Monday, May 2, 2016

Kytan Rising and other WiP

Some recent posts by Rob and Thor have inspired me to start kicking my basing up a notch or two, and the biggest beneficiary has been the Kytan Daemon Engine that I got a little while back. That said, it's also been slowing down building the thing considerably, because I couldn't just build it flat and then put it on the base later. Also, this is another place where I get sort of frustrated by FW. There are so many parts to the legs on this thing, and having to use super glue instead of plastic cement means that I have way less working time, so I'm having to do them in stages, checking the remaining bits with blu-tac as I do each one, to make sure that they'll actually both meet up at the hips when I'm done.

You can also see an Ironclad, some old Chaos Hounds that I'm rebasing to use as Flesh Hounds, and my attempt at getting something decent out of the awful Champion pose from the Wulfen boxed set. The Ironclad and Kytan have had cork used to build up some areas of the base, and then all of them had extra variation added by pouring/spreading on various consistencies of fine sand/Mod Podge (thanks for introducing me to that stuff btw, Thor!) slurry, since I hate working with spackling paste, which is the other cheap and easily available option I know of. Then I added coarser sand to parts, trying to break up the different areas of slurry, and once they're painted, they'll get either snow or grass powder and static grass added to break it up further. I'm also going to try to do a little stream across the middle of the Kytan's base.

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  1. It's a great looking start to the process. The Kytan is on my must-have list when I find the cash for it.

    Mod Podge is great, huh? I use that for all my basing needs and it's always worked great. Considering how cheap it is for the size you get, you can't go wrong with the stuff.

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    1. Thanks!

      Yeah. It's not perfect for everything (I find it doesn't thin down as well as Elmer's, so I've got some of that around for those applications), but it's fantastic for where I actually want bulk, or to smooth something out a bit as I'm sealing it.

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  2. Looks cracking! I'll have to look into that Mod Podge stuff, seems to give a really nice effect.

    Looking forward to the Kytan being built :) Also totally agree about the Wulfen pose dude!

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    1. Thanks! I'm pretty happy with where I've got with the Kytan so far (probably ready for pics later today or tomorrow), and very happy with that Wulfen.

      Mod Podge isn't for everything, but it's nice and cheap, so it's great for bulk applications like this and terrain work. The only real issue I've found with it is that it doesn't thin down very well, so I keep some Elmer's around for sealing down sand and other things where I don't want to fill in the texture.

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