Reaper Spirit of the Forest part 2 and Terminator Genisys terrain

Spirit of the Forest

So I slacked off big time from painting.  On the plus I watched two seasons of "The Expanse" and most of Punisher season one.  I now however have a very strong urge to scratch build some spacecraft.  Also my shed is cleaned up and has some new shelving.  Also the cosplay sword I'm making for the wife finally got going again.  Too many projects.

Getting back to the Spirit of the Forest figure I've done the wood layer on another leg and both arms.  I kind of forget that I had the Red Earth in the base and went for a mixture of Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Indian Yellow? and White with a touch of red at the end of the highlights.  Shading was done by starting with the base and adding Pthalo Green, VMC Dark Sea Blue and Black.

Rather than do the green parts as I complete each limb I decided to just get all the wood done.  On the left arm I found I had gone too far with the highlights so need to bring that back a few notches.  Do do this I did a few light glazes of the base Burnt Sienna over all the arm.

For the eyes I added some Pthalo Green to the mixture and highlighted by adding in more yellow and white.  My intent is to do some OSL from the eyes (yes - very standard but my first attempt at OSL).  Also on the fists I have done some glazing in the green mixture on where light would hit if coming from the eyes.

Finally while cleaning out the plastic scrap bin in my shed I came across a few pieces that I though could make some good modern terrain.  The base was the holder for a router bit and the tubing is from a CD spindle holder.  I'm going for a ruined comms/power tower look.  I super glued the tube to the base and put a wooden dowel inside the tube to fill up the space.  Then milliput standard was used to fill in the gaps.  I stripped some insulated wire and used the copper wire pieces to stick out the top to represent some broken rebar.  Next will be coating the whole think in Vallejo stone paste which I'll sponge to get a rough concrete finish.

Reaper Bones Spirit of the Forest

I worked a little bit on my next figure, the 'Spirit of the Forest' Bones figure by Reaper.  Most of the work however was on the base.

Spirit of the Forest by Reaper

I want the figure in a woodland scene but don't want to have any full height trees of the base.  They would be too big and dominate the small base.  Instead I've added some fallen trees and stumps to the base.  The two stumps are resin pieces and the fallen tree is a home cast I did awhile ago of a nice looking stick that had enough texture that it would still look ok at scale.

Base - white area is where the feet go

I also plan to have a small water feature/pond at the front of the base.  Adding the water effects (I will probably use casting resin) will be done last.  Currently at this stage I have glued in some rocks and coated the wood with PVA to avoid the resin seeping into the wood.

For the ground cover I used DAS modelling clay with a layer of PVA glue underneath.  While the putty was still wet I added a layer of PVA glue on top and pressed in some home made scatter material (coloured sawdust).  I wanted to use this over the usual sand/rock mix as I wanted a dense undergrowth look.  This will be further painted.  For now I just some some washes to make sure all the white from the DAS putty was gone.

On the figure I did a rough base coat of Jo Sonja Brown Earth, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna and white lightening the mixture as I went up the figure.  I will paint the figure in parts due to the size of it.  So far I have painted one leg with the wood details and some of the greenery and mushrooms picked out.  For the green areas I have been using JS Pine Green and Sap Green.

I'm finding painting some areas quite hard due to the arms of the figure being in place.  I don't really want to cut up the figure so a bit of rough painting (which can't really be seen) will be needed.

Terminator Genisys terrain

I’ve had a few pieces of terrain for Terminator Genisys sitting half done for months now so I decided it was time to finish them off.  Trying to clean all the little side projects at the moment.

These are designed to match the bases of the figures which are quite stark and dry, as you would expect after judgment day.

The first piece is a concrete entrance to a tunnel system.  Something that works well with in the Terminator universe.  The piece is on 3mm mdf with plastic card making up the box.  There is some old sprue pieced underneath the plastic card for support.  The door is from a Warhammer 40K rhino.

The second was a collapsed building with another tunnel entrance.  Again the door is off a 40K rhino.  I’m liking the idea of a game where the terminators have to find the tunnel entrances and then attack the resistance base.  The bricks were a plastic card A4 printed sheet.  The rubble was formed by using some foam for bulk and then covering it in a mix of plaster of paris rubble.  I make this by making a thin sheet of plaster of paris, then breaking it up with forms some nice jagged pieces.  I also added in some 1/35 scale bricks.

The last is a couple of the resin rocks and resin tree bit that I use for my larger scale figures.

All three bases got a covering of my usual three part sand/pebble/rock basing mix.  I always glue this down twice with PVA glue.  Once to glue on the rocks and then a second over the top to bond everything together really well.

Painting was just simple washes and dry brushing.  When dry brushing I did this in one direction usually to help enforce the light source aspect.

Finally some grass tufts and pieces were added to bring a bit of variety and colour.