Saturday 20 July 2013

Brecourt Manor....Part 8

The boards have been painted.


I've airbrushed the earth colours on and then gave them a final light dry brush with a Home Base emulsion 'Soft Pebble'. The rocks/stones have been painted too.


The grey of the 'stones' is really there to break up the brown. Since this is a field used for agriculture having large groups of boulders scattered about the area may not be entirely accurate but adds another feature to the boards. I've also weathered the boards in the gun pits and trenches.


I've used weathering powders to dirty up the flooring. My initial application may have been slightly over zealous. I used the Forge World powders, and used the earth colours finishing off with the Dark Sand powder. Between each application though I sealed the previous one with MIG Pigment Fixer, applied via the airbrush. I've restricted the weathering to the outer part of the boards, to represent were the crew would stand. To illustrate;



I've also dirtied up the sandbags a little more but I'm not too happy with the colour which has resulted. In fact there are two things which I'm not happy with at the moment;

  • The sandbags which I'm really considering re-painting. 
  • The roof of the command bunker has warped slightly. I'm putting this down to the use of DAS clay which when it has dried has contracted causing the warp in the plasticard base. The roof is still useable but may need to be re-made.
I've pretty much convinced my self that I will add further sandbags along the edge of the trenches. Not many but enough to add another feature.

So thats it for now more to follow.  


12 comments:

  1. looking good mate, I agree looking at your first pic I would add a scattering of extra sand bags along the line to break it up a little bit.
    Cheers
    Stu

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    1. Thanks Stu. My thinking exactly. Now its starting to come together more, I'm having more opportunity to tweak the layout.

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  2. Looking tremendous to me, I do the same with rocks and pebbles to try and break up bases a bit more, but this is on a whole different scale!

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    1. Thank you. Loving the Zombie Hunters you have been posting.

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  3. What a hell of a job you are undertaking!! Looking really good, eager to see the final chapter of your labours

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  4. Thank you. It was looking at some the nice tables you and your fellow club members layout that pushed me to up my game. I particularly liked the big Stalingrad game.

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  5. That's really coming together nicely. I can't wait to see it with the foliage on it.

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    1. Thank you. I've decided to add some more detail before I turn them from brown to green. But hopefully will not be to long now before I add the foliage.

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  6. I think the sandbags are just fine.

    The weathering you do on the wood is incredible; I can't match that; you should release your secret.

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    1. Its no secret. I did touch on the subject in Part 3 of the posts relating to this build. But I'll expand on that in another post. Thank you for the support.

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