N810's Jungle Terrain (building on a budget)

[N810]

Finally I got the other side built and plastered.




Also I added a lot more timbers, and a bit of weathering.
Now i just have to do that to the new parts, and add Shingles.

[Crazy Harborc]

Oh my, my, my, my.........the city is growing....soon it will be time for the firestorms. Soon the armies of what/whoever will be liberating the local treasure....um, I mean people. So will the town/city have a continuous wall of wood or stone OR a mix?

[Orcdom]

midway makes an awesome tool for cutting plasticard and wood so you can get very accurate measurements. this one is close to the one i have and they make one that has a little more blade depth.

i think midways is built a little better.
http://www.ares-server.com/Ares/Ares...oduct&ID=50348
but i coulcnt find thiers and my camera batteries are dead, plus midways is cheaper.

Steve

[N810]

midway makes an awesome tool for cutting plasticard and wood so you can get very accurate measurements. this one is close to the one i have and they make one that has a little more blade depth.

i think midways is built a little better.
http://www.ares-server.com/Ares/Ares...oduct&ID=50348
but i coulcnt find thiers and my camera batteries are dead, plus midways is cheaper.

Steve

mmm interesting, this is a very similar tool to what I'm using
except yours has the nice angle measurer...

I would use except this house prety much started out crooked...
so this probaly wont help much for this project... but I'll keep it in mind.

[N810]

What kind of roof do you think I should use?

Wood shingles ?

Slate shingles ?

Thatch roof ?

other ??

[Orcdom]

shingles look best in my opinion. Index cards work well here, make a strip and slice your tabs irregularly. make 1 row then overlap another and so on.

slate will have a more uniform look and wood shakes you wont really get the thickness and it to look right scale wise. so a combination of both maybe?

you could even try a clay spanish tile look, split drinking straws down the middle and cut to length and overlap.

that would be alot of work but the payoff might be worth it.

Steve

[N810]

hmmm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/destinatio/438873906 OR
http://www.schindlerroofing.com/_images/wood_shake.jpg OR
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/tps/b...es/04_wood.jpg OR
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sphynge/530981677/ OR
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/13/17...9e76a139a9.jpg OR
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judith/15832946/ OR
http://www.photographyblog.com/galle...6tile_roof.jpg

[Crazy Harborc]

Shingles like the last photo, that brings back memories of Northern Italy, when we were there. Seeing those large construction crains that are needed to raise up those clay tiles when an ancient buildings roof needs repairing/replacing. We don't have a need for those indrustrial size crains for most of the home/house/condo/apartment dwelling roofs. Not too many clay tile roofs in my area.

Anyway thanks for the photos.....AND..... the electric prod to my memory cells.

[N810]

Ohhhhh Pained Lizies....
Ok mostly painted (the bottom is still black)
and the color don't look quite a sbight in person.




oh yea I'm gonna put some frerns and flock on the base to
disguise the rod a little bit (the darn thing broke, so I hot glued it on)

[bdo]

looking good! though one thing: is the body of the rider with glass varnish finished? looks really shiny, maybe a little bit too much for my taste - but i really love the base, good work, good work

i would go for this, as it looks nice and old - just appealing to me
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/13/17...9e76a139a9.jpg

[N810]

umm nope i didn't use any varnish... It's just too much camera flash...
they are not realy that shiny.

Oh you guy have got to check this out and the next 6 or so
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20061030

I did a little more last night, I painted the eyes yellow (need to add pupils)
and I glued on some ferns, but it could still use some more.

[Orcdom]

if you varnish it use brush on varnish or tape over the clear rod or it will fog it up and look bad.

Steve

[N810]

Aright I think I'm done now...




sooo what do you think about my first complete Lizardman?

[Crazy Harborc]

Sooooo do you want to do mine?? It looks good. Are you going to paint on some under the wings numbers....first one painted....could be number one.

[bdo]

wow, no wonder you won a painting competition a few pages back. that really looks kick-ass, and on this pics i see that they aren´t that shiny as i thought before. how long did it take you to paint him like this? a complete army in this style and quality would look awesome *double thumbs up*

and you are right... the ctrl+alt+del comics are genius...

[N810]

Well I plan on painting all my skinks like that one.
it probably took 5 hours to paint and assemble and base that one.
I did him cause so far I only have one of them.
heres an update of what I've been up to....

[bdo]

5 hours is quite fast, this will be a good looking army i guess

please paint the small snakes first

[N810]

yea .... I haven't realy done anything worth posting lately.
But maybe tonight I'll finish basing those swarms & maybe get to paint one or two ?

I did finish glueing all my calvery together...
I'll probaly prime those tonight.
while simutainiously assembeling some more skinks.

(Yea I'm a Little A.D.D. )

[N810]

Cause you asked so nice...


Its still WIP I need to add flock and some plants .... maybe a little ink.

[matz]

cool!!!!!!