Finished Sci-Fi Terrain from Water Pistols - The GrimSquirtChallenge 02

Been a little slow on the hobby front around here. I've been nibbling at a few different projects here and there on my desk, but nothing that has progressed significantly along to write an update about.

I have on the other hand decided to call this sci-fi terrain done. I wanted it to be a quick and stylised job and when I started to feel myself picking at it and messing around I knew it was time to call it.

So it's off the desk now, good enough for the gaming table and it gives me a bit more breathing space to concentrate on my other projects.

Below are two images with a miniature for scale.

As I said above, I wanted this to be quick and stylised and a bit run-down so i didn't have to work very neatly. So I went for a very simple punchy scheme of contrasting a pale blue/grey with the orange of the rust and keeping much of the body of the pieces in a neutral grey/brown.

I just let myself go a bit loose and wild with the painting, a lot of the areas were easy to pick out because of the groundwork I had set with a lot of pre-texturing, which in itself a lot of fun to play around with. I didn't spend too much time thinking about it and just went with what felt right at the time. 

In the Image below I used a product that is new to me AK Interactive Engine Oil. I picked it up on a whim some time ago, but I thought it was great for what I needed here.

I do particularly like the contrast of the rust/weathering on the blue tanks in the image below.

As we get on to the two smaller pieces I think I should talk about the lamps/glow effect I did on all three. I'm not terribly happy with it, but it is only my second time attempting that technique and I suppose it kind of works with the stylised/cartoony sci-fi look of them. It's something I may try again in the future and attempt to improve upon.

I think I would have liked to add more copper and therefore more oxidation to the bottom of these two pieces. I think that's something I didn't really consider or look ahead to during the build. I'll keep it in mind to think of the colour balance of a piece beforehand in future terrain builds.

Again I think the image below really shows some of my favourite parts of the weathering and how it all comes together. I tried salt weathering for the first time on all three terrain pieces and that gave me much more organic shapes of base rust colour to work with.

This was then enhanced with some rust washes and pigment. And the streaks trailing down were made with small blotches of rust coloured oil paints that I left on a piece of cardboard overnight to draw out the linseed oil, applied with a toothpick and then pulled down and feathered with a soft brush.

My apologies if this post seems a bit more of a picture dump. I'm just a little glad to get a project done and off my hobby desk so I can move on to something else. If there is anything you would like me to clarify or explain more in depth, don't hesitate to comment below, I'm always glad to answer questions.

Hope you like these terrain pieces, it was a fun little project to work on.

Take care.