Okay! Medals and minis that won them...
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Here are two pieces by the guy who won the Golden Helmet...Lovely work!
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This was mainly a military model show, but there was a strong gaming presence too. It was a small, well attended inaugural show and I hope Alex and the guys put on more events. Funny story time: After watching a few game demos like deep wars and xwing and buying a few things (including a stupid card game for The Agent Of Chaos, that I cannot for the life of me win -AND I SWEAR I'M NOT LOSING ON PURPOSE!!! called Gopher It!) we went out for lunch. I brought the whole family cause they wanted to see and have no fear nerd hordes, being nerds themselves. After lunch on the way back to the show The Lady Inquisitor's car took a hit when a heat shield fell off her car bounced off the road and took out her muffler!!! Fortuitously we were right next to the dealership so we took it in to get fixed right away. That was at 130. The painting comp winners we being announced at 4pm my dad and i hauled ass to get there, but I guess they had moved it up because it was all well and over when i got there at 330 so i never got to chat with the dude who won as he was just heading out as i was heading in. Next year perhaps things will be a bit smoother for me
Anyway really happy to finally score a win with that diorama! And the fact the Alice won something too makes it even more special to The Lady Inquisitor since that piece was a gift for her
Now bases, where was I...
I found some stuff for my dwarf's base but i feel like the pylon is too big even for a dwarf and the sign would be better slightly shorter and more converted...
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I made the plasticard look like welded metal by using Liquid GS in the joints and then as it dried i pushed it into the joints more with a toothpick to give it a welded texture...
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What say you folks? I wouldn't put both on that base - even one might feel too cluttered. I am leaning towards the sign, but remain unconvinced by the voices in my head.
Now Digga, you said something about mushrooms on the base for chuckles and I couldn't find ones online that I liked to I sculpted a bunch myself. Here's a little breakdown of what and how I did them: I used apoxie sculpt and GS for different sizes and styles. The GS ones needed wire armatures. I sculpted the stems first by just rolling little balls of putty into long uneven rolls since nature doesn't really do symmetry.
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The next day once those were dry I rolled some more balls of putty up and placed them on top of the stems and used my fingers and various sculpting tools to squish and shape them. I even made a morel type by texturing a blob of putty on a stem with a piece of cork. Morel is a type of mushroom. My mom used to pick mushrooms in the forests near the cottage and cook 'em up when I was a kid while I would run around playing ninja. It's a euro thing (she was from Lithuania) and I guess I retained some of that knowledge.
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I also made a few that were growing off trees by flattening the balls of putty and sticking them edge wise to the trunks. Some have gills some don't - it's all very random like you would find in nature.
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So here are the shrooms on the base. This will really help give chuckles a sense of scale too :tongue:
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Almost done with all this basing. Priming and painting soon. Sleep now, long day... sleep...:sleepy:
