Painting – Page 47

Posted on November 9, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 18 Comments

Further Work on the Vegetation

Tonight was another slow evening waiting for things to dry, I tried a bit of painting, but to be honest my mind and body weren’t up to it.

So anyway, I got as many static grass tufts out as I could find and shoved them randomly onto the board to try and make it look a bit more moorlandy, or should that be more moorlandesque?

As you can see the glue hasn’t dried yet, the other thing that is noticeable is that I have shoved some trees on. I got these years ago for about 10p each, I think i got fifteen for a quid something like that. Anyway these are cake decorating trees for the average Christmas cake, but as I found them when I was looking for tufts, I thought I would shove them on and to be honest I don’t think they look too bad.

I would appreciate some comments from others as they aren’t exactly the most accurate trees around (all the same size for a start). I do think that they give the board a bit more verticality, so therefore a bit more interest.

This is what it looked like before I shoved the tufts on….

I have soaked everything in diluted PVA to seal the bits down. Tomorrow I hope to get the mud areas painted and then hopefully get some animals done to actually go on the thing… perhaps I should have got them sprayed at the weekend when the weather was dry!

I might even go down the sand colour and dry brush route on them to save having to wait for the weekend.

One thing I must remember to do is get some pins into the rhino. I am not sure whether or not I will manage it with the wolves… wish me luck!

Posted on November 8, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 9 Comments

Onto the Grasslands

Well, that was a bit of a worrying day regarding this thing. The stuff I covered the groundwork with yesterday was the fast acting basing glue and as such it didn’t dry. Thankfully flock was going over the top so it was saved. I added a lot more of the basin glue to make sure it was stuck down.

The dark bit in the foreground is where the rhino are going to be. I will paint this in to make it look more muddy as if they have been going at it for a while.

Initially I was going to have trees, but I kind of forgot, so this one will have bushes instead.

Hopefully I will get the animals sorted soon and start getting them added to the scene.

Posted on November 7, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 8 Comments

Working on the Rocks

This evening I touched up the sides a bit and covered as much white as I could find. I then decided to get the rocks done.

It’s a bit shiny at the minute as I covered it in PVA to give it a bit of protection. Unfortunately My fingers were a bit tacky when I touched the rocks at the back and I managed to peel the paint off them. When everything has dried then I will get them recovered and then protected too.

The rocks actually look better in real life…honest.

So tomorrow, I will try and get some vegetation down, so wish me luck. Not sure how it is going to look yet, I definitely don’t want winter and snow, so it is what to choose out of the remaining three 😂

Posted on November 6, 2020November 7, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 10 Comments

Brown and Warped

So after two days above the fire then I have eventually managed to make the majority of the ground brown…

I deliberately didn’t do the edges as I had no paper down and it would have got a bit messy to say the least. Hopefully I will get the edges and the rocks done tomorrow.

Sadly, and as expected I have a bit or warping…

You can just about see it in this photo. It is probably a mm or two out, so it probably won’t be that visible (unless of course it increases over time).

Posted on November 4, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 9 Comments

Diorama Update

Well this is taking a while to dry, the ground cover stuff is still cold to the touch so is still not dry (the joys of not living in a centrally heated house). Anyway I shoved some beasties on to see what it looked like and to be honest I am rather pleased with how it is beginning to come together.

I reckon it will look better when I have some colours on both the ground and the animals 🥴.

I did splash some paint around this evening, I got some more on some wolves and started making the cattle less white…

Hopefully I will carry on with this lot tomorrow.

Posted on November 1, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 11 Comments

Maids, Goats and the Witch King II

Tonight was another one where I had to force myself to paint anything. I had based up the goats earlier in the day, but really, really had to push myself to pick up the brush, needless to say I didn’t really get that much done overall.

For the first time ever I actually had to stir up a Contrast paint. The Apothecary White was a lump on the bottom of the pot, it took forever to unlump it (or should that be delump). Anyway you can tell the before and after effect in the photo above. The lady in the blue is the before and the lady in green the after.

So the bases on the goats were done today. I kind of think the bright green grass looks a bit out of place, but otherwise I am happy with them.

The strong wind totally knackered the old caravan, popped one of the windows and shoved in the side, ear the door. We have been meaning to take the thing down for about a year and a half so I think next weekend it really must come down (if it doesn’t come down itself that is).

So back to work tomorrow, I am going to have to remember to phone to get a hire car for Tuesday, otherwise my wife won’t be going into work for her meeting. One of ours is getting some work done for its MOT, so we are down to one car. It wouldn’t be so bad, but the nearest bus stop is 2 miles in either direction and we work in opposite directions too.

Posted on October 30, 2020October 31, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 10 Comments

Goats, Gatling’s and a Hairy Rhino (again)

Today I got my two new rhino off the build plate, I went for a turning one and as I said a a calf that is either dead or sleeping… I also located my MDF board and set up and idea of where the miniatures could go (one day I might actually make something).

I also printed off some Gatling gun thingies for one of the lads at the club, unfortunately the barrel of one went weird and I lost one too…

He just reminded me he only needed the barrels and not the magazines… whoops.

And finally, I slapped some paint on the goats…

Not a lot, but I think that is the first painting this week…

Posted on October 27, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 8 Comments

Diorama Ideas

Tonight I started printing a pack of wolves for the diorama idea. I will print off the rhino tomorrow, but basically it is going to have about four or five wolves and a pair of rhino, with one being a calf.

I kind of mocked it up a bit using some bits and pieces I had lying around…

It is not going to be a snowy scene, but further into the summer as the calf has been born. I will have them near a water hole and Mum is trying to protect the calf from the wolves….

I have a couple of options for the adult rhino. One is the above one, other option is the first one I ever printed with the head turning, there is also a ‘leaping’ one which I don’t think would work. I want more of a stand off than a charge.

I have mirrored and fiddled with the size of the wolf that looks like it is slinking, this will allow them to circle the pair in the middle.

I will see how I get on with this idea as I have bucket loads to paint and make, but I do like building terrain so it might just be fun.

I managed to finish the rhino tonight and had a fiddle with a Wolf’s colouring…

Posted on October 26, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 1 Comment

A Hairy Elephant With Friends

Tonight I wanted something easy so went for the hairy beasts…

Not really much I can say about them except they are rather large and not too bad to paint. Still some work to do on them, but they are getting there. So I survived my first day back in work. Spent this morning trying to sort out colleagues IT problems, which meant I dint get as much done as I wanted. Hopefully it will all work tomorrow…

Posted on October 24, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 6 Comments

A Parcel and a Break in the Weather

Thankfully the couple of days of solid rain seem to have eased and I managed to get out and get things sprayed…

Now interestingly enough, when I bought the spay wheel (aka cake spinner) it was very smooth… so in a fit of curiosity I wondered how thick the layer was. It was evidently thick enough to support itself when held…

Considering this is spray paint, then it must have had a fair few layers down on it. It was actually quite satisfying scraping it off with my knife as it lifted in sheets.

Anyway enough whittering on about my paint fetish…

I have new toys!!!

So I got this very nice parcel from Museum Miniatures this morning and, shock horror, I didn’t actually open it until this evening… how about that for self control!

I have got quite a lot to paint… first up the hoplites…