Dark Vengeance Deathwing Terminators - Part 3

While the termies were drying after washing I started to improve their bases. After all, these models deserve something better than simple "sand" with drybrush. I also wanted to try to put some Miliput (something like "green stuff") to use and because I found one youtube video where somebody did something which I liked, I tried to emulate youtubers work: simply to create a rock paveway.

 

So... take the base and find a stone with some structure on it. Prepare Miliput (green stuff) and put it on the base in such amount, that it is quite high - you will need the height for later proces:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The stone is used to create structure on the Miliput, so just touch the Miliput with stone in a way it prints its surface on the miliput. Rotate it in all possible ways to change the pattern. Like this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now you have to make individual stones. I use metal slice and old dull knife, but you can do it with almost anything suitable.

 

 

 

 

 

Keep in mind, that these are supposed to be stones, usualy not laser carved in precise shapes, but cut from rock with primitive tools (thats how I wanted it to look), so no straight lines, 90degree angles and such. Thus I have to cut the corners, deepen and curve the interlines and overal make it look inaccurate. Also some cracks can improve the overal look:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here you can see all the bases when I was finished with sculpting Miliput. Today I would add something more: I would made some stones decreased and some elevated over the horizontal line. Even just the corner can be depressed under and opposite corner elevated. But as I said, this work is very much about learning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the miliput/greenstuff is hard enough (about few hours, depends on the amount of stuff, humidity, warmth...), you have to prime it all: I used Vallejo grey polyurethane primer, and than I based the stones with Vallejo dark grey colour:

 

Then I highlighted the central parts of the stones with light sea grey, leaving the cracks and lines between stones untouched:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then drybrushed all with some mid dark brown (I thing it was german camo from panzer series):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The depresses around the stones were covered in white glue and filled with sand. Sand was slightly washed and drybrushed, some dried grass was added. I drilled holes for mounting the terminators on and of course gave the bases nice heavy cover ov varnish. Yeah, before that i painted the rim black. Unfortunatelly I have no photo after adding sand, so you can see the final base on the final photos of terminators in next (and final) part.