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Oh man, that is coming along great gd! Is that balsa wood on the frame and such? How does the detail come out when painted? Do you have to texture it at all (carve grain into it, etc.) ?

I wish, for the love of god the home depot near here sold Owens Corning Foamular 150 hi density foam like that! Will probably have to order it over the phone and then a six hour drive just for a few sheets

Verm - It is a mix of balsa wood and craft sticks. I'm honestly not too sure how the detail will come out for the craft sticks. I think they'll have a smoother look to them compared to the balsa wood. But that variation will give the piece some character that would otherwise be missing.

<3 my home depots.

Your really good. BTW

Some more work done on my building:





Still some more little stuff to add to the front. But it's pretty much finished. I'll probably move on to the sides next.

Some more work done on the sides of the building. As well as a bit of additional detailing. Check it out:

Final side balsa detailed. Also added spackle (filler) to all of the open spaces between the wood framing. Some is smoothed out and detailed already some is still drying.

Here is a shot of final details on the newly finished side:



Added some basing material as well.

Next up: Roof >.>...

Nice - I like the detailing on the spackling. It's spack-tacular!

More WIP for the building:





And just for some fun:



The roof is going to be a pain. Lots of tiles to cut. But it's really capping everything off nicely so far.

Great Work GD

The crooked chimney rocks

HFN

Looking fantastic - I'm not usually a big fan of fantasy buildings but that one is looking great. I really must start trying to get you seriously into necromunda!

grey_death wrote:I picked up one of the wash colors from GeeDub this week. I just really wanted to give it an initial test and see what I could come up with for a quick effect with it. So I snagged a model and went to it.

note: the colors are a bit off, I'm still getting used to my new photo set up.
This was a heavy sepia wash, cleaned up with a highlight of bleached bone and final highlight along the edges of skull white.

Have to say, very impressed with what I've been able to do with it so far. More tests in the future of course. But Bone colored armor is a cinch with this stuff.

Yeah. The Vallejo sepia is really dark, and I don't like how it goes onto bone
armor. However, I still DO like using one of the lighter VGC browns to wash my
bone armor with something light-ish. I use the VGC sepia ink for everything
else, though. Have you used it? How does it compare to GW?

Thanks for the praise ^_^. I hope to keep this thing on track to it's completion. It's going to be a sort of 'centerpiece' for my table.

Lego - I need people to play necro against first >.>

malfred wrote:Yeah. The Vallejo sepia is really dark, and I don't like how it goes onto bone
armor. However, I still DO like using one of the lighter VGC browns to wash my
bone armor with something light-ish. I use the VGC sepia ink for everything
else, though. Have you used it? How does it compare to GW?

I have not actually used the VGC ink. I really want to get my grubby hands on some more vallejo stuff though. Namely model color >.>...

Construction is FINALLY finished!





Paint will go down sometime this week ^_^! So happy!

My hand is killing me from cutting out all of those tiles.....

The tiles look *really* good. Can't wait to see it painted.

Selestine wrote:The tiles look *really* good. Can't wait to see it painted.

When I started the tiles and roof I didn't really think too much about it. I knew the style of tile I wanted to use, and I knew the style of roof I was going to go with (it was one of the concept images).

As I was finishing things up last night I realized how much the roof resembled my grandmothers roof. And that's when the whole thing became that much more special to me. I think that was the final little piece of inspiration that I needed to finish it off last night.

Still some scoring left to do on the tile, but a few quick swipes with the hobby knife will do the trick and she'll be ready to go to paint.

Anyways, off to work! Lives to save and such ^_-.

Wow, GD. That's a really incredible set piece. As you were first putting it together, it looked like a pretty standard (albeit well-constructed) WHFB building, but the details like the chimney, the cracked plaster walls, and the scored tiles all make it really distinctive!

Some in progress work to post. Painting has started!





All of the plaster panels are fully painted now. Chimney has been base coated and the base is ready for variations and drybrushing.

More as I finish more!

looking good

HFN

Still more to do, but it's coming along much faster and nicer than I could have hoped ^_^. At the end of the day, here's where we sit:

Far from finished right now.

Chimney - Tone down and highlights
Stonework - highlight and variations (adding reds to carved brickwork in base)
Dark Woods - Possibly one more stage of highlights, we'll see how I feel about it.
Brown Woods - Highlights and washing
Roof - haven't touched the roofing yet. How do folks feel about blue?
Base - Add grasses and bushes, possibly some additional drybrushing if it doesn't match up with my board right
Hanging Man - Needs painted still

So I guess the only thing that is really finished is the plasterwork.

We're getting closer to a finished piece:

Digging the blue roof -- although the big roof and the little roof look like different colors to me. Perhaps just the lighting? Anyway, it is looking very nice so far!

the big roof and the same roof are the same colour, its jus the lighting making them seem different shades

Nice. It just keeps looking better and better.

that building is awesome. Great work.

Great work

A bit of painting progress!

I present "The Hanging Man"

So, is "The Hanging Man" the name of the tavern?

Death By Monkeys wrote:So, is "The Hanging Man" the name of the tavern?

I think of it as an informal name for the place ^_^. Something folks have started calling it since they seem to hang those who stiff em!

I don't want to know what the bartender gives you at the hanging man when you order a "stiff" drink

I really like that hanging guy touch, really adds a lot of character to the piece.