Guild Ball Hunter's Guild by Lawnor
Traps and Rust Pigment Experiment
It was getting late on a bank holiday at the end of a week of pure hobby and I wanted some quick progress so I attacked the traps. The only simpler model would have been the ball. One quick wash of brown ink, and a second later in just the recesses and the ball can be done. That’s how I did my Masons ball and I’m happy with that. I’m considering using a different colour on this ball. Sepia, or dark hunter-green perhaps?
I painted the traps with an Iron paint (I had an old pot of Ledbelcher to hand but anything would have done). I have plans for the bases to experiment with an Army Painter textured paint I received from AssetDrop and the in built bases stick out over the tops of the plastic base rims so I painted the overhang a colour I imagine will be similar enough to the final ground colour. I did not want to be trying to paint these later, risking getting paint on the textured paint. The iron parts were then given a gentle wash of GW Nuln Oil and left to dry.
I’ve been experimenting with Pigment washes on my basing recently and I have 2 different pots of Rust pigment so i thought I’d use this as an opportunity to experiment. I mixed up a sample of each pot at around 3:1 Water:Pigment. The left hand trap got just the Vallejo Rust and the right hand trap got just the Alcad pigment. I then mixed the two together and applied it to the middle trap. I tried not to drown the models. The idea was patchy rust. I may have overapplied the Vallejo, or left it too thick? I do think the Alcad pigment mixed better. I think it may have had a finer grain size. Its also not been sat idle on my desk for a few years.
Once the pigment had has plenty of time to dry I then lightly drybrushed the traps with P3 Cold Steel intending to just catch the edges to give them a little definition. The brush seemed to gain some of the rust colour when it came away from the Vallejo trap, but not from the others.
These traps are now finished, until I come to base the whole guild together.
A question for everyone: What tool do you use for getting pigment out of the pots? I’m currently using the end of the small screwdriver I keep around for opening troublesome P3 paint pots. Its not great though. Some kind of tiny ladle would work better. A spoon would be too big. The Vallejo pigment pots are tall and narrow, making spoons awkward, more so as the pot empties. Any suggestions?
FWIW I think the trap on the right ended up looking more like naturally rusted metal if that makes sense.
I wasn’t sure. I thought the red had pooled more there. I was leaning more towards the middle trap.
Might be hard to see the pooling in the picture, but for me, it was that identifiable patch of red that made it look like rust. Could be just how it looks in the photo though of course.
It’s looking at the photos I thought I could see pooling. I’ll have a closer look at the real thing this weekend. I agree that one has the most visible rust on it. I was just afraid it was too heavy, but i often need to be bolder with my highlights and effects. The latest AssetDrop box turned up yesterday and has a 3rd type of rust paint in it (Mission Models Weathering: Transparent Rust). It couldn’t have arrived a few days sooner? Ah well. Maybe I’ll try it on a blade or two further on in this project?