Talk Fantasy Football

the solitaire wrote:The idea for this field came from my girlfriend. She thought my Skaven teams would look great on a sewer style gaming field

You have a girlfriend who even has an idea of what Skaven are?!?

You lucky bastard!

i always wanted to make a sewer style pitch.
i just don't have the mad skillz needed, sorry to say
great work!

I ran out of boltgun metal paint. Need to get a new supply before I can continue. Might as well pick up some greys and browns while I'm at it

Anyone have an idea how I can make some small fish that I can cast in the resin?

Oh, I don't think you should worry about fish.

First of all, you're in the sewers. Are there fish? I don't think so.
Second, imagine a fish, scaled down to match 28 mm and then, becasue of swimming in water, is only seen from above.
I think, you'll end up having you water look like you've got some dirt in it rather than them being instantly recognized as fishes.

the solitaire wrote:Anyone have an idea how I can make some small fish that I can cast in the resin?

Have you thought of using green stuff both to do the "model", and the casting?
Do a little google-fu search on "green stuff casting", and you'll find a lot of tutorials.
Hope it helps.

is it really fish that should be in the water or little blobs or brown stuff putty?

looks phenomenal by the way, absolute genius!

PS your gf sounds like a keeper, suggest to upgrade her to fiance..

Small' ish update.

I am nearly done with the main building and painting process. Just putting everything together and filling gaps



Quickly build some grates to cover the "dugouts" later on, after I cast all the acrylic water masses



Sticks to position the wall sections



Then add some instant plaster



Some serious gap-filling to do at this stage



And when the plaster dried up I can add the wooden panelling around the board, paint up the filler and start working on details

Okay, when can I stop by and pla_ a game?

Just let me know where in ye Olde World you are and we can set up a match? I should be done with this board
in a week or two

Great pitch!

I would love to borrow it for the underground cup in Berlin next year

I think we can work out a way to arrange that

Phenomenal looking pitch! Can't wait to see the water poured.

the solitaire wrote:I think we can work out a way to arrange that

That would be great. A perfect Table 1 pitch.

Do you have plans on attending?

Unfortunately I have no plans to travel to Berlin anytime soon. Other hobby's and work demand a lot of my time so I will just not find the time

Trying Flickr to host the photos

DSC_0861 by b j, auf Flickr

DSC_0860 by b j, auf Flickr

DSC_0859 by b j, auf Flickr

This is what the field currently looks like. I still need to highlight the cracks in the center portion of the field, but I wanted to get the rust and moss stuff done fist.

My girlfriend is not satisfied with how the rusty grates look on the photos above.

She wants more pockmarked and heavy rust.
That means that I have to add a few steps to the rust tutorial above

Step 1: Paint metallic
Step 2: use a sponge to stipple on Vermin Brown
Step 3: same as step 2 but with Blazing Orange
Step 4: Thinned down Sepia ink
Step 5: Stipple on a small amount of blue ink using a rough pig hair brush. Repeat if more blue is desired
Step 6: Stipple on PVA glue (using a small brush and only sporadically)
Step 7: glue on fine sand
Step 8: use watered down dark brown to color the sand
Step 9: use a sponge to stipple on metallic paint
Step 10: Stipple on PVA glue (using a small brush and only sporadically)
Step 11: apply MIG standard rust pigment on the PVA glue
Step 12: Stipple some more metallic paint on the edges to accentuate them, as well as on the areas containing the sand, but just enough to color the raised tops of the sand grains.