Tuesday 10 May 2011

Tomb Kings scenery

You know what it is like. You attend a show and any money you have on you, starts burning a whole in your pockets. Next thing you know you are walking around with a bag of goodies.

In my case the goodies in question was a selection of resin scenery from a company called The Square. Although they have a website, they only sell if you send them a cheque or meet them at a show. Whilst I was at Legionary on Saturday, I took advantage of their attendance. Although they have quite a broad range of nice looking pieces, I choose to go for a number of desert style resin casts to complement the Tomb king armies that are no doubt going to appear at the club in the coming weeks.

The figures are excellent value with a nice selection brought for a little over £15 (the advantage of club discount and a nice smile).


The resin is nice and dense and should stand up to a good amount of rough handling. I opted to add real sand to the base before painting. There are a number of air holes that could do with filling, but I elected to paint without making good and I don't think they are too excessive to distract from the quality of the pieces.

Size wise they are great for warhammer figures, but I plan to use the Sphinx figures either side of the steps of a building.


The sand was painted using the guide given on page 56 of WD377. To paint the sandstone terrain I started with vermin brown, worked up layers of drybrushing through 1:1 vermin brown & Tausept Ochre -> Tausept Ochre -> 1:1 Tausept Ochre & Dheneb Stone -> Dheneb stone. I followed this with a liberal wash of Ogryn flesh.

Broken needle base 

 Cleopatra's needle


 
that's a nice pair of sphinx you have there sir!

I have added a random skeleton figure to give a sense of scale.




11 comments:

  1. Hey,

    Nice scenery!! Would you mind the share the colors you used for painting sphinxes and obelisks please :)

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  2. Thanks.
    To paint the sandstone terrain I started with vermin brown, worked up layers of drybrushing through 1:1 vermin brown & Tausept Ochre -> Tausept Ochre -> 1:1 Tausept Ochre & Dheneb Stone -> Dheneb stone. I followed this with a liberal wash of Ogryn flesh.

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  3. I'm not English so I don't really get what you mean by saying liberal wash :D
    Would you mind telling what you did with the wash - when you used it and if it was in certain areas :)

    Wanna make my Necropshinx sandstone coloured.

    Nice work mate

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  4. "Liberal wash" means I used a lot of the paint when washing. I concentrated on the recesses and those areas I wanted to look darker.

    Hope that helps.

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  5. Cool, thanks :)

    I was thinking something liberal = choose for yourself = in the areas you feel needs it, hehe

    You write you used a lot which I understand as you washed it all and then an extra wash for the areas that needed to be a little darker?

    The sandstone is so spot on it's incredible! I'm sorry I keep asking questions but I just really wanna try creating it too :D

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  6. Sorry, because I know how I do it I assume everyone else does too.. I use a large brush (bigger than an "O"). I have a pot of water nearby. I then dip the brush into the wash and then just touch the surface of the water. I then spread the paint in the areas I want. I keep doing this until it has the look I'm after.

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  8. Thanks! :D I think I get it now, hehe

    It's like watering down the wash and then rubbing in to the paint (gently though) and by watering it down I mean by doing what you just said ;)

    Wau man, I hope I can do your reciepe justice :P

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  9. Do you think it would work out well if I after having done the 1:1 Tausept / Dheneb then washed the entire model with Ogryn Flesh (perhaps a second wash in the deep areas) and then did a final drybrush of Dheneb?

    Or just stick to your reciepe and then add the wash to the deep areas?

    I'm asking as the Necrosphinx's body has been given Vermin Brown basecoat and now a 1:1 Vermin Brown / Tausept Ochre but it seems kinda dark / muddy to me. I'm thinking this probably just is because these are the two dark layers. Or maybe I gotta leave some more paint on the brush for the flat areas?

    Never the less, it's fun and exciting and really testing my experience recieved from my, so far, two models I've painted ;)

    Best Regards

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  10. Post photos of what you achieve. I would love to see.

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