I’m working on building a little display for the models but since they are still pink foam and other raw materials, I grayed them out in the photo.

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humble beginnings

I went to the local ReStore and found 3 old kitchen cabinet bases to use as the base for my new work bench. Each one was about $30. I went to Ikea and bought an 8′ table top.

A trash picked Kallax, some Ikea rolling cabinets, and a shelf later, I have my setup. I’m doing my best to stay organized but it doesn’t take long for the shit to pile up everywhere. I was able to get my air compressor in the far right cabinet which keeps the noise down while air brushing.

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I had made the gray base late last year and it’s based off of the brick design of one of the sky islands in Breath of the Wild. At this point in the process, I wasnt sure of the stone color which is why that platform has the undertones already there. The temple has a main arch way in the front and two small side doors. The back (not shown) has a small circular window at the top. My idea being that maybe on certain days the light shines just right through that window and onto some kind of relic inside.

other view, plus some primer

I really wanted to get away from gray stone for this build. I saw a video by Ben Has that had an inspiring color scheme of red and black. I really liked the idea of a blood red temple which inspired a lot more with this build. Here’s the removable roof piece with some underpainting in place – red, orange, and purple. The black notch is where a wooden trap door will go later.

After doing the undertones, I airbrushed the whole thing with a crimson red, did a black wash, and then some dry brushing of red again. I had to make some kind of structure at the top for the roof because when placed on top of the building, it looked too unfinished. I used some bass wood square dowels and weathered them with inks. Also visible in the first shot below is some Battle Damage^TM of the platform, the partially finished steps, the wooden trap door in the roof, and some crashed chariots that I scratch built.

Once I had everything red, I started getting inspired. I have all of these resin wheels from the mold that I made, and I thought this would be the time to use them. I had taken one and put a slain soldier, now a skeleton, slumped over the wheel (not shown) and this got me thinking – what if this whole temple was dedicated to the Order of the Wheel? I haven’t really figured out what that means, but it just sounds cool!

In my mind this temple has some kind of sacrifice going on the roof for the worshippers to witness. Hanging from the beams are the Holy Wheel with past sacrifices hanging from them. It’s been centuries since the last sacrifice so all that remains are skeletons.

In the photo I have the wheel hanging from some rope, but in the end I swapped it out for some metal chain and then put a magnet in the wood where I have the red arrow. There’s another one on the opposite side of the archway as well.

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*There’s always work to be done, but I doubt I’ll go back and really add anything.

Here’s the hauler primed and ready for paint. You can see the mast is already painted, so there’s a close up of this as well. I ended up repainting it blue to match the rest of the ship. The mast would be put in place when the winds are right so the hauler can save on fuel.

The hauler fully painted and weathered. The mast is tied down to the top and repainted blue. The bed of the hauler has all the necessary tools: winch, spare parts, tarps, and wood planks.

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The top part of the truck’s cab is the bottom of some WW2 destroyer ship, the fore portion is a water gun, an the rest is mostly just plasticard and tubing.

This is some kind of hovering vehicle but I wanted to give it legs to sit on when it’s at rest, so these will be like the kind of ‘leg’ you see on a trailer hitch when it’s not in use. You can see the leg in place in the above image and here’s the ‘before’ shot. I’ll also make cotter pins out of paper clips.

Here’s a close up of the door.

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I’m working on an ancient battlefield board and I’m going to need many carts and chariots. I scratch built these two wheels from coffee stirrers, plasticard, and nail beads. I’ll make a mold soon and cast these up so i can have a somewhat endless supply. Hopefully I can make some wagon wheels that have spokes as well for some variation.

**Update**

Made the molds for these and I’d say they were like 60% successful. Too much silicon got underneath the wheels so it was difficult to remove the originals from the molds and I had to cut a bunch of the silicon between the spokes. You can see it especially in the top left and bottom right spoked wheel. This is after I made some resin casts so the white stuff is some talc powder.

Here’s the resin casts. The spoked wheels broke in spots but for what I plan to use this for, that’s actually fine. They’re going to be ruined wheels on a battlefield.

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1. In the deep, umbral, darkness of the pit, the fires of industry burn. The foul subterraneous city of Swill sits on an ocean of oil, its smog-choked slums, soaked black by belching smokestacks, weave a suffocating labyrinth of rowhouse horror for twenty thousand Workhouse wretches. Whispers spread through cobbled streets of a mysterious canned flesh known as The Thing in the Tins. An unimaginable abomination able to fulfil its owner’s deepest desires in this sweltering ruin of industrial revolution and verminous brick. To escape their living hell, pitiful labourers, fishwives and flensers, broken, wracked and twisted by mutation, gut each other like pilchards in their desperate search for the Tins. Fueled by oil, metal and hate they build cruel warmachines in the depths of the world. Shuddering Scab tanks, grind down ginnels overflowing with tar, Shoals of Sprats, in unprecedented numbers, swarm in the shadows, and countless bands of impoverished debtors incinerate their rivals in brutal skirmishes to the barked orders of merciless Factory Cults. Dark clouds gather over Cist. Dying travellers fatally wheeze sorry memories of the abyss. Croaking Klaxon crows call out to the most foolhardy Regiments. Gather your troops, fix bayonets, and descend to the pit city of Swill

I started with the main body of the tank which of course is a fish skull. This is sculpey wrapped around some tin foil. I put it in the oven too long and burned it, but it doesn’t really matter too much. I started attaching pieces of styrene for metal plating since this is a tank. Studs are nail art half spheres.

The tank treads were pretty difficult to make and these things are flimsy AF. The’re a mi of styrene, plastic gears, and zip dies. I will be hiding a lot of crimes later with muck and mud.

After adding styrene plating, I worked on the mouth of the tanks. I cut up a bunch of blackpowder rifles and styrene tubes and made them look like they are bristling out of a hole in the mouth. I’d like to think that rather than having one main cannon, it’s just a shotgun blast. For the tank armor plating I made little sheets of scales from hole punched paper. The driver is an ACW model and the other model is a Perry model of some sorts. My plan is to make his spear trailing various flags and fish shaped kites. I had this bent spear from a Reaper mini and thought it would be cool to have that sprout from the forehead like an angler fish. I grabbed an lantern from a random Warhammer sprue and attached it.

I think it’s ready to be primed so I can get a better idea of how much I have and how much more crap that I need to add to it.

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This model below is the troll. I had arbitrarily primed him a red so I went with it. I kind of Garfed him up a bit with an orange on his back and a brighter more yellow orange on his belly. I need to find a way to knock down the reflections in my photos because I did spend time highlighting his back and chest wrinkles/folds and they’re not really showing up. It’s a learning process.

Next up is the Esoteric Hermit. I really like the weathering on his scroll.

Here’s the Wrat. Apparently her left arm is supposed to be pointing upwards and coming out from the far side of her cloak and not pointing down coming from the inside. I still like the way it looks. This looks way better in person. I like that the bright yellow of her hair and bright blue of her cloak fits with the Mork Borg CMYK color scheme.

And finally the Narrator and what i think is a Berserker. I had a lot of fun with these two. Many layers of washes for the pile of skulls. I had a Warhammer bit of the two decapitated heads that I glued to the Beserker’s fist to make it look like he was dragging his prey around. I also like that the Berserker is like an old warrior with a bit of pudge and a receding hair line.

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My goal on these was not to spend too much time on them. The sculpts really are asking to be drybrushed with all of their great textures. So I did a fair amount of that and also a fair amount of washes on top of washes. I think this really helps for things like bone.

I’m trying to get better at photography. For this one I actually got my Canon Rebel out of the closet and set up a light box. I’m working on multiple focuses and then combining them in Photoshop. I think the background is still more in focus than the models so I will try move the models further away from the camera for the next time.

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