Rick's WIP Thread

[Demihuman]

Looks great! one thing that I noticed though is that the jersey barriers and sand bags look much less dusty than the tank. I would think they would be more dusty... Maybe a little dirt and grime and pigment powders to tie them in a little better?

 

[Pictish Mini Painting]

Yeah you are right, that's after five nap painting to bring it all together

 

[Pictish Mini Painting]

Getting on after my week to work away almost exclusively on the entries.

Vehicle Tank entry is basically done, just final checks and touch ups, and any further blending weathering to unify it all.

I have almost finished the 3 snipers and work on the rough rider on mulak thing is going on.

Big bits still to do are start weathering the desert scene base and finish the clean up of the lictor (a very good finecast batch! ) Just his scenic slot in base to paint and add foliage.

Actually might pull this off in time.


EDIT: But lest not talk about the mold line on the thigh of the guy lying down I just noticed.......twitch...

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[Meph]

Ah, nooo, what mold line? And besides, you can cover it up by weathering

 

[Pictish Mini Painting]

I ended up scraping it back and redoing that bit, no more OCD nightmares for me.

I added more weathering powder shades to match up the shell casings after some oxide washes and added grass tufts and the rusted barbed wire. pretty much calling this one done, bar final checks before packing up for trip in a couple of weeks.

I did more work on the desert diorama entry, with grass tufts in the stone gaps and weathering powders to soften the colour graduations and light dry brushing on the ground, i also took the masking wraps off as its basically done now. the figures and truck are just placed, not fixed, as the rider and mukalli thing arent finished yet and are still clampedto a pin vice

The Lictor base has been sprayed brown and i added colour modulation tot he scale paper plant vegetation for the slot base.

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[Demihuman]

The Dessert dio is really shaping up. These look like so much fun

One more nit pick on the tank is to maybe add some sand or dirt right along the base of the cement barriers like wind has blown it up against them. I think that might help it feel more solid like I mentioned before.

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If you wanted to get crazy you could type up some fake news headlines and print them very very small and glue them right there to look like discarded newspapers. "General Krator Bombards Own City"

 

[Pictish Mini Painting]

That's a good idea @demihuman. The only issue is making sand and grit look windblown is difficult at the scale without looking like clumps of earth, as sand at this scale is basically a flat surface.

I will have a wee play about with weathering powders and a acrylic paste compound I have as this could be painted into the cracks and create volume but doesn't have a grain to it that's very obvious

Re: the newspaper I am already doing this with wine bottle foil for the map for the sniper diorama, so painting up some newsprint on small squares of the foil is good as I can shape it round the jersey bollards etc

 

[Demihuman]

That's a good idea @demihuman. The only issue is making sand and grit look windblown is difficult at the scale without looking like clumps of earth, as sand at this scale is basically a flat surface.

I will have a wee play about with weathering powders and a acrylic paste compound I have as this could be painted into the cracks and create volume but doesn't have a grain to it that's very obvious

Re: the newspaper I am already doing this with wine bottle foil for the map for the sniper diorama, so painting up some newsprint on small squares of the foil is good as I can shape it round the jersey bollards etc

Awesome! Maybe try putting down a bead of thinned modeling paste in the crack and then sprinkling fine sand over it?

 

[Dragonsreach]

Instead of sand try dried garden earth, much finer and natural looking even when painted.
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[Pictish Mini Painting]

Cheers Dragonsreach. I actually have woodland scenic earth material and its very good for fine particles and I used it to make 'smaller' rock\sand build up patches on the desert diorama. So may use a combo of the acrylic filler paste and earth.

Hopefully get the tank finished tonight. My aircraft carry case arrived from Maplin, I can get all 3 entries in tight and secure for taking as hand luggage.

Hopefully I wont get incarcerated for trying to smuggle scenes of doom onto a plane.!

 

[Pictish Mini Painting]

Got my base for the large model entry with my Lictor. Pretty pleased with it and now deciding if I go an opposite colour for the Lictor, I.e a a reddish colour or if I go more mimicking colours, complimentary or opposing colours.

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[Meph]

Cool, looking nice. Well, I'd go for a camouflaged lictor. Stealthier.

 

[ten ball]

Loving the jungle :good:

 

[Pictish Mini Painting]

Hmm, done a colour wash of pinkish red and while it will look striking I am worried it will look odd, however if I go a green pallet it will look more in keeping but may get lost in the scene.

I.e am I going for the model jumps out at you, or am I going for hiding in the scene? Hard to decide.

Fluffy for hiding Lictor though.

 

[SkelettetS]

really nice looking jungle! :good: i think you should add som other vegetation also, like grass turf, moss etc, it look very paper-plantish at the moment, at least on picture

i like the idea of it hiding but then a jumping one is probably more striking at the competition.

 

[Pictish Mini Painting]

Hi Skel,

I went for green in the end, not a colour I am that familiar with in terms of what works but found a nice ork skin tutorial that gave me a starting point for colours that blend well.

As to more vegetation, I am going to add some clump foliage, moss effect stuff, the type that comes in big bags for model railways and look like fungus\stringy lichen.

Then some small grass tufts here and there. This was really a whim entry so its a bit of an experiment

EDIT: Having had a good look at research examples, grass seems to be unlikely on a jungle floor, so I am going to add more small branch dead fall, some pebbles and add moss to the deadfall/stones to add more green to the floor and bring a bit more life to it all.

I had looked at adding more banana leaves to blend the Lictor in, but I am aware that if its too covered it wont be the main centre piece, so I am sticking with low lying vegetation and the lector and tree stump being the main draw for the eyes.

Hopefully get him finished this weekend.

 

[Pictish Mini Painting]

Had a a think about the alternate colour for the Lictor, and I am deciding between a tan\bone colour for the Chitin plates or a very vibrant green shading to black at the tips, a bit like a poisonous arrow frog etc.

Bone looks more subdued but the bright green makes the lector look dangerous.

Any thoughts on this scheme?

I also ordered some printable decal paper so I can make mini newspapers as part of the story for the scene, as painting newspaper text in 28mm scale may end me!

Shall report my findings.

 

[Pictish Mini Painting]

Got the jungle base filled out with some mosses, stones, clumps and vegetation, looks a bit more varied now.

Sunday is going to be my big push before I get Alien Isolation on Monday and poo my tiny pants!

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[Pictish Mini Painting]

Got the Lictor mostly done, just detail and shading. Quite like the colours in the end.

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[Pictish Mini Painting]

I got the lictor on its base, pics are a bit quick with phone but gives the general idea

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