New bulkheads and barricades for the underhive

Since, I saw the new Necromunda terrain pieces, I had the strong urge to get my fingers dirty on them. And dirty they got indeed :-))) Well mostly, because I decided to reactive my airbrush after a year of hiatus or so. But see for yourself:


OK, first I had some excessive workout with all my favorite hobby tools (Dremel, Clipper, and friends), before glueing on some ultra-fine sand (to simulate large scale rust), and finally attaching some pieces of cardboard for better handling during the airbrushing...

After a good black priming, they were ready for a paint session with first some Scorched Brown and Boltgun Metal airbrushing that then was followed up with my favorite colour (Bestial Brown) applied thinned and generously (as an ink). For rust I always take Blazing Orange. Finally some little detail work and Boltgun highlighting and that's it:

The painting took all in all 5 hours. Roughly twice as long as I thought so the session went on quite a bit into the night. But I had to finish them for an upcoming game. So that's why there was no time to go fancy with hazard stripes, real graffiti and so on. But hey, I have another set of those lying around and these will be done properly... ;-)

Until then, keep the brushes tight!

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Dear visitors,

I recently started using Instagram, and I have to say that the direct posting from my phone makes me post new minis and projects over there a bit more often than over here. This does of course not mean that I will stop writing this blog but rather that "quickies" will be on Instagram and the detailed posts will be here. Long story short, if you want to follow me on Instagram, here the link (and above in the menu bar): https://www.instagram.com/supermassive_beast/?hl=en

Happy converting and painting everybody!!!

Brakar - The Avenger, He That Rains Death

We determine the guilty. We decide the punishment. -- Arbites Arbitrator Officer

Burn the Mutant! -- Redemptionist Senior Priest

The first of the classics is finished (maybe 6 hours of painting?):

For the book, I "cheated" and used for the first time the Staedtler 0.05mm pigment liner. Takes quite long to dry but for "writing" just so much easier than doing with a paint brush...

Enjoy!

Some really classics from the Underhive...

The first project, I am going to do with my new lighting:

Workspace Update -- LED light halo/arc --> "tent"?

After my halogen lamps getting so old that the plastic casing started falling apart -- literately! --  seeing this, was the final nail in the coffin. So easy to use and achievable these LED stripes nowadays! Only a slight warning: there are actually (at least?) two different types of LED sizes that have quite different brightness. So you want those with "5050" in the name, i.e., the brighter ones, not the 3528s, which are smaller/fainter! Both are available on 5m long stripes with 300 LEDs in total. You can even get complete sets with power supply and remote control all in one at your favorite online retailer. 

It seems that most people use thin aluminium bars of 2m length, which have the advantage of being nicely bendable and easy to work with. However, in my local DIY store those were rather expensive. Then, fortunately, I found the plastic mini cable trunking: https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Mini-Trunking---White-12-x-8mm-x-2m/p/109642

Super cheap, and even easier to work with! So this is how I arrived at my slightly asymmetric version of a light halo! :-))

Still, the result is really smooth homogenous lighting almost without any shadows. -- Really highly recommendable!

Another advantage: Easy and fast WIP photos: