FIW: UD 13/5 More Warlord plastic conversions & a skiff

[Mason]

Yoga Cake? Have you been enrolled into Malamute's School of Typographical Errors?!  

No.
I dont use predictive text like some of these posh types.
Any errors are strictly my own.
Yoga Cake was not an error, however, but completely intentional.
 

[Silent Invader]

Thanks chaps 

Andy, the board you saw at BLAM16 had its trees done in the same way.

No.
I dont use predictive text like some of these posh types.
Any errors are strictly my own.
Yoga Cake was not an error, however, but completely intentional.
 

None of those high-falutin' ways you'll find west of London, eh?!  

[Mason]

None of those high-falutin' ways you'll find west of London, eh?!  

Dems da wuns.
Weirdo's!
 

[Malamute]

Dems da wuns.
Weirdo's!
 

Civilised you mean? 

[OSHIROmodels]

Looks splendid Steve 

cheers

James

[Mason]

Civilised you mean? 

If that is what being unable to use predictive text means, then...Yes.
 

[Silent Invader]

Apologies for resurrecting the gloop versus scatter debate but as I was progressing the tiles over the weekend something occurred to me. Namely, I'm not actually sure that my use of scatter results in any more significant granularity*, versus gloop.  

This terrain, after two coats of acrylic from The Works, doesn't look to me to be more granular than glooped examples I've seen:



*Ignore the bumps, lumps and ridges as they are a consequence of me scattering additional sand.  

If the results are similar, then it could be because after the initial scatter, I then 'splodge' on 50% dilute glue with more sand, which I suppose could just be called adding colourless gloop!!!!  And when it's dry I then paint it......  

It's not quite as simple as that though, as I do scatter extra sand of different grades into some areas of this gloop, for specific terrain effects. Nevertheless, a glooper could simply scatter into their single layer of wet gloop, so it could be said that my approach is significantly less efficient as it takes more stages. However, there's one difference between my initially-sanded tiles and those of most gloopers: in the main I am applying onto MDF rather than onto foam. Adding the first sanded layer, for which the glue has minimal water content and cures watertight, creates a barrier for the much 'wetter' coats that follow and could* otherwise cause significant warping of the MDF.

*The significance depending on what terrain features, if any, and their placement have added rigidty to the tile

In terms of next steps, as these tiles have quite a carpet of grass, they'll only get the one dry brush. The next question might then be: so why do these Temperate tiles have any granularity at all? Well, I think it provides a key, it does help with dry brushing, the electrostatic flock seems to 'stand' better with the what in effect are thousands of small 'planting' holes, and of course I can use different sands for different terrain features (e.g., river beds/banks and well-trodden tracks tend to be made a lot smoother than rough ground).

[OSHIROmodels]

Maybe it's scloop or glatter 

Looks very good though, whatever it is 

cheers

James

[Silent Invader]

Maybe it's scloop or glatter 

I'll take scloop.... I'm a sclooper! 

[Captain Blood]

Yes, I think you're right Steve. The end result looks almost exactly the same as my gloop when it dries...

That said, I was looking at Andy Mac's excellent desert boards for inspiration, and note he's managed to achieve a very nice sandy texture on those, so Andy, if you're reading this, please share your secret! 

[Silent Invader]

Looking at Andy's thread, I think he's scattered on Sharp Sand without sieving it first. His colouring-in is also excellent: the wash making best use of the granulation.

Anyways: progress! 

While awaiting delivery of 36" of greenstuff for a myriad of conversion projects, I've finished  painting the 4 new boards. Next up, the scree slope will get its scree in the form of fine railway ballast (in grey, by Peco) then it'll be a case of adding vegetation, water and finally the tree-planting.

[OSHIROmodels]

Looking very good 

cheers

James

[Malamute]

Looking very good 

cheers

James

Seconded

[Mason]

I was going say 'Thirded' but I reckon telling you that it looks the 'Nuts' would be better.
 

[Dr. Zombie]

It most certainly looks like the animals appendage.