Table of Contents:
Painting
Buildings
-Painting
bulding Bits-
Putting
Buildings Together
Edges of
the Card Buildings
Basing Buildings
Building
Projects
Getting Started on the Boxed Set Building:
Table of Contents:
Painting
Buildings
-Painting
bulding Bits-
Putting
Buildings Together
Edges of
the Card Buildings
Basing Buildings
Building
Projects
Getting Started on the Boxed Set Building:
Alrighty, then! Now, the first thing
you have to do is remove the mold lines with the knife. DO NOT cut them
off of the Sprue! That would be stupid, especially when you try to paint
them! Once that's done, carefully twist the pieces so they are facing you,
but still on the sprue.
Now prime the sprue. Yes, we're painting
these things before we even think about putting them on the card building!
Everyone
sing! I see a grey sprue and I want to paint it black...........
Enough!
Girl-thing, let nararator get back-back to what he was doing!
Thank
you, Kryss. Ehm, after painting every single thing black you need an idea
where it's going to go and what it's going to do. For example, try and
come up wit a color that best brings out the color of the building. For
example, on the tavern, the outside walla are red so I painted the corners
and beams stone and the roof dark blue.
After you know what you're going to
do, you might want to try some of these hints for colrs and things:
Stone: Chaos Black drybrushed with Codex Gray
Wood:Scorched Brown with Highlights of Bestial Brown
and Snakebite Leather
Roof tiles: Any color, so long as you drybrush a lighter
color of the same over it.
Note: I have a large drybrush for this. It is an old
brush and good at huge areas like these bits. I don't know if the new Tank
Drybrush would do the same, but I'm not spending five bucks to try it out.
The card buildings of the
set fit together ok, but I would dry fit all the piecies before trying
any glue on anything. The plastic bits fit together with superglue, clipped
from the sprue with minimal amount of repainting the cut edges. You are
even left with a few left over bits, but I see no other way to use these
together for different buildings, unless you cut them and majorly change
them. Things like the small windows, gargoyles, and signs can be a bit
off. Infact, I purposly glued windows on wrong to give the effect the house
is actually damaged, and not just missing piecies of itself.
Well, you've goten this far but somethings
bugging you as it did me. The edges of the card buildings, no matter how
you cut them, are white! Any architecht can tell you that card makes a
bad insultor, so the residents of Mordhiem most likely did NOT opt for
card houses. Now to remady this situation, get some black paint and a small
brush and a drybrush. Using the small brush, paint the white edges black,
don't worry if you can't get it perfect, the second part takes care of
this. Taking the drybrush, dry brush in one direction, prefreably diagonal.
If you painted something you don't like, just wipe it away, the glossy
surface of the buildings makes it so it is water proof for about a minute.
Games Workshop DOES paint their buildings, but if you look on the new "Blood
on the Streets" pack, they painted the edges grey on a beige wall! The
photos of other buildings show the edges in ethier the color of the building
or another horrid color that really clashes.. Ick! I hate bad taste!
The bases of my buildings are made of thick corragated cardboard. I first put the building on the cardboard sheet to see where I need to cut and draw about a 1" perimeter around the edges. I then flatten and round the edges of the cardboard to make it look a bit better. I first paint the cardboard black and try to get into the little nicks inside it. Only after the paint is dry to I begin to base the house.
I glue the building to the base with white glue and let it sit. Next, I took a bit of gravel and sprue rubble (Note: I use clean Kitty litter and sift it to get a fine or a coarse gravel) and glued it where the building meets the base so it hides the way I glued it on. I also made cobblestones from foamboard on one.
I used my dad's airbrush to paint the gravel a scorched brown using a really dark brown arcylic paint. This method saves the hassle of painting large areas with the gravel coming off. Plus, the air brush effect gives the buildings a grimy effect so it's more blended. I then drybrushed the gravel Bubonic Brown for even more griminess.
All that was left was to paint the base Scorched Brown and any sprue rubble black, then drybrush Codex Gray over it. (A really cool thing that happened was one sprue said copyright 1999 but cut and upside down it said 666... EEEK!)
Alright
you stunties, get back to work! Sewers don't-Don't make them selves, you
know!!! We's need more cover from evil man-things with bows! Des be what
we's an other warbands is working on!
I play the Skaven from the boxed set, but I am also looking to play a weird mix of Skave, Cultists, and Sisters of Sigmar. What can I say, I like chaos and painting chicks!
Well, since Skaven come from underground, it seems fitting to me if I made an open sewer pipe or well with rats coming out of it. Currently, this is not in development, it's hust a thought.
The Cult of the Possed I'm going to paly will have Beastmen, so I'm making a small herdstone. Although not protected by a Minotaur, this stone will give a feel that cultists and Beastmen fight together, but have their own agendas. I am shaping this stone out of foam, but I need more weapons and skeletons to put on it.
My Sister of Sigmar warband is being put together because I want to play at least one "Good" warband. Also since going over the middle ages in Europe in History, I found the idea of a cathedral exciting. I plan to make a huge cathedral with many gargoyles and steps leading to it on top of a maxium of a two foot Sigmar's Spire! This will take a long time, but once I get a job, I'll easily pay for it. It is in the design stages and help or tips are much appriciated!