Gunbird travels the Wasteland (17-8 Changes!)

[Constable Bertrand]

Wicked!   

Cheers
Matt

[Vagabond]

Excellent work - the rusting effect is awsome

[Gunbird]

Started dong a Space Marine statue for the central square (for the RT game), managed to completely balls up the weathering so now I have a chalky green popsickle....so that needs to be stripped. In frustration I grabbed one of the wooden cubes on my desk, played with it for a while and then though that instead of making them statue bases for Frostgrave, why not turn them into concrete roadblocks? We do the same thing in our modern day era, and I can't afford resin Jersey barriers so why not use these?

So, lastnight I smeared wallfiller all over 6 of them and let that dry, and this afternoon I sanded them again, not smooth, but leaving a pattern. I used a sponge and added a a grey with a pinkish hue craft paint on all of them, and after that dried a stone grey craft paint, also with a sponge, pushing it into the ridges. Then, using another sponge and a piece of heavy card, I marked all of them with weatherd yellow lines on top. Drilled holes and inserted bent pieces of paperclip and added a wathered down wallfiller to the metal...this creates a beuatiful corroded effect when painted brown and washed. Then some more weathering with a off white sponge for highlights, and right now I'm adding pinwashes with very thinned mud Devlan Mud and Vallejo Dark Grey. This picture is from just before that.



I'll weather the bottom halves with some darker colours, and then add posters to a few of them I think, and call them done.

I will do a tutorial on these soon, as they are dirt cheap to make and a ultra fast way to get additional cover on the table.

[Mr. Peabody]

Brilliant. You captured the look perfectly.

I swear there are twenty of these blocking off construction sites in my neighbourhood right now. 

[Hupp n at em]

I really like those. And like you say, they couldn't be easier to make and paint. 

[von Lucky]

Lovely pieces. And easy to make!

[mattblackgod]

Brilliant work.

[Gunbird]

20 of them finished for my first customer in years (I hate doing comissions, but with my current 0 euro hobbybudget I don't have a choice if I want a new rulebook or miniatures, so I'm availabe again)



Also working on something....refreshing, but won't show that till it is finished

Edit: a mere 30 minutes later....

A tribute to the refreshing drink of the Wastelands (also objective or something to put in front of a ruin). Miniature Coca Cola bottle relabelled (and bottlecapped!) on a suitable plinth and 60mm round base.

[Constable Bertrand]

Oooh what a refreshing monument 

The cola worshippers appear to scrub the monument clean as part of their daily devotion. And good job they are doing too

Very cool mate. The square traps work well for a little street litter.

Cheers
Matt

[Gunbird]

I looked at ageing the glass too, but those bottles turn to a opaque white colour in the sun and I'm not sure how to copy that. Or do dust and grime on glass but I'm not sure it will stick...I've never painted real glass.... Oh well, this looks nice too

[Constable Bertrand]

agreed, it looks good. Just keep some kooky cultists near by in each game...

Or add the "holy" mop and bucket" to the base aswell  

Cheers
Matt

[Michi]

I looked at ageing the glass too, but those bottles turn to a opaque white colour in the sun and I'm not sure how to copy that. Or do dust and grime on glass but I'm not sure it will stick...I've never painted real glass.... Oh well, this looks nice too

I´d leave it clean too. If you like to age glass you can varnish it with a matt acrylic. That should already do half of the trick Then you could apply some washes to the desired effect.

[DELTADOG]

Very cool additions Gunbird! I would age the Bottle to fit it better to the whole tabletheme. Otherwise it will spot out of the scenery for all times and that is a consitant pain in the......

My suggestion for Aging Glass is a sturdy cotton Bag and 2-3 Hands of very hard sharp edged littel stones, something like Basaltsplit which is used to prepare the sidewalks in wintertimes to avoid slippery. Take the Bottle in the Bag with the stones and shake it a good while. Nothing else to do.

Cheers Delta

[Gunbird]

Michi: Matt varnish...but of course! That I did not see that. Then some light washes.

DD: It is already glued solid to the block in one single go without glue getting everywhere, something I do not want to try my luck at again. Basaltsplit I have loads though. It is just a pity these small bottle s are hard to get cheaply so I can experiment with them.

I will experiment with the varnish on a old drinking glass first though. Thx guys, very helpful!

[Gunbird]

Finished, weathered objective.