Terrain is everything - Red Planet BASE! 🔴 Board extension - TO DONE!

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer on some extra flat pieces of terrain board that we can use to extend, or replace sections of my Red Planet BASE! 🔴 Realm of Battle Board. Essentially, what happened was I turned up to Otty's shed and he handed me these three 1'x2' sections and told me to paint them red! Totally ambushed, but what could I do? He had used some textured wallpaper to give a relief, but I had to add some sand in places to cover up the seams.

Then I got totally fixated on finishing! It wasn't a huge task, so despite being an unexpected new project I [thought I] knew what I was doing. First up, the prime. Rather than go with a spray primer I still had a tin of Red Oxide  paint on primer I'd used on the edges of my RoBB. 

Slopped it on, maybe we can still see those joins but the subsequent highlights might disguise them.

OK, so I thought I knew how to do this - subsequent highlighted Vermillion blobs to create a mottled random pattern. But I think I did the blobs smaller than I did on my RoBB. Or at least it looks that way now I refer back to the finished showcase pics. I hadn't put a wash on top of the primer, which was not as matt as I expected it to be. I hoped the matt varnish would flatten it all out.

But I thought there was far too much contrast between the blobs, so did a light overspray with my Red Oxide Car Primer to give the flattening a head start.

Then I flicked on some bonewhite paint to get my wraithbone chips

It worked really well all things considered.

From this angle it's not too bad

But compared to the RoBB you can see I was much more subtle in how I created the highlighted areas. It'll be fine with terrain on I hope but yeah, not a match I'm happy with, but I'll survive

And here we go after the varnish.

Well it's definitely matt, which has helped to remove the shine from the paint on primer at least.

It hasn't quite smoothed out the contrast that I'd hoped but it'll do.

We'll just have to wait and see when it actually gets used.

So I get a Great Big Chrome 'BIG BUILD' BASE Stamp of Approval.

As well as the Great Big Chrome Stamp of Approval according to my spreadsheet I've judged the three pieces together as 20 points, plus a 5 point terrain bonus. Therefore, this brings me up to 245 points for the season so far.

 

Imperial Knights - House Corvus Twins in manufactorum pt16. - WHITE BACKGROUND PICS ⚪

Afternoon #Warhammer Community following up my red background pics with the obligatory white background ones. Not much more to say about them, this is Ser Ellenbogen.

And Lady Pettorini...

While I was at it I couldn't forget Euronymous the Fallen Knight and his tiny twin. Notice how the basing material has started to completely delaminate from the base?

I've had to go back in with some superglue, hoping capillary action would draw it further underneath to hold it in place. 🤞

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Imperial Knights - House Corvus Twins in manufactorum pt15. TO DONE! 🔴

Afternoon #Warhammer Community as you know when something is TO DONE! I usually take a set of 'finished' photographs for my gallery. My homemade photobooth with my Red Planet BASE! 🔴 background - to provide context to their red bases. And also pictures on a white background ⚪ for those who like to see things in a more neutral setup.

However, sometimes I don't get everything done and it would appear I never actually did my House Corvus Twins in this way.

I had done other pictures, but none in the prescribed way I usually celebrate their completion.

So, with these Knights out for comparison shots with their tiny epic siblings I thought I'd rectify that omission.

Lady Pettorini and her tiny twin.

Ser Ellenbogen

I never originally expected I would like the faceplate as much as I ultimately do. This is only because of the way it's painted.

The bone stripe and mouth cover just works so well it's now my favourite.

And with its tiny twin

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