Just a short post in between. I think weathering could be very interesting for everyone of us, so I have to post this really good video tutorial from Massive Voodoo. Sadly the MV channel on Youtube has no playlist for all the videos from the series, so I put one together (hope they don't mind). The video is in german, but on their blog, they also have an english text version about weathering.
So long,
Paradox0n
A view on my workbench and gaming table: Terrain, Miniatures, Tutorials and Reviews
Showing posts with label Tutorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tutorial. Show all posts
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
HowTo: Building a tower - Part 2
Ok, after showing you how I build the foundation for my tower, now it's time to paint the stone carvings. This will be only a short part, because I think I can't show you some wicked magic here, it's just good old handywork.
After the core was build together I primed everything black. At this stage I didn't have my airbrush yet so I was forced to do everything by hand.I used some cheap black color from the hardware store to cut down the expenses. After three layers everything was completely black. The three coates of paint had one side effect I noticed when everything was dry: The carving was much more stable than before.
After the core was build together I primed everything black. At this stage I didn't have my airbrush yet so I was forced to do everything by hand.I used some cheap black color from the hardware store to cut down the expenses. After three layers everything was completely black. The three coates of paint had one side effect I noticed when everything was dry: The carving was much more stable than before.
Primed everything black |
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
HowTo: Modular Gaming Table - Part 2
In the last part of this HowTo series, I explained how I build the base for the gaming modules. In this part I will describe how the hills were made and how I prepared the board to get the first layer of the structure paint.
I suggest you listen to this song while reading the next part:
I suggest you listen to this song while reading the next part:
Labels:
Gaming Table,
HowTo,
Terrain,
Tutorial,
Warhammer
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
HowTo: Building a tower - Part 1
Again I'm keeping one of my promises, I start the second planned series of my HowTo's. Today I will talk about building a tower from scratch.
As you have seen in my other HowTo's I like building terrain pieces from spare parts or even garbage. But in this case all my thoughts about how I could achieve a decent result failed. Therefore I started planning a complete building from scratch. Thanks to some research and one REALLY good tutorial from Gidian Gelände, the concept grew fast. So I collected the needed material and started to experiment with things I had never done before (again).
As you have seen in my other HowTo's I like building terrain pieces from spare parts or even garbage. But in this case all my thoughts about how I could achieve a decent result failed. Therefore I started planning a complete building from scratch. Thanks to some research and one REALLY good tutorial from Gidian Gelände, the concept grew fast. So I collected the needed material and started to experiment with things I had never done before (again).
Chips and Selitron |
Saturday, June 2, 2012
HowTo: Modular Gaming Table - Part 1
As promised I will do a HowTo-series about how I build my gaming table. The gaming table was build last year, toghether with a close friend of mine and has seen now three battles (one you can in my first battle report). We had enough of playing on a normal dining table. The Citadel board was too expensive for us (since we only play on an irregular base) so we researched a bit and planned our own modular board.
Modular because:
Modular because:
- we wanted a table which looked different when we wanted to
- I have not enough room to store one or three big plates
- and we wanted to save some money :)
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Gaming Table,
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Terrain,
Tutorial,
Warhammer
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Terrain out of junk - Impassable terrain
Again an article about something I made up to create terrain out of junk. We had our fruit basket full of exotic fruit and to our misfortune some of the passion fruits were really dried up and not ready to eat anymore. They were so hard, I think I would be able to throw in a window with them... But no, building terrain with them is much more fun. They have a real alien look so you could use them as tyranid spores or as some warped stones from the chaos desert or dragon eggs or something like this. Decide yourself ;)
Dragon Eggs? Warpstone? Tyranid Spores? |
Sunday, May 20, 2012
HowTo: Photobucket
Everytime I made some photos I cursed because without the right equipment the pictures often get somewhat blurry, oversatureated or shiny. Therefore I searched for an easy way to build me place where I can make my pictures. Prices for professional equipment ranges from 40€ to open end and I didn't want to spent my money on something like this (the money saved could be invested in paints/miniatures or a nice evening with my wife). The best solution for low budget I found (in different places) seems to be the photobucket:
Photo bucket at no cost |
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Experiment,
Gallery,
HowTo,
Photo,
Tutorial
Friday, April 27, 2012
Terrain from spare parts - Part 2: Stack of wood
Seems terrain from spare parts really gets a series on my blog. Part 2 contains another terrain piece made completly out of stuff I had on my workingtable and from junk I would have thrown away otherwise . Its nothing fancy or even big, but it fits nicely to my growing village ;) A small stack of wood:
Stack of wood |
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Terrain made of aquarium decoration
Because we have two cats, we are pretty often in pet shops in our area. And since I re-started with the wargaming hobby, I always looked out for stuff to build cheap and easy terrain pieces with. Not long ago I found some big trees in the fish department and I took a closer look and instantly bought the piece.
I don't remeber the manufacturer or the store where I bought it, but it was around 4-5€ and is really tall (measures 10 cm in width and 11cm in height).
I just glued it on an old CD, sanded the base, drybrushed everything and gave a quick painting shot for the glowing warpstone. Et voilà, a warped tree is finished:
I don't remeber the manufacturer or the store where I bought it, but it was around 4-5€ and is really tall (measures 10 cm in width and 11cm in height).
I just glued it on an old CD, sanded the base, drybrushed everything and gave a quick painting shot for the glowing warpstone. Et voilà, a warped tree is finished:
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Inspirational basing tutorials
By chance I found on Youtube the channel of Buypainted. As it seems they run a painting commision studio, but I found interesting that they have a whole bunch of great tutorial videos hosted on Youtube.
Apart from the standard "how do I paint model XYZ" I really liked the "how do I make themed bases" series. So I thought: "Why not share with everyone?". And here it is:
I hope you like them as I do.
Stay tuned and enjoy your time.
Apart from the standard "how do I paint model XYZ" I really liked the "how do I make themed bases" series. So I thought: "Why not share with everyone?". And here it is:
I hope you like them as I do.
Stay tuned and enjoy your time.
Labels:
Basing,
HowTo,
Inspiration,
Tutorial,
Video
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Terrain from spare parts - Part 1.1: Even more fences
In the last part I showed how i made a easy fence out of spare sprues. On my workbench I have even more sprues (really! :) ) so I tried to make another fence. This time I used a bit of styrodur (polystyrol foam) to get a different look.
The steps a very similar as described in the first part. The only difference is that I cut out some blocks from the styrodur and carved in some brickwork.
The steps a very similar as described in the first part. The only difference is that I cut out some blocks from the styrodur and carved in some brickwork.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Terrain from spare parts - Part 1: Fences
Every wargamer has lots of it: Sprues from your miniatures. Most of the time they are just thrown away but i thought of trying to use them to make some cheap terrain. A quick search on google just gave me some inspiration and I tried to make something out of the material lying arround:
Needed material:
Needed material:
- some spare sprues (obviously)
- MDF or thick cardboard
- sand
- white glue
- paint
- static gras
- a cutter and some brushes
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
HowTo: Building a swamp
Creating a swamp for your gaming table
In this small tutorial I want to show a short howto for building a swamp for your gaming table. Most of the stuff needed must not be bought every painter or terrain crafter should have the things at home.
Needed material:
- old and/or broken CD
- old newspaper
- modelling putty like Fimo, Greenstuff etc.
- dry plant parts
- sand
- white glue
- UHU (transparent glue)
- paint
Some of the needed material |
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