Trench system options

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Those look great.

[paulr]

This is the sort of look I'm going for, pretty barren

[paulr]

Still not sure about the clumps

Started work on the walls in the mean time

Base coated half the walls a mid-dark grey last night, interesting how each step seems to take a little longer with each step

Did a test of my corrugated iron effect this morning, painted a light grey line along the top half of each horizontal 'board'
Not as hard as it sounds as the laser 'engraved' line gives a good guide, but will take a while
Combined with a vertical dry brush of Stone Grey on the posts this seems to give a good impression

Almost finished base coating the rest of the walls

[Techno]

Very nice, Paul.

Clumps ? 

Some very small ones might work.....It's getting the 'balance right' that might be the tricky bit.
Have you got anything that would look like small 'flatish' rocks in your basing material(s).....A few of those might work., perhaps ?

Cheers - Phil

[Womble67]

My order came today

Take care

Andy

[paulr]

Very nice, Paul.

Clumps ? 

Some very small ones might work.....It's getting the 'balance right' that might be the tricky bit.
Have you got anything that would look like small 'flatish' rocks in your basing material(s).....A few of those might work., perhaps ?

Cheers - Phil

The balance is indeed the challenge, I will keep pondering while I work on the walls

My order came today

Take care

Andy

I hope you enjoy your order as much as I am enjoying mine

[paulr]

I have just finished base coating the last of the trench walls and am having a quick break before I start detailing

I took a quick picture of the sample I did earlier this morning



Two weeks till game day

[Techno]

Looking really good, Paul.

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Superb

[d_Guy]

Really like the view from inside the trench, shaping-up nicely, Paul!

[Womble67]

Looking good. Really like how the planking looks what colours did you use

Take care

Andy

[paulr]

Thanks Guys, I'm please with the look

One option for clumps for the front of the trenches that came up last night after our game was to stipple some areas of dark yellow (probably 882 Middlestone)

Andy, the darker grey is a 'cheap' artist's acrylic due to the area to be covered, Reeves grey
It is similar to Vallejo Model Colour 70.869 Basalt Grey

The lighter grey is a really old Vallejo Model Colour, so old in fact that the name has faded off the label
It is slightly lighter than 70.991 Dark Sea Grey and slightly darker than 70.989 Sky Grey

[paulr]

Half way through adding the horizontal lines to the trench walls

As I said above each step seems to be taking longer
But I'm looking reasonably on track

[pierre the shy]

Saw these "in the flesh" last night, looking very good - the walls look even better than the photo shows.

With a stipple of dark yellow added they will be complete.

[WeeWars]

The great thing about the desert is that everything gets covered in sand. So a dry brush of sand is always a possibility if time gets tight.

[Sandinista]

You could always scatter real sand all over the table too to add a bit of texture

cheers
Ian

[paulr]

Not sure how real sound would go down with the owners of the hall, apparently it has a very flash sports surface

I managed to do another quarter of the horizontal lines last night

A final push should see them finished today

Then onto dry brushing the posts, there are much fewer of these so this will be quicker

[paulr]

Finished the horizontal lines

Made a good start on dry brushing the posts, about half way through

I've also done a test of the dark yellow stipple and it does the job nicely and quickly

So finish the posts, dark yellow stipple and sandy dry brush of the walls and the trenches are done

Need to decide what colour to use for the sand dry brush
819 Iraqi Sand
847 Dark Sand
986 Deck Tan
Suggestions welcome

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I use Coat d'Arms light sand and dark sand as highlights, but your painting is waaaaaay better than mine!

[paulr]

Thanks Lemmy, or can I call you Mad
I'm not sure about the painting assessment.

I've finished the posts, dark yellow stipple, weather too crap for pictures
I will look to do the dry brushing tomorrow or Thursday as I work on some of the other 'little' jobs for the demo games