One day terrain challenge.

I decided last Sunday to "blow off" my homework and busy schedule in favor for trying to break myself out of a hobby slump.

I cut out some particle board (masonite board?  whatever that brown stuff is) with a Roto-Zip and glue down some elements:  parts from a broken heat gun, plumbing detritus, remains of a glass cutter and a lug-nut I found while biking.  I spread on some Magic-Smooth (epoxy stuff I have little or no idea how to use properly) and stuck that stuff on.

The glued-on elements.  The ground texture is made from charcoal dumped out from  our shower filter cartridges when they are spent.  Over the years I have about 8 - 10 of them.

First coat- black primer.

Next, I begin to build up a dark layers.  Yellow-Olive first.

I begin adding more yellow to the yellow-olive.

I do this by mixing it directly in the cup, using back flow air to mix.  

After a few soft layers it starts to brighten up a bit.  The charcoal picks up the paint on its irregular perimeters nicely.

Adding some more light browns to the earth.

More coats, adding brighter (more saturated) greens and yellows, adding white for opacity.

For the buildings, grey blue and white, again in successive coats to build up layers.

Adding some straight-up blue and white to brighten up some things...

Back to the olive green and white to make an individual element pop.

After cleaning out the brush, I begin adding red.  I thought that conspicuous looking handle needed to be red.

Everything was looking too clean for the 41st millennium, so I mixed some Agrax Earthshade and black in the cup, began spraying it all over.  The Agrax pooled and spotted in a wonderfully haphazard manner.

I needed to soot up the chimney a bit.  Added some straight black to the mix.

Some more straight black added...

More results from the agrax earth shade and black mix.

This is the final result of a night's work.  I plan on adding straight-paint details and signage.  However, it is essentially table-ready.  I had a ton of fun just pumping this out in one night.


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