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Malifaux Swamp Demo Table
Published: 2010-07-04 15:08:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 21960; Favourites: 565; Downloads: 365
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I finally finished the Wyrd Games demo table.This is the first time I used resin for a water effect too. Something of a learning experience as I didn't have enough wall joint compound between the pink foam substrate and the resin in a few places. This resulted in a bunch of bubbles forming in a few places.
However with some creative use of pigments in the water effects I was able to mask it rather well.
There are a few WIP shots that I have that I will upload later.
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Thanks so much to:
=Amarie-Veneanar and ^Mollinda for the suggestion and the feature!
My first DD! JOY!
I'll try to work through all the comments and respond to all of you. I'm not used to the number of comments I've just received!
Thank you all for the kind comments!
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[link] The link to Wyrd Games website. Go check them out. It's a neat game.
*Edit 3*
Because it keeps getting asked: This has a base in Russian Folklore. Specifically the Baba Yaga legends. Malifaux has a character called Zoraida that is based heavily on Baba Yaga and travels around the bayou in a house on wooden legs. She also predicts the future and frequently kills the interloping humans that have crossed the breach to Malifaux.
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I just fell in love with this work of art! As a fan of mythology and old folklore, I immediately recognized this to have something to do with the Baba Yaga legend, which - in itself - was a huge plus from me. The whole model looks extremely dreamlike, which gives it a very nice and quiet, even calm atmosphere. And when you notice the legged hut, you just get a very strong fantasy-feeling from it too. I really like that, because it brings works like this alive. Beautiful work!
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as ever, amazing! I want to build a tabletop gaming terrain by myself... can you give me some essential tips?
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If you are looking for Warmachine / Hordes stuff go check out www.terrainthralls.com There are a ton of good tutorials there that will take you from simple up to something like this.
Also check out terragenisis (I don't know if it is a .com or a .net) The community there is extrememly helpful to folks just starting out.
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your link is really helpful and only by looking at it, I feel the courage to do my projects^^
Thank you really much^^
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Some top notch work here... the color work and tonal variations are stunning
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Thanks so much! Coming from you that means an awful lot!
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How do you get such a realistic ground cover? Is it just a case of sprinkling lots of different colours of flock and fixing it? Or do you also use spray paints to get the mottled colour... I've built a couple of scenes recently but can't get anywhere close to this!
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I actually only use two, maybe three colors of flock. I spread them around pretty evenly but still in a random pattern. Then I overspray the flock with black paint through an airbrush. It's the black that really ties everything together and adds that natural mottled look.
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Wow that's not something I'd ever have thought of - I'll have to give it a try. Thanks!
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Wow! I never expected to find the creator of this excellent battlefield here on DevArt ^^ I love this!
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WOW! As someone who builds dioramas, this amazes me - truly! The level of detail is unbelievable! My two main questions are 1) How did you produce the cliff edge? and 2) What materials did you use to make the trees?
WOW WOW WOW
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Thanks!
The cliff edge is wall joint compound over extruded polystyrene. (Pink Foam)
It is left to dry and then scrubbed with a welding wire brush that you can purchase at Home Depot or Lowes.
There is a tutorial of the process over at the Terrainthralls website [link] Look for The Broken Coast tutorial.
The trees are a wire armature covered in sculpy. Again, over at the Terrainthralls site I have a tutorial up. Look for the tutorial called Malifaux Tree (Or something like that).
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love the baba yaga type of house. kick ass!
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Thank you!
Wouldn't want the Baba Yaga type hut to kick my ass though! Would likely go for a trip!
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amazing work, pleasure is all mine
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very very nice work. im a big fan of miniature landscapes. what scale figures goes with this?
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Heroic 32mm.
It's a gaming scale. Since the game is based in fantasy it's kind of loose. But the scale basically refers to 32mm from the bottom of foot to the eye of a man sized figure.
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That.
Is pure awesome.
Truly. I rarely see anything model-wise that makes me jaw-drop.
But I just did.
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as a fan of model railroading and scenery, I can appreciate just how much work this little piece took. You earned every penny of that DD.
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Oddly the portions that took the longest were the trees and the hut. I think I did the base in about two evenings. But that was the area that I have the most experience with.
Glad you like it.
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A DD well deserved, can't wait to see more of your work
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More to come soon.
It's cooler now so I'm getting back to work. An exploratory piece is in the works for a much larger project. The most ambitious to date really.
Once the exploratory is done I'll see about posting pictures.
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AMAZING to detail! There is definitely no question as to why you got the DD!
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Thank you! Glad you think so!
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Lol, at first I thought it was an AT-ST Walker in the Ewok forest from Star Wars. I love that's it's actually more of a folksy theme, and something new (Don't get me wrong, I love Star Wars, but . . . I like this kind of stuff better xD ). This looks fantastic! Checking out the game now . . .
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HAH!
Yeah it does kind of look like an AT-ST. I suppose in some ways I was influenced by the leg structure of the walkers. Well that and Battletech I suppose.
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THIS MAKES ME MISS THOSE 40YEAR OLD MEN AND PLAYING TABLE TOP GAMES FOR FUN WHILE THEY WERE SUPER SERIOUS.
capslock(:
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HAH!
Yeah there is that. Well in my case 33 year old men. I still like playing my games. Never gonna grow up and all that!
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i totally understand (:
i dont know how to grow up haha
keep doing what you love and dont let anyone tell u otherwise (:
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btw this is sick! great work ;D
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Oh man, looks like a movie quality miniature George Lucas would use for a movie. That water is so realistic I can barely believe it isn't real.
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The water realism is entirely based on the material used. There is really no skill in it. Just mix and poor!
But that is why the modeling community uses the stuff. It really looks great. It's also really easy to use.
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