic christmas tree bauble in B&Qs January sale. The pipework is styrene rod and the communication domes are plastic 'pearl' halves intended for costume jewellery.

It will probably end up on top of a building but for now I've just mounted it on a small platform