new update on the buildings

This post should be called "The Guard shack is finished", but watching the detail pics I found that I still have some small details left. So instead I'm posting a picture that also show a little of the chapel. Note the yellow figures on the blue field, they still need a little detailing, but they are starting to look right. The hole on the chapel wall is the mount for a wall clock, but that is still being detailed. I will add it to the wall tomorrow or the day after, but I have to paint the wall again in some areas first. Then there are three figures (some sort of angels) that will be on the roof "ends" and four statues that will be located against the two longest walls. Aslo there are some areas that needs detailed painting.
The watchtower is coming along, but it will need some more work before I can say that it's finished. I have to add the chimney, and do some detail painting. The stairs and top walls needs to be drybrushed and the chimney need to have its metal parts painted up. After that it is just the detailing left, like painting the shields over the door and adding the lamp, hook and a few more details. Oh, and I almost forgot the two pillars supporting the tower... Guess it's still a little way to go before I can call the tower finished then...

This last pic is the wodden platform on the top of the tower, I am very satisfied with the way the drybrushing came out on this.

building update

This is the guard shack that will stand beside the tower when it's done.
The building is not complete, but I've got most of it done so I thought it might be ok to use the pic to show the progress since the last post.
This building can also be on top of the tower, but I think it looks better standing beside the path leading up to the door of the tower.
At the moment I have primed the guard shack and the temple, and have gotten the roofs on the buildings. The chapel has been modified so I could have both an attic window and a chimney. This also helped me plug the hole in the roof that was designed to be damage. With a hole in the roof people would be able to look in to the building, and then I would have to do something with the interior. Instead I closed up the windows by gluing dark yellow paper behind the open window holes. This has two functions: 1 - it creates the impression that there is a light inside, and 2 - it prevents people from looking in and seeing that the building is an empty shell.

The remaining steps on the building now is to drybrush the walls with a darker grey to create some texture on the walls. Already I have painted the cracks in the wall and the space between the bricks and tiles black to create the impression of shadows and give some depth, but when I drybrush the walls they will look much more like a normal wall and not like a flat surface.
The roofs and the big wood parts (roof and pillars on the watchtower) will be drybrushed with light brown to create the impressoin of wood.
Also I will add some fine static grass to the lower parts of the walls to create some moss to make it seem like the buildings are rather old.

This is the beginning of a roof for my guard shack. I haven't yet decided if the shack shall be placed on the top of the watch tower or on the ground beside it. This same technique will be used for making the roof on the chapel. The idea is to use the black basing to give the roof tiles a shadow effect, as someone has said that my minis look too flat.
I will try this technique on the roofs and after this is done I will drybrush with a brown color to get some different colors on the tiles.
The chapel and tower walls will be painted in one shade of grey and drybrushed with another.
This should give the impression of a stone wall that has been built a long time ago but still been rather well maintained. I hope this will give the desired effect, as I would love to build something more like a castle in the future, using some sort of wood and alabaster plaster.
Beside painting the buildings I'm also thinking out a way to put something behind the holes of the windows as I want the buildings to look like more than empty shells.
I'll try to remember to post the progress here.

I'll finish with a picture of the chapel before I start painting...

What's going on?

There's been a long time since the last update, but even so I haven't been totally inactive.
I've completed my veteran Space Marine devastator as far as I can for now. I will do a little more detailing on him when I put his markings on, and when I find a short motto to write on his shoulderguard.
My space marine scouts armed with shotguns are also completed. They still need their markings, but they will be added at a later time.
As with all the former Space Marines I've built, these lot have also gotten the black quartz rock on the bases.

My Goblin Fanatics are awaiting the finishing touches on the extra stuff to add on the bases along with the Fanatics.

Recently I've started to build two buildings as the beginning of a small village. It's the Citadel Miniature chapel and watch tower. My thought is to build the rest of the buildings from scratch, and also make a small graveyard on a hill beside the chapel. the first plan now is to practise drybrushing and shadowing on the two buidlings I already have, and then I'll take it from there.