Thanks, the ruin came together nicely, I probably need to build a few ruins. When I next feel like scratch building I think I might tackle some more ruins.
Lets go for a big bit of terrain - this is a limited edition guard/watch tower from Mini Monsters, they still have a
newer version of the model. Anyhow lets start with a shot of the whole thing:
The model is resin and made up from cast panels. I put it on top of a resin hill from
Tabletop World, it's long out of production alas, you can see the original model
here. I had to pack out the hill a little and add a few odd stones and some green stuff to get it all level. To make it nice and solid I pinned it in place. The whole thing is about 14" tall.
Lets start with the roof, this needed a lot of work. The castings are quite thick and I felt that made the edge of the roof - ie the ends of the tiles far too thick. It just looked very wrong. So I had to slice the edge back until I got the edge thin enough that it looked okay. I then notched in between the tiles. Other than that, there was just a reasonable amount of greenstuff to get the pieces to align properly.
The top of the ledge running around the tower top didn't have any texture (due to the orientation of the mold), so I had to add some greenstuff stones and carve a some notching around that lip to complete the design.
I left the roof removable. The inside of the tower top had a textured floor, but the walls were not textured. I happened to have some stone effect plasticard so I used that to apply some texture to the inside walls. The scale is off compared to the outside stonework, but it provides a bit of texture when viewing through the windows and for when you happen to have the roof off, otherwise I think it would have just looked odd.
Lower down the tower there was one internal floor, but I've not left that in place for now. The top section does still lift off and I may put a floor in at some point.
So a few more close ups. I thought I'd do the stonework correctly on this one and so put mortar lines in.
Alas that door is fixed!
Painting wise I started with the hill putting down some black/white highlighting on the stone work using the airbrush. I think laid over some thin browns on the stone and some yellow/browns no the path. The edges were done with a green/brown base for behind the flock. The hill was finished up with washes to pick out the shadows on the rocks and then some dry brushing for the highlights. The path was just drybrushed up to get a rough sandy stone look.
The tower itself was brush painted with a large selection of various brown-grey and blue-greys to pick out individual stones. Then washes and drybrush highlights to bring out the stonework. Once I was happy with the stone work I did the mortar lines using a mortar line product from Model Mates, which needed running carefully into the stonework mortar lines.
Lots fo flock and tufts and clump foliage to help blend it all together finished it off.