Ah, it's very nice to see that you have revived this board.
And your skills have improved a lot since the last attempt.

About the pavement, try wallpaper, there are several styles with all kinds of bricks.
(just make sure you buy it yourself because I got it for my birthday, so now I have 15m of stucco wallpaper)
There are several articles with basics for orsgiliath in bgime, if you want the articles, just pm me with you e-mail.
And as oldman willow pointed out, you can also use casted tiles.
That's probably the best option but also a more expensive one. (and heavy)

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My wip

The last update for today, and I'm guessing progress will be slower through the week. It's not quite the lime stone colour I wanted.. anyone know how to perfect it? I used a base coat of 'Kommando Khaki' and a dry brush of 'Bleached Bone' aswell as a dry brush of very light grey. The grey might have been my problem, for it did say white but I don't have any at the moment.

@Willow: Cheers Willow. What did you mean by it needs a captial? I'll try and finish off the otherside of the board off and sell it, which will be helpful for my moulds funds. Don't worry I'll be working on the Weathertop model as well so i'll be switching from projects.

@Aqan: Yes there quite a difference, but I am using hirst arts so it's cheating a little compair to last time. Wallpaper sounds like a good idea, I'll have to search round for a decent wallpaper. I PM'ed you about the OSgiliath basics.

looks good so far.
there are a few white spots where the paint didn't cover the plaster, so you might want to take a look at that.
And perhaps a black(ish) ink/wash to show the detail a bit better.

What kind of paint do you use for this?

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Looking good Drum,what I did a few times with some ruins was to paint the under coat a dark grey(maybe even black would work) and I would keep highlighting it up layer by layer but instead of drybrushing the entire last layer with white I kind of spotted it on.Oh and I had painted the cracks/mortar black before hand,I think it turned out halfway decent but it might prove a to dark or grey method for your tastes

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That's a fancy name for a top cap.I used plain floor pieces for top caps for the statues and walls
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I used Golden Oak Min Wax to seal the painted plaster. The gray looks better with a brown wash.You can see the difference between the unfinished Amon Hen stairs and the walls.




I am looking forward to seeing it
Good work

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It's looking pretty good Drum, glad to see you back at this after so long.

EDIT: Post #666 !

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@Willow: Ahh gotcha, cheers for the tips too. I'll need to cast a few more bricks, I'm slwoly running out

@Ingold: Great to see you around matey! Have you been hiding from us? or just too much time on darkorbit? ehe. I'm quite happy to get back into this project, it's a fairly easy relaxing one. The best part will I'll get to have some fantastic games on it! As well as a battle report or two

I need to cast too. Really bad weather though. I ordered some pre cast to catch up a bit.

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By the way have you finished your Amon Hen piece? Would be fantastic to see a guide using the hirst arts *hint hint* I'm definatly a fan of your work

Drum

No. I have to finish the columns and the base. I am going to start working on the seeing seat soon.

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Internet problems (I need a bigger download limit ), annoying EIC (we've fallen to 3rd company!), and school are all conspiring against me.

But me aside, I'm looking forward to seeing it done, and some pictures of your games. I hope they're all as Gondor.

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An update on the 'green' side, I've just watered down some pva and added sand. I also found some time to make moulds of the face, statues and other things I got. A quick question, what should I do with the cliff sides? leave them without sand and just painting them or what?




Drum

Use a very small amount of sand when you paint the rocks. Just enough for the dry brush to pick up. Less is more.

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Right that sand has dried and I've shaken off any excess. What kind of brown should I paint the board? dark or light brown?

I like dark earth colors.

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Ah good stuff, because I only had dark and it said light. But then again it can be any brown colour because everywhere is different.

I've bought myself some wallpaper as Aqan suggested. This is the best I could find which has rather large 'bricks'. It's not bad because it has some depth to it and there will be sand covering part of it. I also had a second old patch of wallpaper but it didn't look right.


Here's what it looks like once I've cut it to size.

Here's the texture of that old piece of wallpaper I found, it might work near the river to show pebbles or something :L

The wall paper is a good idea. The pebble paper would make a good road.

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I've painted one of the boards, I'm not completely pleased with it, but then not disappointed too much either. Needs something to it. Should I give it a dry brush or something, some help please?




It's not quite dry yet, but it's all good.
Drum

I dry brushed this board for a game convention in 2002. I used wallpaper for the road.The foliage on the large tree is furnace filter. I have been experimenting with natural sponges for painting large areas. You take a palate and put several earth colors on it. All you do is dab the colors on with the sponge then dry brush the whole thing.

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