Today I felt motivated to crank out some serious terrain. These are the RYZA pattern walls from GW. They were affordable, relatively speaking, and I like them. They do present difficulties integrating into other terrain, I found, but that’s probably subjective.
I may incorporate this into a permanent integral board, and I wanted it to look great. It took a while, but I’m pretty much down to details and more precise weathering.
Onto the airbrush-shaded basecoat I put a ring of red onto the walls and chipped it all over. Actually, I did the red over the chipping. I chose to pursue a certain look rather than cleave strictly to realism.
TOP TIP: Chipping was achieved in the small spaces with a sponge held in a forceps. An old fishing tool which serves a lot of useful purposes!
An odd metallic color I mixed up. Gunmetal, black paint, olive paint, black ink, green ink!
This took hours. Every silver metallic surface got covered. I think I did finally discover them all! There are a few hiding in the picture above.
Then everything got a teal black wash.
Finally, I painted all the bronze metals. I mixed another wash of black & brown inks & worked that over the metals, letting it slop onto the grey painted areas but not specifically targeting them
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I’m happy with the use of my time. It wasn’t exactly fun, but I got through it and the walls look cool.
I’ll detail the little nubbins, maybe throw a few highlights on, and I’ll be happy.
But what should I do with them?
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