Month: August 2014

City Table Buildings part IV

       

Dark Angel Statue

          The Traffic circle statue is done. At first I wanted a lady liberty copper look. Then when with copper skin and gold leaf look. I did not spend any effort of time on the base. Later down the road I may revisit it with some weathering.

          Another Forge World building. This one is a copy. I picked it up when I bought the dude in Atlanta’s collection. I got all his FW originals and a few copies, plus his DA army. The DAs were cherry picked and pieced out for sale on ebay.

         All of the building will be painted to a gaming standard. I don’t or won’t have the time to pimp each one. There is going to be a ton of buildings to be painted. 

Forge World Adminstratium

          The 2 FW Adminstratium Building was done along side the Cathedral. Quick and easy, nothing special. They look the same, some building will have to. This will be the standard for every building but the special ones or those created as objectives.

The support beams are different. Can’t have every building looking the same.

City Table "ruins" part III

          The plasma burn building is done. This is one of the special buildings. It will be used in a mission and as objective.

          This is one of four buildings that were busted apart with LN2. (Liquid Nitrogen) All of them were Librariums. Now some of you may cry, knowing I destroyed a Forge World building. I have been gobbling up all the cheap ones off of ebay, purchasing individual’s collections. Plus I picked up a shit ton of copies. If you don’t have one, your in luck. I stopped buying.

Forge World Librarium

          I used inks and MIG weathering powders to get the look of boiling plasma melting its way down through the building.

          The “base” that the building rests on is the same size as the Tank Factory or the length of the long straight road.

City Table Buildings part III

          A week of drill put me in the whole. Nothing got done and now there is no school or day care this week. I have sneaked in a few minutes here and there. Last night I gave up some sleep for the church. Lower windows and the tall towers spikey bits. Still a long way to go. This monster has a lot of surface area and little details.The roof tiles, support columns, and the grounds.

Finally Finally

Forge World Cathedral

Forge World Cathedral Side view

City Table VI

    Long time no up date. My time has been gobbled up. Plus I had to give up the space I used to lay out the GW board tiles. I got my space back and time is freeing up.

          I want flat backs to the roads with little to no bubbles. Or bubbles I have to fix. I get great detail from the molds. But I wanted to experiment with something other than a gravity pour. The experiment turned into a mess. Experimenting wastes time and gets me no where closer to finishing a tile. This is the last experiment as the KISS and eyes on the prize principals are the guiding force.

          Experiment one; Low height gravity pour without vibration. No surface bubbles. Bubbles throughout. Maybe I failed to stir it up enough.

          Experiment two; Same pour, but a flat plate and weights where applied. This created air pockets and squeezed out some of the resin. No effect to surface detail.
          The upper one is the surface. The bottom the back side.

         In the end this was a total cluster. I pissed a way a whole night’s free time. I will be straight up high gravity pouring out the rest. No more wasted time or resouces.

RF & F part II

Disordered markers.

     

     The dudes are from Peter Pig. I have mounted them on much higher bases. We drink and play and miss things. No one gets mad, but it sucks all the same. The idea is these tall markers will not, not get missed during the endless shit talking, and glass smacking.

   

           I will finish them off with green flock and tuffs. Yellow for disordered, red for broke, and green (not pictured) for break thru.

 

          Standard disorder markers. Ebay special.

          Easy to see the difference between the painting My “gaming standard” and the ebay “pro-painted.”  Careful what you buy! Sometimes, well most of the time it would be better if they weren’t painted to start with.

Epic pill boxes

           I will need a lot of pill boxes for the city table fortified hill. FW of course no longer makes them. The plan is for the resin to go down the wood paths and fill from the bottom working its way up. I hope this will ensure I got little to no bubbles.

           The completed mold broken out of the bricks. Below, you can see it separated. As always I need to clean  it up. Remove the flash, the masters, sticks and clay. Then a wicked sharp knife to to ensure the resin flow paths.

         

DAs scouts

Dark Angels Project
Total Point Painted: 1775

       
          Scouts were kicking about the painting table. Creeping and hiding, I found them searching for something else. They need half hours attention and sealing.


         A few more dreads. Already primed green, an easy score. They took a few days, 5 minutes here and 5 there.

City Table Ruins part II

          Work continues on the buildings, as I continue to create the molds needed for more and more roads. Which is all good. A city needs building or its just a highway table.
           VV’s building spray primed, angle primed, washed, and the first two dry brushes. I hope to knock it out next week.

           The plasma damage was started. Next will be light dusting of MIG’s plasma burn blue.

           The windows hopefully appear to glow with the burning damage.

City Table "Buildings" Part II

Forge World Cathedral

                 The church is creeping along nicely. The bronze on the roof edging is done. The bronze all over is done. Next up is the ground floor windows and the tall tower details.

Forge World Administratum Building

         
          Another FW building, 1 out of six, large square style. Same look as the church. I will pick out the metal looking support beams. Then give it a dark wash. Dirty it up!