I worked with 1:48 scale for 30 mm miniatures. I am happy with it. On another note, I noticed your NMM lacks contrast. You need to have sharp contrasts going from almost pure black to pure white, with " stripes ".
@@52Miniatures Oh my, are you sad about criticism? I'm talking about your terrain, my friend. It is called an opinion. Do you only like yay-sayers on your channel?
@@MarkNiceyard I think there are always ways of presenting opinion. Your comment is not presenting an opinion to how things could be done it is presenting your opinion as a fact. I'm in no way interested in only surrounding myself with yay-sayers but I do appreciate comments to be like a conversation you have with a person you meet in real life - as I deal with these comments on a daily basis. It is my real life and It's my was of communicating with the world. And if someone walked up to me in the street and said what you wrote I'd probably just perceive you as rude. If you would have said, "my interpretation of grimdark is something a lot more dirty and stained that this, have you thought along those lines as well?". Then my answer would probably have been, "yes, I would have liked do have done a lot more staining and streaks, but I had to prioritise my time spent. I definitely had planed for the pigment powders to do a lot of that for me but I just couldn't get them to stick like I wanted. Same went for the airbrush work, the paint just puddled up and it took so long to do all those thin passes to evade that problem."
Some things to consider as I'm unsure of where you stand on this: Just play with people who respect the time you invested into this and play in a "Snapshot" of the rules where your army can thrive. If that isn't reasonable, think about playing with alternative games that are proxy or model agnostic where your armies can still be showcased and thrive. Other comments thus far seem to reflect the overall feel. Your work is amazing, inspiring, and are not a waste in the slightest. It didn't come across as grumpy, if anything a little heartbreaking but if anything a testament to your hard work and a great opportunity for some photo ops! If you haven't already, and short of staying within the Snapshot of the part of the Warhammer Rules where your army can exist as a whole, check out One Page Rules and see if it is something worth your time and effort? It may not be the same, but it can at least provide a healthy environment for your entire army to exist and be showcased with others who have equally been put in a similar situation as your own. I got a chance to play a demo of it and a number of other former 40k players who were in your same situation with armies who got phased out/retired had a chance to show off some really beautiful minis that would otherwise not get a chance to see the table again. Either way, I look forward to your future projects and see what I can learn. That said, as someone who was thinking about getting into 40k I don't see this encouraging myself to get into that hobby myself. I'm too much of a casual gamer and having to keep up with things, investing hundreds of dollars only to have something like this happen seems like a waste of investment only to be shut out.
Such colours, so Cyberpunk, definately a city where mirrorshades are compulsory. I could happilly get lost your Tropical Grim Dark. I can imagine the rabbithole of possibity sparking layers of ideas, furishing the interiors, adding a couple of vehicles, some holoscreens, neon signs, some scatter terrain like bags of refuse, a datahub, discarded bot, comm kiosk, bus stop shelter, and a handful of concrete planters, perhaps hot pink bins here and there .. conjours up a lot of ideas for add ons. Lovely work, I hope you make time to enjoy playing with it.
I've now uploaded it to the 52miniatures website as a free download. It's in the shop - you will probably have to go through checkout and all that but this is the easiest way for me to share a file in an informative way.
Just a thought. But you could enhance the bright outline of the 'shiny' black armor by painting a tiny amount of gloss varnish in those locations. Just to add a bit of additional reflected light. If you don't like the look, you can undo it with a bit of matte varnish.
I've now uploaded it to the 52miniatures website as a free download. It's in the shop - you will probably have to go through checkout and all that but this is the easiest way for me to share a file in an informative way.
Montana Gold is a terrible primer for hobby stuff, I never had a good experience with them. They come out of the bottle too fast and too thick, impossible to control fornthin layers.
These look really good! Perfect for 5 Parsecs from Home, Stargrave, OPR Grimdark Future Firefight, Infinity the game, CY_BORG KillSampleProcess, or any one of the other amazing games that are well-designed!
Dear Alex, another feast for the eyes you have shared with us. May I suggest when splitting the themes for terrain its all about stick on ‘bits and bobs’ for example vines or pipes and wires, wooden beams and structures or ductwork. Magnets are very attractive for this purpose. With love and respect from Iowa USA.
If you want to add some pink detailing (lime green would also be really nice), in Bill Making Stuff’s last video he used washi tape covered with matte Modge Podge to add hazard stripes - you could use the same technique to run a pink stripe along the bottom of a building to imply a differently-painted foundation, for instance.
Completely agree with you on the quality of what Brutal Cities produces and Ryan specifically. Met him at a convention in Australia this year, and just had to get a few buildings, because they looked so good. I weathered mine up a lot more, though.
Thanks for the kind words, I enjoyed meeting people at Cancon, but as my first big convention, I will say I've never been as exhausted in my life hah! I need to go again next year. Glad you love the terrain.
This is so sub par from what you can do. The before and after are almost the same minus brand letters. Do better... oh yeah this and the next vid.. you are not a good terrrain guy!
Just as a personal remark. Content on RU-vid is free and hobby content on our scale is very much created not for monetary gain. Creators put a lot of work and effort into creating free content for people like you. There is a lot of it out there too. When you put a lot of work into something, it feels rather crap when someone says, “you suck”. You are definitely entitled to your opinion opinion but instead of crapping on a hard working creators day - go somewhere else if you don’t like it. Find a creator you like instead and support them. I think most creators would appreciate this approach
@@52Miniatures no one mentioned money, and it was not meant to be personal. It was constructive criticism to help your channel. Which I enjoy quite a bit. Thank you for all of your content even if peeps like me complain sometimes.
@@thomasmcconkey5869 I have a hard time interpreting "you are not a good terrain guy!" as something other than personal. And saying that the before and after is almost the same minus the brand letters is not very constructive. I'm glad to hear you like the channel. A great way to help the channel is letting me know what you would like to see. Sometimes I really like doing videos that might inspire folk new to the hobby, like showing how simple it can be to build a lighthouse. If you would like to instead see something more complex on the other hand then I'm sure something will appear along the road ahead.
Wonderful video with lots of tips! I DO have an airbrush, but in my current state it's difficult to use. Oddly, I just discovered the "dry brush" effect you described on my most recent project and did the entire thing with just a cheap makeup brush and unthinned acrylic paint and it looks AMAZING! Exactly how you described it; it looks like it's been airbrushed. I didn't mask anything so there was "overspray", but going back and forth with different colors gave me such an amazing result I almost just want to paint everything this way now!
Man, don't lose heart. Get into DND you have a wealth of miniatures there that would fit perfectly into that world. I bought some 3d print skaven knock offs from etsy to use instead of goblins for a campaign I'm looking to run as my first DM tryout. Age of sigmar stuff goes so well in the DND world because the models are so beautiful, and model for model, it's actually a tad cheaper to get many things from GW than wizkids. I did some figuring on goblins, skaven, etc... and it's about a dollar cheaper per model than wizkids, not that wizkids shouldn't be used, but if you need a horde for players to chew through before or during a boss fight, to save a town from, or anything, it's a great supplement to use age of sigmar, or old world models. Find a way to give those models new life, for a new game, or even a diorama, and who knows maybe you get the urge to sell your creations, and make some money to build a new army. Just don't loose heart man, your painting talent is great. You have taught me some things along with Zumikitos miniatures, Bill Makin stuff, and a few of the other guys on you tube. I appreciate you, as does many others.
Thank you, I appreciate it. I have definitely not lost heart for the hobby, just my spark for AoS has dwindled. There’s plenty of other things out there to paint and play!
I might steal the tropical sci fi city for my games. Thus would make a good alternate setting for my 40k battles. As much as building medieval terrain would be cool for 40k or steampunk stuff, I love the tropics.
Are the weathering pencils not just watercolour pencils? So far as I'm aware those are made with pigment powders and gum arabic (same as the little half-pan watercolour paint blocks), which dries up pretty solidly given the chance. They're also typically much cheaper than hobby weathering pencils...!
Most probably. I was on a mission once to try some different art store pencils and do a comparison. But that hasn’t happened. The sometimes unfortunate benefit of using hobby products in videos is that viewers feel it’s a more accessible product.
That "Dot Filtering" technique made me so excited. The effect that we use in the illustrative scene is called a "Hue Shift", and using them subtly tells the brain that there is more visual interest in the piece than a simple gradient can achieve alone! We see those as 'more realistic' because in skin, in materials, in anything that exists in the world, there is so much light bouncing around and off of ambient environments that the actual hue of any part of a surface can change bit from bit. This is an amazing way to get those hue shifts really quickly. The entire village looks awesome! This is a lovely base for anything else you want to do with the board, ad it should be easier to do things with it from this point onward!
Yeah, I adore Dot Filtering. It does just what you describe. I’ve used it in the past on vehicles as well and it’s great. Especially for the hue shifts you describe. There is not a distinct visual effect, just a sense of realism.
Count yourself lucky! I had just finished every regiment of reknownn back in the dim distant past before aos there was "Warhammer" a brilliant game based in a sudo-medievel renasance world with figures based on square based so you could rank them up properly! Months of painting produced an army of 9m x 30cm when laid out properly. All to no end so they all got packed away and I now play Warlord Games Bolt Action. Interestingly a lot of the old Games Workshop creative staff who left are now to be found at Warlord
I believe it might also be a combination of flooding and type of paint. For example, I didn’t care to much about the inside of the buildings, and didn’t bother about proper covering - and paint sticks fine there. But it seems this type of paint when applied heavily creates a surface that is not meant to be painted on. A primer type paint would have served better
I got a set of terrain from Tabletop Stronghold w the purchases of one of their cases that I’m about to build and spruce up with paint and stuff. Btw, it’s my second case from them and they are pretty great.
Alex, thanks for another satisfying video. The color palette you selected for the city-scape is quite enjoyable, and the applied weathering is phenomenal. I appreciate your use of weathering pencils - they were unknown to me (beyond an earlier example when a person used a standard graphite pencil to apply a metallic edging to models where the addition of the tone would be appropriate). I have a phobia of the spirits required for oils - and therefor refrain from either - but the pencils are a welcome revelation. One adverse comment, and strictly my opinion: please do not pursue your thought to make these buildings "dual-use" - they are utterly unconvincing as anything other than modern or hyper-modern. Just my 2 cents, delivered in the friendliest manner. 🙂
Thanks Scott! I’m glad to hear the pencils might come in handy for you. Regarding the terrain I’m a firm believer in context. So put the “wizards tower” in among some fantasy style scatter terrain and a “Tudor” house or two and I think it definitely serves purpose :)
