Keith's miniature painting and modelling.

[ktalbot]

I've noticed a few people on the forum seem to have an interest in warhammer and roleplaying games so I thought I'd post up a few of my old fantasy miniatures that I used to paint up.

This one was a bit of a project I made out of a bunch of old figures I had lying around. Made the landscape out of polystyrene, polfiller and milliput.

[sinzi]

Wow Keith that looks really great. I'll remember to ask you for advice for my scale models at uni

[rachel]

wow amazing.

[paddflask]

Really nice landscape you've done here! Gobblins are my favorite modells I think they are fun to paint.

[ktalbot]

Cheers all, yeah goblins are fun, you can use nice bright colours on them. What are you modelling for Uni Sinzi?

[Lianne Issa]

great keith! reminds me of blue peter but a professional version haha! very inventive, the scenery has bought these figures to life!

[sinzi]

Well architectural scale models. Houses and constructions...the last one I did looked good but the landscape totally sucked

[felix]

I find that a half-way decent model can often look great if you put it on a good looking base. Keith's grass looks similar to the way I do mine - either sawdust or sand mixed with PVA glue, then painted. Most of what I paint is all about dry-brushing, it gives the depth that a small model otherwise lacks.

Keith, I love the goblins!!

[ktalbot]

Yeah scenery can help bring models to life.
Basically the initial shape was cut from a chunk of polystyrene, then I covered it in polyfilla to get a nice rough texture. In some parts the polyfilla was good enough for the rocks when painted up, but for the main cliff section I modelled more detailed rocks out of milliput (its a 2 part putty, once you mix both parts together it air hardens in about an hour).

The grass was made by painting thick pva glue over the areas where I wanted grass, then pouring a fine gravel or sand over the top and tipping off the excess.

Once all of this is dry its down to the painting. Rocks are initially painted dark grey or black, then using a dry brush technique I build up gradually lighter tones to bring out the shape and form of the rocks.
Grass done in a similar fashion, dark green or brbown base coat, followed by drybrushing with lighter greens of varying shades, even yellows in some areas just to break up the surface and vary the colouring a bit.
Drybrushing incase you are wondering just involves filling the brush with paint (of fairly think consistancy) then wiping most of the paint off leaving an almost 'dry brush' which you then brush lightly over the surface of the model and the paint should only catch on the risen surfaces leaving cracks and details darker.
The little bits of plants are just green lichen (buy from railway modelling shops or even flower arranging shops) and I did use a few real stones here and there for a bit more detail.

Wow that was a long post, I hope some of this helps Sinzi.

[sinzi]

Thanks a lot Keith that definitely helps. There goes a karma point for you for helping me When I'll have to do another model I'll definitely show it and tell you how I used your advices

[ktalbot]

No problem glad to help. Used to have a model railway when I was a kid, I never actually played with the trains just spent hours building hills, tunnels, trees buildings etc. Eventually I built so much on the board there was no room to build any more so I broke it all down and got rid of it.

[sinzi]

You broke it down after all that hard work?? I don't think I could've done that My father used to build miniature airplanes. I know I spent hours to watch him. I was more like playing with 3D puzzles... I loved those. Spent a lot of time doing them I still like them...hehe sometimes I'm such a kid

[ktalbot]

Yeah I used it for playing war games on with a friend of mine for a while but eventually trashed it :-(

[zandra]

o wicked they look like lemming haha but evil lemmings