Bit of a bumper crop this week. Stephen has made progress on his hover Camper Van. Stephen has added luggage to the roof and undercoated it ready for the paint scheme.
What paint scheme will it be?
Next up Eric has painted up two fantasy miniatures. The first being a ranger miniature.
Old school feel to the Ranger
The second a warrior Eric will use for Warhammer fantasy or to add to a Dragon Rampant unit.
Flailing around?
Mark has gone back to his Hundred Years War army with the mass ranks of archers getting the painting treatment.
Hundred Years War archers
John has made progress on his Japanese buildings having added the thatched roof and wooden panels.
Japanese houses
And last but not least I’ve been looking at creating some terrain pieces to just act as battlefield dressing. Things that won’t have an effect in the game but break up the tabletop and set the scene. To start with I’m using some old Games Workshop skeletons as the fallen left behind after some ancient battle.
Jeremey takes us through a recent scratch build of an ancient Barrow, or should that be Cairn?
During the last few months I’ve started to build up my collection of terrain. Having a fantasy undead army I thought I’d have a go at building a burial mound of sorts.
As is my usual methodology when building terrain I created a number of rock shapes out of some EVA foam and stuck them together with the hot glue gun.
Stage 1 – the basic burial mound
The whole thing was then glued to a piece of thin wooden board, and then spray painted with grey primer. Unlike other polystyrene foams the EVA foam does not melt when sprayed.
Stage 2 – undercoated grey
I then had to decide what colour to paint the rocks. The temptation is always to go with grey but I try and avoid that. I chose to go with the brown/beige look.
Stage 3 – painting the individual rocks
The method I used was one I’d tried before when painting a dungeon. I used a few different shades of brown to give a variety to the mound.
Stage 4 – dry brushing
The next stage is to chose a light beige colour (bone, linen etc.) and to dry brush the whole thing. This dry brushing blends the different rock shades together, you can go lighter if desired. I did return to this later feeling that the dry brushing needed to be lighter.
Stage 5 – basing
Simple stage up next with painting the base brown. I always do my bases this way and then apply PVA glue before flocking.
Stage 6 – flocking
With the PVA glue applied I then sprinkled the flock on the base. I also stuck some flock to the rocks to give the impression it has been around for a while.
The finished burial mound
Here we have the finished burial mound, this was a simple piece of terrain to build. I was pleased with how the rock colours worked especially after applying another lighter dry brush.
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