New Terrain Update

So, last night I finished base coating the foamcore ruined building a crater in black, see pics here.

I apologize for the quality as I'm tired and well got lazy.

I need to finish add debris on the second ruined building and then basecoat it, then I will start drybrushing and picking out the details on all 5 pieces. This will give me a good start on the ruined building front.

Next up will be painting my Forge World road and bombed road sections that run down the middle of the table and terminate into another large building (pics to follow, see above note about being lazy), which still needs detail added and then painting.

One thing I have learned for future buildings, I will be buying black foamcore instead of white! Sure it is a bit more expensive but the time saved in the initial base coat will be worth it, even if it only saves having to paint the inside walls of the buildings.

Well, that's it for now.

New Terrain

So, I've been putting togeher some terrain for use as Cityfight Terrain. Most of it is base coated black, except for one piece which I'll take pics of and post tomorrow night.

These two pieces are made out of packing styrofoam that came with our daughters bedframe. The pieces were very big and I just threw them on the garage floor and jumped on them Godzilla style. I kept three garbage bags full and tossed the rest.

I used two different methods of adding texture to the foam:

1) Heating up and melting the edges with a braizing torch and a masonary trowel.
2) I spread Polyinstafil onto the edges and faces of the foam.

So, method one was the most fun, I mean hey, who doesn't enjoy firing up a torch, heating some metal till it glows and then placing the metal on the styrofoam. However, although the results were good I still like the texture produced by method two, plus the fumes were a bit much after 10 minutes or so, even though I was outside.

I also added a hanging zombie to the one piece, I put the zombie together (in the he is still missing his arms) and wrapped picture hanging wire around his neck as a noose and then wrapped it around a piece of plastic sprue. I then broke off a splinter rifle blade and stuck it in his stomach for added effect.

I also took a zombie arm & hand and burried it under some foam rock, this makes it look like the poor sucker was buried under the rocks.

I also added some popsicle sticks and more sprue for debirs and then more popsicle sticks to look like broken floorboards.

I have plans to add more details, some more body parts, a sewage pipe, grate and a sewage trail from the pipe into the grate.

While all the paint is drying on those, I have built some foamboard ruinded buildings. I still need to take some pics and post them, hopefully tomorrow.

All of these are being mounted on 1/8" masonite.

Father Gregori

So, I was chastised last week for not updating the blog. Truth be known, I burned myself out trying to get my Witch Hunters up to speed for the Deep Space Golden Marine Tournament on Oct 23rd, only to come down with a cold (which still haunts me) and not be able to attend, which left me in no mood to paint.

So, Father Gregori was the last model I had painted before the cold hit and stopped all work dead in it's tracks.

I am happy to say I'm now in the mood to paint and the next things up are some ruined buildings / City Fight terrain and then some painting attention to Markov and the rest of retinue.