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Post by knoffles on Mar 19, 2018 8:10:08 GMT
Will do it when I get home (9 or so hours).
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Post by Naitsabes on Mar 31, 2018 0:45:29 GMT
Will do it when I get home (9 or so hours). *cough* also, continuing on with taking stock of what we have, here is a bog standard watch tower.
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Post by knoffles on Mar 31, 2018 13:27:15 GMT
Will do it when I get home (9 or so hours). *cough* also, continuing on with taking stock of what we have, here is a bog standard watch tower. I emailed him the file instead as it was a bit big to post (and I already had his mail). If you want it pm me and I’ll email it over.
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Post by Naitsabes on May 23, 2018 1:53:03 GMT
22May18 The wheels are turning, ever so slowly. Here we have a GW Fortified Manor. This was quite the learning experience. I read somewhere on the internet that wood stain is the way to go for giving the daubed walls structure. Well, maybe, but I certainly wouldn’t recommend the dark stain that I used. It ate a lot of the stippling work I had done (although not it’s not quite as flat as the photos make it out to be) and was a bit of drama. I tried to recover from the brink of disaster by making the stonework pretty light. Overall, I am okay with this piece now. A little bit of kitbash went into this, I put the little guard house up on top and used a bit of chimney as the support. The banner is just a print-out from a gentleman named Siamtiger, who put a lot of cool banners on the internet back in the Golden Age. The buildings come apart for that day when we’ll only want a chapel on the battlefield. Details of the upper floor with the guard house conversion and the roofs. I tried to make the roof color uneven…using my standard approach of copious Agrax Earthshade followed by even more Agrax Earthshade in some places. Not 100% happy but, it will keep the rain out. And that’s a wrap. The last of our GW plastic buildings is finished. It’ll be mostly Hirst blocks from here on out.
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Post by alanthemoderate on May 23, 2018 5:23:13 GMT
It looks really awesome! I look forward to seeing more!
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Post by grandmasterwang on May 23, 2018 6:46:21 GMT
Finished watchtower house looks great. I think the stain turned out pretty well.
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Post by mottdon on May 23, 2018 11:48:47 GMT
I love the use of the Guard House sitting on the chimney as support in that last one! Great idea! If I had another of those sets, I'd definitely do something like that!
Great paint jobs as usual!
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Post by Naitsabes on Apr 23, 2019 6:12:20 GMT
yikes! Going on a year without updates?!? Not sure where this time went. I have a little bit of something here. Walls and fences. We need something for all these knights to stumble over. This was mostly an exercise in finding a good way to do the stonework around Volganof. Quite happy with it. Since there was a bit of interest when I first posted this in the monthly thread, here is how I did it. 1) prime black (or paint black with cheap paint after priming white if you are complicated like me) 2) bleached bone 'dry' brush (not very dry actually, get a decent amount of paint on) 3) dull flesh tone 'dry' brush (like kislev flesh. this is the secret ingredient, I think) 4) agrax wash (thin. might get away without it which would cut down drastically on the drying time needed) 5) off-white dry brush (light, easy does it. I used pallid wych flesh) (the columns and gravestones are just grey with a wash of nuln oil.) Working on another house at the moment. Let's hope I can get a post up sooner rather than later!
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Post by strutsagget on Apr 23, 2019 6:57:02 GMT
They look great and welcome back! been missing your updates!
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Post by grandmasterwang on Apr 24, 2019 8:42:39 GMT
Nice stonework paint scheme. Simple but effective.
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Post by Naitsabes on May 21, 2019 2:00:55 GMT
Cheers, guys. Today I have a few work in progress shots. The next house of Volganof. It's really hard to see but the black bottom part is stonework made with greenstuffworld rollers. Worked out pretty well and certainly much less effort than hirst blocks. We'll see how that paints up. The little front door extension is work in progress, not sure how high that should be. Both floors? There is also a detail shot of windows. Trying to figure out how to do the stained glass. Think I will put some foil on the backside, what do you suggest?
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Post by thekeep on May 21, 2019 2:38:56 GMT
Looks great!! I don’t think there’s a wrong answer for the door area. Just depends on what effort you want out into the house. No better idea about the stained glass, sorry!!
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Post by strutsagget on May 21, 2019 5:23:48 GMT
That’s going to be a great house! Maybe some kind of spirit/protector/ornament above the door. I personally find it hard with transparent stuff as I seldom paint the inside well. I am trying to find the name of it to be Abel to google but something like above.
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Post by Horace on May 21, 2019 12:16:27 GMT
Cheers, guys. Today I have a few work in progress shots. The next house of Volganof. It's really hard to see but the black bottom part is stonework made with greenstuffworld rollers. Worked out pretty well and certainly much less effort than hirst blocks. We'll see how that paints up. The little front door extension is work in progress, not sure how high that should be. Both floors? There is also a detail shot of windows. Trying to figure out how to do the stained glass. Think I will put some foil on the backside, what do you suggest? You could get some OHP film and colour it with the OHP pens. Might give you more of a transparent effect? Looking wonderful
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Post by mottdon on May 21, 2019 12:35:48 GMT
Personally, I'd just cut a board to fit on the inside of the window and paint it to show the color you want, before you put it in the frame. That'd be the easiest option.
But that largely depends on where you want to put them. If you want to be able to see through it from both sides, well then, you have a lot of work ahead of you. If you intend on only being able to see through from one side and having it backlit somehow, then a little piece of colored translucent paper, cut to size of course, will work just fine. But that requires a light source behind it.
It all depends on what level of craft you're willing to go to. Good start though!
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