There is going to be a murder of posts today as I finished up the paintwork on my siege towers. To celebrate (and to show off) I made a separate series of 'narrative' photo's that will be posted in a second post. First the finished paint job.
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You're facing the wrong way you idiots! |
I started these two by priming them black.
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Yes that is what black primer looks like. |
After the black I followed up with a layer of GW Mournfang Brown spray. I think Dryd Bark would have been nicer, but I had a rattlecan of Mournfang ready so Mournfang it was.
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Add some Mournfang to the mix. |
Next I opened my large tub of Sepia and used an awful (but big and cheap) Ikea brush to coat the two towers in Sepia.
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Large tub of wash, large brush, quick results. |
I had them dry on top of empty pots to make sure the wash did not cause any paper to stick to the towers.
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Yes I like applying heavy washes. |
After the ink dried I gave them an allround drybrush of Gorthor Brown (a nice grey-brown to age the wood a bit). I followed that up by getting carried away with life in general and completely forgot to take pictures (sigh). Fast forward a bit of drying time and I started testing out Modelmates Rust on the iron (plasticard) panels.
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Modelmates Rust usually works like magic. Not today though.... |
That turned out to be a useless idea. It did not work at all. Back to the drawing board. When in doubt, use Typhus Corrosion. I whipped out my pot of the texture paint and covered the plates in it.
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When in doubt, go for Typhus corrosion. |
After allowing plenty of time to dry I gave all the plates a reasonably heavy drybrush of Leadbelcher.
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Typhus Corrosion with a drybrush of Leadbelcher. |
I followed up with a light drybrush of Deathclaw Brown to give it a brownish tint (and because I was feeling artistic and hip).
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Add some subtle browns to the mix. |
This was followed up by drybrushing, stipling, drybrushing some more, stipling some more and generally going wild with Ryza Rust. I understand some people hate this effect, but I love it.
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Going wild with the Ryza Rust. |
After the Ryza had plenty of time to dry, I added a splattered wash of Agrax to the plates and finished off with Nihilakh Oxide. I apply this putting a stripe on a plates and then using a second brush to fade it into the surroundings. I got so carried away with this I once again forgot to take pictures, but this is the end result.
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And everything has come together. It is a rusty mess, but it is also nicely colorful (at least in my very humble opinion). |
And here are the finished towers. Oh yeah, I drybrushed Leadbelcher on the top chains and mechanism and toned it down by adding Vallejo Smoke to it, it makes it look oiled rather then rusty (which would be a must for a mechanism should function at a rather bloody important moment (i.e. just before someone yells 'Charge!')).
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The back of the siege towers, bravely approaching their first set of city walls. |
Here is the back.
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And a view from the top of the towers. |
I'll call this project finished for now.
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