At the club recently we've been on a bit of a boat kick, specifically ‘splishy boats’ (aka Uncharted Seas
from Spartan Games).
We’ve also been having a bit
of a scenery purge as well...
The combination of these two
factors has resulted in ‘Holdeness’ the island everyone wants to visit (or
crash into at high speed...)
So here’s how a lump of wood
was transformed into an island...
Stage 1 – Tweaking
Luckily the bit of wood we had
lent itself perfectly to being an island or a rocky outcrop, however I wanted
my island to have a population, luckily we had a Mighty Empires village and
Castle laying about and these would do perfectly (before you point it out I
know they are the wrong scale, but it looked good...)
The castle was too large to
fit on the island so I cut it up into the individual towers.
So with a bit of greenstuff,
patience and superglue Holdeness had a population.
Stage 2 – Undercoat
The key to a good paint job is
a good undercoat; mine was done in three stages. The first was a good coat of
black spray really making sure that the whole island was well covered.
The second stage of the
undercoat was a heavily watered down coat of Lifecolour Dark Grey UA133
(heavily watered down was to me is a 1:7 ratio).
The third was a heavily
watered down coat of Chaos Black (same ratio’s as the grey). The whole thing
then had a blast under the hair dryer to fully dry it off.
Stage 3 – Drybrushing
Normally I consider dry
brushing a crime against painting, however in this case it was the perfect tool
for the job.
Heavy drybrush first of all
with the dark grey from earlier, once complete a dash of Vallejo Stone Grey (or
Fortress Grey is you’re using GW) was added to the mix and the island had
another drybrush.
In total there were 4 layers
of drybrushing, the final being pure Stone Grey.
Stage 4 – Detailing
So, I now had a large rock, a
my island had a population it needed areas of earth. First part was a watered
down coat of Vallejo Scorched Earth (GW Scorched Brown), once dry this was
given a drybrush of Vallejo Earth.
While detailing the village
and forts that had been added to the island were also picked out in Dark Gray
and Stone Grey.
Stage 5 – Final Detailing
Next up a coat of PVA was
applied to all the area where I wanted the island to have grass/trees/bushes.
Scatter flock was then added and left to dry with the excess being gently
brushed away.
Stage 6 – Waterline
It’s an island so I wanted to
show the waves hitting the cliffs, this was easily done again with drybrushing,
three layers. First layer Vallejo Stormy Blue, next Stormy Blue / Vallejo Magic
Blue 50/50 mix and finally pure Magic Blue.
To make the waterline look
right I did the drybrushing at an angle starting under the island and flicking
upwards, this way it had the same effect as the waves hitting the rocks.
Done!
Not bad for a spur of the
moment idea and a couple of hours work!
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