"Red Baron Inn" Fireplace Painted

Little progress again with my building project. Here's some pics of two more walls and the fireplace painted.

Only one wall missing from the ground floor. That's next on the hobby table.

I didn't want to sculpt any flames, for they usually look crappy. Instead I decided to make some embers glowing warmly and gently :) It turned out ok.

More soon I hope... Bye now!

"Red Baron Inn" Continued: A Fireplace WIP

Hello! Just a quick update on the Inn project. Today I made a fireplace... and here's some pics :)

Here's all the pieces cut out of foam board.

After assembly with hot glue gun...

And finally I added some masoned wall behind it. Made for the room height of Red Baron Inn.
Next there's some painting and fitting it to the place. We'll see how that goes pretty soon... Bye!

The "Red Baron Inn" WIP

Hi there! After a long brake I have found some hobby time... And somehow I found myself with a wargames building project. This is my first attempt at making a building from scratch, and here's some pics of how I'm doing.

Started out with some drawings... The one on the right is my remote goal for the "Red Baron Inn"

Starting out with kapa board... Floor is measured for 25mm squares, if the building is used for RPG purposes at some point. (Pathfinder and stuff)

I cutted out the lines with carpet knife. And made some extra "cracks" to give the floor some feeling.

Here's the floor painted. I splattered some thinned black paint on the floor tiles as a last stage.

I cuttet out the walls... Just fits :)

Next I planned out the wall with a door

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Ok... Making windows here. I cutted some cardboard of the size of the windows... and some small pieces of wire mesh of the same size.

I wanted the windows to look warm and yellow from the outside, like there was a fire place in the tavern (and there will be)... And  from  the inside it would look like a night view from the windows...

Here's the mesh glued to the painted cardboard.

Inside wall, with a door made out of balsa, and three mesh windows in place. I framed the windows with stripes of balsa too. Then some glue and sand on the walls.

After painting... Here's the first inside wall of the " Red Baron"

Three more walls to go, and then it's upstairs turn... More to come soon I hope ;)

Arachnarok Spider, WIP

Hi there! Just few WIP-pics here, to prove I'm still in the painting...

I chose the same color theme as I painted my Forest Goblin Spider Riders, and Goblin Hero on Gigantic Spider (older posts). The pics are really flashy, sorry bout that. I try to do some proper photographing with later pics :)

Bye now!

Serpents of Hellfire: Librarian WIP2

Hello again! Here's some WIP pics after I made the lightning effect on my Librarian...

Well... I have quite mixed emotions about this work. I have allways been against any "gun muzzle"- and other external effects in the miniatures. But nowadays, when I have seen pretty good looking spell effects sculpted on miniatures, as in new GW-fantasy stuff, I have not so steep opinions about them. For example the latest High Elf mages look amazing, with all energy balls and lightnings growing out of them. The broblem that comes with these minis, is the painting. You have to really invest in to the colors, to make the mini look as it supposed to. There are quite nice OSL (object source lighting) tutorials in the network, but it takes ages to master the techniques... "Sigh"

So, with this initialization, lets see my Librarian lightning effect attempt, that has no OSL extending to the mini, and looks like... something.

The only OSL- effect is in the Librarians palm, that I simply painted white inside. Instead of making the whole mini glow with blue light, I painted the lightning through the whole arm, all the way to Librarians shoulder. Thats kind of "comic book" solution to the effect broblem. And that suits me fine, for I have no time, interrest, or the skills to carry out a decent OSL-effect. I continued the theme to the other hand holding the Sword of Caliban. There's some of the power weapons energy flowing on the Librarians armour.

The lightning itself is made out of a little piece of root, glued to the Librarians palm. Lightning effects are quite easy to paint... You just need three layers of different blues, and little white on top. With little practise it comes out nicely.

Back of the mini is quite unfinished... but here's showing some of the cloak :) Some more high lights coming up soon. And I'll be back with a finished miniature. Bye now!