The cliff adventure cont

A few quick pics while the sun is out (storms againg this aftenoon:blink It's dripping wet from the PVA but it is really starting to take shape. Generally I just do my roads is filler with brush strokes it it for wheel marks. As this is one big experiment anyway I'm going to try for a eally rough gravely mountain trail. Detailed painting starts tonight.












The next hill will have a terrace farm up its hill side. Another a Vineyard so fun time ahead.
I've finished the dry brushing the cliffs. Simply gave it a good magic wash first to bring out some more detail then dry brushed 3 shades of grey and a off white to finsh the highlights. It's been a most enjoyable experiment I have to say and in the end it came together very nicely.

Mediterranean Table a cliff adventure

I've moved far beyond the photos above, it's mavelous what a difference a day makes. The strata lines looked pretty poor so I made a wedge out of compressed foil a bit like an axe head. This I pressed into the DAS as opposed to dragging a blade over the face of the DAS this gave a much better effect. I'm still amazed just how well the crunched up foil works to texture the surface, very impressive. The other huge supprise was the rock molds with the DAS the plyable nature of the DAS allows the molded rock to be distorted to match the surface of the job. I did find that I had to add a release agent to the mold to get the DAS out easer and in a bette shape, I ended up using a olive oil cooking spray to great effect. It's been funny how I've gone from just about giving up to creating one of my more enjoyable terrain features, I cannot what for the painting to start.
There is features that I like and dislike about this section. The rocky out crops will lift when painted I'm sure and what I don't like I can always hide with bushes and grass tuffs.

The lower part of the switch back road looked a bit bland so I hacked out a gully and inserted a curved retaining wall to spice it up. Just have to modle the gully now. May even fit a drain/culvet into this section yet for some extra detail and interest.

I decided after the fact to break up the rock faces on this section with a few retaining walls I'm pretty happy with the effect as well.

The foil effect really is effective and you can achieve so many diffent effects by just getting different textures in the foil. I'm so glad I asked for alittle help on the forums.







Here is some pics of where I'm at

This is the 1st of 4 sections that I have in mind that will be interconnect to form differnt combinations. This 1st secton is for the monastry/ruined Keep that will dominate it. The switch back road is the only approach on the section. This will be the domain of Mountain troops and for once they will be usefull.

It's a long way to the top

I've framed all the edges in timber as shown here and I've butted them all up and sanded them flush with their respective neighbouring sections.

I'll be able to insert different terrain features into the top using the Hex system from UTTT.

Mediterranean Table

I settled on a hybrid method of the one posted neelix and some other ideas I had. I ended up using DAS (air dry clay) instead of filler. I also pressed the DAS into the Woodland scences moulds and then shaped them onto the face of the job. I used PVA behind all the DAS to help ensure it bondedto the surface of the job. The foil worked a charm and I found a tight squeezed ball to push the DAS into place and give a texture 1st worked better. Then a loose squeezed foild ball to give cacks and deeper texture. Also a little twist here and there to distort the suface alittle was good. I'm not sold on the strata lines yet but we'll see in the end. I've just done a sample patch so far I want to see how it looks when dry and how tough and well bonded it is before I go further.

Colours

Thatch roofs

1. Black prime coat
2. Over brush (heavy dry brush) 880
3. Brown ink wash
4. light dry brush 880
5. light dry brush 821


Rendered walls

1. Black prime coat
2. Over brush (heavy dry brush) of white
3. brown ink wash
4. Over brush of 986
5. dry brush white


Timber

1. Black prime coat
2. Over brush (heavy dry brush) 871
3. Brown ink wash
4. dry brush 983
5. lighter dry brush 875
6. even lighter dry brush 825
7. and an even lighter dry brush 874

Weathered grey do it to taste looks good on the roofs but also on the walls to some degree.

1. dry brush 1 part 976 2 parts 870
2. light dry brush 976
3. super light dry brush 986

I usually do a really light dry brush of a buff/off white to pick up the high points for detail as a final step.

Good luck, these are colours that I had and I just recorded what I did to be able to repeat it. There are more colours/steps than probably is needed I’m sure you can skip a few colours or sub in a few colours and probably get an even better result.

Gav

Total Battle Minitures

I finally got around to painting the TBM eastern from buildings and I'm safely saying that I've putmy eastern front building days behind me.
Barn Lift Off Timber Roof and Thatch Roof







Burnt Out Building



Log House Front Yard Lift Off Timber Roof, Large Enclosure and well



Workshop Lift Off Thatch Roof and Shed Lift Off Thatch Roof




All still need flocking and a dull coat.

Rail head finished

I'm thinking this may be a timber Village and I will make a yard of piled logs awaiting shipment along with forest around the edges of the town. Maybe some wooded hills and a few kitchen gardens to round it out. Should be good for EW, MW and LW.

But I have to knuckle down and finish my Beach assualt table as June 6th is onlt 6 months away and I have grand plans for that Sunday in June this year.:crazy:

The Eastern Front Rail Head.

This seemed like a logical reason for a village to spring up and a worthy reason for a company level operation to seize it. I set about building a rail line which grew to a rail head over the Xmas time off. 3mm MDF base and some timber beading for the rail embankment keeping it nice and simple. I kept enough room on the side of the base for a track to run alonside the rail lines. I needed a point for roads to cross the lines so I modeled a rail head as a point of interest, and to enable a few buildings to spice it up.

12mm foam gave the right hight and some bamboo kerbab sticks looked good for some retaining walls around it. I carved a couple of ramps and left enough room on top for one of the barns as a warehouse. Simply PVA glued the sticks to the foam and added some match sticks as the uprights to dizzy it up.

Gave it a very generous coat of texture paint.

and inked the retaining wall.

some drybrushing and it was looking good.







I needed some way for the road to cross the line so I decided to shave some balsa wood stips and glue them on as ramps then build the road up to it. It looks good and rough.

and with the other rail sections


I'm planning on this table being very portable so with that in mind I will be using a games mat. Due to the colour of the static grass on the mat it is a tuff match but I got pretty close with a blend of Heiki grasses.



These little odd secions allow me to have the rail line on an angle on the table.