Wednesday 22 October 2014

Terrain is everything - Project Ω - Realm of Battle Board - The following post has scenes of a graphic nature

 So here's what Polyvine does to Realm of Battle Boards. You can actually see in some areas it's OK


But in others it's just frosted/dusted and there's no explanation of why some areas dried 'dead flat' and some areas just flat wrong!


This tile isn't so bad but I think that may be the photography. The funny thing is I was up in the loft building drawer units and looking out on it drying from up high and little did I realise those brush marks weren't going to fade away.


The flat tiles are nearly the same, again in places they're not too bad,


but when you get cloe up you can see it looks like it's been covered in dust.


I even tried adding a second coat, hoping the application would fix the initial opacity. I added a bit of water and it went on so well but could not do anything for where the Polyvine had already gone milky.


Eventually I just put them in the garage and time was no healer.

    

So the 40kaddict does not recommend this product for any hobby surfaces!


13 comments:

  1. Thats tragic Dave, I really feel for you man.

    So whats the plan.........primer and start again?

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    1. As a first step to repairing the damage it was not back to square one, just back to square 2.5 in which I started with a shadow wash. If that wasn't going to solve it then it was primer but luckily it covered most of the Polyvine but still showed through some of the texture already created. What Polyvine streaks still existed I hoped would be covered by a subsequent Vermillion coating and it's highlights.

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  2. That's a real heart breaker mate. Sorry to see that. Maybe a solvent based lacquer might rescue it by recurring the layers?

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    1. My fear with that would be the solvent removing all the paint. I'd rather have a thickly coated board than one stripped back to nothing. This way any future bumps and scraps will have more layers of paint [and the Polyvine, which although a fail in it's finish still provides protection] to get through to grey plastic.

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  3. Oh how devastating! What are you gonna do? I hope it works out, I've been following this and I love the look of it!

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    1. Luckily the weather held out over the weekend and I was able to get the highlights done. I'm now back at the stage of painting the extra shadows for the cracks and details followed by the skulls again.

      Then it's the question of varnishing it, I've a new product that may work but I think I will sensibly try and test it beforehand.

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    2. It may be a bit more expensive, but vallejo acryllic varnishes are fantastic!

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  4. Pain...such pain. Are you sure you are not starting a dark eldar force? The pain the community feels at seeing this damage must be revitalizing them by the millions.

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    1. Ha, ha, no doubt it'll help out Liam's exquisite Dark Eldar force then!

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  5. That super-sucks, man. Minor set back in a tremendous project. Still looks great!

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  6. I wasn't going to say anything but, seriously, the suspense is killing me. When you finally nail this project I am going to do cartwheels.

    Do you have a local art supply store that you can hit up for some varnishing advice? My local store was very helpful in regards to different products and their capabilities.

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    1. Wednesday's update will bring us up-to-date. All I need to do is add some shading and the skulls and it's fixed so hopefully you're appetite will be sated.

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