What did you do today.

[Balloonacorn]

Those tiles look fantastic.

[The Other Dave]

I agree! Karantu, can you walk us through the process you used to make them?

[Karantu]

Here's the tutorial I used for reference.

I made a few changes to the measurements and swapped out some material since I didn't have everything and some materials aren't as easy to buy here.
Here's a picture before assembly.


The main material I swapped out was the thick cardstock I used instead of chipboard. It's not as good but I couldn't find the sort of chipboard used in the video. The stuff I bought can fray during cutting and takes some getting used to but its pretty sturdy after sealing with Modpodge and painting.

In my first attempt (The two corridor pieces), I used two pieces of carboard for the wall and tried to etch a stonework pattern into the inner piece of cardboard but it turned out more like a vague sort of rock/compacted earth rather than stonework. The rest of the pieces have wall thats are just one piece of cardboard with 5 by 10mm rectangles glued onto them. By leaving a large enough gap between these pieces it shows up decently as stonework. Using a thicker sort of card and dry brushing would probably help define them a bit better but I'm fine with how the floor and walls all blend together. I recommend using foam instead as shown in the video as my method is pretty time consuming (it was rather therapeutic though.)

[Karantu]

Also here's a door.

[Jye Nicolson]

Tiles look great!



First off the painting backlog. The blue is what I picked for my Bloody Rose detachment (having confusingly already used red for the Valorous Heart). The purple I experimented before and don't love but I think it will be my compromise colour for models that don't belong to an order.

(So yes I should have used purple for the arco flags)

Still a lot to go just on primed ones, let alone thr freshly assembled, just aiming for battlefield quality and battlefield quantity.

[job]

@ Karantu: I like the door. Is it scratchbuilt?
@ Jye: Liking the Sisters. Wish I had space to build my own force.

Finished up 12 berzerkers.

Somebody say “Skulls for the Skull Throne!”

12 were painted by my buddy in Canada. 3 champions I finished in 2019.

[The Other Dave]

Thanks Karantu! That's a slick little build. Cute doors too!

@Jye I dig the blue and yellow, nice and striking.

@job Nice! That pack of nasties is going to make somebody's day very unhappy.

I finished up my second foray into NMM-land, the dwarf (duardin, whatever) for the Iron Golem in WarCry:



I think I'm getting the hang of it (although the metal effect is definitely more impressionistic than realistic), and again using Contrast as a base does probably 75% of the heavy lifting. (In retrospect, my first major NMM experiment being on models each with dozens of little golden discs was probably a bit... ambitious, but nothing like jumping in the deep end.) It's going a bit slower than my usual breakneck pace because I can really only do 5 or 10 minutes of fiddly stuff at a stretch before I get all stressed out, but there's no hurry as these guys are the end of my 32mm backlog until plamojuku starts taking GW orders again.

[Jye Nicolson]

@job Nice! That pack of nasties is going to make somebody's day very unhappy.

I think it's going to be a wonderful day when I can finally face those fine looking fellows across a table...but yeah, then they're going to tear my lines apart

I finished up my second foray into NMM-land, the dwarf (duardin, whatever) for the Iron Golem in WarCry:

He's looking fantastic. I guess the (NMM) silver lining on the whole situation is the combination of Warcry's reasonably sized forces and the apocalypse lets you focus so much craft on each model.

[Karantu]

I finished up my second foray into NMM-land, the dwarf (duardin, whatever) for the Iron Golem in WarCry:

That NMM looks prettu convincing. I looked at the picture before I read your post and it registered in mind that it was metal before reading that it was NMM.

@ Karantu: I like the door. Is it scratchbuilt?

Yeah the door was scratch built. Mostly used the technique in this video to get the wood grain effect. Cardstock probably isn't the best material to make "wood" out of but its pretty decent in a pinch. Also I just used a regular hobby knife instead of the nail-ish tool he uses.

After wetting my feet with some basic dungeon tiles, I decided to move on to something that I'm more likely to use in the near future, wargaming terain. Mainly inspired by this guide I started making some Sector Mechanicus-like terrain... Until I ran out of PVA glue...



It isn't the exact design or dimensions as what the guy in that video makes but I was heavily inspired by it. However, since my two main criteria for terrain are that they block LOS and are compact I decided to make some modifications. First of which is adding side panels to the main structure as well as a side attactment that would allow a walkway to turn into a castle wall sort of deal. The second modification is that I designed all the pieces other than the main structure to fit into the empty space of the main structure (as shown in the last picture.) Hopefully this improves space efficiency without compromising on durability or usefulness as terrain.

I just need to make more pieces (once I manage to buy more glue) and do some detailing so that it doesn't look too bland.

[Primarch]

@ToD - Nice warcry dudes.
@Karantu - Well done on making terrain. But why use card, don't you have a 3D printer?
@Job - Great looking 'Zerkers.
@Jye - Those sisters are coming along very well.

I also did a spot of painting last week.
35 American Airborne for Bolt Action including a howitzer and a bazooka team.