Hidden and Dangerous (or Obvious and ineffective)

Another monthly competition, another race to the finish line.  This months competition was 'Hidden and Dangerous' and having been watching some of the Painting Buddha series, I

felt like doing a scenic base with something on it... and a sniper was the obvious choice.

The model was painted in place with the base so that the camouflage was as close to the base as I could make it.

The water effect was my first attempt and something if a failure TBH, it got stuck on the plastic card that I was using to keep it in and ended up less that smooth, nothing that a lot of layers of Gloss vanish could not mask...

 The foliage is from woodland scenics as are the Lilly pads in the water

 The Wild life all over the base is from Busch (HO gauge) there are two birds, a frog, three fish and a butterfly. 

 The water effect was done by painting gloss varnish along the line where I wanted the water to be flowing.  Then a plastic glass was meted with a  lighter and pulled into long thin strands, these were held in place with gloss varnish and left to dry.  After this I used clear UHU glue to build up some bulk in the stream and along the course of the water.

 The ivy is from MDP (ModeldisplayProducts.co.uk) and is held in place with matt varnish.

And there you go, you can see on the front of the water is slightly wonky.

More big stuff!

I just can't help myself,  I can make models like stink and get them to this stage, its the second half of the painting process that gets me into trouble...

Terminator Protocols

Just ten termies I put together whilst I was doing nothing...

 We've got 5 out the box and five with the 'World Eater' FW extras (the LRs are still in the box)

Oh yeah, the base coat was Khorne Red from a GW can, then from 90 degrees to vertical was VMA 71085, Italian red and a zenithal highlight of VGA 72709 Hot red/orange?.  I think I may be going back in with a red ink as some point to knock the orange back, but its a starting point.

The Brass Monkey!

Oh yeah, I do one of these long things...

So I've been away with work for a few weeks and not had a chance to do any painting, but here is where I am up to with the Brass scorpion.

The main carapace is coming on and there is still plenty to do.  I've used the same methods on this chap as I did with the Impaler and the Slaughterer so there is nothing new to add here... however...

 

The metal on this chap was done with a can of silver car paint from Halfords (just before I found out GW were doing lead belcher in a can) and to be fair the result is pretty good!

The Brothers Grim.

So there we go, the Brothers Grim are done, time to switch to their big cousin.

 I'm going to do some tinkering with the base to hide the spots of glue, but that should not be a big thing.  oh, and the corpses in the main body need a touch up, but, he's game ready.

So, I'm currently not a fan of the GW bases as I think they are extortionate for what you get and since I have a boat load of expanded PVC sheets knocking about (and not the kinky kind, seriously, don't google PVC sheets!).   The Green sheet is a stuff called Sintra board, its used in robotics as a light and sturdy construction material and I've seen it used as poster board as well, I'm yet to find a cheap source in the UK, but in Germany I found it in the german equivalent of B&Q.  the stuff I have was being thrown out after being used as a notice board.  I cut it with a circular cutter (http://www.pk-pro.de/TS-Compass-Cutter) that cost €7.50 and I've got about a 1m by 2m sheet left... much cheaper that the GW option.

Aaaaaany Hooo, the two large bases are 150mm and the smaller one is 120mm, the Dreadnought base is there for comparison.  Can you guess what they are for, and Nope the scorpion will not be going on one of them.....

The third of three

Oh, go on then, this will round out the bloody trilogy :)

Seconds out round 2

Seconds out round 2...

This was the start of the base, sheet cork from hobby craft was used with sandy gravel sprinkled into the gaps.  I was thinking of stoping there but then I heard the jungle drums of MASSIVE VOODOO playing and the game was afoot...

 So out came the Milliput and an idea was formed...  how about a trench wall/revetment that the impaler had just walked through...

Coffee stirrers and toothpicks to the rescue.

 Cotton was used to create cables that 'anchor' the front of the wall which will be build up eventually....

 The gap in the wall was punched through in a shape similar to the shape of the legs of the impaler.  After this... you can't have a trench without mud.

 The remains of the wall were placed into the mud.

 The barbed wire will be added later.

Happy all done.

So thats happy all done and dusted.

The first of three FW beasts....

 Ahh the pitter patter of tiny feet :)

I've followed the painting guid for the Greater Brass Scorpion in Imperial Armour - Model master class Volume 2... more or less.

The Beastie is all done, 1 down 2 to go, think the others should come on quickly now that I know what I'm doing .

So where was I?

Ok, So I'm still here, I've just been busy with... STUFF! 

  

Started on the Bones, horns and claws... Simply used bleached bone washed with Earth shade.

Made a start on the metal, base of GW Gold and Scorched brown 50/50 then decided to have a look under the Masking liquid..

So far so good...

Liking the effect and the finish.

I'll be going back and doing something extra to the Khorne markings... maybe.

 Flappy Flappy smily death machine!

And poop! ... I never did like this option for the base, so it was time to pin, epoxy and green stuff the thing back together.

Stronger than a rock.

So this it where he is to date, and I got distracted by a FW beast... :P