(Back up) Generator

[Gunbird]

Wanted it to look a bit like the one behind the appartment in Beirut. But then in blue  :grin:





And compared to the Powerbox.



What it really is? I dunno, HO scale and railway related, thats all I know. Quick paintjob. Completely different technique compared to the power box but I mix my styles very freely.

Johan

[Bako]

Very nice looking! How exactly do you achieve that look? Because I'm in need of such a technique.

[Gunbird]

The left or the right one?

Left:
-Basecolour
-Wash with ink or GW wash, be sloppy
- Make a wash with a colour 1 or more shades whiter then the base
- Paint a panel
- Take some cloth and remove paint
- and repeat

Right
-Basecolour
-Wash with ink or GW wash, be sloppy
- Make a wash with a colour 1 or more shades whiter then the base and paint stripes
- Repeat with lighter colour

I both cases I use the drips as a base for my rust technique, the second one is much faster but very easy to get wrong if the paint isn't thinned enough. The first one you just start with very thinned paint, and the longer you leave it on the more pronounced the outline will be. Coincidentally, it is the same method I use for whitewashing vehicles.

Hope that helps.

[Commander Vyper]

Wanted it to look a bit like the one behind the appartment in Beirut. But then in blue  :grin:

The anti Tardis! As big on the outside as the inside!!!

 

Nice, must look at that scale myself

[3vilX]

very nicely done. How well do those fit in with 25-28mm minis?

[Darkoath]

Those both look really sweet!  Strong work!

[Gunbird]

very nicely done. How well do those fit in with 25-28mm minis?

If you give it some legs or find another way to raise it, then it might work. As it is, these items are 1/87, severely underscale with 1/64-1/43 (whichever scale you worship, really) but work fine, most of the time, with my 1/76-1/72

Vyper: Anti-Tardis.... 

[Bako]

Ah, yes. Thanks very much so!

[PeteMurray]

That looks like a Pennsylvania Railroad electrical junction box, what they used for their electrified mainline 'twixt Boston and Washington. It's probably full of transformers and signal relays and enough residual PCBs to give you exotic cancers just looking at it. They still use those junction boxes today, which is a testament to the way they used to build things. In real life they're mostly rusty, unless some Amtrak employee has evinced enough initiative to paint the whole thing silver.

It's very awesome and I like how you painted it.