nightshiftmodeller
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Finally ready for the serious stuff :)
🕑 Added 2021-08-29 21:13:12 +0000 UTCMy friends, the multi-colored diorama base you've been seeing for a few weeks is no more. It's ready for ground texture, vegetation and all the extra fun stuff 😁The only thing that makes me slightly sad is another mishap in my composition. The road is perfectly diagonal, so much so it connects both corners of the base, lol. I should've predicted that, but to my defense, when I was planning the layout I was trying to avoid as many "empty" spots as possible, because these mean extra features. I ended up doing a tree so I couldn't avoid that anyway, but it's a good lesson for another base.
This time I'm very happy with the sides though. I used balsa planks again, but this time I had a good, smooth wood filler (that's a lot of oo's 😁). I spread it evenly with a small spatula and sanded it down. The surface feels very smooth and I was able to round the edges. Just super slick all around!
As a small final bonus I decided to make a concrete milestone marker. Made again from styrofoam, painted with greyish tones and stippled with the same white wood filler for texture. The top will be yellow, the bottom white, and I want to put some info on it. I just need to look at the map of Belgium to figure out where I'll situate the scene :)
Comments
Night Shift
Thanks Paul, can't wait to start painting it all!
Night Shift
Thanks a lot! Hate those moments when some part disappears even if I can pinpoint its location by the sound it made. What I hate even more is when I find it 2 months later...
Paul Garrity
Liking this Martin. The two figures look really good. Looking forward to you bringing the Dio to life
Just gone over everything you have been up to. As for 3 days I have forensically taken my workshop apart looking for a part that flew off its stick while being air brushed....anyway I have the bit now and all happy again. What you build sometimes is how modelling really should be done. I never tire of looking at your work and always take something away to have a go at. Even if modelling at my house is a million miles away in realty.
